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I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by tormeh »

snek_case wrote: post #101
blauditore wrote: post #73

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>unify the look and feel of mobile and desktop Lol, that's what Microsoft tried 10+ years ago and everybody gave them shit for it, especially Apple fans. Now Apple is "inventing" this again.

Ubuntu also tried this with Unity. They were hoping that Ubuntu would become more popular on tablets if they had a more tablet-friendly UI... They imposed this on desktop users even though nobody asked for it and basically nobody used Linux on a tablet. It was kind of a disaster. Ubuntu is a commercial entity though, so yeah, prone to the same kind of bad management decisions. as Microsoft and Apple. At least with Li…

I suspect that's an Nvidia problem. Never been an issue for me using AMD.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by forgotaccount22 »

forgotaccount22 wrote: post #235
nh2 wrote: post #226

I'm using Linux on the desktop for 15 years and I still sometimes cannot connect to Wifi. This is because the list of network refreshes (and disappears) before I can find and click the correct Wifi: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-applet/-/issu... This completely breaks the Linux experience for anybody living in a reasonably populous area. The issue has 3 upvotes. I also put a 400 $ bounty on it, if an…

PR on the way

PR created https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-applet/-/merg...

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by davkan »

bee_rider wrote: post #152
gunalx wrote: post #145

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Productivity and Cloud have a revenue of about 30B each while personal computing only was 13.5B (that includes windows Xbox and search + advertising) according to ms earnings report q4 25

Yep! That’s what I was thinking of. It is a cloud hosting company that keeps some legacy software around for sentimental reasons.

I would imagine a significant portion of the cloud revenue is derivative of windows though. Whether that’s lift and shift workloads or entra id which is picked over alternatives for its compatibility with existing windows and AD infrastructure.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by ReptileMan »

rickcarlino wrote: post #260

Linux is one of the last strong defenses for the idea that people should control the computers they own. On desktops and servers, root access is normal, and attempts to take it away do not work because software freedom is well established. On phones, that never happened. There is no real, mainstream “Linux for mobile,” and the result is a world of locked-down platforms where things like “sideloading” are treated as s…

>Linux is one of the last strong defenses for the idea that people should control the computers they own.

Please run Kate/Kwrite as root and then we will talk on the topic. Or pipe password to ssh

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by rickdg »

herczegzsolt wrote: post #238
nh2 wrote: post #226

I'm using Linux on the desktop for 15 years and I still sometimes cannot connect to Wifi. This is because the list of network refreshes (and disappears) before I can find and click the correct Wifi: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-applet/-/issu... This completely breaks the Linux experience for anybody living in a reasonably populous area. The issue has 3 upvotes. I also put a 400 $ bounty on it, if an…

If you are sensitive to these issues, unfortunately you need to go with a mainstream linux distribution and use near-default settings. It's great that you can customize everything and use your own window manager, compositor, etc ... but these issues are the price you pay. It is unfair to compare this to Windows, where you don't even have these customization options. Specifically for the network manager applet, it is…

I use ubuntu and the default remote desktop just stopped working since 24: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/rdp-stopped-working-after-upg...

With Linux, you just have to be prepared to hit a bug and find no help coming anytime.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by llmslave3 »

nh2 wrote: post #226

I'm using Linux on the desktop for 15 years and I still sometimes cannot connect to Wifi. This is because the list of network refreshes (and disappears) before I can find and click the correct Wifi: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-applet/-/issu... This completely breaks the Linux experience for anybody living in a reasonably populous area. The issue has 3 upvotes. I also put a 400 $ bounty on it, if an…

Last time I tried Linux I was so done with Windows I installed Arch. Couldn't connect to Wifi. I figured it was Arch, so I installed Ubuntu. Literally the same problem. So I got a new USB wifi adaptor that said it supported Linux...same problem. I gave up and have been using a MacBook ever since lol.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by fao_ »

drdec wrote: post #283
CarVac wrote: post #160

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The thing is, Unity was great as a UI even on desktop. The main issue was poor performance early on.

To me, the killer feature of Unity was the searchable application menus. Wish that was still a thing

KDE supports this! It's called the "global menu", and has search built in. GTK app support is iffy, though

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by timbit42 »

mongrelion wrote: post #105

I ran Archlinux as my main driver on both PC and Laptop for more than a decade but after having the opportunity to use a Windows machine with WSL and eventually WSL2, I felt like I had access to the best of both worlds: a Linux terminal for development (bash + tmux + vim, now bash + zellij + neovim) without the hassle of updates breaking things every few months and a out-of-the-box native gaming experience. But with…

> without the hassle of updates breaking things every few months

That's not so much a Linux issue as an Arch issue.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by cultofmetatron »

anon291 wrote: post #270
1over137 wrote: post #122

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Commercial OSes (both Windows and macOS) are also both American, and lots of people are trying to de-Americanize.

Linux is also realistically American since the largest contributors are American corporations and the dictator for life lives on Portland oregon. America has a monopoly on software essentially.

assumign this is arguing in good faith..

the issue is not about it being american as it is america being in control of it. you don't get access to windows or mac os source code. You can however take the linux source code, fork it and make it yours. that "dictator for life" in portland can't stop you. nor can anyone else in the us government for that matter.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by timbit42 »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #64

My Linux evenings usually appear 6 months down the road. It's the big updates that cause system breakdowns. This is like saying I got married in November and everything is going great. Far too early to know how far your patience will be tested before you leave.

In my experience, it's not so much the updates as the upgrades but even upgrades are smooth with Linux Mint.
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