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Which “the” Linux desktop? GNOME? KDE? xfce? Cinnamon? COSMIC?
This question reinforces the point IMO
Or is it in your opinion?
If it is maybe they better stay on the "shut up and do how I say, puppet" OS.
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Yeah, not sure how people form almost "relationships" with their tools and refuse sometimes to even explore options. I'm always open to switching almost anything. I never end up doing, because things are usually not better, but maybe 1/100 times something is better, and then I switch. Initially did that around Ubuntu 9.10 before, and I'll switch away from Arch in a heartbeat if anything better comes around. Edit: I r…
The opposite isn't good either, if you're always flitting between different products and never learning any one deeply, you'll never get anywhere.
e.g. I tried out Arch for a while and discovered that its Wiki has some of the best information around. Luckily, Arch tends to use standard Linux tools such as systemd, so the information is applicable to almost any distribution.
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I’m my experience, unwavering Windows folk are simply power users who find *nix shells burdensome.
I deploy all my code on linux and have been thinking about switching from windows to linux for my daily driver. But even I dread that. It´s as if linux has tried as hard as possible to make every single little thing as complicated as possible. imho, user experience is nowhere to be found in the linux landscape. There is very little focus on that. People will tell you try this or that distro. But once you run into a s…
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Comment threads on the Closed Source OS topics like this regularly remind me about the large disconnect between skilled technical users and the "average" user. That average probably isn't your (great) grandparent who never learned how to type suddenly needing to learn the rapidly evolving early-days internet, but it's still just as dangerous to suggest "Use Linux" as the solution for everyone when plenty of "Average"…
imo, the 'grandparent' type user should really be on an ipad or chromebook etc. (unless they have some specific software needs). Too easy to get unwanted stuff running on windows and it needs admin.
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All that very justifiable work to avoid a cloud-connected OS . . . and then switch to OnShape which (afaict) has zero local option and requires a full cloud connection to run at all? Seems like walking a tightrope across the river to avoid soaking your suit, then jumping in from the dock once you successfully get to the other side?
Fusion is cloud-only, as well, annoyingly. I'd love to have a Linux-based 3D CAD program, but the open source ones just aren't up to scratch. I've tried using FreeCAD, but it still scrambles things topologically (for example: adjust an underlying object and your fillets may get totally hosed). Fusion is especially frustrating as they have a macOS version. A Linux version really shouldn't be much different.
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imo, the 'grandparent' type user should really be on an ipad or chromebook etc. (unless they have some specific software needs). Too easy to get unwanted stuff running on windows and it needs admin.
Us "grandparents" built and continue to maintain the tech stack we're all using. I think great-grandparents are the new grandparents.
Twice amusing when they (usually) don't understand that the application they use has more moving parts than animated pictures on their phone.
There are two technologies propped up by having to earn a living: windows and the iPhone. No matter the android phone, trying to get your MFA experience working with the umpteen stupid MFA apps is painful because all the dev work went into the iPhone versions. I hate it but yep I ended up buying an iPhone although I never buy them new. Windows is the other one and again it’s security related. More and more places sim…
> I’d agree for a home computer Linux or macOS are the only sane choices now. Unless you care about gaming at all. Sure you have the Linux evangelists who talk about how much better support has gotten (it has!) but there are still huge glaring holes. I run MacOS for everything except gaming. I'm not even that big of a gamer but it's the only sane option there.
For Nvidia it's cachyos right now, apparently.
More to come.
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Gamer for a few decades, this year home desktop is finally Linux. (Though my work laptops were already that way.)
I just need a better Nvidia support for something outside Arch niche (cachyos) in this space. I'm already packed and ready to migrate. Can't wait.
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I will say, for anybody reading and finds it in any way uplifting, I have been a Windows user for 30 years, been a .net developer for 5 years at one point, groaned at how bad the 'Linux desktop' always was, but this year I finally switched to using Linux instead of Windows and I think it's because the inflexion point is starting to hit more of the masses.
Gamer for a few decades, this year home desktop is finally Linux. (Though my work laptops were already that way.)
> I'm still a Windows guy, and I always will be. And this is exactly why Microsoft can get away with a buggy mess of a user hostile operating system. They only have an incentive to make a good OS if people are willing to leave when it’s a bad one.