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Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)

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Re: Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)

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Post by dav »

Osiris wrote: post #223
rubyn00bie wrote: post #214

I just moved to Linux as my primary OS; been fucking great. 11/10 Overall, everything seems to "just work" at least as well as on MacOS and is not quite (for me) as endlessly frustrating as Windows. Gaming has also been effortless and honestly just the most delightful surprise about the whole thing. I can write code AND play games... on the same machine... and it's running Linux?! I would've lost that bet ten years a…

I'm using PopOS (with i3 instead of Gnome) on a System76 laptop. I have some serious issues with resume from sleep. All browsers and electron apps have significant rendering issues after I resume and I have to close them down and restart them. I was able to fix Chrome and Firefox by enabling Vulkan, but Slack still requires a restart after every resume. My external monitors periodically stop working due to an NVIDIA…

I have same problem. It’s 100% with Slack (and I suspected because Electron) but only occasional with Zoom and rarely with Firefox.

Re: Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)

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Post by hashhar »

marcan_42 wrote: post #268

It's worth noting that these days you can move Windows installs across hardware/VMs and fix issues from a live image. I'm a longtime Linux user and every time I have to do this on Windows I find the documentation poor, but it is possible to do things like load kernel modules (drivers), partition a drive, format a new NTFS filesystem, copy all the files over preserving special filesystem features, reinstall the bootlo…

I'm not sure I'll ever need this but this is really useful for the times I get stuck in a situation. Thanks for writing this.

I bet we couldn't find this information consolidated in a single place anywhere on the internet.

This would also be useful as a blog post (if you have one and have the time).

Thanks again!

Re: Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)

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Post by numpad0 »

fartcannon wrote: post #191
alphachloride wrote: post #132

I am a sample size of 1. For me, the inconveniences of using linux are far greater than the inconveniences of using windows. This article is targeted at the developer community mostly. As a programmer, I cannot recall being hindered by file name conventions, un-resizeable dialog boxes, bug trackers etc., as much I have been inconvenienced on linux by poor driver support, and regularly dropping to command line for con…

Have you ever tried to disable something that windows insists you use? Like all the telemetry? Just try to stay on top of that. Impossible because you're not in charge of your machine, Microsoft is. You change it, they just change it back. Frustrating. On Linux? Its yours. Change anything you want. All arguments of convenience go out the window when you are not in control.

Telemetry is disgusting but can’t stop wondering if it’s pervert invasion or consensus building if it’s not done the way it’s done now. “popcon” has been around for long.

Re: Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)

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Post by gitgud »

TylerE wrote: post #257
gitgud wrote: post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "You couldn't pay me to put up with the massively inferior environment of any of the Linux DEs at this point." Sounds like you're using Visual Studio... which at this point is closer to an Operating System than an IDE...

Why do you say that? I just hate jank, and KDE, Gnome, and XFCE are all janky as hell in their own infuriating ways. PS: I haven't had any version of Visual Studio installed since about 2004.

Ahh, my mistake, I misread your initial comment to be about IDE's.

I would encourage you to try Gnome again. I use it everyday on a 7 year old laptop with Ubuntu, and it is impressively stable and smooth and a pleasure to multi-task with vertical windows.

Re: Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)

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Post by willhoyle »

rubyn00bie wrote: post #214

I just moved to Linux as my primary OS; been fucking great. 11/10 Overall, everything seems to "just work" at least as well as on MacOS and is not quite (for me) as endlessly frustrating as Windows. Gaming has also been effortless and honestly just the most delightful surprise about the whole thing. I can write code AND play games... on the same machine... and it's running Linux?! I would've lost that bet ten years a…

+1 for Nord. I used it everywhere - terminal, vs code, browser theme, gtk theme

Re: Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)

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Post by nsomaru »

nickjj wrote: post #144
at-fates-hands wrote: post #92

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While I agree with all of these 100%, I'm a UI/UX designer, so Adobe continues to hold me hostage to my Apple and MS boxes. Some of the Linux alternatives are good, but they still aren't as good as Adobe. I still do quite a bit of JS development and some app development on my older Linux rig, but I just wish at some point Adobe will pull their heads out and support Linux. I remember in several threads on the Adobe fo…

> It pissed me off enough where I did give it a full go on Linux with Gimp Shop and some other alternative open source alternatives, but it just wasn't the same - which really bummed me out. Is Gimp Shop still a thing? Wikipedia says the stable release is from 2006. Going to https://www.gimpshop.com/ leads you to the official gimp site when you try to download it. It kind of looks like maybe it's a marketing site for…

Quoting the author (Wikipedia):

I originally created Gimpshop, but I'm not the jerk who owns that domain and added adware & spyware to the source. Sorry about that. I hate that this guy is out there making my fun little project into an abomination.

….

I don't have a project site for it. I became discouraged after this whole ordeal and I let it slip away into obscurity. …. Gimpshop was a fun little 'prank' that got bigger than I ever expected. Sad what it has become, though.

Re: Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)

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Post by sangli »

lukeschlather wrote: post #215
AlanSE wrote: post #177

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I find myself using my Android phone a lot more when on Linux... just because I have to practically work around some things, because I don't have all day to debug non-essential tasks. For instance, I upgraded Fedora from 32 to 33, and Spotify stopped working. Can this be fixed? I'm absolutely sure it can be fixed. Do I have time? No. I have watched way too many coworkers bomb meetings because of trying to use bluetoo…

I've actually quit using Bluetooth for Zoom meetings on Windows because it has been too unreliable.

I have done this too, partially. The problem with bluetooth on windows is that it doesn't work in duplex mode. You can't use speaker and mic together on bluetooth. If you disable the module for mic(don't remember what it's called) then the speaker function works perfectly.

All the support posts that I read told me that bluetooth is the problem, not windows. But I call BS on that as the bluetooth duplexing works perfectly fine on Linux as well as macos.

Re: Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)

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Post by crankyoldcrank »

AlanSE wrote: post #177
tcbawo wrote: post #165

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I recently spent 30 minutes figuring out why the Bluetooth pairing process wasn't giving me the pin number I needed to pair my new wireless keyboard. Ugh. Eventually, after searching through forums, I updated the right modules to get it working. I want to use Linux as my daily driver, but I am frustrated by little things that don't work or go wrong.

I find myself using my Android phone a lot more when on Linux... just because I have to practically work around some things, because I don't have all day to debug non-essential tasks. For instance, I upgraded Fedora from 32 to 33, and Spotify stopped working. Can this be fixed? I'm absolutely sure it can be fixed. Do I have time? No. I have watched way too many coworkers bomb meetings because of trying to use bluetoo…

I've had similar experiences on Windows and Mac. Computers are finicky and they break sometimes, especially during upgrades.

Re: Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)

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Post by sergeykish »

cjbconnor wrote: post #189
archseer wrote: post #169

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Proton makes almost everything playable on linux. Sometimes with worse performance, sometimes with a lot better performance so it balances out.

Many of the multiplayer games I play won't work on linux, typically due to the anticheat software they use. Also, there's typically a few hoops to jump through for popular games.

Anticheat is a rootkit, right? That's almost complaining Windows viruses does not run in Wine.
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