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BluescluestoothpasteWho says linux is bad? At worst people say it’s too hard for them, but i never heard someone say it’s bad.
funkajunk 🇨🇦Usually people who installed it yesterday and are mad it doesn’t behave exactly like the OS they’ve been using for the last 20 years (which they also had to learn how to use)
TBF it does have a glaring lack of automation for way too much of the basics. Even hand holding distros like Mint will have you using the terminal for something windows just does with a double click.
FTR I prefer Linux over Windows but I still lose it every time installation instructions for some app have 4 pages of commands for the CLI instead of just running an installer that automates the BS.
Maybe 10 years ago, but for me installing anything is done with a single command (pacman or yay)
Are you using some sort of niche software?
Every piece of software that doesn’t come with the default repositories, which in many distros includes the ’niche’ software of vidcard drivers. Samba network sharing v1, disabled in both Windows and Linux, is a simple double click of the app feature to reenable in Windows. In Linux, you have to change entries in at least 2 files, assuming you can find correct instructions in the first place.
I mean you have to find those check boxes in Windows too.
I do think some things in Linux are still not super user friendly, but for example installing apps is much better. Sure something may not be in the repo, even if some distros have impressively vast ones, but even that is easily solved with flatpak and appimage nowadays.
Samba v1 has been disabled by default for years in Windows, because of security concerns. If m$ is even warning against using it, you probably shouldn’t use it.
Enabling something that’s deprecated as fuck is not a very good example.
Hey, you know what is a good example? Every app not included in the default app repository. But, you conveniently skipped that to make a useless point. GG.
It’s not that Linux is bad, it’s the fans of it that are annoying
EthanIt’s responding to “you say Linux is bad”. If you pretend the funny cat picture is someone talking, and my comment is someone talking back, it makes sense.
Typical Linux distributions are almost objectively harder to use than Android. I’d be surprised if anyone really disagrees with this. When someone complains about Linux being hard to use, it’s the POSIX-based Linux distributions that must support arbitrary hardware (often poorly so) that they refer to. I don’t need to care about installing NVidia drivers and whether they’re compatible with EFI handover when I buy an Android phone.
You do need to worry about whether or not your phone is locked to a specific carrier and if its the carrier you want to use the phone with.
To piggyback off this, Windows is also “harder” than Android. You need to reinstall Windows due to an update fuckup? You tried building your own PC? Well, you either fork.over $120 for an installation media, or you have to create your own, then learn how to boot into the BIOS to boot from that media, then you need to scour the internet for not only your Nvidia driver, but your audio driver, WiFi driver, integrated graphics driver (if you have and want to use an IGPU) and possibly motherboard drivers if your mobo has some odd implementation that requires a driver for USB 3.1 to work properly.
None of these operating systems are “harder” than another. You are just used to one over the other. You don’t use your automatic transmission car skills trying to drive a manual transmission, unless your goal is to crash and burn.
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massgrave proves my point. The user has to go out of their way to run that script.
Linux would just work ootb. No activation needed
You do need to worry about whether or not your phone is locked to a specific carrier and if its the carrier you want to use the phone with
Laughs in Canadian
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schnurritoTypical Linux distributions are almost objectively harder to use than Android
So are Windows and macOS.
So it’s just not true at all, got it lol