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in america, when the voter turnout is higher, democrats win. it's a subtle way to take a side, but it's taking a side.
We can not be polarized to the point that uplifting the nations founding principle is seen as taking a side. I just don’t get your logic. At that point anyone encouraging voting is subtly siding with Democrats.
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in america, when the voter turnout is higher, democrats win. it's a subtle way to take a side, but it's taking a side.
We can not be polarized to the point that uplifting the nations founding principle is seen as taking a side. I just don’t get your logic. At that point anyone encouraging voting is subtly siding with Democrats.
Why TF are people using an OS that has ads? Whatever the reason I just dont get it.
Perhaps, because there are only two options for most people - OSX and Windows. OSX machines are prohibitively expensive for most, so Windows is the only reasonable option.
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a trillion dollar company influencing elections overtly is probably not “good”? their interests are certainly not aligned with yours
How is a reminder to register to vote "overtly influencing elections?"
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Cause Macs are overpriced and not everyone has the will and patience to tinker in the Linux terminal for hours if any given X hardware or software doesn't work for whatever random reason
You don't need the terminal one bit to use a linux system the way an average person uses Windows. Install and go. Oh wait, "install" is something users of Windows dont have to do...
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You don't need the terminal one bit to use a linux system the way an average person uses Windows. Install and go. Oh wait, "install" is something users of Windows dont have to do...
For most normal people, using Word and Powerpoint is pretty important. let me know when I can use and do word and powerpoint stuff on Ubuntu. No, the Librestack isn't a replacement.
I know it's not perfect yet, but the better and better it gets, the fewer reasons Microsoft is giving people to stick with Windows. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft stopped selling the local version in a few years.
OP: why did you feel the need to editorialize “Windows 10 prompted me to register to vote” into “Windows 10 prompted me to vote”?
Maybe they didn't know there is a difference? I'm from Europe and I didn't. You register to be able to vote? Why isn't every citizen automatically allowed to vote?
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What are you talking about? Is this a Mac vs Windows thing? I feel like OP was implying people should use Linux.
Linux has worse GPU options (and other hardware too).
Most ML is done on Linux so it better well have GPU support.
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Linux has worse GPU options (and other hardware too).
Linux has support for most GPU options. Most ML is done on Linux so it better well have GPU support.
The part, that matters for users - GUI and gaming - barely supports what Windows did 5 years ago.
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Linux has support for most GPU options. Most ML is done on Linux so it better well have GPU support.
The only part of Linux related to ML on GPU is PCI-E bus driver. The rest of it is proprietary NVidia stuff. The part, that matters for users - GUI and gaming - barely supports what Windows did 5 years ago.
If you're using a Nvidia GPU sure, but it's still supported so I'm not sure what you were talking about in your original comment? Windows Nvidia drivers are also proprietary.
>GUI and gaming - barely supports what Windows did 5 years ago.
You can't be serious? Linux has had workspaces for forever, a feature that Windows finally enacted in Windows 10. Native tiling window manager support is nonexistent in Windows.
The more recent adoption of things like WSL and Windows Package Manager are just a few of the ways Windows trails behind Linux innovations that have existed for years.
The GUI experience in Linux is infinitely more customizable and frankly better than any experience I've had on Windows. Far less bloated and more open in it's overall design.
In terms of gaming I haven't had a snag in forever since Wine or Lutris can do pretty much everything I need.
If you're tech illiterate I can see why someone would think that Windows was superior in terms of innovation, otherwise its pretty clear that Linux has beat out Windows in most interactive user experiences over the past few years.
If you're a developer (which most users of HN are which was what my initial comment was based on) there's virtually no reason to use Windows over Linux.