• doodledup@lemmy.world
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        10 hours ago

        It’s awesome for software devs, sys admins, tinkerers. But that’s it. Most distros still have too many issues for me to recommend it to every Windows user.

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          No, Linux is also great for tech illiterate people who just need a browser and e-mail. It’s only hard for people who think they know computers but really only know some Windows

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            I agree with that for daily tasks it’s great and easy. It works until you try to connect an exotic device in the game or just use a external device most of the time you will have to do it manually or it will just doesn’t work.

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              On the gripping hand, if you’re trying to connect an older external device, you’re more likely to get it working eventually under Linux (which usually keeps device drivers until they bit-rot out of the kernel tree) than Windows (whose drivers are version-specific and only get ported forward if the manufacturer thinks there’s money in it). Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other, as far as I’m concerned, and device setup is a thing you should only have to do rarely anyway.

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          What issues? And does Linux have more issues than Windows or different ones?

          Often Windows has more issues, people have just gotten used to dealing with them.

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      10 hours ago

      Okay, so go on… instead of only listing negatives, what are the alternatives to each of these that you use?

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        10 hours ago

        Librewolf is already listed. There are unfortunately no good alternatives to Windows and ChatGPT or Gemini.

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          If there isn’t a good replacement for windows, then we can clearly say in your opinion, there are no good operating systems.

          So why not support the concept you believe in most?

          Because right now it sounds like you’re just making excuses for Microsoft.

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          7 hours ago

          Librewolf is just some customized FF variation, so it’s from USA at the core. Same as Vivaldi, of course.

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          8 hours ago

          What Linux distros did you try, though? Some are explicitly less user-friendly than others. Also, how about Llama?

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      I’m with you on the first two, but disagree on the last. To each their own I guess.