Why Linux is Better Than Windows 11

[vinesnfluff@pawb.social]

Let's be honest here

I like Linux as much as the next guy

...... But a violent kick to the 'nards is still more pleasant than Windows 11, so this is a "Luigi Wins By Doing Absolutely Nothing" scenario.

[trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Mental Outlaw is a reich-wing freak, so that's par for the course. Unfortunately, there are a fair amount of these shitheads in the Linux YouTube space.

[lengau@midwest.social]

Yep, which also explains why a distro that comes with Cinnamon won...

[vinesnfluff@pawb.social]

Now, now. Cinnamon is a perfectly competent DE. Gets out of the way. Does what it's supposed to.

Let us not treat it like it is Gnome.

[capsicones@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

The term "rice burner" originated in the Anglo-American context, and the word "ricing" cannot be divorced from the way people use "rice" as a versatile and generic racial epithet in varied context outside of the software world. As in people going, "haha, rice" something when being racist against Asians. It's a long and ignominious American tradition to demean racial minorities with food. As in insulting Mexicans with "bean". Anecdotally, some older Italians still remember being made to feel bad for eating pasta, when Italians weren't white yet. The term "ricing" will certainly remain racist due to the way anti-Asian racism continues to work. Hence my point that the term must be abandoned, if one wishes to not be racist. Just find a different word for it. it ain't that hard. It is certainly not possible to use an American word with racist origins without divorcing it from the cultural context from which it came.

[lengau@midwest.social]

I don't like GNOME, but I've honestly had consistently worse experiences with Cinnamon.

[jumuta@sh.itjust.works]

I think the modern usage also has the nuance of fragility and temporality.

You wouldn't call a polished and extremely stable customisation a 'rice', you'd probably call it a theme

[jumuta@sh.itjust.works]

he definitely leans right but he still supports foss and all the important stuff around that so does it actually matter much as a Linux YouTuber?

also his level of schizo is pretty funny

[carbonbasednpu@lemm.ee]

We have seen where just not caring about someone being the right wing nut job has led. Are we really going to keep using that excuse?

[slacktoid@lemmy.ml]

No ads in operating system. Simple.

[psythik@lemmy.world]

I like Windows 11. It has the best HDR support of any OS, bar none. AutoHDR is a godsend.

My only complaint is about the taskbar, which I fixed by installing StartAllBack.

[foobarrington@lemmy.world]

nervous Ubuntu noises

[yttra@lemmy.world]

Linux is cool, shame about the video being by Mental Outlaw though

[jumuta@sh.itjust.works]

dictators will dictate whatever their political alignment is

[slacktoid@lemmy.ml]

Elaborate?

[zarkanian@sh.itjust.works]

Aw, that sucks that they're infesting Linux, too. I thought that free/open source would be too commie-socialist for them.

[zarkanian@sh.itjust.works]

It isn't cool if it's offending people, though. And clearly it is.

[robust_mirror@aussie.zone]

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-amazon-ads-and-data-leaks

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/10/ubuntu-pro-terminal-ad

[zarkanian@sh.itjust.works]

I'm all for using "theme" as a replacement.

[golden_zealot@lemmy.ml]

Off only the top of my head.

-Potentially faster installation

-Free

-More control

-Many distributions from LinuxFromScratch to Mint, making it meet the interests of nearly every demographic

-Wonderful sense of community

-No spying

-No bloatware depending on distro

-No ads

-Many window managers supporting different workflows

-Incredible command line power

-Easy installation of software with package managers

-Less malware

-Fully customizeable ux/ui

-Can uninstall anything you don't want

-Will help you learn how a computer works at a deeper level if you want to