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It's not unlike wearing a giant designer label. Except that everyone and their uncle, from trailer park to penthouse, has an iPhone.
For the same price you can get a Samsung S21 FE with full-screen bezelless AMOLED and 3-cam setup (wide, ultra wide, 3x zoom) and in-screen fingerprint. And for half that an A52s with similar except the tele. So those are much more popular here.
The only people I know with iphones are die hard Apple fans or really far above average earners :)
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Yes. The UX is much better. Linux customization capabilites are phenomenal I give you that, but it takes a very big amount of time if you want something specific for you, and when an update hits and things just break :-(
Use XFCE, put your panels however you want them, done. Haven't ever had any update break my arrangement.
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I have a strong sentiment for users that use standards without optimizing anything they are either just really focused on their work or totally unorganized both have their charms.
Not sure which ones are that but I usually consider (some of) then plainer than vanilla They're the complete opposite of the "here's to the crazy ones", they have neither wish not curiosity in how to make things better
Like the table manners of which of four forks are “correct” to use, many things I just don’t care to be “good” at and folks who do strike me as odd.
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Comparing Gnome to Windows 10/11? No way.
I would pick the unholy abomination that is ExplorerMetroUWP in Windows 10/11 over GNOME any day of the week. GNOME is nigh unusable other than as an expensive piece of wall decor.
Examples you can expand on?
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Not "to himself", it was for a speech.
No – to himself. Not a speech. As per the linked site where it reads: > Email from Steve Jobs to himself > 2010 > > Steve often sent himself messages to capture what was on his mind.
So either prepping a new speech, or recapping his own quotes at the end of his life.
If it wasn't for the recording, the whole e-mail sounds like affirmations or someone who who needs to keep his mind straight and humble.
vim? Really you said this? OMG.
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Software development is a much better experience on Linux compared to Windows (unless you stay within Visual Studio). If you do tasks that are well supported by your OS, your experience will be mostly good. Don't run servers on MacOS, don't develop on Windows and don't game on Linux. Or do it anyway and deal with the unpolished aspects of it.
As a lifelong windows dev, what exactly makes linux worth moving to? I understand that coming from a linux world, doing what you like doing in linux isn't always possible on windows. But I've never really found a use for any of that console magic linux devs seem to love. Pipe this into that and through seven pieces of software that sound like glibgcd, add 8 arcane flags and in the end you have some kind of textfile t…
Then there's the filesystem. It just works. Permissions are easy to grok and (most) error messages are clear about what's wrong. Everything being a file also means I use the same tools to: - investigate bugs in source code - check what processes are using what ports, files, sockets, etc - find files - find things in files
there's very little that can't be done easily with [grep, cat, ls, mv, cd, echo, curl].
Also, manpages are incredible. All my important documentation, right there where I'm doing my work.
It's really less about what's possible on windows / Linux, and more about how Linux lets me do things my way, which means I can consistently improve my methods.
Also, all the good Linux stuff is free. Both kinds, so not only can I use most of it without worrying about the cost, I can fix it when it goes wrong or modify it to be more like what I want.
I could go on and bore you more, but those are the key points.
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I highly recommend it to anyone considering it. But, pro-tip, use a machine that has an ssd (or other real) drive. Having your network DNS go down because of a bad or corrupted sd card will drive you bonkers. Sincerely, Bonkers
Do you have advice how to replace the default Internet provider router? I have Xfinity's now and it terminates the coax, does switching, wifi, and does various firewall functions. I assume you have to buy a XXXX, disable everything on the Xfinity box and turn it into a passthrough switch. What is a good XXXX here?
Depending on the details, it can go from plugging your fibre directly into a small factor PC, to not being able to do it because even bridging is not available on the box and everything is proprietary.
I for instance replaced the shitty Livebox 3 from my French provider Orange with a PC running Debian. Before that it was a Ubiquity Edge Router 4.
Orange make it difficult to change the device, but not impossible. I would love them to just provide my IP though a standard authenticated DHCP request.
Sublime text Terminus Zsh Powershell (verbosity isn’t terrible!) SQLAlchemy (connection engine + docs) Git Ssh IPython as a debugger shell
In addition to everything above, I'm thankful for these:
Pass (passwordstore.org)
Newsblur
Multitail