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Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by xupybd »

jcelerier wrote: post #78
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…

Today I had to dual boot on windows and literally every operation & interaction felt five times as slow as on Linux on the same hardware. I had a ton of bugs on software that works just fine on Linux. Explorer crashed at some point and I had to add a fucking registry key to enable long paths. I'm 30 and I never had to use MS Office once in my life, LibreOffice works fine with everything I had to do with it

If I didn't have to use Office or it ran on Linux, I'd be on Linux.

Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by acomjean »

free652 wrote: post #73

Upgrade to ChromeOs. why bother with Linux. I converted an old windows laptop with a touchscreen to a chromeos using now google acquired neverware. love it.

ChromeOS is oddly a good choice for older machines, though someone tried to use it for a programing class I took quickly gave up.

chromeos flex had been tested on a lot of older machines.

https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11513094?hl=e...

Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by jcelerier »

xupybd wrote: post #81
jcelerier wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Today I had to dual boot on windows and literally every operation & interaction felt five times as slow as on Linux on the same hardware. I had a ton of bugs on software that works just fine on Linux. Explorer crashed at some point and I had to add a fucking registry key to enable long paths. I'm 30 and I never had to use MS Office once in my life, LibreOffice works fine with everything I had to do with it

If I didn't have to use Office or it ran on Linux, I'd be on Linux.

Office 365 doesn't cut it ?

Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by BarryMilo »

hayst4ck wrote: post #62

Direct marketing doesn't seem like a very good method to attract people. Linux needs to do one thing to make it a viable option: Make steam and all windows based steam games work out of the box. Linux needs to do one thing to win the consumer market: Make all steam games work better than on windows out of the box. If linux can do that, they can win a market that is not the server market. If Linux cannot do that, then…

People aren't "trapped" on Windows, by and large they just don't know about Linux. Awareness is the first step. It should answer the needs of the vast majority of people, but they won't consider switching if they think Windows is the only OS.

Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by seltzered_ »

I give the makers of this credit they avoid leading a reader into a burden of disto-choices.

My dream is that someone makes a website (single page app) derived more around workflows between oses, I've kept a rough personal spreadsheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/148zTJUwfVv9xfDcp...

Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by xupybd »

jcelerier wrote: post #83
xupybd wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I didn't have to use Office or it ran on Linux, I'd be on Linux.

Office 365 doesn't cut it ?

Unfortunately no. There are a few features missing and I don't want to think how hard interop would be.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/vsto/office-p... assemblies?view=vs-2022

Much of what I work on involves programs that interop with Excel. Yes there are other ways of writing and reading spreadsheets but sadly none are as reliable as using Excel interop. At least if your spreadsheet has to be compatible with Excel. It is possible someone has build an amazing library that does this but I'm not aware of it.

Edit: I could have Windows on a VM but that is awkward and slow. I find I get more done without that added bit of complexity.

Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by cowtools »

the_jesus_villa wrote: post #63
Kim_Bruning wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

>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. On the other hand, the vast majority of people installing applications by piping curl output to Bash are also on linuxes and bsds

Is this worst-case scenario for linux users any worse than the average-case of windows users downloading an .exe from a vendor's website and running it?

If you do not already have a pubkey for which the code can be signed, then there is no chain of trust to verify in the first place. What signature would you check the code against in such a scenario? One you download from the vendor's same website?

Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by cowtools »

meowfly wrote: post #34
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's also that there are no guarantees your hardware is supported -- so when you do bother, you might find yourself in config hell trying to get your wifi to work.

That used to be the case a decade ago, but I find that most wifi hardware supports linux these days.

Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by keyle »

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?

No I think it's perfect. It sets the tone to what to expect in terms of user experience once it's installed.
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