• drascus@sh.itjust.works
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    I have had people tell me " I dont feel like building my own OS from scratch " I’m like what are you even talking about?

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    Wow, so many wrong comments. My parents using Linux laptops for 10 years (which i give them second hand when i buy a new one). Now i set up NixOS with auto updates, and never needed to touch it again myself.

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    I have to use Windows at work and by early afternoon if I’m not forced to reboot for an update I have to reboot because the machine has basically ground to a halt.

    Why does Windows slow down the longer it’s been booted?

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    Let’s be real. Most people can’t really use Windows, either. Anything harder than clicking the Chrome icon is beyond most users.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    Question: Would I still struggle to get games working on a desktop using Linux as I have in the past (always some driver issue for some crucial bit of hardware; either the GPU can’t do 3D or the NIC doesn’t function, etc) or would they work as well as on a Steam Deck, that doesn’t have to account for a variety of hardware differences? Almost every single person I have seen lately saying gaming on Linux is awesome now, is using a literal device designed for it. But what about my hardware? Is getting wrappers for nVidia drivers still a fucking PITA with a 50/50 chance of actually working correctly?

    I love Linux for just basic computing needs or running servers. But I’ve always had a bad time when trying to play games.

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    I swapped to Arch Linux in the last month and it’s been great. Gaming has been fun. The Nvidia drivers are still kinda confusing, and honestly I wouldn’t put my mom on Arch Linux as of right now, but it’s good enough.

    I’m writing a document so my SW engineering friends can swap over as well within a day and be up and running, and it’s just neat to see Linux gradually growing in my circles.

    If you’re on Linux, don’t forget to donate to your favorite SW creators even if they’re less flashy than say Larian studios or what have you lol.

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    I’m obviously going to be downvoted for this, but the second you ask me to use the terminal is the second the OS is not ready.

    Last week I reinstalled Windows after trying MintOS. I have a 54" Ultrawide screen monitor and I wanted the windows to snap in 3 sections.

    I spent a few hours in terminal trying to install something after trying everything in flatpak. Windows 11 split screens out of the box. It can even tile. You can even use hotkeys to snap left and right.

    In order for normies like me to switch, you have to make the OS at as easy to use as Windows. Don’t make us use terminal like I’m on DOS.

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    Those same MFs are in this thread saying the same shit while giving zero arguments. Never change retards.

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    The other type I see is people who complain that Linux isn’t usable, and it gradually turns out that the only thing they’d consider usable is an OS exactly like Windows.

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    Had a friend of mine rib me for “not just paying for a license (for windows)”. Tried to explain that wasn’t the point to their befuddlement. Smh

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    You don’t see how terrible Windows is until you’ve switched to another OS and need to interact with it again.

    The constant pop-ups, the ads everywhere, the settings hidden away.

    It really feels like your PC isn’t yours.

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    I switched 15 years ago. It was ready then. It is ready now. I was in my teens and have used it ever since.

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    I used to think I could just stick to macOS. But I don’t trust the USA and by extension, I don’t trust Apple.

    Switching to Linux isn’t a choice anymore. It’s a requirement for freedom.

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      Yeah, Apple will just cave when necessary. Honestly, even if the USA is removed from the equation, nobody is really safe from any government or corporation. We’re only in better and worse condition because no one has done the unthinkable yet. The UK online safety bill, Signal’s threat to leave Sweden, France busting activists using Swiss VPN. If you can’t host it yourself, secure it yourself, rebuild it yourself, you can’t trust businesses and governments to do these things for you in the long run.

      Hell, it’s starting to feel a lot less like freedom and more about the ability to hide, even if you’re doing nothing wrong, because someone may eventually decide that what you’re doing was wrong.

      Encrypting your chats to keep them from being sold/mined for government oversight? ILLEGAL!

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          He’s now American.

          Outside of that a lot of Linux is supported by US companies. If boycotting the US was the goal it is going to be very hard.

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            US corporations donate to the Linux Foundation, and in fact all the Platinum members of the Linux Foundation (donors of $500k or more/year) are corporations - although I don’t think they’re all American. But the Linux Foundation has no control over the code, it merely promotes use of Linux. Did you mean something else by, “Lots of money comes from…”?

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        I think by America they pretty clearly meant corporate America and its corporate-owned government, neither of which controls how Linux works.