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thorne

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he, him
nee aus.social (2022), mastodon.social (2018)

I can’t handle the truth

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thorne, to random
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Dear Fedi, Once upon a time I read engadget. They were never super great, but they got worse, and recently turned to pure garbage.
Where does the enlightened Fedizen get their up-to-date consumer-tech news?
Halp?

thorne, to random
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Since it’s a thing right now:
I am a senior career Linux sysadmin. I’ve been immersed in Linux since 1994, and a nerdy IT nerd longer than that.
I currently run Windows on both my personal and work PCs, by choice.
It’s not a simple choice and it’s definitely not a political choice. I could afford Mac hardware if I chose, and I have been All The Way down the Linux Desktop wormhole on multiple occasions.
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thorne,
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IMO choice of desktop and mobile OS boils down to this:
Do you like to tinker with it, or do you have better things to do with your time?
Linux and Android are great for tinkering- all those subtle things that bug you? You can fix them.
MacOS is slick and shiny and tries harder than Windows.
Everything runs on Windows, and Windows is deep within the largest herd. Herds are a kind of safety, but also the largest, easiest target.
Do any of them much change productivity? No.
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