Windows users have recently begun mass-reporting that Microsoft's Defender antivirus program, which is integrated into Windows 10 and 11 by default, is
And as I said, we’re discussing software not found in package managers, which is a lot of it.
Do you have any specific examples in mind or are you planning on leaving that as an assertion?
The difference is there is no download button for Linux, just a bunch of code you’re expected to type into the CLI that doesn’t work.
AppImage. All the user-friendly distros are configured so that installing/running those is a button click.
LOL like you don’t on Linux? I mean sometimes you don’t because they literally don’t exist. Like pretty much any fingerprint reader or Nvidia graphics card?
I have never used a fingerprint reader by in case you’re interested, my graphics tablet works more seamlessly under linux, both x11 and wayland, than with windows. Can’t say much about NVidia Graphics cards but they do, in fact, have drivers. If you’re running the likes of Ubuntu it’s going to use FLOSS drivers by default (which are getting better and better) and installing the proprietary ones is a couple of clicks.
I don’t know what Explorer is other than a shitty SUV.
It’s the fucking file manager. Have you ever used windows. Also the desktop shell, actually.
If it were true, no one would pay money for Windows and Microsoft would go out of business.
The majority of programs I use have to be installed through CLI or appimage
What the hell are you using, then. Seriously. Especially stuff that you wouldn’t have to download manually on Windows. I’m waiting. Name them.
You have to download them and then enable them to run as executable, […] The system does not treat them as an app at all. Just a random file.
They do? I might’ve had snap or flatpack in mind. I don’t keep track of that stuff everything I need is actually in nixpkgs. Distro integration may differ. What are you basing your whole opinion on, here, Linux from Scratch?
Okay so just to be clear, you believe that people pay extra money to use Windows, even though Linux is just as good, or better? This is the position you want to take?
No. Windows has a head start on the Desktop due to Microsoft’s FUD, illegal bundle deals with computer stores, and whatnot. Schools teaching MS Office. People thinking it’s the only thing – heck many users don’t even know what an OS is, they equate PC and Windows, the other thing being Mac, which is different hardware.
Do you have any specific examples in mind or are you planning on leaving that as an assertion?
AppImage. All the user-friendly distros are configured so that installing/running those is a button click.
I have never used a fingerprint reader by in case you’re interested, my graphics tablet works more seamlessly under linux, both x11 and wayland, than with windows. Can’t say much about NVidia Graphics cards but they do, in fact, have drivers. If you’re running the likes of Ubuntu it’s going to use FLOSS drivers by default (which are getting better and better) and installing the proprietary ones is a couple of clicks.
It’s the fucking file manager. Have you ever used windows. Also the desktop shell, actually.
Oh my sweet summer child.
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What the hell are you using, then. Seriously. Especially stuff that you wouldn’t have to download manually on Windows. I’m waiting. Name them.
They do? I might’ve had snap or flatpack in mind. I don’t keep track of that stuff everything I need is actually in nixpkgs. Distro integration may differ. What are you basing your whole opinion on, here, Linux from Scratch?
No. Windows has a head start on the Desktop due to Microsoft’s FUD, illegal bundle deals with computer stores, and whatnot. Schools teaching MS Office. People thinking it’s the only thing – heck many users don’t even know what an OS is, they equate PC and Windows, the other thing being Mac, which is different hardware.