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posts problem inherent to an os
people recommend an alternative
surprised pikachu face
"I use Windows for web browsing, coding, office productivity, and light gaming. Here’s the issues I have with Microsoft:
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“Well, for your use-case you could install Linux, it would fix every specific issue you mentioned…”
“WHAT!? Use a different operating system?? That’s not a personality! REEEEEE!!!”
You perfectly demonstrated why people will never listen to you. Think about it, you’ll get it.
not the scenario i am representing, but thank you for your judgemental and condescending comment 👍
More like:
Gives one huge reason that is bigger than all those other reasons combined why Linux is just a not an option what so ever
Hey buddy, Linux is cool AF you should try it.
You def should tho
When has anyone ever recommended windows/macos over Linux for compatibility?
daily, perhaps. hourly, even.
Why though? I’ve failed to run windows 10 on an old laptop and windows 11 won’t even officially support something without TPM 2 and just seems to want to commit suicide on my machine (and take any other bootloader to the grave with it). Macos gets updates for a few years until it doesn’t and then software won’t run on the older/newer versions. I personally don’t know of any software that wouldn’t run when I updated to Linux kernel version 6 (likely some drivers that aren’t maintained though) and I’m also running Linux on my old Pentium 4 with no problems except overheating in summer which is probably because it needs to be cleaned.
i would say, software exists too
Fair enough but have you tried running GCC on windows? Or perhaps videogames on Mac (according to non Linux users that I know both of those are a real pain)
To be fair I had some trouble running some apps on Wayland at first but now it’s only a couple of games (which run fine on X11)
i can’t believe i am explaining this but there is a lot of diversity in the computing world and most people will never need to run GCC in their lives
you should use Linux
you should use linux
You really should.
👍
I use arch btw
I’ve been enjoying Pop OS myself
Pop is nice! I’m waiting for cosmic!
You should use Linux
I use archbsd
OMG! Like, you should, like, totally become, like, vegan! 👁️🫦👁️
I’m an arch vegan btw
OK, last question. Do you use ballpoint pens or fountain pens?
Blood of the Ub*ntu users
Should at least give it a try
You should use linux
Linux made my computing fun and free again. It’s not for everyone but it did spark my interest and finally settled to be happy with the change.
Ymmv, though don’t rule it out how anything could impact you personally. Playing the hard to try way might poison any cool potential personal discoveries on your own.
I should use linux
performing inward self investigation as a way of improvement while allowing others to make that decision for themselves
based.
I use Arch btw.
my back arches btw /flirt
Lemmy ain’t gonna like this. Ain’t gonna like it one bit.
Love Linux, definitely foresee myself having it as a daily driver in the not too distant future. That out of the way, I initially thought “is this even a shitpost” lmao
i get being passionate but when its every. single. comment. it gets exhausting.
it’s like if i went and commented “BE A VEGAN” under every picture of a burger on c/foodporn. like live your truth!!, but be decent about it for goodness sake.
I get it.
Im literally a Linux support guy for a living and even I think people can be obnoxious recommending Linux.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ll shit on Windows when I get the chance, but I get why people either have to use it or just don’t want the hassle of Linux.
Sorta related. I’m gonna be moving in a couple months and decided I want to start dipping my toes Into Linux when I do. I want to set up a mini pc hooked up to my TV as my ‘streaming box’, not planning on doing anything fancy like iptv or any of the RR suite apps/self hosting since I don’t actually watch much TV except for movie nights and the odd TV show.
OK here’s my actual question, what’s a solid simple distro I can set up and not fuss with much that’ll serve that purpose? Realistically it’ll just be for browsing the free streaming sites and possibly later on setting up old console/arcade emulators. My tech level is ‘go to guy in the non tech related office that fixes pc stuff 90 percent of the time’. Bonus if anyone can recommend a mini pc or brand I should look into.
You could take a look at Kodi for more of a “smart TV” vibe. I’m currently running it on a RPi 4 using the LibreELEC OS (very minimal Debian based distro), and I’m really happy with it. I’m mostly using it to watch YouTube, our country’s national TV and my locally stored series and movies.
Not the guy you asked, an he may have a better recommendation, but Linux Mint Cinnamon was incredible for when I needed something that just worked out of box. It’s really good in terms of compatibility and defaults to a super usable system right out of the box.
Preach.
IMO it’s Redditor behavior. I hate Microsoft and Windows but there are some really annoying, overbearing Linux know-it-alls on Lemmy. It’s possible to inform people of Linux without being an annoying asshole
someone should make a c/OSrecs community and then all the main tech communities can make a rule that if you want to proselytize an OS in a discussion not specifically asking for OS recomendations that you must stop and move to the other sublemmy or shut up <3
disclaimer this is probably a dumb as hell idea with a million problems i don’t stand by this at all i just think it would be funny
No. They should require them to only recommend Linux so they all have a place to meet their daily proselytization quota.
They can’t bother you if you block them.
For example I just blocked the entire Linux lemmy.ml community 1 minute ago.
lemmy got an unchecked autist rule prob zaddy 🥺
Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?
I heard rumours that there was a giant animal involved in the making of Linus Torvalds. So please refer to him as GNU/Linus, or GNU+Linus.
We need Linus to fly to Africa and ride on a wildebeast. There’s just no other way to achieve world peace.
Fuck you and your stupid code, man! You fucking fucktard cannot distinguish a ; from a :! I do not care how fucking unpaid you loser are, get. this. code. right. Now fuck off!
- Word of our Lord and Saviour
He do be right
I quote this every day
Amen
fuck you nvidia 🖕
He works in a mysterious way
You should use BSD
if i wanted to use a discontinued OS i’d use plan 9 but that’s just me
Bsd’s not disconinued people use it, there are dozens of us dozens
You use BSD on desktop?
I have a pc with bsd that i use from time to time for writing notes and code
BSD is perfect for a desktop that you want to know EXACTLY what it’s running, but don’t really care about having modern programs on.
It’s like the equivalent of a feature phone, reliable as shit but the fact that it doesn’t run discord is precisely the reason why you want it.
I found a fellow BSD user in its natural habitat, a miracle
Im not into that kinky shit
Can you share examples of this happening?
(I mean, obviously this thread has lots of “you should use Linux”'s in it, but those are clearly satirical.)
lol was this sarcasm? This has to be sarcasm.
i can but i don’t want to :)
browse any
OSsoftware related post under c/all, they will find youYou complain about OS recomendations under OS related posts?
I think in threads where an obviously well-informed computer user asks a question about how to accomplish something or troubleshoot something in Windows, it’s pretty much never helpful to recommend using Linux instead. They probably know about Linux. They either must, or want to use Windows. It’s a pretty common occurrence, however.
Though these days, you might get to recommend Linux anyway by saying “you should use wsl2.”
Though these days, you might get to recommend Linux anyway by saying “you should use wsl2.”
You really really shouldn’t. It sucks in a number of ways neither Windows nor Linux do by themselves.
It definitely has many compromises and I wouldn’t use it for hosting something in production or something like that. (Is that something people do?) It is situationally very useful though, usually for things I used to spin up a VM for. I’m happy to have it available as a tool when I need to use Windows.
no i complain about the same annoying comments posted where they are not asked for.
