Oh yeah, there are advantages to each, despite the bickering and camps we put ourselves into. It all comes down to what abilities you’re gonna lose, and what you’re gonna gain when making the decision.
For me, I rarely game, and I do a lot of hobby electronics and programming, so Linux is a good fit. There’s so many cool open source programmer utilities out there.
For my wife, it fits not so much.
I guarantee, most new users coming to Linux from Windows/macOS are going to laugh and look at you funny if you try to justify entering your password again and again and again.
That’s nice, but this ain’t MacOS or Windows. This is Linux.
Sorry but 20 years of “but this isn’t exactly like Winders11!!!one!” starts to grate on me. It’s a different OS with a different philosophy and a different workflow. Everbody coming from Windows had to learn to deal with the nuances of that OS as well, nuances they’ve completely forgotten about because it’s second nature.
I don’t WANT Linux to be exactly like MacOS and Windows. I want it to stand on its own, with its own ideas on how to run a computer.
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Keep reading:
The term “app” usually refers to applications for mobile devices such as phones.
They are called “programs”, not “apps”. The word “app” was created for the iPhone and originally meant a “mini” slimmed down application meant for mobile devices, not a catch-all term for any user program running on a CPU.
/getoffmylawn
Back to the 80s/early 90s where the only people using computers were the ones that actually knew how to use computers? Hell yes, take me back.
What makes you think there’s no way of updating the firmware?
I don’t know, but the amount of USB drives I’ve seen with a readily identifiable serial or jtag port and API documentation is exactly zero. 😉
I think most of them were one-and-done, as in, code/hardware was designed once, and never iterated on again, at least not for devices already in the field.
That’d make it highly file system dependent with no way of updating the firmware. All these drives stopped working after the FAT32->ExFAT switch.
Sorry. Wife’s Christmas present. She wanted to surprise me. Gotta make do.
Circuit City
Warning: trigger activated, loading and playing long lost childhood memory:
🎵 “WELCOME TO CIRCUIT CITY, WHERE SERVICE IS STATE OF THE ART” 🎵
Sorry for the confusion. I should probably start using emojis to convey playfulness in nonserious comments.
You know jokes and sarcasm are a thing, right?
Do any of you people actually use your OS, or do you just distro-hop and tweak things all day?
Thank god macros and functions are different colors in my IDE.
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We used to do that a lot, in the 90s and early 2000s. We determined that that’s not a good idea. People even ran DEs under root.
Ubuntu is basically dead
It’s dead for hardcore nerds that care about such things as snaps and such. But in the corporate world, it’s very much alive. I literally just got done installing an Ubuntu-based NVR from Wisenet for a store’s CCTV system.
Yeah, and NT was pretty much just a corporate and government thing throughout the 90s. It wasn’t until XP that home users got it on the desktop, and even then, the first user created automatically had all admin rights, because people were still used to the Win9x/DOS way of doing things. Separation of different accounts with different privilege levels wasn’t a widespread practice up until maybe Windows Vista.