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Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by petra »

tmtvl wrote: post #28
petra wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It start and ends with applications. As long as linux doesn't provide unique high-value software that doesn't exist on windows, why should anybody bother ?

It depends from person to person. My mother runs GNU/Linux because it runs faster on her potato laptop, I run GNU/Linux because I believe in the fundamental software freedoms and MS refuses to relicense Windows under the (A)GPL.

For your mother, chromeOS with it's support for android apps and very low maintenance is probably better.

One interesting use case for linux is if you want to run early stage stuff developers wrote. Thats easier with linux.

Maybe there's some practical value in that for non-developers. Not sure.

Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by deadbunny »

titoCA321 wrote: post #26

So many shills in the "opensource" and "freedom" Linux community. Harp all day long about how "freedom" yet cry and troll when developers don't support a Linux distro and troll all day about getting others to convert to Linux or specific Linux distro. If you're for "freedom" software then live and let live what others use for operating systems.

It's almost like they're not the same people in the same group.

Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by petra »

PostOnce wrote: post #33
ekianjo wrote: post #9

Again Linux users trying to convert Windows users at every OS change. It wont work well. Windows users expect Windows, not having to relearn everything from scratch

Clicking on the web browser in Ubuntu isn't any different to doing so on Windows. How many people need more than: browser, word/excel clone, and email client? Everything is moving onto the web and Windows becomes less relevant. Why do you think ChromeOS is so popular?

Well if that's the use case, chromrOS is just better.

Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by xupybd »

Having worked in Linux for years, I'm sorry Windows is more productive for me.

MS office still dominates and our company and customers work in Excel. Without support for office Linux is harder than Windows for me.

With WSL2 almost everything I can do in Linux I can now do in Windows.

Don't get me wrong there are things that I hate about working in Windows. Especially Windows shared folders and mapped drives. Compared to Linux network shares it's horrible.

I get random slow downs when my computer is doing something in the background and explorer becomes non responsive.

I get updates that require a restart all the time.

I can't customize the UI as I would like.

I miss i3 WM.

Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by Kim_Bruning »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #21
cmeacham98 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you think that's bad, check out this link: https://www.upgradetolinux.com/linux-differences-an-introduc... According to the link I clicked on to get here, this is supposed to be "linux differences". I daily drive linux and recommend it to people who I think would do well with it, but I would never link them this website.

>What do you mean by “It does not get viruses”? Well, I mean, um https://www.linuxexperten.com/library/e-resources/linux-malw...

I know that some people say "virus" when they mean malware in general. However, a literal virus is a snippet of code that attaches itself to an executable. When the executable is run, the virus also runs. The virus then finds more executables and attaches itself to those too.

Literal viruses on diverse unices were indeed fairly rare in the past (and are still not common).

Traditionally on most linuxes (and bsds) you obtain trusted executables from a known good source (your distribution ) , whilst files from other sources are never run at all.

This means that Linux viruses find it hard to actually spread in the wild.

This particular strength doesn't mean other kinds of malware can't still be successful, of course. (Though naturally people try to harden Linux against many threats.)

Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by OJFord »

dmix wrote: post #27
glonq wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it was still the year 2012 then this would be a _great_ website. But yeah. Terrible.

Web design wasn't invented after 2012. This goes against a ton of principles (Bootstrap was 2011). It could be a 2012 mobile site without a proper desktop version though.

The penguin's so big that the page title's cropped off the bottom on my (idk, 2020?) phone - I can't imagine it would look better on 2012 phones.

Even the burger menu icon aspect ratio seems 'wrong'.

Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by _emacsomancer_ »

least wrote: post #10

This website is terrible. Its "resources" are almost entirely just links to articles and youtube videos. The information is poorly presented and poorly written. Why is the front page entirely taken up by a picture of a penguin?

Not something I would be likely to direct people to. The most reasonable thing I've found so far is: https://opensource.com/resources/linux

Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by 29athrowaway »

xupybd wrote: post #45

Having worked in Linux for years, I'm sorry Windows is more productive for me. MS office still dominates and our company and customers work in Excel. Without support for office Linux is harder than Windows for me. With WSL2 almost everything I can do in Linux I can now do in Windows. Don't get me wrong there are things that I hate about working in Windows. Especially Windows shared folders and mapped drives. Compared…

Forced upgrades in the middle of something, invasive "telemetry" and aggressive ads. Plus a Frankenstein UI and Pluto, the system that makes "your" computer no longer yours.

What a dream.

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