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

    Yesterday a guy was mad about that why everything has to go through his igpu and why not directlg through dgpu then I told bro that hdmi or anyother port on your laptop doesn't use your dgpu then he understood.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

    Last year with Ubuntu.

    Installed it on an old laptop. Booted once then never again.

    Installed windows. Worked like a charm.

    This is Ubuntu, the OS that makes all the decisions for you like windows.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

    That's crazy, I've never personally used Ubuntu so I can't comment on it.

    But I've used other great one's like Mint and PopOS, I'd say they're pretty easy to install and use, especially if you're aiming for a primary clean install over a dual boot.

    I've installed windows enough times as well to confidently say a clean install with maximum privacy settings and debloat takes atleast equal if not more efforts.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

    As someone who dual boots Linux Mint and Windows 11, can confirm, Mint is a much simpler install process…

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

    Linux is ready, but not the professional software devs. Literally only thing stopping me from fully switching

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

    For me it's the multiplayer games, godamm anticheat

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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

    I don't think Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, whatever is "ready yet" either. operating systems are always in development. There are things I can do on my linux machine that I can't do on my windows machine, and vice versa.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

    Nah...windows 2000 was ready...windows 7 was ready. The enshitification of everything since has had made everything "not ready".

    The end goal of every modern product is to shove ads down your throat. I'll eat a little bit of pain from Linux to avoid that.

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours 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] 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

    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 17 hours ago (2 children)

    I would agree with you, if it wasn't for the apple people trying to push everyone to join the cult because of the walled garden

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

    Look here’s one in the wild!

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    [–] [email protected] 39 points 22 hours ago (22 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

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

    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.

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