Like the author says: > Linux is the preferred platform for development Honestly I'm surprised he was using a non unix system this long, I guess it kinda proves his point that switching costs can seem huge
I was using WSL for the longest time.
Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
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Re: Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
#32Maybe it's stockholm syndrome but I still have no interest in Linux. Are nvidia drivers still bad?
> Are nvidia drivers still bad?
Depends a ton hardware. Newer hardware has been playing well with the kernel but still not fully oss.
You’ll still have less trouble over all with amd though.
Re: Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
#33As a long-time Linux user who fairly recently dropped the Windows partition entirely, I do think the remaining chafing points are these:
* UI framework balkanization has always been, and remains a hideous mess. And now you don't just have different versions of GTK vs QT to keep track off, but also X vs Wayland, and their various compatibility layers.
* Support for non-standard DPI monitors sucks, mostly because of the previous point. Wayland has fractional scaling as a sort-of workaround if you can tolerate the entire screen being blurry. Every other major OS can deal with this.
* Anything to do with configuring webcams feels like you're suddenly in thrown back 20 years into the past. It'll probably work fine out of the box, but if it doesn't. Hoo boy.
* Audio filtering is a pain to set up.
Re: Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
#34I think Linux adoption will rapidly grow with the adoption of LLMs. Esoteric errors are now resolvable with a simple query. Often with just a few cut and paste commands. This improves the rough edges to a point that Linux is now a reasonable option for a larger cohort of previously unfeasible users.
I also think LLMs are well suited to find niche strange bugs way quicker. User posts esoteric error on the issues page. LLM with proper context may converge quickly, allowing the programmer to implement a fix.
Re: Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
#35"Like digital herpes, I just couldn't get rid of it."
Made my day! :-D
Re: Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
#36Every month more and more people switch to Linux and I just love it. I'm tired of one company controlling the core operating system of 85% of desktop computers and users being at their whim. You want proprietary programs? Alright, fine, one can argue for that. But the central, core operating system of general purpose computers should be free and fully controllable by the users that own them!
> Every month more and more people switch to Linux We've been hearing this for decades and yet the home Linux userbase is microscopic and somehow even smaller than ever. Unless we're going to count Google's Android and Chrome OS. Those are the only Linux-based distributions that have ever gained market share over desktop Windows.
I mean, this is literally false? Desktop Linux userbase is growing, it's bigger than it has ever been even without including ChromeOS, and more OEMs are shipping devices with desktop linux than ever before (Valve's suite of devices, multiple laptop vendors including major ones like Lenovo, a few SteamDeck competitors)
Re: Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
#37I think Linux adoption will rapidly grow with the adoption of LLMs. Esoteric errors are now resolvable with a simple query. Often with just a few cut and paste commands. This improves the rough edges to a point that Linux is now a reasonable option for a larger cohort of previously unfeasible users.
1. This is not a likely effect of LLM adoption.
2. Linux is already to the point of giving you about as many esoteric errors as Windows or macOS will.
People don't switch either because they are comfortable where they are and don't want to put forth the effort of changing their OS, or they are afraid of outdated criticism of Linux Desktops being error-filled nightmares.
Re: Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
#38Maybe it's stockholm syndrome but I still have no interest in Linux. Are nvidia drivers still bad?
The nvidia gods smile upon me, zero issues except the one I mentioned in the article.
They do have to fix VKD3D performance though, 10-30% perf loss on Intel/Nvidia hardware when playing DX12 games.
Re: Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
#39Maybe it's stockholm syndrome but I still have no interest in Linux. Are nvidia drivers still bad?
nvidia drivers are pretty easy to install now that all of AI is trained on nvidia drivers on linux
Re: Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
#40Still reading the article, but early on it says: "Also, is it weird that I still remember the specs of my first computer, 22 years later?" My first computer was a TRS-80 Model 1, 1.78 Mz Z80 with 16 KB RAM. That was 48 years ago. Is it weird that I remember that?
Mine was an Intel 386 DX 40MHZ with 2MB RAM and 80MB HD, bought in late 1993.