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

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Post by iAMkenough »

palata wrote: post #424
shevy-java wrote: post #200

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Yeah. The TechBros changed things globally. I can not support their Evilness, so I also need to get people to commit to having viable alternatives, e. g. improving LibreOffice to the point where the proprietary office suites from US corporations are no longer needed.

I don't think that the proprietary office suites are needed. The alternatives are good enough for what people do, aren't they? The problem is that people don't want to change, because it takes some effort. Why would people use WhatsApp instead of Signal otherwise?

For the context of this thread, WhatsApp and Signal are both American.

Just look to the federal United States government using it for communicating military strikes, and including journalists.

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

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Post by cromka »

rsyring wrote: post #10
peanut-walrus wrote: post #7

I've been a Linux admin for 25 years but up until a few months ago my personal computer has been windows (gaming desktop) or Mac (laptop). I decided to give desktop Linux another shot and I'm glad I did. I was prepared for a lot of jankiness but figured I have enough experience to fix whatever needs fixing. Surprisingly, this has not been the case at all, the PC has been not only as stable as Windows or Mac but also…

I've been running a Linux desktop for about 13 years. There are still "moments" where you have to work on it and it can be more opaque than Windows/Mac. But you have the control to do what you need to do, which is one huge factor for me in Linux's favor. I moved my immediate and mostly non-tech family to all run Linux including an aging relative who needed a locked-down Firefox install to keep her from falling victim…

Current Intel chips get 20h of regular laptop usage. For real: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-empire-strikes-back-with...

The upciming Intel and Qualcomm CPUs are even better. They really caught up with Apple.

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

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Post by barbs »

unethical_ban wrote: post #264
unethical_ban wrote: post #120

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CachyOS KDE. My first time using Arch family after meant years of Debian and some Fedora. Honestly fedora is great, and I wanted to try something new. You know what's fun? Being able to change system fonts, which you can't do on Windows. I'm using the IBM Plex fonts and they are so good looking.

edit: after "many" years. What are peoples' thoughts on which style of distro is best to hand over to a non-techie user for the least amount of hand-holding? I re-install so much that I don't know how easy it is, or how the distros prompt, when something like Debian Stable or Fedora need to update to the next version. With Arch, you constantly get the "updates ready" and it is always fresh.

My Dad managed to install Q4OS on his own and has been pretty happy with it, hasn't asked me for help even once.

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

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Post by Krssst »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #340
IshKebab wrote: post #254

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I agree. Yet another "Linux is great! The only issues I had were A, B, C, D, E...". I also use every OS and Windows 11 is still the most hassle free and reliable (at least if you install the IoT version using Rufus). I still have to use X because Wayland has a couple of remaining issues. Also most distros inexplicably use Gnome despite KDE being significantly better. Why?

"Windows is great… you only need to… install the IoT version using Rufus" Oh and tweak 24 settings with these powershell scripts, and better run them after every update to ensure they weren't changed back on purpose. Otherwise, totally hassle free.

LTSC IoT version has the bullshit stripped out so it's a viable OS. Also, it's not sold to regular people, only companies can buy it for some reason.

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

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Post by cromka »

lunar_rover wrote: post #318
IshKebab wrote: post #254

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I agree. Yet another "Linux is great! The only issues I had were A, B, C, D, E...". I also use every OS and Windows 11 is still the most hassle free and reliable (at least if you install the IoT version using Rufus). I still have to use X because Wayland has a couple of remaining issues. Also most distros inexplicably use Gnome despite KDE being significantly better. Why?

KDE 5 wasn't much better than GNOME 3, it's the main reason behind GNOME default I think. It's only til KDE 6 they got back up on their feet and solved the most egregious design issues, many more still linger. GNOME/Red Hat for a long time is the only one even trying to figure out a solution for some of the longstanding issues like application distribution and sandboxing. Those rant articles about GNOME unfortunately…

I find Gnome way more visually appealing as well. Saying this as a KDE developer, too.

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

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Post by sbochins »

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…

I feel like cli agents are the main benefit of going back to Linux. It’s such a joy to have all the solutions to customizations and fixes I want completely automated, using an agent that can control anything I permit and understands my OS completely.

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

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Post by just6979 »

snek_case wrote: post #101
blauditore wrote: post #73

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>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.

Ubuntu also tried this with Unity. They were hoping that Ubuntu would become more popular on tablets if they had a more tablet-friendly UI... They imposed this on desktop users even though nobody asked for it and basically nobody used Linux on a tablet. It was kind of a disaster. Ubuntu is a commercial entity though, so yeah, prone to the same kind of bad management decisions. as Microsoft and Apple. At least with Li…

Many of the sleep issues these days are actually Microsoft's fault. They tried to impose AlwaysOn AlwaysConnected but did a terrible job of specifying it and quality controlling implementation.

I had a Dell Precision from 2020 that never woke from S3 sleep properly, because Dell didn't care about S3 because they expected AoAc (which Windows now defaults to) to actually work. Except A) people don't want laptops that act like phones, and B) it was terrible and munched so much battery it was way better to just hibernate all the time.

Switched to ThinkPad from 2020 and it has a BIOS setting for "classic sleep" and S3 sleep works perfectly.

And Fedora gets 3-4x the battery life than Windows did for general use on both, with much less heat and fan usage, right out of the box. Not to mention bullshit like Windows taking literal seconds to show a directory's contents in the file manager... I'm completely done with Windows for anything beyond gaming (but Valve is changing that rapidly), and dual-booting to a bare Windows install for corporate remote access apps or such, on everything in my house.

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

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Post by esskay »

MarsIronPI wrote: post #135
GeoAtreides wrote: post #56

>I picked CachyOS rather than a better-known distro like Ubuntu because it’s optimized for modern hardware, >First challenge: My mouse buttons don’t work. I can move the cursor, but can’t click on anything. Maybe should've picked Ubuntu? I suspect this is the Linus (tech tips, not Torvalds) strategy of picking up an obscure distro for content purposes. Can't really have an article if everything just works, right

I don't think PopOS could be called "obscure". At the time that the LTT video came out, PopOS and Manjaro (IIRC) were the distros to game on, if you wanted up-to-date OOTB working drivers.

Even so, it was hard to take LTT's attempt at using linux seriously when part of it included Linus bitching about how right clicking a list of files on github and clicking "save link as..." didnt give him a copy of the file. It just highlighted how utterly clueless he was and made it clear he couldn't be trusted for the rest of the video either.

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

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Post by foresto »

osamagirl69 wrote: post #241
0xbadcafebee wrote: post #121

> I picked CachyOS rather than a better-known distro like Ubuntu because it’s optimized for modern hardware So this isn't a usual comparison, as the vast majority of users will choose Ubuntu, Fedora, or Mint. CachyOS is also a new distro, meaning it won't last long (most distributions, like small businesses, only last a few years). It's also Arch-based, meaning the user is going to get constant updates, which leads t…

If you hold out for a few more paragraphs until he gets past the installer there is closure: The issue is that he was using an obscure gaming mouse, and the solution was to use a different mouse.

> and the solution was to use a different mouse.

Or make a small edit to a config file, to work around that nonstandard mouse vendor's mistake.

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

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Post by cromka »

bigyabai wrote: post #203
duxup wrote: post #183

My experience: I came from windows to MacOS so despite what folks bemoan about MacOS ... I still love it and it is problem free enough that I don't feel the need to do the lifting to go to Linux. I think that's a common thing for those of who maybe haven't ridden MacOS for so long. Windows for me is on a whole several levels of worse when I have to dive back into it. Windows feels like an OS POINTED AT ME rather than…

> it is problem free enough The money's paw curls. I used to love macOS, back in the Mojave days. You could run almost anything you wanted, and still get work done on a decently made machine. Those were the days when the grass truly felt greener to me, macOS for creative work simply annihilated any other option on the table. Then Catalina stripped out 32-bit compatibility, ruining my Ableton Live project folder and S…

> macOS taught me, ultimately, that any feature you take for granted can be removed to fulfill someone's OKR.

100% this. Recent macOS releases really feel like this. For me it was the notification popup UI downgrade, they literally introduced a perfect UI and then botched it in a following release.

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