• AntAcid@lemm.ee
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      Linux bros have been told this for literally decades. They’ll never get it. As long as I can’t use my air pods or even the built in fingerprint reader for my laptop, plug and play, I won’t even try making the switch.

      Linux is serverware with a barely working GUI and people are still talking about “just switch”.

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        I agree with the first part of what you said, but I disagree with your last sentence.

        I have been using Linux on my desktop PCs and laptops since 2017 and it’s been working great for me, even playing games. Honestly, I probably play more games on Linux than I did back when I was on Windows lol

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        Linux is everywhere and doing everything already. Windows only continues to exist because business majors are in charge and they are fucking dumb.

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      @deepfuckingdumb @zdhzm2pgp

      A. Fuck Adobe
      B. I tend to direct people to Linux Mint. It’s so user friendly and similar to Windows its perfect for the Windows Refugees to start out with. It’s what I installed two months ago after having used Windows since Windows 95.

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        • Illustrator
        • InDesign
        • Photoshop
        • AutoCAD
        • Revit
        • Civil3D
        • ReCap Pro
        • Outlook
        • Bluebeam Revu
        • Large Format printer support drivers
        • AMD drivers
        • Steam VR

        I can run outlook and MS 365 in a browser so it’s really the other stuff I need functional to be able to switch.–

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        I use mint and only had one game so far with a problem. The game was 20 years old and couldn’t scale to an ultrawide monitor.

        So far most things just work. Except the locked streaming services that force anti-Linux. For that I just sail the high seas.

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      Yeah,there is one dude in the Linux group here that is just a complete jackass. Half answers your question, and most of it is just telling you a line of code with no other input and basically treating you like an ass hole for even asking. I don’t remember his name, I have him blocked, but absolutely hated seeing Linux posts with this fucking turd each time. Very demeaning and completely ruins the community. I feel like his personality is just trash and he’s always in a “roll your eyes / deep sigh” mood.

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      I wish I could just keep upvoting this.

      I’ll add, want to see your average person roll their eyes and say “nope”, just tell them they have to manually edit a bunch of config files to get going. How much about your car do you need to know to start your car and get somewhere?

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      I’m halfway competent, spent 10 years in IT and even compiled my own kernel back in the early 2000s.

      My last 3 attempts at running Ubuntu turned into complete and utter failures, including having to totally reinstall the system over the top of itself because the system became so corrupted it wouldn’t even boot.

      And, I barely got steam to work on it. I wasted hundreds of hours and ended up with a barely functional computer that couldn’t print, didn’t support my computers wifi card, and 90% of my work programs aren’t available.

      Oh, and someone please support AMD video cards.

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      But why even care if some random loser gets fucked by Microsoft? It’s like the religious idiots out there who don’t believe in global warming and hate trans people: you can’t deprogram stupid. It’s like waging a war against bears taking a shit in rivers.

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      I don’t think this community is a stronghold of linux, as you can see in the comments. We need to start from somewhere.

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      Personally I’m tired of people telling disgruntled Windows users to switch to Linux.

      Linux is not your backup plan, it’s not a “Windows alternative”. Yes, there are projects out there that try to make Linux easier for Windows users, and honestly they can fuck right off. Way too many people are trying to dumb down this incredibly powerful operating system to expand the market into the “gamers” and the “grannies who want to browse the web and send e-mail”.

      Just… just stop.

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        I thought the whole point of Linux was that there was one for everyone? A computer itself is an incredible potent tool, but most people just want to use Facebook and YouTube.