• the_doktor@lemmy.zip
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    10 hours ago

    How much shit are people going to endure before realizing Windows isn’t for them any more?

    Dump the damn thing and use Linux. Yes, Linux is friendly, easy to use, you can play most games, you don’t need your proprietary programs because there are Free alternatives that are just as good that might take you a moment to adjust to (don’t cry about how it’s different, that’s Baby Duck Syndrome), and so on.

    And Microsoft facilitates fascism and government spyware and all sorts of evil crap. So does Apple. And Google. Throw away your phone, use Linux on your PCs, free yourself.

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      10 hours ago

      Crying about it being different isn’t baby duck syndrome; saying it’s better/worse compared to what you’re used to is.

      People just don’t want to spend hundreds of hours re-learning things that already work for them.
      It is objectively easier to stick with something you know than to learn something new, so that’s what most non-technical users do.

      Pretty much everyone in IT should learn linux at some point though.

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        9 hours ago

        If you are in IT I’d hope you know some version of Unix. Consumers I wouldn’t expect them to know, they just want it to work and don’t care about configurations and how it works.

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      Linux is as messy and more as the apartment where I live (really bad).

      If you want the operating system to make sense, use OpenBSD (no Wine, no Linux emulation, thus only native games) or NetBSD (there is Wine and Linux emulation, but limited) or FreeBSD (generally can do the same as Linux), but all three port graphics drivers from Linux with significant lag, and hardware support is worse in general.

      And Microsoft facilitates fascism

      There’s a lot of Linux in systems that governments and militaries use.

      Throw away your phone,

      Yes, right. Also change job so that an Android device for 2FA weren’t a requirement. And get used that I can’t communicate with someone over TG/WA/VK in transport.

      And still be surveilled, because the information you give about yourself without an Android phone is sufficient, carrying one is a symbolic decapitation of your privacy and dignity, “symbolic” is the word.

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          13 minutes ago

          Something insulted you in my comment or you feel the urge to take sides in things you most likely haven’t compared? Linux is a mess compared to BSDs. Anyone who used them all can confirm this.

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            8 minutes ago

            You mean the entire fucking world where *BSD is basically dead and Linux is fucking everywhere? Yeah… sure, buddy.

            *BSD has always been a poor alternative to Linux because of design decisions, poor hardware support, and a garbage license that allows non-free software to “steal” (take) and use your code irresponsibly. *BSD sucks.

            Someone is just jealous of Linux’s success but is so caught up being a contrarian shitlord that they can’t admit the truth.