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    [โ€“] imetators@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Ship laptops with LM and people will stray on Linux. Some might switch due to windows OS locked apps like ms365 but for most watching YouTube and maybe managing photos is all they do.

    I run dual boot and honestly, if only all things which run on windows would run on Linux without tribal shamanism rituals, is never ever had to switch. But my favorite DAW is not running Linux. My occasionally useful editing software is not there (but kdenlive is cool tho). My very specific apps for games are not running native or at all.

    When I'm not using these, I just flip a switch and run DAS with Bazzite. And I love it. But you just can't substitute everything windows offers. It is a gaming and working software OS after all.

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    [โ€“] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

    It is in mixed states of ready. Each distro has something it's ready for and something it isn't. It'd be nice if all the ready parts were in a single distro, but that's an XKCD 927 issue. I am hopeful that Valve puts thought and effort into making SteamOS a solid desktop on top of a solid gaming platform.

    [โ€“] Obnomus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

    Yesterday a guy was mad about that why everything has to go through his igpu and why not directlg through dgpu then I told bro that hdmi or anyother port on your laptop doesn't use your dgpu then he understood.

    [โ€“] floofloof@lemmy.ca 35 points 3 days ago (10 children)

    The other type I see is people who complain that Linux isn't usable, and it gradually turns out that the only thing they'd consider usable is an OS exactly like Windows.

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    [โ€“] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 82 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    "Have you tried installing Linux on your computer recently?"

    "WTF is a computer?"

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    [โ€“] silverlose@lemm.ee 38 points 3 days ago (14 children)

    I used to think I could just stick to macOS. But I donโ€™t trust the USA and by extension, I donโ€™t trust Apple.

    Switching to Linux isnโ€™t a choice anymore. Itโ€™s a requirement for freedom.

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    [โ€“] douz0a0bouz@midwest.social 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Had a friend of mine rib me for "not just paying for a license (for windows)". Tried to explain that wasn't the point to their befuddlement. Smh

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    [โ€“] drascus@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    I have had people tell me " I dont feel like building my own OS from scratch " I'm like what are you even talking about?

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    [โ€“] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 42 points 3 days ago (14 children)

    The windows user brain cannot comprehend actually enjoying to use a computer.

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    [โ€“] Gluca23@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    Wow, so many wrong comments. My parents using Linux laptops for 10 years (which i give them second hand when i buy a new one). Now i set up NixOS with auto updates, and never needed to touch it again myself.

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    [โ€“] steeznson@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (8 children)

    If you want to see what linux was like 15 years ago try installing OpenBSD lol

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    [โ€“] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 days ago (20 children)

    So, which distro is the ready one?

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