Unused memory IS wasted memory and my Linux machines, AFAICR, always have buffered everything possible since twenty years ago, it’s not a systemd thing. It also speeds up things, why the long face?

Certain less well known smaller brands might not work as too few people know the HW

Same goes for very specialized hardware, if it wasn’t on Linux to begin with, it probably won’t work

I know, they need the clickbait title for the click money but yeah -as usual- I’m mostly shrugging this off

Anytime shareholders are involved you know it’s going to be shit.

I want to think here that this is more about not knowing about licenses than malice.

They did open it.

If open source developers can now keep the tax code updated, you’re all golden

Arr matey, I can’t give ya the best options to watch what you want without having to walk the plank!

Yeah you know, maybe you should actually use it because I’ve been using it for the past 25 years as a desktop and I’ve had a fraction of the shit I see happening on windows desktops

Yes, shit just works. Yeah, there are issues, there are bugs, all software has bugs, but holy shit is the design better.

Windows always FRACKING ALWAYS has headache issues to deal with. I now control a fleet of machines for employees and sadly they’re windows, still, and the amount of shit we deal with on a daily basis is incredible. We’re too busy now but soon we’ll start a project to replace all machines.with Linux at which point shit will finally just work. How do I know this? I’ve done it before, ma y times.

So yeah, fuck Microsoft, fuck windows, it’s all trash

No, you don’t want all zeroesz, you want random data.

Within Linux you can quite easily do this yourself too

This sort of misinformation can be the reason to push a country into civil war. Hundreds, I’d not thousands could die as a result.

It’s an extremely hostile action that should be responded to in kind. People pushing these false narratives without clear evidence should be jailed for years, if not life. Muskrat should be jailed for life.

Yeaaahh, but does it though?

I’ve put loads of regular users on Linux and on average they have less issues than they had with windows

That is ignoring the installation. Linux install is download iso, burn it on USB, boot computer with said USB, run the install program, go through the 5-6 pages which takes about 15 minutes, reboot and the machine is done.

Windows 11 install is downloading ISO, burn it on USB, boot computer with said USB and then the boot up immet fails with this vague error. Spend a good hour on Internet searches to find that it’s some bios setting which is fine for Linux, but whatever. Make setting, reboot USB! Setup now crashes again on other gauge error. Spend another 4 hours on sraxhes only to find out that windows iso burning requires a special windows only burning program that will “fix” it and is totally not done on purpose to sabotage Linux users, but fine, were only 5 hours in and still have to start so boot up a VM in Linux, find that usb burner somewhere, download and install that, then download the iso again, burn it, dump it again in the machine and presto, er have an installer, yay!

Go through the pages, and more pages and more crap and install this sponsored content and watch ads and now you need an account at Microsoft and more pages and do you love me? Please let me know that you love me, more feedback because I’m Microsoft and I need feedback and now do you want these games that you hate, and you must install office you will love it even though you’d rather commit sepuku, and a fucking hour of clicking a thousand times later, windows is finally installed …?

Seriously, if I say that installing Linux was ten times easier than windows, it would be the understatement of the year.

In it’s general use, nobody will run into weird shit like they do on windows and to top it off, you got no issues with viruses, no ads nor spyware in the operating system itself, and shit just works.

Yeah, Linux has bugs, just like windows, but the experience is ten times better, I’ll die happily and proud on that hill

Yeah, every idiot and their mother can build that, it’s not really that spectacular.

Call me when he can build one that generates more energy than goes in, that’s literally 99.99% of the hard part of fusion

“Handbrake” is quite good at making high quality mkv files, you should be able to Automate a lot of it

ssh.serverdomain scripts that immediately can do things like turn on the required vpn. In combo with SSH keys and non port 22, it’s ideal

The point for me is that I will have 30 years of muscle memory to overcome

No, only vi

I might actually do that too, but not for ergonomics. I’m just going nuts with sometimes ctrl-c,. sometimes ctrl-shift-c, sometimes ctrl-ins

Again: switch to Linux already, use Libre Office or if you have to, google docs. Heck, install onlyoffice if you want it self hosted online, anything but Microsoft

Let’s call it “big” influence , maybe?

Linux is ubiquitous, it’s everywhere, even on Reddit, even under your bed

It’s still the same apt. I believe fedora now uses something else, dnf or something like that. Either way, apt has worked fantastic for me for 99.9% of the time in the past 20 years, I’m not complaining