The Linux community is united! (Unless you mention Rust, or Wayland, or systemd, or Snap, or GNOME, or...)
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Rust as well? In what way? (Genuinely interested, just don't know much about that community)
There's an ongoing ~~debate~~ tantrum about introducing Rust code to the kernel. Some people are pushing for it, some people have made it their life's purpose to make sure that doesn't happen, it has led to a wave of maintainers resigning, and Linus is sitting with his thumb up his arse when his leadership is needed.
Interesting, thank you for explaining!
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Wet Ass Penguins?
Bring a bucket and a mop.
For this wet-ass penguin
Wireless Ass-Penguins
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Peace was never an option
Wait until someone starts complaining about bad GUI...
Which one? π
I honestly hated idea of linux for soooo long. Ew. Like ew. Doesn't work, borks, needs command line, wtf is that steaming pile of...yeah. Ew.
But insert the goddamn bird with cracker meme after I tried Nobara last year (tried some other distros too). When Windows 10 loses support, I am pretty confident that Nobara will fill most of my needs.
And, well, have some IT experience, with linux too, so occasional terminal isn't that bad. I was simply afraid of constantly having to work in terminal.
I use CLI a lot because I find it much more convenient, so I'm genuinely curious where do you actually still need it in a modern distro as a standard user?
It's not that you neeeed it for most basic stuff, but if you search how to do something the results are more commonly terminal commands.
Which is honestly a good thing, it's so much better than instructions that are like click here -> drag to the left -> open a three level deep menu -> check the box -> reopen that menu -> click go. Or even worse, instructions that are a video
In my experience learning Windows 10 for my job, the results of searching for how to do something are: 'click-this' tutorials that don't work because Microsoft changed something in the next edition, editing the registry, or PowerShell commands. The registry editing sometimes doesn't work because Microsoft changed something. The PowerShell method is the way to go, because Microsoft has embraced the command line.
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I just use it to get updates with apt-get or Pacman or yay. I haven't seen any other way to update non flatpack programs on the distros I use
My kids' PCs have a gnome extension that says how many updates there are and you can install them by clicking on the icon. Could be handy if you use gnome too.
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1010/archlinux-updates-indicator/
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Well, the thing is, you almost don't. But like the other commenter said, most instructions are for terminal when something happens and from my - fairly limited as of now - experience, terminal is still key to linux configuration.
What was mostly generating the Ew response was the fact that linux isn't really known for being newbie friendly. Then getting hit with headless debian during studies also didn't exactly change what I thought.
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Temple OS the best! PLUTO IS A PLANET
One of your statement is wrong and its not the latter.
BOTH ARE RIGHT!
You heard about Pluto? That's messed up
Both were created by the same person
When did temple start getting lumped in with linux anyway
As a relatively recent Windows refugee, I want to share a recent success that has made me feel fully confident in never needing Windows again and fully feeling the Linux superiority.
I got Cyberpunk with all my previous mods running.
Maybe not a big deal for most people, but this was one thing that had kept me holding onto dual boot on my main device. Conversations online also kept making modding on Linux seem so impenetrable.
Then I decided to spend an afternoon figuring out modding games in general on Linux, and yeah parts of it was tough for me to figure out, but now I'm confident that anything I used to do on PC, I can probably do better on Linux.
I am ready to take up arms alongside the Weaponized Assault Penguin squad.
I'd trust you on my 6.
Meanwhile, countries that surrender to the microsoft side of the force just bend over again and again and again...https://ioplus.nl/en/posts/trump-has-free-rein-over-dutch-government-data
My dad always used to tell me how the dutch government was jokingly bad at IT & other stuff. But booooooooooooy did i not expect it to be this bad
Windows is only better for you if you have a high-end Nvidia GPU and/or like having a good HDR implementation (KDE's HDR support is a joke by comparison). If neither apply to you, then there's no reason to ever use Windows.
That said, from what I've seen since I joined Lemmy, most people here couldn't give a single fuck about HDR. In fact, every time I even bring it up, I get nothing but hostility from the community (cause how dare I dual boot instead of using Arch fulltime? *sigh*).
You're missing out on a colorful image that more closely resembles real-life (clouds and sunsets look especially beautiful in HDR), but if you've never experienced it before then I can understand why the general opinion around here is that HDR is useless. I mean, I used to think that VA panels had good contrast and that IPS had superior colors, until I got a 4K144Hz HDR OLED... Hell, at one point I used to think that 60 FPS looked smooth too...
Anyway, that's the end of my little rant. You can go ahead and downvote me now.
The only thing Windows has ever done with my HDR is decide for no reason to put insane contrast and color temps on my displays. Then I have to flick it on and off repeatedly until it looks a bit less terrible
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Windows is better... if you need game compatibility, slave in Office or Adobe, have a Nvidia card, wants HDR and or fractional scaling...
Everything else, it's pure unadulterated garbage...
Game compatibility isn't really an issue on Linux anymore thanks to Proton.
Depending on how old and what graphics card you have.
Games: nope. Same as someone above, I've got Cyberpunk on Linux
Office/Adobe... may be a fair point for some Nvidia card: nope, works fine
HDR: did not even bother to learn what is. Can be a fair point
Fractional scaling - genuine question: who the hell ever needs this? I have gone from 1K resolution (standard laptop) to 2K to 2.5K to ~~3~~4K with curved monitor and never ever ever did I think "hey, this big screen? I want everything bigger/smaller on it". What do people use fractional scaling for?
Fractional scaling is awesome, I could never use my monitor without it, things just are too small.
But it perfectly works on Linux for me (OpenSUSE).
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Your post smells of someone, who only uses their computer for fairly limited tasks.
Office/Adobe
There's so much software around serious work, creativity, and productivity, that doesn't exist for linux or is meh. CAD, audio, video, music production.
The main reasons I use macOS are GarageBand and apps for DJing. Anything audio still breaks far too often on linux or is otherwise a pain.
OmniGraffle is so fantastically great, there's no linux equivalent. The Affinity suite of alternative applications to Adobe is fantastic and far above any linux alternative.
The nicest GUI application for git, nor the best diff and merge tool aren't available for Linux.
Besides that getting support for commercial software is usually much better than for FOSS.
who the hell ever needs this?
People who love details and crisp fonts and thus own high density resolution screens.
HDR: did not even bother to learn what is
You seem to have moderate expectations towards visual computing.
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Aww man the less awesome WAP
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