Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11

3 years ago by Flying Squid to c/technology

It's a great advert for Ubuntu anyway
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g6d3np81 33 points 3 years ago

There is a trend line of the amount of shit you need to do to get linux to do things you want.
There is a trend line of the amount of shit you need to do to stop windows from doing things you don't want.

Those two lines have crossed quite a while ago.

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seaQueue 18 points 3 years ago

My "fuck this" moment came about 7y ago when Microsoft started forcing reboots that couldn't be disabled even with group policy. I think I lost work 2 or 3 times because I'd stayed up late working and eventually just fell into bed without saving everything and shutting the machine down. I woke up to a login screen the next morning and said "oh fuck this" the second or third time it happened.

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Pxtl 4 points 3 years ago

The most shameful thing is that many applications that would fail to come back with all their state after restart were Microsoft's own programs like Sql Server Management Studio -- that one does better now, but well over a decade too late.

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southsamurai 7 points 3 years ago

Being real though, for most people on actual personal computers, not work devices, linux does everything you need, though with different software in some cases.

If you rely on adobe for personal hobbies, you're fucked. An ever shrinking amount of games don't play well with proton. And if you use a pc for your music listening/organization, you're not going to enjoy things much. That's it.

Now, switching software like word over to libreoffice can take a week or so of adjustment, but you can write a bloody novel on it. Same with the other libreoffice tools; they do perfectly well.

Yeah, work programs might not be optional, so until the big names start serving the linux market, not everyone will have full choice. But for those of us that aren't locked into an industry standard piece of software? It's really not an issue now.

Even when 10 came out, there wasn't a lot of issue switching over. Gaming at the time was the biggest non-work weakness.

The only thing I haven't been able to replace and do as well or better with is with audio. Linux doesn't have any programs that match musicbee.

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SnowdenHeroOfOurTime 0 points 3 years ago

if you use a pc for your music listening/organization, you're not going to enjoy things much

False. Rhythmbox is like itunes minus every single thing you disliked about it plus it has flac support.

And if the organization bit was supposed to mean that explorer is better than any standard file manager on Linux... I definitely disagree there too

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MotoAsh -1 points 3 years ago
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