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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

    It like the endless and useless fight between Android and iOS fan boys, it's much simpler than that, you use what you like/comfortable with, you don't need to convince anyone how right you are and how wrong they are, never really understood this weird behaviour from supposedly well educated people. You enjoy Linux, good for you , you like windows, kodus, you're mac person have at it .

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

    People who are like this today, tried to install red hat 5/6 using popular mechanics magazine as an instruction booklet and with floppy disks

    Either that or they tried to install Open BSD once and survived: https://xkcd.com/349/

    By all standards, a completely understandable outcome

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 41 minutes ago

    Ship laptops with LM and people will stray on Linux. Some might switch due to windows OS locked apps like ms365 but for most watching YouTube and maybe managing photos is all they do.

    I run dual boot and honestly, if only all things which run on windows would run on Linux without tribal shamanism rituals, is never ever had to switch. But my favorite DAW is not running Linux. My occasionally useful editing software is not there (but kdenlive is cool tho). My very specific apps for games are not running native or at all.

    When I'm not using these, I just flip a switch and run DAS with Bazzite. And I love it. But you just can't substitute everything windows offers. It is a gaming and working software OS after all.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 43 minutes ago

    This was me, to an extent. At least with regards to gaming.

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 4 hours ago (7 children)

    I've used Linux for 25 years now and I remember every time when back then people needed help with windows it was always "go to the registry editor and add the key djrgegfbwkgisgktkwbthagnsfidjgnwhtjrtv in position god-knows-where to fix some stupid windows shit. that, apparently, made windows user ready

    On Linux I'd have to edit an English language file and add an English word and that meant it wasn't user ready

    Yeah, Linux was ready long ago

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 29 minutes ago

    Right, that's the reason alright, lol. Remember dconf on Gn*me? It's like registry on windows, but worse.

    No, Linux is still not ready for desktop, and it has nothing to do with this fallacy of yours.

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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

    It is in mixed states of ready. Each distro has something it's ready for and something it isn't. It'd be nice if all the ready parts were in a single distro, but that's an XKCD 927 issue. I am hopeful that Valve puts thought and effort into making SteamOS a solid desktop on top of a solid gaming platform.

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