• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Aaaaannddd again.

    Install Linux, drop any and all Microsoft software, you don’t need it

    Fuck everything about Microsoft

    And lately I’d like to add Google yo this too, but at least google has working and dependable products

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      This is a bit unrealistic. Games may work better than they did in the past, but performance isn’t 1:1 yet. More importantly, device drivers can be a lot more dicey.

      Personally, the main thing keeping me from actually using my Linux partition most of the time is that my mouse buttons can’t be properly rebound. Yeah, I could find some janky work-around, but that would be eating into my workflow.

      I also do, in fact, need Windows for development.

      GNU is great, but pretending it’s a viable Windows replacement for every use case is just disingenuous. It doesn’t help anyone and it only makes GNU supporters seem that much more out of touch with the average user’s experience.

      There are literally people who will think the internet is broken if they accidentally delete their browser shortcut or just straight up can’t find it in the sea of icons on their desktop. These are the users that Windows is protecting from themselves. The same users probably wouldn’t be able to figure out how to use the command line if their life depended on it.

      There’s a place for Windows, and there’s a place for GNU. I’d love to see the place for GNU expand and the place for Windows shrink, but that doesn’t make it so.

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        Microsoft seems to think that windows is the solution to all usecases, I think the reverse.

        Yes, Linux too has its issues, but I’ve seen major growth in Linux whereas windows had been a steady decline to becoming an ad riddled bloatware machine that you pay for

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        Linux is less dependable and less stable

        Yeah, you’re just trolling now. Linux desktops get installed, then work, and just keep working. I’ve had a Linux Desktop for over 20 years now, I’ve supported Linux and windows desktops for a similar amount of time and I can easily tell you you’re full of shit.

        Yes, Linux has issues like everything, but nothing has issues like a Microsoft windows desktop.

        It’s the windows machines that are always at risk for the next virus or shit, it’s the windows machine where next up the virus scanner makes the machine unstable and un dependable. It’s the windows machine where half the shit always works, well, half.

        Many apps? Yeah sure dude, “Linux doesn’t have many apps.” Is one of those vague "I have shit idea what I’m talking about"statements

        “Many devices” 20 years of Linux and I can tell you that Linux has more devices supportrd out of the box than windows. Yes, there may be some niche hardware that isn’t supported but if you really need that, ask the vendor.