I replaced windows with linux 30 years ago.
Then i replaced linux with mac os.
Cook, keep in mind that if you keep dumbing down Mac OS I can switch back to linux in 24 hours.
I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
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Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
#342Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you are sensitive to these issues, unfortunately you need to go with a mainstream linux distribution and use near-default settings. It's great that you can customize everything and use your own window manager, compositor, etc ... but these issues are the price you pay. It is unfair to compare this to Windows, where you don't even have these customization options. Specifically for the network manager applet, it is…
I use ubuntu and the default remote desktop just stopped working since 24: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/rdp-stopped-working-after-upg... With Linux, you just have to be prepared to hit a bug and find no help coming anytime.
> find no help coming anytime
Well, see sibling thread: Looks like you just need to post your bounty in HN and somebody will do within a few hours. Somebody to that for Windows or macos.
Sometimes I feel the bounty topic isn't well served yet. On the GNOME bug tracker it doesn't seem to be very discoverable. Are there current good platforms to advertise bounties where people actually look?
Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
#343In case of small enterprises, what are the options for migrating to Ubuntu for all remote users? How does one have an MDM solution? Most of the solutions out there are poor on Ubuntu or need lots of work to get things right. Can anyone provide a reference architecture/solution that allows them to be SOC2 compliant? But also not have high friction for developers and more importantly not have bigger overheads on proces…
The industry standard endpoint security solutions all run on either Windows or Mac. Endpoint security is an absolute MUST for a corporate environment.
Crowdstrike Falcon runs on Linux.
Edit: that's probably a bad thing, lol
Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
#344I have been primarily in the tiling window manager space for the past 5 years… that said I’ve been driving Cosmic on my NixOS workstation and I’m really impressed… it looks great, is simple, performs well and does tiling quite well. It’s not going to take me away from Niri, but it’s my goto suggestion now for any one getting into Linux.
Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
#345> I reboot, log into Epic and GOG, and start downloading The Outer Worlds, a game from 2019 I’ve been playing a bit lately. It runs fine with Proton, and I can even sync my saves from the cloud. I play it for a few minutes with my trackball, remember I hate gaming on a trackball, and plug my gaming mouse back in. It works fine as long as I’m in the game, but outside the game, mouse clicks stop working again. It makes sense — the bug is on the desktop, not in games — but it’s very funny to have a gaming mouse that only works for gaming.
What is it with mice and OSes?
Windows is the only OS I can seem to configure to get low latency, high accuracy, linear movement with, and it's not for lack of effort.
I struggled for several years to do SWE work on a Mac and no 3rd party program could get it working the way it does on Windows. I tried Linear Mouse and many others. I eventually gave up, went against the prevailing (90%) culture where I work, and exchanged my mac for a windows laptop. I haven't measured it, but I feel more productive simply because I can click what I want to click marginally faster.
Is something in Mac drivers performing non-linear mapping? Why?
Based on the quote above it seems like Linux hasn't even gotten up to par with Mac for mice.
The best litmus test for an OS for me is whether I could play an RTS or FPS competitively with it, even though I haven't played either for years.
Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
#346Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's the good thing with open source. You can theoretically fork it and remove what prevents you from using Kate as root.
Sure. But the malaise of smug people taking decisions that are outside of the scope of the software is creeping into linux too. It is up to me decide what is secure, not them.
It's smug people telling other people what to do all the way down!
Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
#347Earlier quoted context omitted.
Commercial OSes (both Windows and macOS) are also both American, and lots of people are trying to de-Americanize.
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.
The question is which nation you'll have to depend on when you want a bug fixed. With OSS, the answer is "none".
Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
#348Earlier quoted context omitted.
Partly, the issue isn't "they would have to learn about Linux, and that's bad", it's "they would have to learn about Linux, and they wouldn't want do that, and so they would get frustrated and quite likely give up on it, and my recommendation would have been a waste of their time". The other part is that they're not necessarily wrong not to want to learn about Linux! Learning is great, when it's something interesting…
> Most of us choose to drive a car that just works, and take it to a mechanic when it doesn't, rather than buying one that requires and rewards tinkering. You can also bring your Linux machine to the mechanic. The only difference is that we linux users are also the mechanics. My mother only wants a browser and a mail client, maybe a word processor from time to time. I installed Fedora, and the thing is still working…
Because you maintain it for her.
Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
#349Commercial 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…
I’m stuck in a world of AirDrop and expecting my phone to know the Wi-Fi password on my laptop, so I’m not gonna leave MacOS but it absolutely does suck. It used to be that Spotlight file finding was broken, but as of the last today Finder file finding is broken too. This is on multiple new Macs.
Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
#350I'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…
That sounds like a GNOME problem, not a Linux problem.
You should give KDE a go.