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Linux can have crappy font rendering. I can also have gorgeous font rendering. I would mess around with some live distros to see what you prefer. This is how my comment looks to me (on linux): https://i.imgur.com/wvruFyX.png
I hope the blurriness is because of image compression. Because if it is not, the rendering is really bad here.
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That's kind of bonkers to me that Netflix don't support HD/4K on Linux. Considering the number of random porn site players that play HD just fine... What's holding them up besides laziness?
DRM and Content contracts. They can't just throw 4k into an unsecured environment because they need to make a best effort to enforce that their 4k content isn't pirated.
And Netflix exclusives regularly make it to pirate sites in 4K afaik?
I read a lot of comments here wanting to block the connections, but wouldn’t be easier/better to switch to an OS that doesn’t spy you? The answers possibly is no, because they might use X or Y that requires them to use Windows, so a better question is, what holds you back to switch to Linux? (macOS also talks to a lot of servers and collect telemetry as Windows, maybe in a different scale, so isn’t an alternative if…
For work I use Macos because that is the only option I have for several reasons; and I also like it. For gaming and media consumption, there is no HDR support on Linux and there won't be in the foreseeable future. So, Windows there.
The small cost of dealing with $ms_bullshit_du_jour is a periodical { 1. sigh, 2. find & run some PowerShell snippet to uninstall or disable the bullshit, 3. be done with it till next time } sequence, but the large benefit is the guarantee to be running games on the de-facto standard platform where they are end-to-end tested by the game devs/QA !
Games are complexity beasts by nature, and I have high fidelity & stability expectations; I don't want an extra source of trouble. (Yes, even if I would absolutely prefer to run games on Linux! All my other machines run Linux)! Until Steam{OS, Deck} gets enough usage to be routinely tested by 90% of the games shipping on Steam, both AAA & indies, for me Linux gaming is a case of "I would absolutely love to, but for now, thanks / no thanks" .
I read a lot of comments here wanting to block the connections, but wouldn’t be easier/better to switch to an OS that doesn’t spy you? The answers possibly is no, because they might use X or Y that requires them to use Windows, so a better question is, what holds you back to switch to Linux? (macOS also talks to a lot of servers and collect telemetry as Windows, maybe in a different scale, so isn’t an alternative if…
That's kind of bonkers to me that Netflix don't support HD/4K on Linux. Considering the number of random porn site players that play HD just fine... What's holding them up besides laziness?
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Linux still has horrible font rendering, which makes web browsing uncomfortable. It doesn't come close to Windows or Mac. Fonts often appear soapy, kerning is off etc.
Linux can have crappy font rendering. I can also have gorgeous font rendering. I would mess around with some live distros to see what you prefer. This is how my comment looks to me (on linux): https://i.imgur.com/wvruFyX.png
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Linux still has horrible font rendering, which makes web browsing uncomfortable. It doesn't come close to Windows or Mac. Fonts often appear soapy, kerning is off etc.
Linux can have crappy font rendering. I can also have gorgeous font rendering. I would mess around with some live distros to see what you prefer. This is how my comment looks to me (on linux): https://i.imgur.com/wvruFyX.png
I read a lot of comments here wanting to block the connections, but wouldn’t be easier/better to switch to an OS that doesn’t spy you? The answers possibly is no, because they might use X or Y that requires them to use Windows, so a better question is, what holds you back to switch to Linux? (macOS also talks to a lot of servers and collect telemetry as Windows, maybe in a different scale, so isn’t an alternative if…
I work with Linux for compiling Android images (with VSCode on Windows through SSH), and I also customize the kernel (drivers and DT, mostly). I also do some Qt porting to Linux, but I used Windows my entire life (apart from DOS). And honestly, I won't boot my PC from Linux (at home or work) because I'm afraid it will break. I'll explain: I have some VMs with Ubuntu and, from time to time, I hit some problem that mad…
It's not unknown for Windows updates to break systems either, and when you do have serious problems on Windows there's a limited amount of things you can do because the system is so opaque.
At least on *nix you (or expert users helping you) can dive in to the source to figure out what's happening. With Windows you can be left at the mercy of waiting for Microsoft or whatever closed-source software you're depending on for a fix.
Why do people still use Microsoft is a great mystery to me.
That's obvious. It's much less expensive to buy a Windows PC than a Mac. Linux on the desktop is still quite terrible in a number of ways (particularly if you are ever unfortunate enough to deal with drivers and kernel modules for your slightly uncommon hardware). Chromebooks still don't rate that highly and haven't really entered the public consciousness as a result. Not to mention that many people are using Windows…
I have been using Linux systems from the past 10-15 years and they have been my daily driver for almost everything - and I live on my computer. Never have I faced any issue that can't easily be solved. (If at all there were issues)
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I work with Linux for compiling Android images (with VSCode on Windows through SSH), and I also customize the kernel (drivers and DT, mostly). I also do some Qt porting to Linux, but I used Windows my entire life (apart from DOS). And honestly, I won't boot my PC from Linux (at home or work) because I'm afraid it will break. I'll explain: I have some VMs with Ubuntu and, from time to time, I hit some problem that mad…
I have been using ubuntu and flavors for well over 12 years. I gotta tell you, never has anything of what you describe happen to me. And I am a menacingly wild-user. I put my systems through a lot! I do a lot of full-stack development, arduino(and other iot stuff) coding, blender work (3d), inkscape, gimp, a lot of audacity for audio, a lot of kdenLive for video-editing.. and my laptops (although always being medioco…
