BearOfaTime

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BearOfaTime,

Lol, right. Linux ain’t even close to replacing windows - just look at the gaming issues that persist, or other compatibility issues.

It’s great for specific use-case scenarios, but I’m not dealing with supporting friends and family when stuff doesn’t work because I told them to install a Linux distro.

Besides, business doesn’t have this issue - it’s only on home (not Pro) installs, because for business we do all sorts of system management that would preclude this, even is MS tried to push it.

This just reflects how MS sees home users - there’s no profit there (never has been, it’s always been about getting people used to Windows at home, to capture the audience).

No one in my family is allowed to use Windows Home versions. They either buy pro when they get a new computer, or I get it for them.

My standard response to “just go Linux” :

I keep having to say this, as much as I like Linux for certain things, as a desktop it’s still no competition to Windows, even with this awful shit going on.

As some background - I had my first UNIX class in about 1990. I wrote my first Fortran program on a Sperry Rand Univac (punched cards) in about 1985. Cobol was immediately after Fortran (wish I’d stuck with Cobol).

I run a Mint laptop. Power management is a joke. Configured as best as possible, walked in the other day and it was dead - as in battery at zero, won’t even boot. Windows would never do this, unless you went out of your way to config power management to kill the battery (even then, to really kill it you have to boot to BIOS and let it sit, Windows will not let a battery get to zero).

There no way even possible via the GUI to config power management for things like low/critical battery conditions /actions.

There are many reasons why Linux doesn’t compete with Windows on the desktop - this is just one glaring one.

Now let’s look at Office. Open an Excel spreadsheet with tables in any app other than excel. Tables are something that’s just a given in excel, takes 10 seconds to setup, and you get automatic sorting and filtering, with near-zero effort. The devs of open office refuse to support tables, saying “you should manage data in a proper database app”. No, I’m not setting up a DB in an open-source competitor to Access. That’s just too much effort for simple sorting and filtering tasks, and isn’t realistically shareable with other people. I do this several times a day in excel.

Now there’s that print monitor that’s on by default, and can only be shut up by using a command line. Wtf? In the 21st century?

Networking… Yea, samba works, but how do you clear creds you used one time to connect to a share, even though you didn’t say “save creds”? Oh, yea, command line again or go download an app to clear them for for you. Smh.

Oh, you have a wireless Logitech mouse? Linux won’t even recognize it. You have to search for a solution and go find a download that makes it work. My brand new wireless mouse works on any version of windows since 2000, at the least, and would probably work on Win95.

Someone else said it better than me:

Every time I’ve installed Linux as my main OS (many, many times since I was younger), it gets to an eventual point where every single thing I want to do requires googling around to figure out problems. While it’s gotten much better, I always ended up reinstalling Windows or using my work Mac. Like one day I turn it on and the monitor doesn’t look right. So I installed twenty things, run some arbitrary collection of commands, and it works… only it doesn’t save my preferences.

So then I need to dig into .bashrc or .bash_profile (is bashrc even running? Hey let me investigate that first for 45 minutes) and get the command to run automatically… but that doesn’t work, so now I can’t boot… so I have to research (on my phone now, since the machine deathscreens me once the OS tries to load) how to fix that… then I am writing config lines for my specific monitor so it can access the native resolution… wait, does the config delimit by spaces, or by tabs?? anyway, it’s been four hours, it’s 3:00am and I’m like Bryan Cranston in that clip from Malcolm in the Middle where he has a car engine up in the air all because he tried to change a lightbulb.

And then I get a new monitor, and it happens all damn over again. Oh shit, I got a new mouse too, and the drivers aren’t supported - great! I finally made it to Friday night and now that I have 12 minutes away from my insane 16 month old, I can’t wait to search for some drivers so I can get the cursor acceleration disabled. Or enabled. Or configured? What was I even trying to do again? What led me to this?

I just can’t do it anymore. People who understand it more than I will downvote and call me an idiot, but you can all kiss my ass because I refuse to do the computing equivalent of building a radio out of coconuts on a deserted island of ancient Linux forum posts because I want to have Spotify open on startup EVERY time and not just one time. I have tried to get into Linux as a main dev environment since 1997 and I’ve loved/liked/loathed it, in that order, every single time.

I respect the shit out of the many people who are far, far smarter than me who a) built this stuff, and 2) spend their free time making Windows/Mac stuff work on a Linux environment, but the part of me who liked to experiment with Linux has been shot and killed and left to rot in a ditch along the interstate.

Now I love Linux for my services: Proxmox, UnRAID, TrueNAS, containers for Syncthing, PiHole, Owncloud/NextCloud, CasaOS/Yuno, etc, etc. I even run a few Windows VM’s on Linux (Proxmox) because that’s better than running Linux VM’s of a Windows server.

Linux is brilliant for this stuff. Just not brilliant for a desktop, let alone in a business environment.

Linux doesn’t even use a common shell (which is a good thing in it’s own way), and that’s a massive barrier for users.

If it were 40 years ago, maybe Linux would’ve had a chance to beat MS, even then it would’ve required settling on a single GUI (which is arguably half of why Windows became a standard, the other half being a common API), a common build (so the same tools/utilities are always available), and a commitment to put usability for the inexperienced user first.

These are what MS did in the 1980’s to make Windows attractive to the 3 groups who contend with desktops: developers, business management, end users.

All this without considering the systems management requirements of even an SMB with perhaps a dozen users (let alone an enterprise with tens of thousands).

BearOfaTime,

They tell you why right on their website. They dev for Pixels because it’s a stable platform with a predictable future.

If you’re not going to listen to the devs, I don’t know what to say.

BearOfaTime, (edited )

They do?

I dunno, maybe ask the person that says they hate it?

Your title is a sophist argument tactic called “begging the question”.

BearOfaTime,

Having worked on and had every major brand (and some obscure ones) in my family, there’s a reason Japanese cars are considered the most durable.

We’ve driven numerous Toyotas and Hondas 300k+. Some we still have, 30 years old or more.

Working on Toyota and Honda is generally much easier and far less frequent than other brands.

You can see how American car companies enshittify things when there’s a joint platform (Ford/Mazda, GM/Toyota, Chrysler/Mitsubishi). Invariably the American version is inferior, and even the Japanese company version often suffers with some of the same shitty design/engineering choices.

I refuse to ever again own an American vehicle, or even one of the joint platforms. I’ve had both - they suck to work on, require more frequent repairs, sometimes to things that just never fail on Japanese cars (especially electronics and control systems… Looking at *you" Jeep/Chrysler).

BearOfaTime, (edited )

I think the big part with cars is people want the new shiny thing.

The only people I’ve ever met who didn’t trade in a for shiny and new were my fellow cheap bastardin’ mechanin’ types who just don’t care.

Plus, too many people think cars must be serviced at “stealerships”, and I’ve seen what those lying bastards tell people their cars need. Like a 2 year old Toyota with 25,000 miles needing $4000 of engine leak repairs. On an engine that Toyota has manufactured since the 80’s…they don’t leak, they don’t even die. Hell, they still use a timing chain rather than a belt, so that’s maintenance it’ll never need.

Csrs don’t need replacing anywhere near as often as most people replace them. As I said elsewhere - my current daily driver is 18 years old, everything still works. It’s required very little regular maintenance over its life. Transmission was replaced at 200,000 only because a cooling line leaked into the transmission, which destroys the clutches eventually (it went 50,000 miles after the line failure, even towed stuff at max load).

BearOfaTime,

Wait, are you saying my phone should last less time than it does?

My current phone is from 2017.

BearOfaTime,

I bought about 20 Cree bulbs 5 years ago, 15 are on about 15 hours a day. I’ve had 2 fail in that time.

Not a bad record in my book.

Even the off brands, IKEA, Amazon, etc, seem to last as long. They’re all in open fixtures, so no cooling issues.

BearOfaTime,

I’ve never paid more than $150 for a phone, and that’s recently for a 2 year old pixel.

I can keep multiple spares around for the price of a new phone.

BearOfaTime,

A car shouldn’t just have a life span of 6-10 years.

They don’t.

My current daily driver is 18 years old. I expect at least another 10 barring an accident, maybe 30 more years as a spare vehicle. It got a new transmission at 200,000 miles. Engine seems like it’ll make it to at least 400k. A replacement is $1500, far less than a new car.

Most cars in my family (approximately 30 cars) are between ten and thirty years old.

I’ve had 3 cars since 1996, all bought used, and I traveled for work with one. One car I sold to a family member, and it’s still being driven.

It’s people that choose to not drive cars this long.

BearOfaTime,

It’s easy to do, and engines don’t cost much on ebay.

Fortunately Honda makes vehicles that are very durable, so it’s not like everything dies at the same age of the engine.

BearOfaTime,

In the 90’s telcos were exposed as providing a connection for feds to duplicate any and all comms.

BearOfaTime,

Yea, that “low frequencies” is rather ambiguous.

I could see over-the-ear headphones being better at “lower” frequencies than in-ear, both from material absorption and speaker size. Every ANC pair I’ve had, of any style, was pretty good at nearly eliminating the higher frequency noise while flying (engines, airflow noise, etc), and almost eliminated voices.

BearOfaTime,

get Win10 LTSC. It gets updates 2x/year, has very minimal bloat.

Then get O&O Shutup to reduce bloat even more.

And you can permanently license it using Microsoft’s own scripts.

Scripts on Gituub.

BearOfaTime,

Virtualbox has awful performance issues though.

Use a distro that has native KVM.

BearOfaTime, (edited )

Or, hear me out… Don’t use Twitter?

BearOfaTime,

Yea, more like the kind of thing that boots up once a day, does something (say, is a backup destination for something else) then shuts down.

BearOfaTime,

“Intestines” lol. I like it.

BearOfaTime,

I’ve been off/on opiods for 30+ years now (chronic pain from injuries and congenital issues).

When does my addiction start?

BearOfaTime,

Downvotes are for the stupid “life on an exoplanet” click baity bullshit.

And if she implied it at all, then I never want to hear her dumb ass say another word, and she should have whatever creds stripped.

BearOfaTime,

Hit your local library, look for DVDs from The Teaching Company, pretty sure I’ve seen ones on Home Repair and other skills.

BearOfaTime, (edited )

Hahahaha, right, right

Overthrow the government. Even DOJ disagrees with that.

Oddly you ignore the hundreds if leftists that stormed congress in 2018…that was 10x more an Insurrection than Jan 6

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BearOfaTime, (edited )

Thank you for this. Always looking for good historical shows to add to my library

BearOfaTime,

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BearOfaTime,

Yes

BearOfaTime,

Jackasses don’t fear repercussions.

I can only hope there’s a camera, and these jackasses can be identified.

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