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Re: The day Windows died

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Post by modeless »

apatheticonion wrote: post #539
modeless wrote: post #496

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Have you tried Proton on Linux? The days of needing Windows for gaming are over now. It's all thanks to Valve's work on the Steam Deck, but it works just as well for desktop Linux too. All you have to do is install Steam and then enable Proton for the Windows games you want to play. Some of my games even work better on Linux under Proton than they do on Windows. For your specific games, I see people saying Diablo wor…

Honestly, the work Valve have done with Proton is incredible. It has made a world of difference to my daily computing life. If only Google would put the same effort into polishing Chrome on Linux :laugh: Also Zoom, Slack...

What's wrong with Chrome on Linux? It works well enough for me. Half of Google uses it since they have Linux desktops, including the Chrome team, so it gets attention.

Re: The day Windows died

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myself248 wrote: post #810
irthomasthomas wrote: post #633

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Been a Linux user for almost a decade. Built a PC for someone recently and they wanted 11 Pro. Whatever, I shrugged, and downloaded the iso from Microsoft. I dd'd it to a usb, like every other iso, and boot to the installer menu. I'm greeted by an error that there are missing drivers. I'm familiar with this error, still, but I'm surprised to see it on the latest O/S. It looks exactly like I remember from 98. So, I sp…

Couple years ago I bought a Thinkpad, back when everything came with Win10 but you could still do the Win7 downgrade. I tried to do just that, but everything went sideways in roughly the same ways as your post, just with different details. After two weeks and getting Lenovo to physically FedEx me some Win7 recovery media and I STILL couldn't get the license key to take, I threw up my hands and decided to see if 2017…

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Re: The day Windows died

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Post by Cheezewheel »

causi wrote: post #741
safety1st wrote: post #353

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This post is basically about the author's nostalgia for his early days of computing with Windows 95 and how he wanted his son to have the same experience. This post is screaming out for Linux. Linux is the solution to his dilemma. If he reformats that drive and puts say Kubuntu on it - the kid's first PC experience is going to be a vaguely retro 90's style shell with a start menu, the start menu is going to have a Ga…

What's always kept me from making the jump is that I'll get hours, day, or weeks into using it and then hit a dealbreaker. It's always something basic but bizarre, and the attitude of the community is always "Come on dude, you should've known you can't use that distro if you want to have a network file share with filenames that start with the letter B." The solution is always to either go f*ck myself and start over o…

Out of curiosity, what is a specific issue that you have had in the past?

Re: The day Windows died

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Post by thesuperbigfrog »

margorczynski wrote: post #638
mise_en_place wrote: post #570

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> I guess I'll crawl back into my cave and keep using Linux for the foreseeable future. Yeah you could do that, but now even Ubuntu includes ads when invoking apt. There is no escape from the ads, and it will only get worse. Even flatpak must be immediately removed, and snaps for that matter. As it is adware clutter for the system.

The Amazon deal was probably the writing on the wall as to where Canonical is heading with Ubuntu in the longer term. People need to stop using it in favor of better distros.

You can subscribe to Ubuntu Pro:

https://ubuntu.com/pricing/pro

TANSTAAFL

Re: The day Windows died

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Post by pxc »

fsflover wrote: post #828
pxc wrote: post #817

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I have one and the hardware is so slow and the software ecosystem is still so incomplete... I understand still holding out for a 'good' Linux phone despite those things.

I'm using Librem 5 as a daily driver. Yes, it's behind Android or iOS, but it feels very empowering to not rely on the overlords.

I hear you, and that's why I bought a Librem 5 as well. Since it finally arrived like five (plus?) years later, I haven't yet spent enough time to settle in with it. But I hate my Android phone, and would like to eventually.

Still, I wish we could get better hardware and the software support definitely still has growing to do. And I understand those who feel like it's not a viable option for them yet, but do want to switch in the future— because that's kinda where I'm still at myself, even though I have one of those devices.

Re: The day Windows died

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Post by bombolo »

Godel_unicode wrote: post #826
bombolo wrote: post #804

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Format your distribution. You probably messed some config file up, while trying to fix something. They work completely fine. I use them all the time and have been using them for about a decade.

The irony of this response on a thread about how Linux support on the internet always devolves to condescending “it works for me” is delicious. The bug to which I refer has been open for over a year and is well replicated on my hardware and distro. I would fix it myself but I can’t be bothered so I use Bluetooth (in one of the rare cases were there’s an audio problem on Linux and the solution is Bluetooth).

Most people complaining about bugs are unaware that the issue got solved 15-20 years ago. They just keep repeating the same thing over and over and over.

Re: The day Windows died

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Post by fsflover »

CharlesW wrote: post #141
josephcsible wrote: post #20

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> That is what anti consumer looks like. Not SIP. It's not an either-or. Both of those are super anti-consumer. If you want an OS without anti-consumer "features", then install Linux.

> Both of those are super anti-consumer. That’s like saying air bags are anti-consumer. Two differences between air bags and SIP: Consumers don’t know SIP exists, and anyone savvy enough to understand the esoteric reasons for needing to disable SIP can do that.

This is a false dichotomy. Security in software can be achieved without destroying user rights.

Re: The day Windows died

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Post by mostlysimilar »

chongli wrote: post #643
raxxorraxor wrote: post #524

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I don't understand how Microsoft can cheapen their main OS that much. If they really wanted to emulate Apple, they wouldn't fill their OS with trash in every corner. This also extends to the default landing page of Edge. This is the worst form of bullvard, it is a tiny bit better than directly advocating for penis enlargement on the internet. But not by much at all. There should be no ads on the OS level. Especially…

Comparing Microsoft and Apple seems appropriate because they both develop operating systems that compete in the consumer market. It’s really not. Apple is a hardware company that develops an operating system and services to add value to their hardware. They make nearly all of their money from hardware. For the longest time, Microsoft didn’t really make any hardware at all, apart from some peripherals like keyboards a…

> Long gone are the days when people lined up at the stores for their chance to snag a copy of Windows 95 on CD!

Maybe if they made a better operating system that wouldn't be the case.

Re: The day Windows died

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Post by elihu »

chongli wrote: post #643
raxxorraxor wrote: post #524

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I don't understand how Microsoft can cheapen their main OS that much. If they really wanted to emulate Apple, they wouldn't fill their OS with trash in every corner. This also extends to the default landing page of Edge. This is the worst form of bullvard, it is a tiny bit better than directly advocating for penis enlargement on the internet. But not by much at all. There should be no ads on the OS level. Especially…

Comparing Microsoft and Apple seems appropriate because they both develop operating systems that compete in the consumer market. It’s really not. Apple is a hardware company that develops an operating system and services to add value to their hardware. They make nearly all of their money from hardware. For the longest time, Microsoft didn’t really make any hardware at all, apart from some peripherals like keyboards a…

I think the main positive impact Microsoft had on the tech industry that they don't get enough credit for is that they allowed a competitive market for hardware to exist. (This was in part because IBM didn't insist that DOS be exclusive to IBM devices.) Hardware wasn't their business, so from their point of view, the more suppliers the better. We had fierce competition between manufacturers and they /mostly/ competed on a level playing field (with some notable exceptions that involved antitrust lawsuits). Eventually the hardware free-for-all created an environment where Linux could also flourish which has undermined Windows to an extent.

At this point Apple has a structural advantage over Microsoft in that Apple doesn't need to monetize their operating system to be profitable, as they're funded by hardware sales. That frees them up to provide a better user experience because they don't have to find way to make money off of their users. Not many companies are in a similar position, where they can recover software development expenses solely through hardware sales. There are a handful that could in theory, but they seem to lack the willingness.

Re: The day Windows died

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Post by Godel_unicode »

bombolo wrote: post #836
Godel_unicode wrote: post #826

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The irony of this response on a thread about how Linux support on the internet always devolves to condescending “it works for me” is delicious. The bug to which I refer has been open for over a year and is well replicated on my hardware and distro. I would fix it myself but I can’t be bothered so I use Bluetooth (in one of the rare cases were there’s an audio problem on Linux and the solution is Bluetooth).

Most people complaining about bugs are unaware that the issue got solved 15-20 years ago. They just keep repeating the same thing over and over and over.

Most reporters of novel bugs get misunderstood by people overly aggressively pattern matching on similar closed bugs and then gaslit.
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