micrulesoft

mean :(

use counter terminology from something they don't know to out terminology them

I still don't believe Linux needs to be pushed on people and it's simply not for everyone.

I know this thread is 10 years old, but still the steps “My laptop is a bit too warm” – “Scanning for temperature sensors broke my monitor” – “sudo i2cget -y 6 0x4f 176 [WTF?!] fixed it.” are really not unlikely to happen again today. I shot xOrg trying to get control over my fans just this year.

Can confirm. One of my housemates gave another a laptop last month. She asked me to set it up for them, since it came with windows 11, and I have warned her about that virus. I really tried to install windows 10 on the thing, the chip set supports it, but I couldn't get past a step that needed to connect to Microsoft during the installation and initial setup. There are two more tricks I could pull to get the thing running Win 10, which are install Windows 7 and upgrade from there, or pop out the HDD and put it in my working Win 10 machine, and continue the setup using that box, but both of those seem like work.

I ended up slapping Mint on the thing, installed Firefox and Ublock Origin, and gave them the machine. Told them to ask me if they have any issues whatsoever, and they have been using it ever since. Apparently no issues, cause I have asked, and they said nothing they needed help with.

dual booting is a horrible experience and makes Linux look bad even though it's windows messing it up

VMs, too. You can use a bare Windows VM with just the 1 or 2 programs that don't work under Wine, unless they are major ones like Microsoft Office (still, LibreOffice is good enough or you can use older Office under Wine). This will minimize what the closed-source operating system gets access to.

Dual booting causes issues, it often causes frustration and is definitely not great for people who don't know how to reinstall grub.

The real problem is the lack of official support from companies like Adobe, Nvidia, and others that refuse to support Linux. Sure there are workarounds, but not without getting into the console which is already too much for people who are used to the drivers just downloading. Many Linux users tend to overlook how much Windows just does everything for them, for better or worse.

Darktable and krita.

Most of the time you don't even need to leave darktable. Great support for raws.

Anything video, kdenlive is ok for quick stuff but davinvi resolve is a cut above.

Honestly Adobe products are not great anymore. Their usability has gone down the toilet imo. xd was the last bit of interest for me, and that went to garbage a long while ago when it went paid only.

Don't you know that you should take everything you see on the Internet seriously :3

The fact that Microsoft can afford to invest money into the GUI while DEs like Plasma and Gnome often receive limited funding.

I don't think it should be recommended tbh, at least not as a replacement to another operating system. Many individuals within the Linux community overstate its benefits while downplaying the downsides causing people to have incorrect expectations of Linux.

Oh Jesus. It's even trippier now that I see it.

this one specifically

Getting Arch-based distro as a daily-driver feels like a very strange choice to me, however I should admit that I still use Arch-wiki as a first source of help in case I encounter any problems. But if you like Endeavour, good for you! I should probably check it out too some time :)

I regularly meet Linux elitists not understanding that I want a UI for my debuggers, not an automated script.

I don't know. It doesn't make any sense that someone would be against a UI for something. It is just mostly a bunch of volunteers working on their own projects. I could see a volunteer saying something like "nah, I'm OK with it the way it is" because they are working on something for free, usually for themselves and sharing it for others to use and/or contribute to.

It seems odd that you'd complaining to some project maintainers and calling them elitists for not working on your suggestion and even odder still because I'd imagine many would be thrilled for someone to contribute to building a UI, even if it's just mock-ups. Unless you're talking about some random people in the Linux community but I don't really see any point in doing that since they probably have nothing to do with whatever projects you're talking about.

What would adding a GUI to a command line app even change about it as far as the command line? It isn't as if you either get one or the other; you can have both. It just doesn't make sense.

I'm trying to run a headless Minecraft server, but I didn't know the terminal well enough to run the server without the GUI. When I unplug the monitor from the computer though, I lose the video in my VNC viewer too. Windows would run the desktop all the time, even without a monitor connected, but it looks like the default behavior in Linux is to shut it down when there's nothing connected. I've been trying to find workarounds to make the computer think I have a monitor plugged in all afternoon, but none of the things I've tried are working.

On the other hand, after 4 hours of trying things, I figured out the terminal well enough to start the server over SSH, so the outcome is the same I guess