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> Your comment is uninformed garbage. There's no nice way to say it. Please just leave it out, then. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Often these polices are too in favor of letting ignorant comments go unrefuted.
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Often these polices are too in favor of letting ignorant comments go unrefuted.
Your refutations are both weaker and discussion-worsening when you call names and are personally thorny. The guidelines are here so we can have more civil and insightful discussions.
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> Using proprietary operating systems because Linux isn't there yet is a great way to keep Linux from getting there. It's a chicken and egg problem. What would you prefer: getting your privacy thourougly invaded by a proprietary operating system, or being there to help Linux gain market share and tip the scales? Even if it's not perfect, it's more than enough, and supporting it is the best choice. The vast majority o…
I'm not talking to the vast majority of people. I'm talking to Hacker News readers. The sort of people who would care, and who would be technically capable of running the system (though to be quite honest, if it weren't for the mental leap of installing something new, the "vast majority" would have no problem running a modern Linux distro). The Hacker News crowd is also full of developers and, well, hackers. The sort…
My point is that they're simply not sufficient to tip the scales. Even if every single HN reader did what you demand they do, it would not tip the scales.
Once you realize that, this whole notion of "fighting the man" by struggling with config files and broken hardware support rather loses its edge.
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You're making the same exact argument that people trying to push Linux on the desktop were making 10 years ago, and 15 years (and probably before that, it's just that's when I started dabbling in that stuff). It boils down to "it works for me, and if it doesn't work for you because of X, Y and Z, then you should just stop doing that". You can judge for yourself just how persuasive this argument really is by looking a…
The argument is the same, but Linux desktops did get a lot better, and with better support, since then. There's now multiple distros with great UX to choose from (as opposed to "learn xfree86 and stop whining") and indeed Wine works great with lots of programs. I say this as an avid Windows 10 user. IMHO there's still a usability gap (which is why I'm on Windows), but it's narrowing. GP's argument has a lot more meri…
I agree that things have improved since then... but with hardware, for example, it's very much a moving target. Your chances of running Linux on a random new PC bought off the shelf, or assembled from off the shelf components, and having all the hardware fully supported without mucking around with firmware, kernels, configs etc, are still low enough that hardware shopping needs to be done specifically with Linux hardware compatibility in mind, checking lists for what works on what distros etc. And I'm not talking about exotic stuff here, but basic things like WiFi.
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Your refutations are both weaker and discussion-worsening when you call names and are personally thorny. The guidelines are here so we can have more civil and insightful discussions.
My refutations aren't weaker, they're just in poorer taste. I'm sick of the typical Windows apologist making baseless claims about Linux and I don't see it necessary to treat such people with respect. They haven't earned it.
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My refutations aren't weaker, they're just in poorer taste. I'm sick of the typical Windows apologist making baseless claims about Linux and I don't see it necessary to treat such people with respect. They haven't earned it.
You'll have to treat fellow users with respect if you'd like to continue commenting here.
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> The other solution is to rebuild infrastructure on top of a different platform but that's prohibitively expensive. I really don't have a lot of sympathy for companies that lock themselves in to a proprietary platform.
To preface to avoid what might otherwise seem like a bias toward defending use of Windows: I'm a free software activist, a GNU maintainer, and do extensive volunteer work for GNU and the FSF. It's not fair blame. Many companies simply go for what works and throw money at the problem. Windows historically has excellent support from a large number of third parties. The other problem is third-party software. I work for…
So they went with the easiest option and now they are locked in due to lack of forward planning. Their own short term planning is to blame.
With the third party software you mentioned, how long have the relied on it and have they don't absolutely anything to mitigate this reliance? My guess is that they've done nothing or worse, written a bunch of integration points on top of the software that makes it even harder to replace.
One day the company providing that software will jack up the price and you'll be forced to pay it. Again I'll have no sympathy because the company has done nothing to unlock themselves.
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I think PuTTY for Linux will show a menu where you can access settings if you press Alt-Space (and that key isn't bound by your WM). You can change the copy/paste behavior in the PuTTY settings before you open the initial connection and save it as the default configuration (also scrollback settings). Use K3B to burn CDs and turn on Burnfree/whatever it's called.
All I get is the window-menu with alt space -- the one where you get "Minimize/Maximize/Move/Resize/Always-on-top/Close" -- not the one in the Windows putty where you have the duplicate session, restart session, etc... option. I didn't see any copy/paste options in the settings -- am I missing something?
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I don't understand how people aren't screaming about point 10 - I haven't had a linux distro which didn't do that, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Arch - they all had this exact issue. I close my laptop, it goes into sleep mode, I open the screen and my desktop is just there, I can happily use the browser, open apps, run commands, whatever, and then 10-20 seconds later the lock screen kicks in. It's insane that the architectur…
IIRC it's because the Ubuntu screen locking is tied to screensavers. I can't remember how I solved it for myself, but it involved invoking a much baser system to lock the screen.
Does anyone know a good updated firewall whitelist to allow just Windows Updates and nothing else?
What does a firewall help when Windows can bypass it in the kernel? And embedded stuff aside, a system with a firewall whitelist on a separate box is unusable for daily use...