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Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by 1970-01-01 »

cmeacham98 wrote: post #16
least wrote: post #10

This website is terrible. Its "resources" are almost entirely just links to articles and youtube videos. The information is poorly presented and poorly written. Why is the front page entirely taken up by a picture of a penguin?

If you think that's bad, check out this link: https://www.upgradetolinux.com/linux-differences-an-introduc... According to the link I clicked on to get here, this is supposed to be "linux differences". I daily drive linux and recommend it to people who I think would do well with it, but I would never link them this website.

>What do you mean by “It does not get viruses”?

Well, I mean, um https://www.linuxexperten.com/library/e-resources/linux-malw...

Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by bm-rf »

cmeacham98 wrote: post #16
least wrote: post #10

This website is terrible. Its "resources" are almost entirely just links to articles and youtube videos. The information is poorly presented and poorly written. Why is the front page entirely taken up by a picture of a penguin?

If you think that's bad, check out this link: https://www.upgradetolinux.com/linux-differences-an-introduc... According to the link I clicked on to get here, this is supposed to be "linux differences". I daily drive linux and recommend it to people who I think would do well with it, but I would never link them this website.

I wonder what the intended audience of this page is supposed to be

Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by jabbany »

ekianjo wrote: post #9

Again Linux users trying to convert Windows users at every OS change. It wont work well. Windows users expect Windows, not having to relearn everything from scratch

Yeah. Microsoft has been more effective at getting users off Windows than Linux ever has.

Since Win 11 I've had multiple inquiries from friends/family about how to switch to a different OS... (or get them back to at least Win 10...)

Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by tetraca »

glonq wrote: post #15
least wrote: post #10

This website is terrible. Its "resources" are almost entirely just links to articles and youtube videos. The information is poorly presented and poorly written. Why is the front page entirely taken up by a picture of a penguin?

If it was still the year 2012 then this would be a _great_ website. But yeah. Terrible.

If it was still the year N-10 then this would be a great X more or less sums up my entire desktop linux experience.

Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by titoCA321 »

So many shills in the "opensource" and "freedom" Linux community. Harp all day long about how "freedom" yet cry and troll when developers don't support a Linux distro and troll all day about getting others to convert to Linux or specific Linux distro.

If you're for "freedom" software then live and let live what others use for operating systems.

Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by dmix »

glonq wrote: post #15
least wrote: post #10

This website is terrible. Its "resources" are almost entirely just links to articles and youtube videos. The information is poorly presented and poorly written. Why is the front page entirely taken up by a picture of a penguin?

If it was still the year 2012 then this would be a _great_ website. But yeah. Terrible.

Web design wasn't invented after 2012. This goes against a ton of principles (Bootstrap was 2011).

It could be a 2012 mobile site without a proper desktop version though.

Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by tmtvl »

petra wrote: post #17
ghostly_s wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also the small issue that despite how much Windows sucks Linux continues to be worse.

It start and ends with applications. As long as linux doesn't provide unique high-value software that doesn't exist on windows, why should anybody bother ?

It depends from person to person. My mother runs GNU/Linux because it runs faster on her potato laptop, I run GNU/Linux because I believe in the fundamental software freedoms and MS refuses to relicense Windows under the (A)GPL.

Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by [deleted] »

titoCA321 wrote: post #26

So many shills in the "opensource" and "freedom" Linux community. Harp all day long about how "freedom" yet cry and troll when developers don't support a Linux distro and troll all day about getting others to convert to Linux or specific Linux distro. If you're for "freedom" software then live and let live what others use for operating systems.

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Re: Upgrade to Linux

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Post by jamiek88 »

bm-rf wrote: post #22
cmeacham98 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you think that's bad, check out this link: https://www.upgradetolinux.com/linux-differences-an-introduc... According to the link I clicked on to get here, this is supposed to be "linux differences". I daily drive linux and recommend it to people who I think would do well with it, but I would never link them this website.

I wonder what the intended audience of this page is supposed to be

Seo backlinks maybe. Or YouTube traffic generators for ad revenue?
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