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Article is blocked in India.
Yeah. I had to access it by archive[dot]org What ISP do you use?
I am very happy to hear this. Usually, when I tell people that my main operating system is Linux, they don't even process it and assume it's either Windows or Mac. Sometimes, they get confused and claim that no one uses Linux. Now that there is data in terms that people can understand (capitalism), I think people will finally accept that Linux is an OS. The next thing is the false equivalence between Linux and Androi…
I have Windows on dual-boot in case I need it, but I'm in Linux 99% of the time now.
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I totally disagree there. My medium-technical non-programmer friend completely installed set up Linux without my help using Claude. As the resident IT person among my friend group this blew my mind. I’ve noticed that it’s helped me as well, because it’s able to give me diagnostic commands that I can run and report back with the results. For example, I fixed/set up a virtual machine with libvertd and I just wouldn’t h…
> medium-technical non-programmer friend completely installed set up Linux without my help using Claude I mean, not to do the HN thing, but I feel like if anything that's a bad sign for Linux that Claude was needed? Basically any desktop distro from the last decade has a simple GUI installer, if anything it's genuinely easier than installing Windows. I'd expect a medium-technical person to be able to handle it just f…
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Yeah. I had to access it by archive[dot]org What ISP do you use?
The blocking is being done by linuxiac.com, not by the government or by your ISP. (If it were done by them, you’d get TLS connection errors over https:, and a message over http: something like “The website has been blocked as per order of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under IT Act, 2000.”)
As the article points out, we’re not sure about the validity of these numbers. Anecdotally though, the idea of major creators like Linus Tech Tips and Marques Brownlee putting out Linux content was unheard of a few short years ago. I have been seeing a wide trend among the Windows tech-savvy universe of frustrated users who have social media platforms suggesting strongly that people give it a try. Plus, you’ve got St…
But the question is "which" distro? If it's one of the "hyped" ones, I wouldn't be surprised if people migrate back to Windows.