> Tim Apple.
Isn't this person the CEO of Apple according to you know who.
Why I'm sort of leaving Linux
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Re: Why I'm sort of leaving Linux
#22I'm halfway with the author. I'm leaving Linux, but I'm not moving to Windows -- I'm moving to BSD.
Re: Why I'm sort of leaving Linux
#23Windows 10 is honestly really good as a user desktop as long as you run the appropriate optimization and debloat scripts on an LTSC image. I'm still using Linux as well, but I've been really impressed by the stability of the LTSC Win10. Even fewer problems than the recent iterations of MacOS, in my experience. It's worth considering especially if you need access to commercial software like Excel or Adobe CC products.
I don't really agree. While I think Win 10 is certainly a usable OS, I find it inferior to even Windows 7, let alone Linux.
Re: Why I'm sort of leaving Linux
#24In an effort to reinvigorate my computer chops, I've been bouncing between macOS, linux (Manjaro), and Windows 10 on my personal laptop, switching to the next OS in rotation every Sunday night. I'm set up to develop a number of my personal web projects in all three operating systems, with my environment being (more or less) the same across all three (Angular and Python development) using Sublime as my primary text editor, Firefox as my primary browser. I've gone out of my way to NOT rely on the Linux subsystem on Windows, trying to keep my Windows experience more 'vanilla'. I'm only on my second week of using Windows, but I have to say, it is BY FAR my least favorite environment to work in of the three.
Re: Why I'm sort of leaving Linux
#25Windows 10 is honestly really good as a user desktop as long as you run the appropriate optimization and debloat scripts on an LTSC image. I'm still using Linux as well, but I've been really impressed by the stability of the LTSC Win10. Even fewer problems than the recent iterations of MacOS, in my experience. It's worth considering especially if you need access to commercial software like Excel or Adobe CC products.
I don't really agree. While I think Win 10 is certainly a usable OS, I find it inferior to even Windows 7, let alone Linux.
This is a good point. WSL is a good addition, but Windows 7 felt more streamlined and less cluttered. I almost dread dealing with Windows 10, the updates and Cortana trying to activate have definitely made me lose trust using it as a daily driver. Then again, I'll be putting off the Catalina upgrade as long as possible, too
Re: Why I'm sort of leaving Linux
#26I have a Linux config I wrote for my desktop manager 8? Years ago. It took me about a week to write, and is themed to my hearts consent. I’ve barely touched it since then, once a couple years ago to add more workspaces, and another a couple weeks ago to change the theme
It gives me the same keybjndings I want everywhere. Linux now feels the same regardless of what distro I’m using, and it’s just the way I like it now.
It’s easy to get suckered in to ricing you’re environment, but you get tired of it eventually and just copy/paste the config around.
Windows scares me at this point, it doesn’t have a nice timing window manger and I inevitably lose what I’m working on in a pile of windows.
Re: Why I'm sort of leaving Linux
#27This is the reason I use Gnome. Sure, I could spend time tweaking and theming KDE Plasma's bars or messing around with i3 config files. But Gnome is pretty straightforward. Sure there are extensions and GTK themes. But it's primarily designed with one workflow in mind, kind of like iOS. I find myself doing more work when I'm using a Gnome desktop environment. When I use Windows, there's a lot of "update work" to do t…
Mint MATE. Quite spartan. The Gnome part is more or less Gnome 2 and quite minimal. I cut down the panels to just one thin (24mm) strip at the top, and most that is filled with just my everyday launch-icons, date, and desktop switcher.
With my daily back-up, and a couple of scripts, I can completely re-install my system from an absolute disaster to up-and-running normally within about an hour or an hour and a half.
Re: Why I'm sort of leaving Linux
#28Somewhat related rant. I bought a 5700 after my GTX 970 died and I wanted to play games and do some game programming. I waited to buy it after it had been out for two months and I could get a good 3rd party cooler. I had to wait another two weeks for support to get into Manjaro (Arch). The 5700 series Navi cards had several dependencies. Mesa 19.2.1 (19.2.0 was not a production release), LLVM 9.0, Linux 5.3, anddddd.…
> Somewhat related rant.
> I had to wait another two weeks for support
This situation is completely unacceptable. I hope you called Manjaro and asked to speak to a manager to get a refund on your free operating system.
Re: Why I'm sort of leaving Linux
#29Somewhat related rant. I bought a 5700 after my GTX 970 died and I wanted to play games and do some game programming. I waited to buy it after it had been out for two months and I could get a good 3rd party cooler. I had to wait another two weeks for support to get into Manjaro (Arch). The 5700 series Navi cards had several dependencies. Mesa 19.2.1 (19.2.0 was not a production release), LLVM 9.0, Linux 5.3, anddddd.…
> Somewhat related rant. > I had to wait another two weeks for support This situation is completely unacceptable. I hope you called Manjaro and asked to speak to a manager to get a refund on your free operating system.
If you can claim Linux is the equivalent of Windows or macOS and advocate for people using Linux instead of other OSes, you can’t also say “you’re not allowed to complain about it because it didn’t cost anything”.
Either it’s comparable or it’s “deal with it’s problems because it’s free”. It can’t be both.
Re: Why I'm sort of leaving Linux
#30I use Windows 10 Enterprise for a project I work on. I really like File Explorer, the taskbar, and the window switching system, but for system-level scripting and cli-based development, nothing beats a good ol’ bash terminal, whether on Linux or macOS. However, I detest Windows 10 Home for its extremely bloated menu layout, pre-installed spyware, and forced no-questions-asked-no-matter-how-much-you-protest updates. D…
WSL is truly a godsend for me and MS just keeps making it more and more useful.