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

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Post by amlib »

mitthrowaway2 wrote: post #245
amlib wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This shouldn't happen with external disks formatted with ntfs, ext or udf. If you have an EXT4 or something like that external disk things get more hazy...

Whether it should or shouldn't, it did. But I think the issue is less that it happened, and more that the user interface doesn't respond to the "no permission" error by offering up a button you can click to attempt to grant yourself permission. If it can be done through the terminal, there should be a novice friendly way as well. (For that matter, a novice user shouldn't even have to know how their external hard driv…

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply this isn't an important problem that needs to be addressed. I mostly agree with what you say and I bet the right way to deal with this is to have it be mounted with a special user space filesystem like fuse that wraps the permissions to always look correct for the user that mounted it, but I guess no one so far has decided to take upon such task...

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

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Post by bitwize »

leptons wrote: post #242
bitwize wrote: post #194

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The industry standard endpoint security solutions all run on either Windows or Mac. Endpoint security is an absolute MUST for a corporate environment.

Yeah, I requested to have a Linux desktop from my employer and was flatly told " NO ". None of our many security applications supports it, which is a real shame. As we use Windows and MacOS, I can't see how we'll really be more secure on those platforms, even with the security theater applications they force us to use.

The standard approach is to use intrusive spyware to monitor all activity "for security" rather than to use systems designed to be resistant to attack. I call it the "fucking for virginity" approach to infosec. The reason why is because it's assumed that all attack-resistant systems break down somehow, under some circumstances but the audit trail to determine who committed the attack and how is non-negotiable, especially in regulatory and compliance settings. So institutional infosec tools are more interested in gathering the audit trail if/when an attack happens than in preventing the attack (in a "while we value the things in column A, the things in column B take priority" kind of way). And since they're almost always proprietary and considered beyond reproach by the corporate infosec division, well... occasionally something like the Clownstrike incident of 2024 does happen. But even that's not as bad as having had a breach without a sufficient audit trail to defend against liability or claims of noncompliance with regulations or industry standards (e.g., HITRUST in the health field).

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

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Post by 20after4 »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #182
cyberpunk wrote: post #130

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Yep, I'm in this boat. After years of macs my next will be a FreeBSD Desktop. edit: Although phone is much harder. I guess I'll just turn all the 'stuff' like icloud off, use only signal and my banking/etc apps, and get a separate camera.. Anyone found a less painful way to live without an iPhone/Android?

As someone who had been in the Apple ecosystem since Windows XP, it was difficult to lose that constant seamless interplay between my phone and computer. But honestly? The trade-off was worth it in the end. I’m 8mo into Linux-only desktop and man…it’s great.

Look into KDE Connect¹ - it provides some of that seamless experience. It even has some basic support for syncing between iOS and Gnome, but it's originally designed for seamless integration between Android and KDE's plasma desktop.

1. https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

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

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Post by 20after4 »

cultofmetatron wrote: post #299
anon291 wrote: post #270

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Linux is also realistically American since the largest contributors are American corporations and the dictator for life lives on Portland oregon. America has a monopoly on software essentially.

assumign this is arguing in good faith.. the issue is not about it being american as it is america being in control of it. you don't get access to windows or mac os source code. You can however take the linux source code, fork it and make it yours. that "dictator for life" in portland can't stop you. nor can anyone else in the us government for that matter.

Not to mention that many of the most important open source events and organizations are based in Europe.

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

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Post by Forgeties79 »

20after4 wrote: post #323
Forgeties79 wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who had been in the Apple ecosystem since Windows XP, it was difficult to lose that constant seamless interplay between my phone and computer. But honestly? The trade-off was worth it in the end. I’m 8mo into Linux-only desktop and man…it’s great.

Look into KDE Connect¹ - it provides some of that seamless experience. It even has some basic support for syncing between iOS and Gnome, but it's originally designed for seamless integration between Android and KDE's plasma desktop. 1. https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

I use it some but it’s just not the same. Very useful and well built don’t get me wrong.

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

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Post by desireco42 »

I installed Omarchy last year when it come out (Arch distro for devs) on laptop and December I installed it on desktop machine, the powerful one.

Now I can play and work on a same machine for the first time in like 15+ years since I switched to Mac so I can work.

It isn't smooth sailing, I have bluetooth speakers and headphones, switching is not easy experience. Vibe coding, audio dictation works on Thinkpad which is underpowered compared to desktop, but it isn't working there. In fact this is more troublesome issue then headphones.

But for most part I could live with those issues and hopefully they get resolved.

Macs are just annoying, updates are for things I don't care and everything is about pushing me towards some subscription or other. I don't see future there for myself

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

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Post by temporallobe »

blauditore wrote: post #73
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…

>unify the look and feel of mobile and desktop Lol, that's what Microsoft tried 10+ years ago and everybody gave them shit for it, especially Apple fans. Now Apple is "inventing" this again.

They also seem to be reinventing Windows Vista (visually).

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

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Post by Joel_Mckay »

nchmy wrote: post #108
wnevets wrote: post #51

WSL and Windows Terminal has done a fantastic job at delaying my move to Linux as my primary desktop but Microsoft seems hellbent on ruining Windows.

This was my stance for the past couple years, but I moved to Linux (PopOS) 3 months ago because wsl2 kept crashing from OOM (even though I had allocated excess ram). I kept having to manually manage my memory usage by choosing which apps, containers etc to run. There's nuisances in popos, but I am generally thrilled.

Even Microsoft often doesn't use its own servers for critical infrastructure.

It is a fools errand. =3

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

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Post by bisby »

crazysim wrote: post #181
amlib wrote: post #165

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This shouldn't happen with external disks formatted with ntfs, ext or udf. If you have an EXT4 or something like that external disk things get more hazy...

Can't it just do what I _mean_ if it's a Desktop install and mount it like ntfs, udf, or etc?

no? A file system is the format that the data on the disk is stored as. If you mount an ext4 disk as ntfs, it wouldn't load properly. It's not just the interface for loading the data, it's how the data is actually stored.

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

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Post by lpcvoid »

llmslave3 wrote: post #296
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…

Last time I tried Linux I was so done with Windows I installed Arch. Couldn't connect to Wifi. I figured it was Arch, so I installed Ubuntu. Literally the same problem. So I got a new USB wifi adaptor that said it supported Linux...same problem. I gave up and have been using a MacBook ever since lol.

Perhaps you could have checked if the firmware was installed? Most distros have non free firmware in their packages, it just needs to be installed.
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