Linux: No ads, it’s free and easier than ever to install.
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Submitted 7 months ago by ardi60@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
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comador@lemmy.world 7 months ago
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Install??
Mac guy, and I remember trying Linux inside Windows and installing it while using it. For someone with 30 years of experience with Windows, Linux was a fucking joke — as in the mockery it made of everything I knew about Windows. It felt like magic. It’s not very deep though — people need to realize Linux is still very much a project. macOS is a complete product, but it’s not free and it’s tied to proprietary hardware. Still, these days I see the choice between macOS and Linux. Windows doesn’t even make the ballot for me.
chloroken@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Braindead.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
“EVs don’t work in cold climates, I know because I tried an electric mower 20 years ago that didn’t work in the cold so I’ve ignored all development in the last 20 years”
Same fucking logic buddy.
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
RHEL, SUSE (SLES), Ubuntu, Alma, Rocky, CENTOS Stream, I could go on for hours with enterprise distros that blow Windows out of the water without flinching. And if we go to specific use-case distros, that’s a list for anyone to go over for days, while Windows is aiming to be THE OS, and failing miserably at this. This has been the case for at least a decade now.
Mac? I can see how some people could be geared towards it, not because it’s any better than the worst Linux distro, but because it’s made for lazy people that have no idea how anything works.
“In my 30 years of experience”, with what? With windows trying to run some other OS inside it like an app? Don’t 30 years of experience allow you to understand the amount of resources overhead that requires and how it’s just a VM or LXC, not bare metal that you’re running? And even then, it still worked.
All the stuff in your comment screams 'I want to scream that I know about something I know nothing about". Go back to your mom’s basement to doomscroll 4chan.
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
RHEL, SUSE (SLES), Ubuntu, Alma, Rocky, CENTOS Stream, I could go on for hours with enterprise distros that blow Windows out of the water without flinching. And if we go to specific use-case distros, that’s a list for anyone to go over for days, while Windows is aiming to be THE OS, and failing miserably at this. This has been the case for at least a decade now.
Mac? I can see how some people could be geared towards it, not because it’s any better than the worst Linux distro, but because it’s made for lazy people that have no idea how anything works.
“In my 30 years of experience”, with what? With windows trying to run some other OS inside it like an app? Don’t 30 years of experience allow you to understand the amount of resources overhead that requires and how it’s just a VM or LXC, not bare metal that you’re running? And even then, it still worked.
All the stuff in your comment screams 'I want to scream that I know about something I know nothing about". Go back to your mom’s basement to doomscroll 4chan.
rarsamx@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Tell me you haven’t used a Linux desktop recently without telling me.
“I remember”. Using that phrase tells me it wasn’t recently enough. And “using it inside windows” tells me you tried to fit a round peg into a square hole or that you don’t know what you are talking about.
You may be a MAC fan and that’s OK if that works for you, but I haven’t needed to use anything else but Linux since 2004 (initially there were always pickups, though) and I’ve been runing it without issues since probably 2010.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 7 months ago
Your literally commenting using a Linux server right now. A vast majority of the fediverse is hosted on Linux systems.
kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Of course, it made a mockery of everything you know of Windows because it’s not like Windows. Neither is it meant to be used like one nor is it heading in that direction (not to mention that Windows is one monotonous thing, like if you know your hands across one install of Windows, you know it all. The same is not true about Linux. A Void Linux user might still not be as adept at a Gentoo install).
You are contradicting yourself. First you call it magic and then you call it not very deep. If it’s the latter, why do so many production servers run on Linux?
Some Linux distros like Debian have a fantastic reputation for stability. Sure, bugs still exist. I personally struggle with a distro agnostic bug that breaks workflows often on my current setup. But things have come a long way. And it’s better than Windows non customizable privacy invading approach any day.
The twin advantages Windows has is wrt games (though that is slowly being covered) and more importantly, specialized software. I know folks IRL who have to use Windows just because their work requires it.
don@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Linux was a fucking joke
What
It’s not very deep
the
It’s still very much a project
fuck, over?
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The hardest person to convert is a “power user”. I guess you should let Red Hat and SUSE know their main product is a project. Oh and Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc…
omniman@anarchist.nexus 7 months ago
Is bootloader locked on mac or apple products?
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 7 months ago
Once you people have finally had enough, Linux and/or Libre Office will be right there. Waiting.
NotSteve_@piefed.ca 7 months ago
There are some tools that can make Linux feel more like at home too for those who want to transition slowly
Engywuck@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
With due respect, no. Office suites on Linux aren’t on par with MS Office yet (and the latter sucks a lot, but not for the lack of features).
mereo@piefed.ca 7 months ago
Onlyoffice is not sufficient for you?
mesamunefire@piefed.social 7 months ago
Most of the younger generation uses online office or google docs from what I see.
Its the old fogies that use offline office tools.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
If you want O365, you could try OnlyOffice or OpenDesk (not sure if I spelled it correctly)
henfredemars@infosec.pub 7 months ago
I did this over a year ago. Man, I love that my computing is boring again. No distractions. The machine does what I tell it to do. It’s lovely! Boring is lovely.