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The difference was the device came with a disk containing the driver for DOS and Windows.
I don't see how that is Linux' fault.
I'm using Linux on the desktop for 15 years and I still sometimes cannot connect to Wifi. This is because the list of network refreshes (and disappears) before I can find and click the correct Wifi: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-applet/-/issu... This completely breaks the Linux experience for anybody living in a reasonably populous area. The issue has 3 upvotes. I also put a 400 $ bounty on it, if an…
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The only reason I haven't gone over to Linux is gaming with my RTX card. Interested to know your gaming setup and distro. Any stability/compatibility issues?
Not the op, I've been gaming on Linux for over 10 years I think, I have an rtx2080, and using Arch Linux, Nvidia support has gotten better by a lot. Steam performs exceptionally well. Initially there were issues, but I haven't face any for really long time now. I don't play mp games though. So that part I can't say much.
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But it doesn't make Signal bad. If Americans blindly process our messages without knowing what's inside, it's worse than not depending on them, but better than showing your private correspondence to somebody. At least we don't seem to have things which are close by UX and security at the same time. Simplex is fine, but still feels a bit raw. Everything else is either untrustworthy because of the closed code or no e2e…
Simplex is a project by a fervent COVID conspiracy theorist FYI. (Evidence: his Twitter page)
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In what way does MacOS feels like garbage ? I use it everyday on a +5y MacBook and it’s an absolute blast. Powered on for weeks without reboot, 3x4K 32inch screens, hundred of chrome pages and apps opened and it’s all smooth. Ofc I don’t even hear a fan but the software is amazing for me. It all works, all the time.
I'm someone else, but I also feel like macOS is rubbish. On linux, if I get a kernel panic, I can dig into the kernel, add debug logs, understand what's going on, and potentially fix it. If I want to swap to a scrolling window manager like niri, I can. On macOS, it's a black box and any radar I file with apple vanishes in a black hole never to be seen again. There's hardly any customization, and the default UX is hor…
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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…
I've been on Mint for nearly 4 years now,. migrating from Windows. The only hiccup I had was botched updates once, and the OS would error during boot. The fix was easy, boot to terminal, fiddle with timeshift to restore to the point prior to update, then apply de updates carefully with a few reboots in between. Now, was that easy? For someone well versed in the technicalities, yes. For a layman, probably not. Now, th…
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Now, AI makes this *WAY* easier since you have a practically omniscient distro debugger with infinity patience and you don't have to wait on their responses. So this is probably coming down as a barrier soon, but I want to stress that "the only problem I had in 4 years" is loosely the same as "I bought a new car and the only problem I had was a catastrophic transmission failure. I just had to rebuild the transmission from scratch using specialized tools and knowledge and it was okay.
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Someone has to pay for it because it’s expensive to develop. There’s a ton of money in Linux just like there is in proprietary operating systems. There are like 4000-5000 kernel contributors and most of them are doing this work on some company’s payroll. There’s an enormous amount of resources going into Linux to the point where a proprietary OS couldn’t possibly keep up. The real genius of Linux is the economic mode…
Except many of those contributions never land upstream. Hence why we usually with the cloud provider distros. Example, what powers DGX OS isn't fully available to GNU/Linux users other than a binary blob.
What do you mean? Are they violating the GPL by not releasing the modified source?
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Except many of those contributions never land upstream. Hence why we usually with the cloud provider distros. Example, what powers DGX OS isn't fully available to GNU/Linux users other than a binary blob.
> Example, what powers DGX OS isn't fully available to GNU/Linux users other than a binary blob. What do you mean? Are they violating the GPL by not releasing the modified source?
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Yes, it started at Berkeley after all, with mostly contributions from US universities, and compiler toolchains are GCC and clang.
OpenBSD is technically Canadian. Also, RISC-V also started at Berkeley but it is based out of Switzerland now.
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…
What's funny is, the author is only having these questions because they chose a wacky Arch-based ultra-techie distro that I'd never even heard of. If they'd just installed normal Ubuntu or Fedora, they wouldn't even know what a bootloader was, and they'd just use whatever desktop environment (probably GNOME, maybe KDE) came with it.
Fedora is 4th, Ubuntu is 5th.