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

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Post by palata »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #83
al_borland wrote: post #43

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I find it so odd that Apple put so much weight behind the VisionOS design, rolling it out to all platforms, considering so few people have Vision Pro. The justification for bringing some iOS ideas to macOS made sense, because everyone knows how to use iOS and is familiar with those conventions. I’m curious if we’ll see another major shift with the new deign lead, or if the higher ups will want to run with Liquid Glas…

> I find it so odd that Apple put so much weight behind the VisionOS design, rolling it out to all platforms, considering so few people have Vision Pro. I suspect they began working on Liquid Glass before the Vision Pro was publicly unveiled, so they didn't know what the public response would be. What I honestly find more baffling is that they thought the Vision Pro would sell well. It just isn't a good product. Perh…

> What I honestly find more baffling is that they thought the Vision Pro would sell well.

Those monopolies seem so scared to "miss the next smartphone" that they invest heavily in whatever their competitors do. Everybody was running after VR/AR headsets, now everybody is running after AI.

They see the others run somewhere, they run in that direction. Just in case.

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

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Post by leeter »

pjmlp wrote: post #166
halapro wrote: post #159

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You can't seriously compare how inappropriate Windows 8 was on desktop to the latest macOS. Bad UI aside, the OS is effectively the same OS X from 2001 with some fresh skin. Also a lot of people hate on macOS changes, I myself did not upgrade to the latest version.

I guarantee that there is enough stuff from 2001 that won't work in Tahoe.

Almost assuredly, given that 10.0 was released on 32bit PPC... and was built around Carbon, not Cocoa... yeah it's changed just a wee bit.

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

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Post by wilkystyle »

pedalpete wrote: post #364
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…

Mac feels like it is constantly trying to sell you on their cloud services. A few times a day it will tell me that I haven't backed up to the cloud. Windows is strangely less direct, but will regularly automatically try to save something to onedrive and force a subscription. Plus, it is just full of ads and nonsense.

It makes sense. Services is their second largest division, and it accounts for just under a quarter of their annual revenue (and growing).

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

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Post by surgical_fire »

lifetimerubyist wrote: post #416
surgical_fire wrote: post #211

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> Then I ran into a game I really wanted to play but it didn’t run well with Proton Out of curiosity, which game? I promise I am not asking as a gotcha. Just genuinely curious. I don't play many new games on PC (normally I play recent games on consoles). What I play on PC is older/niche games. I have a couple of oddballs that I could not make work on Proton. Others had weird issues that got fixed over time. Sometimes…

The game is called HROT it’s an indie “boomer shooter”. The game was first locked to 30fps which is horrible for an FPS. Then I got that figured out, but FPS was all over the place and it felt basically unplayable to me even though I was often getting 100+ FPS. Frame pacing was absolutey FUBAR’d no matter which version of Proton or Wine, so even though frames were high it still felt terrible to play. So I just decide…

I wonder if this might be some odd library issue that could be fixed in the WINE prefix.

I knew a guy that wanted to play a Japanese version of a JRPG on Linux and he figured out he needed some weird libraries there to properly render the font, which was causing the game to not start.

Anyway, for older games and emulators, playing on Linux has been a magnificent experience for the most part.

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

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Post by palata »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #423
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #14

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Come back when I can run Linux on a laptop that has 12+ hours battery life, runs fast, that’s lightweight, quiet and doesn’t cause infertility from the heat when I put it on my lap…. Using an x86 laptop in 2025 is like using a flip phone 6 years after the iPhone came out. Of course if you are a gamer, ignore everything I just wrote.

Bro I don't care how long the battery life is. I use my laptop plugged in 90% of the time. The portability is so I can change what location I'm sitting at, not so I can be unplugged constantly.

I am a Linux fanboy. But man, when you try the battery life on the latest Macbooks... it can last for days of work without charging.

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

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Post by robocat »

anon291 wrote: post #270
1over137 wrote: post #122

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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.

Are the BSDs as US-focused?

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

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Post by palata »

bee_rider wrote: post #63
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #14

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Come back when I can run Linux on a laptop that has 12+ hours battery life, runs fast, that’s lightweight, quiet and doesn’t cause infertility from the heat when I put it on my lap…. Using an x86 laptop in 2025 is like using a flip phone 6 years after the iPhone came out. Of course if you are a gamer, ignore everything I just wrote.

Why would anyone come back? Nobody is bothered by you having a device that you like, and nobody cares if you replace it. People without this particular 12 hour battery life requirement (which is quite niche, most of us live near plugs) are talking about what works for them.

I am a Linux fanboy and I totally agree that I am almost always near a plug and don't need that kind of battery life.

But when I can go for days on my work Macbook without charging (and I am a developer, so I do compile stuff), I kinda wish I could have that on Linux, too.

And again, I don't need it. Just like I don't need a fast Internet connection, but well... :-).

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

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Post by acomjean »

pedalpete wrote: post #364
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…

Mac feels like it is constantly trying to sell you on their cloud services. A few times a day it will tell me that I haven't backed up to the cloud. Windows is strangely less direct, but will regularly automatically try to save something to onedrive and force a subscription. Plus, it is just full of ads and nonsense.

I’ve noticed on my work machine, it really really really wants me to save my new document to one drive. It was about three clicks in the save dialog to get back to a local drive.

They were sneaky about it, with a switch to “turn on autosave” only working when you save to the cloud.

I miss my Linux work machine with Libre office..

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-office/mi...

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

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Post by 3form »

tombert wrote: post #429
3form wrote: post #414

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> I feel like everyone hated on Gnome because it was different. They tried it for ten minutes, didn't bother trying to actually learn how to use it, declared it as "shit", and moved on Anecdote time. I was using GNOME for a substantial amount of time, despite all the issues that it was giving me - the regressions, removing functionality, breaking extensions every so often; but the final straw that broke the camel's b…

You're not the people I have an issue with, sorry for the ambiguous use of the word "everyone" there. If you gave it the good college try and made an effort to actually learn how to use it and came around not liking it, then that's totally fine. It just didn't gel with you and that's ok. > outlook was that resizing the left panel will not be added, as there's no way to signal the ability to resize it on touch screens…

Understandable.

I think I just wanted to vent an old personal frustration here. And perhaps to give a bit more substantiated subtle hint about how things are in GNOME. I feel like anyone using it will run into quite bad issues eventually.

Just now I remembered a second straw - the issue where scrolling down in a big folder with thumbnails on would repeatedly scroll you back to the top. I am not confident this has been solved until now either.

I vaguely recall the desperate feeling of "this DE does so little, and yet in the few things it does, it's still borderline unusable".

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

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Post by emporas »

antennafirepla wrote: post #18

For not much prior research, he sure has done a lot of prior research to even know about desktop environments or bootloaders compared to your average windows user. This article read like every other promising Linux is user friendly and easy, then proceeding with the author fixing issues the average user wouldn’t be able to even diagnose. I think anyone technically savvy enough to follow the article is already aware L…

I use Linux exclusively for almost 20 years. I can tackle any tinkering of almost anything in a Linux environment, alongside of heavy use of Vim and Emacs.

Nowadays every time I want to run a non-trivial command of a program, configure a file somewhere, customize using code Emacs or anything else, I always put the LLMs to do it. I do almost nothing by myself, except check if said file is indeed there, open the file and copy paste the new configuration, restart the program, copy paste code here and there and so on.

No need to be a nerd to use Linux, that's so 2021. LLMs are the ultimate nerds when it comes to digging into manuals, scour the internet and github for workarounds, or tips and tricks and so on.

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