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Or just switch to a less hostile operating system. As more things move to the web, this is becoming a very reasonable proposition.
I love my touch screen. How's touch screen support on Linux?
Basically M$ adoption of this strategy is the death knell for any semblance of privacy on the PC. It's amazing how far we have come to accepting such draconian measures in order to further marketing. There is still time people, come on over to Linux, the privacy here is still fine and will continue to be fine. And if you come over, then all the desktop software makers will port their software to Linux and all the col…
I use Ubuntu almost daily as a desktop for programming. While it's way better than linux desktops 5 or 10 years ago, it's still a far cry from even Windows even with mainstream apps like Spotify and Dropbox. The UI (Unity, Gnome, and even KDE) still feels like a work in progress, sleep doesn't work for laptops and I feel like almost any update I do beyond security updates, will break my laptop resulting in fresh re-install.
Moving over may work for us, but I doubt it'll work for most people (for now). OSX is the only place left for now.
I don't see a normal PC linux distro winning as a desktop in the future. If I were to guess, the closest to linux most people can flock to for a desktop PC would either be some variant of Android or Chrome OS.
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Or just switch to a less hostile operating system. As more things move to the web, this is becoming a very reasonable proposition.
I love my touch screen. How's touch screen support on Linux?
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There is no evidence that Microsoft currently has the ability to arbitrarily fetch files from your computer. If your argument is that they could implement such a capability, that's always been true for any OS, including free operating systems, unless you audit the code and compile it yourself.
The issue isn't whether the functionality is currently built-in (it'd be trivial to add later). The issue is that Microsoft states its intent to do so (relevant section underlined): >we may access, disclose and preserve your personal information, including your private content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or ______files in private folders______), when we have a good faith belief t…
The quoted section is from the privacy header which also applies to Onedrive, which is essentially Microsoft's version of Dropbox.
They're not stating their intent to collect files in private folders on your computer aside from bits that have always been collected, like whatever parts of a crash dump Error Reporting sends on.
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The thing is what now? Using Linux everyday is atleast problematic, sometimes impossible (I've had like 20 distros and played with it a lot, used it in my job, etc.) cause of apps/drivers/etc. And what about phones? When iOS/Android/WP is a mobile botnet node what should I use? A 3310 Nokia? Is there any viable alernative? Is iOS/Apple the same vultures as Google/MS when it comes to privacy?
Don't forget, system updating typically isn't straight forward depending on distro. I was explaining to my brother the other day the need to perform diffs on system configuration files after performing a system update. His eyes kind of glazed over as his brain understood the concept, but refused to accept that major linux distros hadn't evolved past it.
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"good enough for a good chunk of people" completely describes Gimp, Inkscape, and Blender, all of which are absolutely powerful and capable of (and actually used for) the highest level professional results. That there are features and quality from the well-funded proprietary tools that are lacking in the free/open ones is undeniable. But the examples you chose are ones where if we had to use the free/open ones, we wo…
> "good enough for a good chunk of people" completely describes Gimp, Inkscape, and Blender I said that keeping in mind professional use. There are some people who can effectly replace Office with LibreOffice at work and the number is significant. However, when you try to do the same with a designer then Gimp, Inkscape and Blender falls behind, so yeah... A dev could do a minor manipulation on an image using Gimp, bu…
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> Usually made by windows users I used to make this claim as someone who had been using desktop gnu/linux for several years. I've been using OSX now for a year and so stopped making the claim. But it is really frustrating to hear people say "it works for me" to rebut claims that it doesn't work for most people. Such counters and arguments over them are basically single data points. If the point under discussion is "d…
Regarding your points 1) to 4) this is exactly what I mean with investing some effort to discover how these things work in Linux. For 1) there are LibreOffice and gnumeric, for 2) there are mplayer, vlc, and several other tools, for 3) I don't know because Linux is not a gaming system but a workhorse. A modern Ubuntu distro provides thousands of applications for many purposes. If you don't like Unity or Gnome 3 then…
Maybe but using a Linux distro like Ubuntu or Mint or similar is more like using an Office package.
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Not a chance. They're trying to position themselves as the security and privacy focused player in the industry.
Yes and it's not just positioning, it's a core philosophy.
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You are missing the point. "Proprietary system" here means Windows. All these applications could run under Linux just fine if the vendors cared.
Any good examples of closed source applications being financially successful on Linux? How do the opportunities on Linux compare with investing in applications for other platforms? It's not so much about "caring" as about the ability to pay programmers to create profitable software.