What’s even the appeal of Linux?
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- Lighter
- Better on weaker hardware
- More options how you set up your system: Desktop Environments/Window Managers.
- Free and Open Source (so no paying out the arse for Windows).
- More Software options.
- Better Security.
- No monitoring by your OS provider.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Seriously, do people pay for windows? I've transitioned one copy I got on my laptop a dozen years ago through a few separate pc builds. And duplicated another key, which was quite easy. The verifications for windows are super easy to bypass by a non-tech intelligent user
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Seriously, do people pay for windows? I've transitioned one copy I got on my laptop a dozen years ago through a few separate pc builds. And duplicated another key, which was quite easy. The verifications for windows are super easy to bypass by a non-tech intelligent user
do people pay for windows?
Yes. When you buy your computer, the cost of Windows is added onto the computer's cost. Just for context, a Dell XPS 13 Laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled is £1,149.01, with Windows it's £1,199.00. When you get the chance to have Linux preinstalled or even just have no OS pre installed, you find it's cheaper than having Windows Preinstalled.
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do people pay for windows?
Yes. When you buy your computer, the cost of Windows is added onto the computer's cost. Just for context, a Dell XPS 13 Laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled is £1,149.01, with Windows it's £1,199.00. When you get the chance to have Linux preinstalled or even just have no OS pre installed, you find it's cheaper than having Windows Preinstalled.
That's for laptops, not desktops
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That's for laptops, not desktops
It's the same for desktops. There's no difference between Operating systems for laptops or desktops. Your can use the same install media for both with little to no difference.
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It's the same for desktops. There's no difference between Operating systems for laptops or desktops. Your can use the same install media for both with little to no difference.
Windows does not come with a desktop, unless you're buying pre built, in which case you don't mind spending extra money for the same product
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Vim doesn’t care if it’s running in Linux or Windows or macOS
wrote last edited by [email protected]Makes dumb people feel smart.
Gives people who lack agency in life something they use to look down on others, despite no one caring.
For a tiny majority that have them. It is a useful red flag for your loved ones, that the slide of mental illness continues.
They secretly desire to be seen as hackers by others; reality is they are hacks.
They lack the ability to enjoy self deprecating humor and handle feelings but this is most often expressed by downvoting.
The inky blackness of terminal screens to sates their inner emo.
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No, it isn't. Using Linux is only as hard as you want it to be. There are plenty of user-friendly choices that purposefully mimic familiar desktop environments and require little to no terminal knowledge for basic use. If you chose something like Gentoo or Arch as your first taste then that's your fault, not the OS's.
Well im sure that's true for most people who just browse the web and stuff, but I do many complex things with my PC. Double clicking an installer is just always easier to install software. That was the first big mistake of linux tbh. Not having a standard gui type way to install 3rd party software. App stores are cool, dont get me wrong, but its not a replacement for just double clicking a downloaded file that interacts with a standard set of tools on your PC. I know there are reasons for this, linux is only a kernel and what not. I have been using windows since idk 95 i think when i was like 6 years old. It is definitly way easier to do just about anything. That is because windows was designed to be as simple and cross compatible as possible. Xp and 7 were the best versions of windows unless you were too dumb to avoid getting malware or something. For whatever reason, most people were too dumb to avoid getting maleware because they hard no artistic sense. I could always detect the quality of the mind which made a website, and i knew bad artists were the ones who likely had bad morals, and had malware. Also personality. It was simple for me to avoid malware and i never did get it, maybe twice over like 20 years.
Windows died and so i started to use linux a few years ago. The hardest thing i ever had to do in windows was probably link libraries in C++, almost everything in linux is that hard. The people who make linux just will never understand that the average user will never want to spend hundreds of hours a year maintaining their system. 90% of people cannot even understand if a simple logical statement is true or not. Half of them can barely read. Kid these days dont even know how to use something thats not a touch screen, older people over 60% of them cant send an email without help, and these people are supposed to download xrandr for their linux machine and create a custom startup script in system d, to make their tv display correctly? Madness. I feel like i may have walked into a cult. If you guys are like Linux devs, that is extreamly cool fr, atleast to me, but you are delusional if you think linux is easier to use then windows. It has come a long way. Bazzite is the first distro that i feel comfortable recomending to normies, and i recomend it to many people who are trying to escape the trashpile that is modern windows. Learning liinux has been difficult though, maybe because i dont have tons of free time and energy anymore like when i was younger. It is coming a long way however thxs to lord gaben and his push to make linux more mainstream, so the personal PC market doesnt die completly with whatever the hell microsoft and apple are doing these days, probably trying to micromanage their users, e force moral sogma, and use nudge theory on them because the people who run most companies in America are actually dumb incels at this point.
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Vim doesn’t care if it’s running in Linux or Windows or macOS
Wanted to reply until I saw its a shitpost... You nearly had me
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Makes dumb people feel smart.
Gives people who lack agency in life something they use to look down on others, despite no one caring.
For a tiny majority that have them. It is a useful red flag for your loved ones, that the slide of mental illness continues.
They secretly desire to be seen as hackers by others; reality is they are hacks.
They lack the ability to enjoy self deprecating humor and handle feelings but this is most often expressed by downvoting.
The inky blackness of terminal screens to sates their inner emo.
Makes dumb people feel smart
The entirety of bioinformatics runs on Linux. I doubt you'd be able to clear an entry level exam to join a bioinformatics program.
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Makes dumb people feel smart.
Gives people who lack agency in life something they use to look down on others, despite no one caring.
For a tiny majority that have them. It is a useful red flag for your loved ones, that the slide of mental illness continues.
They secretly desire to be seen as hackers by others; reality is they are hacks.
They lack the ability to enjoy self deprecating humor and handle feelings but this is most often expressed by downvoting.
The inky blackness of terminal screens to sates their inner emo.
LOL me writing this, using neovim and a split keyboard to make me feel smart. There is definitly some truth to this. But I never look down upon people for not using the technology I choose. People on here can be really annoying. It’s like the virtue signaling Linux.
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Makes dumb people feel smart
The entirety of bioinformatics runs on Linux. I doubt you'd be able to clear an entry level exam to join a bioinformatics program.
They are all downvoting my shit comment to a shitpost, so they're all proving it correct.
Most people who use Linux don't tie their personality to it. I've long suspected that Lemmy has few of those.
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Wanted to reply until I saw its a shitpost... You nearly had me
But I also do spend 8 hours a work day coding in Vim not on Linux. Just to clarify, I’m also not using Windows (gross).
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They are all downvoting my shit comment to a shitpost, so they're all proving it correct.
Most people who use Linux don't tie their personality to it. I've long suspected that Lemmy has few of those.
You really want attention, don't you?
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LOL me writing this, using neovim and a split keyboard to make me feel smart. There is definitly some truth to this. But I never look down upon people for not using the technology I choose. People on here can be really annoying. It’s like the virtue signaling Linux.
wrote last edited by [email protected]WHAT KEYBOARD DO YOU HAVE????????? (I want a nice split one at some point to prevent pains and stuff)
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Vim doesn’t care if it’s running in Linux or Windows or macOS
da penguin!!!!
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WHAT KEYBOARD DO YOU HAVE????????? (I want a nice split one at some point to prevent pains and stuff)
Kinesis Advantage 360 Pro. Pretty sure it was refurbished by Kinesis for a discount
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Vim doesn’t care if it’s running in Linux or Windows or macOS
Number one, I get to tell people that I use Arch. I could anyway, but this way I'm not lying.
Number two, it's not Micro$oft or Crapple.
Number three, living in my mother's basement isn't as cost effective as I was hoping it'd be so free helps immensely.
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da penguin!!!!
This is the right answer
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Number one, I get to tell people that I use Arch. I could anyway, but this way I'm not lying.
Number two, it's not Micro$oft or Crapple.
Number three, living in my mother's basement isn't as cost effective as I was hoping it'd be so free helps immensely.
wrote last edited by [email protected]If I did daily drive Linux I would probably use arch or Nixos so I could flex
