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I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by OsrsNeedsf2P »

a456463 wrote: post #413

I did the same for my media centers! Netflix and iQIYI refuse to work. I am cancelling Netflix. Been a member since 2010. I don't need 4k either. The 4k tax is losing ownership over your media. HDMI is closed source compared to display port. My media center experience is so so much better. The apps on roku logout randomly, the nvidia shield remote craps out, windows firefox/chrome are slow and the logitech keyboard d…

You're all too generous. The first time Netflix didn't display past 720p in Firefox, I immediately cancelled my subscription (which was paying for the whole family) and redirected everyone to Bitsearch[0] to pirate everything instead. I don't agree the moral or ethical arguments against it either.

[0] Bitsearch uses a distributed hash table (DHT)[1] to find all public tracker content

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by graemep »

bachmeier wrote: post #388
voxleone wrote: post #299

It’s worth acknowledging the real challenges raised in this thread: desktop Linux still has rough edges for some use cases, hardware support isn’t always perfect, and niche professional software may lack native support or require workarounds. But these obstacles are not intrinsic technical limitations so much as ecosystem and investment gaps, areas where community projects, standards efforts, and wider adoption could…

> Viewed through the lens of digital autonomy and citizenship, the question isn’t simply “Is Linux perfect?” but rather: Do we want our fundamental computing environment to be ultimately under our control, or controlled by private interests with their own incentives? As a user of Linux as my main desktop OS for more than 20 years, a user of Linux far longer than that, and a promoter of FOSS before that was a term, th…

The same with multiple people I know. Its not perfect, but neither is Windows.

> There are now adults that grew up in the age of social media that have no idea how local computing works.

They like it given a chance. My daughters for example far prefer Linux to Windows.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by raffael_de »

kortilla wrote: post #371
raffael_de wrote: post #344

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of those advantages are practically irrelevant for the majority of users or a matter of having gotten used to things being a certain way.

No, the touchpad alone puts it way above every laptop I’ve tried

The touchpad is great, yes, I like it, too. But I'm anyway mostly using mouse and keyboard and occasionally the 3-finger-swipe which is possible with Thinkpad+Linux as well since a few years. Thinkpads are also famous for their touchpad/trackpoint if one doesn't fancy using a mouse.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by BuddyPickett »

volkercraig wrote: post #307
voxleone wrote: post #299

It’s worth acknowledging the real challenges raised in this thread: desktop Linux still has rough edges for some use cases, hardware support isn’t always perfect, and niche professional software may lack native support or require workarounds. But these obstacles are not intrinsic technical limitations so much as ecosystem and investment gaps, areas where community projects, standards efforts, and wider adoption could…

I think you are thinking about it way too hard. Windows 11 is a dog. Constant hardware problems, slow, and frustrating UX. Is any desktop linux perfect? No, but its better than w11 right now.

No hardware problems in the version I run, not sure what version you use. It's also not frustrating for me but what I do get frustrated with is trying to get software to run and Linux but just won't work. Most people are smart enough to be able to use windows without getting frustrated.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by xedrac »

pelagicAustral wrote: post #179

I have... I switched to Bluefin, which is a branch of Universal Blue, which is flavour of Fedora. Sounds complicated, but in fact is the best thing to ever happen to Linux. I get all the ease of use of something like macOS but pre-built with tools for development like distrobox, and then I can just build my dev environments and get shit done in no time, without having to worry about breaking updates or nuking the who…

> The current Linux desktop didn't get us there, but we believe that what was made, can be unmade.

This is a strange thing for them to say when they are pretty much a clone of Fedora Silverblue, with a few minor tweaks.

If Bluefin works for you, great. But I find their marketing rather pretentious.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by taf2 »

voxleone wrote: post #299

It’s worth acknowledging the real challenges raised in this thread: desktop Linux still has rough edges for some use cases, hardware support isn’t always perfect, and niche professional software may lack native support or require workarounds. But these obstacles are not intrinsic technical limitations so much as ecosystem and investment gaps, areas where community projects, standards efforts, and wider adoption could…

Fusion360 is the one tool I wish had better wine support

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by drnick1 »

meetingthrower wrote: post #412
voxleone wrote: post #299

It’s worth acknowledging the real challenges raised in this thread: desktop Linux still has rough edges for some use cases, hardware support isn’t always perfect, and niche professional software may lack native support or require workarounds. But these obstacles are not intrinsic technical limitations so much as ecosystem and investment gaps, areas where community projects, standards efforts, and wider adoption could…

MS Office is hardly "niche professional software." I hate it, and recognize that I can use the online services, but the reality is that I have to send, receive, and work in this application and I can't easily do it on Linux.

Check out WinApps.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by YVoyiatzis »

BuddyPickett wrote: post #424

Linux doesn't have all the features that Windows has, features that I use daily. It also doesn't work with all of my games and software so it's a non starter for me still. Tried it several times but it always falls short of what I need. I do have it sandboxed in Windows but it's rare that it is needed for how I use a computer.

That’s the exact same 'missing features' script people used to dismiss Apple during the height of the PC era.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by graemep »

meetingthrower wrote: post #412
voxleone wrote: post #299

It’s worth acknowledging the real challenges raised in this thread: desktop Linux still has rough edges for some use cases, hardware support isn’t always perfect, and niche professional software may lack native support or require workarounds. But these obstacles are not intrinsic technical limitations so much as ecosystem and investment gaps, areas where community projects, standards efforts, and wider adoption could…

MS Office is hardly "niche professional software." I hate it, and recognize that I can use the online services, but the reality is that I have to send, receive, and work in this application and I can't easily do it on Linux.

> the reality is that I have to send, receive, and work in this application

Why? You can edit MS Office documents fine in LibreOffice and other similar software.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by graemep »

BuddyPickett wrote: post #434
volkercraig wrote: post #307

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you are thinking about it way too hard. Windows 11 is a dog. Constant hardware problems, slow, and frustrating UX. Is any desktop linux perfect? No, but its better than w11 right now.

No hardware problems in the version I run, not sure what version you use. It's also not frustrating for me but what I do get frustrated with is trying to get software to run and Linux but just won't work. Most people are smart enough to be able to use windows without getting frustrated.

So why are so many people complaining about Windows 11?
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