Steve Dice

It’s a greed problem. I was perfectly content paying for Netflix but then they doubled the price and halved the content. Ok, sure, whatever, it’s still better than cable. Then other players also wanted a piece of the pie so they fragmented the content by making their own shitty services. Now you have to have Netflix, PrimeVideo, Disney+ and HBO Max just to get a semidecent experience. And yet, despite paying for 4 fucking streaming services, 90% of the movies I wanna watch are still behind yet another fucking paywall within these streaming services.

As soon as you stop being a useless idiot.

No idea. Haven’t used Windows for anything other than games for around 20 years either. How hard it is isn’t really the point, though.

give me your work for free

Geez. Just build it yourself, you lazy leech.

You really only ever switch distros if you’re having issues with it or if you wanna tinker with another one. Given your post, you don’t seem to fit either of these categories, so stick with mint and have fun being a sane person.

I don’t consider anything with Windows safe. I do all of my non-gaming computing on my laptop with Linux.

This may shock you but you wanting to see something bears no relevance on whether that something is considered art. Your opinion is not that important.

AI images lack the nuance and emotional impact that real art carries. It’s hollow, uncoordinated, and lacks the “soul” people connect to in human-made art.

This exact same criticism was used in the past but aimed at digital art, and, before that, to photography.

Yep. That’s what I’m saying, Linux isn’t ready.

BTW, on my system /boot is ext4, /boot/efi is FAT32 and the rest mounted at /sysroot is BTRFS.

Your installation is probably quite old. It used to be like that but now the default is mounting the ESP to /boot. The old way makes way more sense to me, btw.

The /boot partition is FAT32 due to RedHat’s stupidity but that’s neither here nor there. The point is that regular users don’t know how to boot into a previous version of the OS. Yes, I know you just have to select it on GRUB but a black screen with a list of kernels qualifies as broken for regular people.

Linux does do the black screen and hope you don’t touch it, at least OpenSUSE and Fedora do. And that’s a good thing. The “reboot to update is bad” meme needs to die but I digress. I’m skeptical that Linux is more resilient than Windows when it comes to updating but even if it is, Windows automatically rolls back failed updates while Linux will boot you into broken system and expect you to know what to do. Regular people can’t deal with this, even if the answer is a simple as selecting a different entry from the GRUB.

What you stated was a lie. I don’t know what to tell you 🤷🏻

Even if you keep your code in a separate file, if you link to GPL code, according to the FSF, your code should be GPL. The law says otherwise but they would still sue you.

Until everything breaks because the average user held down the power button mid-update because the computer wouldn’t shut down.

I’m with you, I don’t believe it’s ready but the command line is not an issue anymore. I only ever see it because I’m an stubborn old man who insists on using Vim. Truth is, if something you do on Linux requires the command line, doing it on Windows probably requires group policy, regedit or something like that, which are equally esoteric.

Not those examples!

Just a couple of days ago libreoffice decided to ignore my dark application theme but still honor my dark icon theme so I had white icons on white background making it basically unusable. Took all of 30 seconds to fix but imagine it happening to my 65 year old mom.

Oh, boy. Go on. Try that experiment. A regular person will encounter problems you could never imagine would be a problem in the first place. Say what you will about Windows but it at least has ~30 years of experience dealing with regular people. Switching my mom to Linux because “all she does is browse the internet anyway” is exactly how I became part of the “Linux isn’t ready” crowd.

Until everything breaks because the average user hasn’t bothered updating.

Nothing that requires the command line in Linux can be done in a “friendly” way in Windows.