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What Happens to Linux After Linus Torvalds? We Finally Have the Answer to This Uncomfortable Question (itsfoss.com)
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[+] -66 points 8 months ago (22 children)

Maybe a third, actually good OS will finally appear?

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  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago (13 children)

    Wrong space for that, buddy.

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  • [+] -30 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    Y'all can disagree all you want. It's still doody. The only reason people are flocking to it is because windows is even more shit.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    Is it doody or are you just technologically challenged? Based on your double-down I think I might know the answer.

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  • [+] -16 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    I've been using computers and various operating systems since the early 90s. Trying to use linux today and most things still seem to require three tutorials to do basic things like install files.

    It's just not easy to use. I could never recommend it to somebody who is new or even newer to computers.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    It is though? Is the bar so low that simply having to read, comprehend and follow instructions is disqualifying?

    Maybe you need to abandon desktop computing and go purchase an iPad

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    You forgot having to be flexible enough to not have any particular workflow that works for you personally. Linux is great if you don't need to use anything that doesn't have a comparable equivalent.

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  • [+] -9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Another reason not to like linux, the douchebag holier than though user base.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    But didn't you learn to use your your favourite OS at one point in your life?? How is that any different? Did you never learn a single thing from someone else?

    You have to learn to ride a bike and drive a car. Are those crap vehicles too? It's not "holier than thou," when your argument is full of holes (hehe).

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    There are flavours of linux that allow you to just click and install compatible file types. You can easily use Ubuntu your whole life without touching the terminal. Using the terminal allows you to do certain things much faster and easier but that is a skill you need to train if you want to use it.

    If you are however talking about trying to run an originally windows native game in linux, then that might turn out to be an advanced problem. So you need to be patient and likely try couple different solutions (starting with the most recent dated one and paying attention to version numbers etc). It might even turn out to be impossible. That is an inescapable consequence of using a non main stream OS, not a problem of the OS itself. But given how the gaming world is shifting to linux, that might change in future and windows users (if any) might start complaining about how hard it is to port games to windows.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Since Linux is not an operating system, but the kernel, I think the guy means:

    • Gentoo
    • Arch Linux

    But hey!

    • I don’t like Debian, but it’s good, quite a lot of people like it
    • Fedora is good either. I like it. People don’t like corporate influence, but hey, it’s good, isn’t it?

    I’ve heard good things of Bazzite (a repacked Fedora, isn’t it?). Also, Pop_OS! looks promising too, especially with their recent Cosmic Desktop. Personally, I despise Mint (especially the Ubuntu version, lol, shit based on shit, sorry everyone) but many people like it, so it’s not as shitty as I believe it is. Em, Ubuntu … anyone uses it? I’ve seen folks using it as a server OS. I have no idea, perhaps that’s not incompetence, but there are use cases.

    So yeah, still more than three. I’ve heard BSDs are quite good, but maybe not for everyone, especially as desktops. Yet, I’ve heard good things about them.

    Alpine. Even on a desktop, people use it. And if you like SBCs, I think DietPi is a great project, Armbian is a great effort too.

    So… I don’t know man. We have more than three, our issue is with the opposite, we have too many. Someone uses Slackware even. Others Linux from scratch. There are Nix people. I should have missed someone. But as I’ve been saying, we have too many already.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    It already exists, it's called OpenBSD.

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