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Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by mixmastamyk »

nh2 wrote: post #226

I'm using Linux on the desktop for 15 years and I still sometimes cannot connect to Wifi. This is because the list of network refreshes (and disappears) before I can find and click the correct Wifi: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-applet/-/issu... This completely breaks the Linux experience for anybody living in a reasonably populous area. The issue has 3 upvotes. I also put a 400 $ bounty on it, if an…

I've been recommending Mint/Cinnamon over Ubuntu for years now. Its wifi widget does not do this, nor does it use snap.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by TacticalCoder »

SilentM68 wrote: post #267
toddmorey wrote: post #9

Commercial OSes (both Windows and MacOS) now feel so insanely agenda driven, and the agenda no longer feels like anything close to making the user happy and productive. For Mac, it feels like Apple wants to leverage what came out of VisionOS and unify the look and feel of mobile and desktop--two things no one asked for. For Windows, it feels like ads for their partners and ensuring they don't fumble the ai/agent tran…

Windows has evolved into the world's highest security risk. MacOS feels like Eye Candy due to its increasingly inaccessible price for people with low resources. So, price and security are the reasons why I switched to Linux.

> Windows has evolved into the world's highest security risk.

It has always been.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by erikon »

xerox13ster wrote: post #110
erikon wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because although sometimes annoying, people already have a good alternative making the hours required to invest in something they're not interested in a very high price. It's the same reason why as a software developer I use Visual Studio Code and don't plan to learn (neo)vim. I (like many who'd have to learn Linux) have better things to do.

You simply dismissed or forgot the learning you did to use Visual Studio Code. Regardless of how much learning you did you still had to learn how to use it. Just trying to short-circuit that logic and show you that it cuts both ways and that we should be willing to learn new tools.

That is true, but you can't deny the fact one tool has a significantly steeper learning curve. They are not the same.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by Jigsy »

0xperke wrote: post #44

For all who switched to Linux: which distro did you choose and why? Fedora: wanted to have the newest kernel and updates due to new hardware - so far i am really satisfied; the only issue i have is that the printer does not work everytime… as a workaround i print with my iphone instead.

Originally started with Xubuntu 22.04, but switched to Mint at the start of March last year since it (Xubuntu) was going to EoL.

Mint does everything I need it to, so there's no need for me to hop.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by jna_sh »

freedomben wrote: post #237
jna_sh wrote: post #190

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I expected it to be an issue but I’ve had surprisingly few problems so far. If you’re working in docker-land or can use devcontainers, it just works. If you’re not but your stack is well supported by homebrew, also not a problem. Anything else you can handle via a distrobox container, where you can install from package managers to your heart’s content, and they have good integration with the base OS, but I’ve had to…

Interesting, thanks! Out of curoisity would you (or anyone else) mind sharing some details about which stacks you work on? And have you done any GTK or linux native apps? I do a decent amount of GTK and occasionaly Qt, and wonder if there's any extra friction for that

I’ve not done any native Linux app development I’m afraid, I can see that being quite painful…

I am mostly over in web application and Python ML land.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by TacticalCoder »

It's quite interesting to see all these people switching to Linux on the desktop and realizing it works. Some of us are using Linux on the desktop since more than ... a quarter of a century.

Everytime I read such an article I'm thinking "duh, of course it works" but apparently people still think it's not the case.

I do really, really, really wonder what's going to happen once battery usage is more efficient on Linux than on Windows. For in every thread about Linux on the desktop, there seems to be an endless flow of comments saying "I can get 11 hours of battery time on Windows, but I only get 10h40 minutes on Linux".

Linux powers billions, if not tens of billions of devices by now: trust me, it can power your desktop/laptop just fine.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by surgical_fire »

leptons wrote: post #255
surgical_fire wrote: post #199

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Mint because I am a filthy casual. I love Mint. It has been smooth sailing for the past 4 years running it on a 2019 Dell X5. Part of why I lack any motivation to get a new machine is because it still runs very smooth with Mint. I plan on getting a new machine in the near future. Then I'll use my old Dell as a testing ground for other Distros. Was thinking of testing Tumbleweed first.

I started with Ubuntu but had some problems installing software. Then I moved to Mint and it stuck with me. I converted 6 virtual machines from Windows to Mint Linux, and it's been great. I then moved my main server that runs the VMs from Windows to Linux Mint, and that went far better than expected, basically no problems at all. I had two LSI x8 SAS RAID cards, each running an 8 disk RAID 10 array. Moving over to Li…

> There's really not much software that I need that only runs on Windows (I do not play any games).

This is the main barrier for most people, I reckon.

I mostly play on consoles nowadays, but I recognize that games are important as they bring the masses. If gaming on Linux becomes important, the rest will follow.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by mixmastamyk »

rickcarlino wrote: post #260

Linux is one of the last strong defenses for the idea that people should control the computers they own. On desktops and servers, root access is normal, and attempts to take it away do not work because software freedom is well established. On phones, that never happened. There is no real, mainstream “Linux for mobile,” and the result is a world of locked-down platforms where things like “sideloading” are treated as s…

If you're interested in this aspect of user agency, you might like the "trustworthy technology" site a few friends and I are working on: https://aol.codeberg.page/eci/

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by xerox13ster »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #158
xerox13ster wrote: post #91

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Come on, buddy, at this point, nobody could take you seriously. You are attributing to the software and OS a difference that exists because of hardware. You can’t seriously sit here and say Linux battery life on x86 doesn’t reach your par when you’re comparing it to a completely different computing architecture. You’re comparing apples to oranges and complaining the oranges are more sour than the apples. Run Asahi Li…

I don’t care why it’s better. Whose fault is it that Linux gets worse battery life on every computer that also runs Windows or MacOS?

Don’t try to act like that is the discussion we’ve been having.

You’re holding Linux on x86 to a Mac on ARM standard.

It’s fine if Linux doesn’t meet your standards, but don’t try to act like that’s Linux‘s fault and not your standards’.

Nothing x86 meets your standards, so save the criticism.

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