It doesn’t matter to me that much whether you use Windows, Mac or Linux. It’s just that there are a lot of articles saying how Windows keeps nagging people to upgrade to 11, how they keep breaking their own product, how they haven’t fixed 20 year old bugs, how they tack on stuff like AI that nobody asked for, on and on. As the local tech wiz my family and friends complain to me about these unwanted changes too from time to time. On the Mac side it’s more polished but you’re locked into a very limited set of hardware options. The thing is that it’s not a given that an OS or computers do these things. There is a good alternative, and Linux evangelists (which you could call me one of) are simply making people aware of it.
“I use Linux” is an assertion that you haven’t ceded most of the control of your computer to Microsoft or Apple, and that you are willing to trade a little bit of convenience for software freedom. Just like Lemmy is to Reddit, Bluesky and Mastodon are to Xitter.
Which will protect them from root kits, boot kits, and keyloggers. It’s ran by a corporation that has a reputation to uphold and we’ve seen in the past where people complain about Windows yet weren’t being responsible with updates. -Nagging justified.
how they keep breaking their own product
Inherent with features. In contrast, Linux users harassed FOSS developers into quitting projects (Ueberzug for example) which broke several daily softwares for me. Updating to Pipewire because ‘it’s ready’ broke ac3 passthrough. Wayland because ‘its ready’ broke drag and drop between windows and doesn’t work with a DWM that took time and effort to configure. Then, there’s the breaking problems faced by running rolling release or cutting edge (which still runs behind Windows on tech) - This topic could be it’s own thread.
how they haven’t fixed 20 year old bugs
Linux has had decade old bugs in recent news.
how they tack on stuff like AI that nobody asked for
Features that are in expensive Photoshop are now free and yet not available in GIMP. - I certainly am happy about that. I’m also interested in the Notepad re-write feature. Things I didn’t ask for were a dozen desktop environments (especially Cinnamon), multiple display managers, multiple file browsers (that are practically the same), etc.
“I use Linux” is an assertion that you haven’t ceded most of the control of your computer to Microsoft or Apple, and that you are willing to trade a little bit of convenience for software freedom.
Which matters to? - Game cheaters with kernel level anti-cheat.
Anyway, this isn’t “Windows Sucks” or a debate forum. We get enough of that elsewhere.
The purpose of my comment is to refute the notion that “no one cares”, only partially true. Yes, most people aren’t interested in what OS I use and I’m not interested in theirs. Where they care is when things stop working the way they wanted it to.
With Linux, it can take a while to get to a comfortable spot, but you can have a configuration that keeps working for a long time, and you can upgrade when you want to. Things in Windows just happen to appear whether the user asks for it or not. If I wanted a weather widget I’ll get one, that has nothing to do with security or anti-malware except that it looked like a malware toolbar when I first saw it on a public computer. Various UI elements (like OneDrive on my work computer) keep jumping all over. With Windows it’s not my computer, and work and Microsoft spy and collect reams of my PC usage data for reasons other than anti-malware, anti-cheat and security, I personally want to keep that out of my non-work life, and I imagine others would as well.
It doesn’t matter to me that much whether you use Windows, Mac or Linux. It’s just that there are a lot of articles saying how Windows keeps nagging people to upgrade to 11, how they keep breaking their own product, how they haven’t fixed 20 year old bugs, how they tack on stuff like AI that nobody asked for, on and on. As the local tech wiz my family and friends complain to me about these unwanted changes too from time to time. On the Mac side it’s more polished but you’re locked into a very limited set of hardware options. The thing is that it’s not a given that an OS or computers do these things. There is a good alternative, and Linux evangelists (which you could call me one of) are simply making people aware of it.
“I use Linux” is an assertion that you haven’t ceded most of the control of your computer to Microsoft or Apple, and that you are willing to trade a little bit of convenience for software freedom. Just like Lemmy is to Reddit, Bluesky and Mastodon are to Xitter.
Which will protect them from root kits, boot kits, and keyloggers. It’s ran by a corporation that has a reputation to uphold and we’ve seen in the past where people complain about Windows yet weren’t being responsible with updates. -Nagging justified.
Inherent with features. In contrast, Linux users harassed FOSS developers into quitting projects (Ueberzug for example) which broke several daily softwares for me. Updating to Pipewire because ‘it’s ready’ broke ac3 passthrough. Wayland because ‘its ready’ broke drag and drop between windows and doesn’t work with a DWM that took time and effort to configure. Then, there’s the breaking problems faced by running rolling release or cutting edge (which still runs behind Windows on tech) - This topic could be it’s own thread.
Linux has had decade old bugs in recent news.
Features that are in expensive Photoshop are now free and yet not available in GIMP. - I certainly am happy about that. I’m also interested in the Notepad re-write feature. Things I didn’t ask for were a dozen desktop environments (especially Cinnamon), multiple display managers, multiple file browsers (that are practically the same), etc.
Which matters to? - Game cheaters with kernel level anti-cheat.
Anyway, this isn’t “Windows Sucks” or a debate forum. We get enough of that elsewhere.
The purpose of my comment is to refute the notion that “no one cares”, only partially true. Yes, most people aren’t interested in what OS I use and I’m not interested in theirs. Where they care is when things stop working the way they wanted it to.
With Linux, it can take a while to get to a comfortable spot, but you can have a configuration that keeps working for a long time, and you can upgrade when you want to. Things in Windows just happen to appear whether the user asks for it or not. If I wanted a weather widget I’ll get one, that has nothing to do with security or anti-malware except that it looked like a malware toolbar when I first saw it on a public computer. Various UI elements (like OneDrive on my work computer) keep jumping all over. With Windows it’s not my computer, and work and Microsoft spy and collect reams of my PC usage data for reasons other than anti-malware, anti-cheat and security, I personally want to keep that out of my non-work life, and I imagine others would as well.
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