• @[email protected]
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    010 months ago

    Linux is fantastic for running shit. It’s pretty terrible for most normal users to use.

    Skill issue.

    • @LemmyIsFantastic
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      -110 months ago

      Imagine insulting someone who said “this sucks for normal user” with get gud 🤣

      Absolutely fantastic. We’ve really gone full circle.

      • @[email protected]
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        110 months ago

        Apparently being responsible for your own computer is too much to ask. It’s not so difficult to manage a linux install. In fact, its much easier and smoother if you are willing to become familiar with how things work. But whining that linux OS broke like Linus Sebastian from LTT when you can’t read and take responsibility is like complaining that the car didn’t save you when you crashed a manual honda civic expecting it to perform like a autopilot car. Its asinine and illogical.

        We all grew up with windows and became familiar with it as that was the only choice. To insult linux and its users just because you want 100% perfection from an OS people build as a hobby for free is quite ignorant and entitled. If you don’t like linux stop commenting on programming forums.

        The year of the linux desktop for me started in 2009 when I first installed ubuntu and it has been the year of the linux desktop for me since then. I have learnt to fix flaws in my system. I know what its limitations are. I don’t expect linux to fix all my problems. But i certainly do recommend it to newbies even if it might frustrate them. I expect them to take it or leave it. I don’t insult their intelligence by assuming they definitely need handholding.

        Microsoft poured several billions by now into windows and it’s only getting worse day by day. If you suggest that Windows is best for daily users then it is clear that you’re just insulting people’s intelligence instead of uplifting them.

        • @LemmyIsFantastic
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          110 months ago

          I stopped at line 1. Yes. You finally get it. It’s an appliance. It is too much to ask me to dick around being responsible for my os. I’m glad we’re making progress.

          • @[email protected]
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            110 months ago

            You should blame software makers and hardware vendors. Not Linux. There isn’t a Linux company that pays for vendor lock-in.

            • @LemmyIsFantastic
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              210 months ago

              Doesn’t matter in the least bit when talking about the viability.

              • @[email protected]
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                19 months ago

                You’re barking up the wrong tree then. I don’t know why you would do that when you claim to be a pragmatic person. What’s exactly your beef? Care to tell me?

                • @LemmyIsFantastic
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                  Beef? I called out the dumb memes around Linus because he represents a normal user. You all then scream that normal users should be more educated and care about hardware, why Nvidia sucks, etc; which is a pipe dream and never EVER going to happen.

                  I have no beef. This is reality.

              • @BURN
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                010 months ago

                100%

                I really don’t give a flying fuck about software privacy or open source anything. I want my computer to work with the software I need for my job, and Linux doesn’t, so it’s a non-viable OS

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                  Shouldn’t you at least understand the reason why it is that way? Or are you going to blame Linux when there’s no single entity behind it?

                  Microsoft struck shady deals with laptop vendors to make them microsoft exclusive. Steve Ballmer effectively said Linux is cancer (probably blaming GPL license). They let people pirate their software so future technologists grew up with windows and other windows software (adobe did the same with photoshop, now it’s industry monopoly)

                  A community OS like GNU/Linux competes with Microsoft who has billions in the bank. It’s only in the past few years that Linux has seen wider hardware vendor adoption at all.

                  It’s fine if you think Linux is non-viable… but speak for yourself. Don’t go around trolling people who are perfectly fine with Linux.

                  Edit: if you don’t care about anything I just wrote then you’re just a horse with blinders on and I am wasting my time.

                  • @BURN
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                    19 months ago

                    It doesn’t matter why it’s that way. It matters that it is. Linux is non-viable in a lot of industries. The Linux Vegans consistently refuse to accept that FOSS alternatives are only alternatives in name. As competing products they’re almost always missing features, functionality and/or performance that the industry leader has. Ask any graphic artist about GIMP vs Photoshop and there’s a pretty clear winner, and it’s not just because of familiarity.