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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
#462It’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…
> hardware support isn’t always perfect
It's not perfect on windows either. Crashes, non working sleep on almost any windows laptop... at least compared to what Apple can do.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#463Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't believe a "war" is brewing. If and that is a big if, Trump were to get Greenland, there is not much that Europe can do in any case. Maybe a few politicians will go on X/twitter and complain but every country in the EU knows that they are no match for the US military and I am saying that as someone who lives in the EU. I suppose the EU could go after big US tech companies but since most of Europe's needs are c…
>No match The EU can just kick out the US bases and forbid Mastercard and Visa working here. ASML? Good luck for Intel; I'm sure AMD would have its asses already covered and found some alternative in Asia. Watch the Dow Jones collape in minutes. On GAFAM, there are alternatives, and libre software it's libre for the whole world, not just the US. Software it's easily replaceable except for die hard industrial DOS (whe…
>Watch the Dow Jones collape in minutes.
>it's the end of the American economy.
You assume that this is not the goal of the current US "leadership". They want the country to fail, so they can rule over the ashes. They are a lot more fucked up in the head than you probably think they are. They simply don't care what happens, so long as they are the ones in power.
Trump would love nothing more than to dissolve NATO, and isolate from all of the EU. He would see that as an accomplishment. I wish I were joking.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#464Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't understand people who use anything else, to be honest. Most people don't make their coffee in an Aeropress either. I've also used Linux exclusively (in my case 25 years), but I also realize that with a few niche exceptions, there are few mass marketed products that feature the traditional Linux desktop as their primary UI. Desktop OS UI is hard. It takes investment in technology, product, and marketing all…
> Most people don't make their coffee in an Aeropress either. Stupid analogy, the Linux version of that would be whatever french press you want to use. Buy your coffee ground or as beans and grind yourself, depending on preference. And for my girlfriend there's always the Starbucks equivalent (Debian stable with Gnome). Apple would be picked by modern slaves and sold in a capsule at 100,000% markup and it only fits t…
I don't see how their analogy is stupid. Aeropress and french press are pretty similar from an "enthusiast coffee device" perspective. Lots of room for variability in grind size, coffee choice, and specific brewing technique with both methods.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#465I’m so close to the switch myself for silly reasons. I don’t like windows due to their creepy business practices and negative design patterns in their OS so I’m very bias against it. Forcing copilot is just the latest in their creepy practices… For more details on why I came close to switching: I use my win desktop as a host for ai services such as Comfy UI for stable diffusion generation since it is a beefy platform…
There's nothing silly about those reasons.
I call it silly because essentially I’m complaining that I don’t like setting up a service on an OS I don’t normally set up services for. My quibbles with that process can in part be addressed by crafting a terminal based workflow to configure the host and enable the service on my desktop, skipping the GUI completely. E.g. I’m sure I can do Task Scheduler shenanigans through powershell. More experience would help sand down the rough parts I experienced.
Now the product decisions behind the OS giving me the icks… The terminal can’t (completely) help with that ^_^
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#466Earlier quoted context omitted.
>No match The EU can just kick out the US bases and forbid Mastercard and Visa working here. ASML? Good luck for Intel; I'm sure AMD would have its asses already covered and found some alternative in Asia. Watch the Dow Jones collape in minutes. On GAFAM, there are alternatives, and libre software it's libre for the whole world, not just the US. Software it's easily replaceable except for die hard industrial DOS (whe…
I love you guys, and I wish you were right, but I don't think you are. Any of the above moves (military bases, Visa/MC, ASML, etc) would make the US suffer, but it would collapse the EU. Europe has a decade or two of hard work and crippling costs to significantly disengage from the US, and no one has the vision or fortitude to make that happen. You also wouldn't have any security. If you disengage from the US militar…
> Any of the above moves (military bases, Visa/MC, ASML, etc) would make the US suffer, but it would collapse the EU
And many other places - most countries depend in US tech and increasingly so (recent NH stories about Vietnam mandating banks only use unrooted mobile phones). Just card payments not working would be an economic disaster. So would closing down all the businesses and services that rely on AWS, GCP and Azure. So would whatever the US chose to do through Apple, MS, and Google OSes.
> we'll all see how far Russia can project power. Not as far as they'd like, but enough to make life miserable in a half-dozen or more current-NATO countries. Which puts pressure on their neighbors of course. This would be a shooting war in the east, which would require central and western European countries to decide whether they want to spend blood and treasure to respond
I am more optimistic than you about this. Russia is struggling just against Ukraine. They might just invade the Baltic states but anything more would force Western Europe to commit and the Russians know this. Even in Ukraine they invaded because we had signalled we would do nothing by not responding to the previous invasion of Ukraine, to threats to invade and previous Russian invasions of other countries.
> The rhetoric here in the US is that RU and CN are waiting to pounce on Greenland already, and that if we don't, they will. I honestly don't know if there's even a shred of truth to that - RU isn't strong enough to hold it, and CN can't project at that distance
If Greenland becomes independent in a few years time would it then become more of a threat?
> RU isn't strong enough to hold it, and CN can't project at that distance
China is building its armed forces, and there are ways of getting a country within your sphere if influence short of invasion.
> I wish wisdom, resilience, and peace, for all of us.
We all do but I think we are living in a new cold war.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#467I’m so close to the switch myself for silly reasons. I don’t like windows due to their creepy business practices and negative design patterns in their OS so I’m very bias against it. Forcing copilot is just the latest in their creepy practices… For more details on why I came close to switching: I use my win desktop as a host for ai services such as Comfy UI for stable diffusion generation since it is a beefy platform…
Don't forget that Krita has home-turf advantage on Linux :)
As does Wacom. My drawing tablet from 2002 is plug-and-play with zero driver installation.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#468I’m so close to the switch myself for silly reasons. I don’t like windows due to their creepy business practices and negative design patterns in their OS so I’m very bias against it. Forcing copilot is just the latest in their creepy practices… For more details on why I came close to switching: I use my win desktop as a host for ai services such as Comfy UI for stable diffusion generation since it is a beefy platform…
Copilot is already great and it's only getting better. I can get so much more work done and the same amount of time or get the same amount of work done in a lot less time.
It's funny how many people were afraid of AI. Technophobes abound in this world
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#469It’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…
This is an clarifying perspective. In particular, I think this sheds light on understanding the various perspectives in the thread: > 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? We make choices, bec…
The people who wanted A created B. It's not really a conflation but more of a causal reality.
Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
#470I’m so close to the switch myself for silly reasons. I don’t like windows due to their creepy business practices and negative design patterns in their OS so I’m very bias against it. Forcing copilot is just the latest in their creepy practices… For more details on why I came close to switching: I use my win desktop as a host for ai services such as Comfy UI for stable diffusion generation since it is a beefy platform…
Don't forget that Krita has home-turf advantage on Linux :)
Krita is among the main reasons why I am so impressed with the KDE project. Not only do they deliver a very good desktop environment, but they also deliver some genuine flagship apps for it