Why I prefer Linux
Why I prefer Linux
Brand new, out of the box. It's been sitting here at 100% for 5 minutes.
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The best part is still too come, clicking through the 10 or so questions, where the preselected option is the always the bad one regarding privacy, and the "good" one is a compromise at best.
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It's horrifying what data harvesting engines most OSs have become. I remember being so outraged when I learned that Ubuntu's default MOTD phones home with a couple of pieces of hardware info that I switched distros (the ever growing use of snaps was also a factor). Windows seems like it needs a complete medical history just to "offer" a sign in prompt.
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When the MOTD became just advertisements was enough for me. I get that it's all within the ecosystem, but my terminal is not a space for you to advertise...
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One of our customers has a Lenovo with an i7 10th gen and 16gb of memory. Booting up takes about 5 minutes on an NVMe drive and using our application, based on Microsoft Access, takes literal years to save an entry.
Windows can fucking die in a hotel fire.
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Are hotel fires worse than other fires?
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They’re pay-per-view.
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That's weird. My one boots up quicker than it shuts down.
Also why are you using Microsoft access hehe
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Also why are you using Microsoft access hehe.
This is the real question
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Also why are you using Microsoft access hehe.
This is the real question
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I have an E495 with an SATA SSD, a cheap one at that, and it takes Arch (btw) about 5 seconds to get to SDDM login and about 7 seconds from login to usable Plasma desktop.
Try that with Win11.
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I used a VM to install Windows 10 the other day and the installation process alone was enough to remind me why Windows 10 will be my last Windows, Navigating 20 questions then having to uninstall about 30 apps some of which will reinstall at next update, Infuriating tbh. I seem to have settled with Mint Cinnamon, It's been working perfectly.
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Linuxmint cinnamon ftw
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I prefer using Linux because I can customize my desktop without having to install a dozen different 3rd-party apps.
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My last laptop didn't even have an initial boot for Windows. I booted on a Ventoy stick and had a Manjaro install on it from the very beginning.
Life's to short to fuck around with Windows.
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God, I just did the set up new laptop process on Sunday; I completely forgot how insanely long everything takes to set up, update, configure, etc. Linux SBC, maybe an hour end to end; install, update, all my configs neatly in a file, ready to be copied over. Regular Linux: two hours end to end at most. You just do not appreciate the beauty of apt update/apt install quite as much as the moment you are confronted with a new Windows install.
Windows? Pretty much most of Sunday afternoon and evening. First the Dell updates, then the driver updates, then the pre-installed program updates, then the Windows updates (though not in that order and not all at once, because predictability what is that). Then I could actually start adding my programs and configuring it, and oh boy.
Just my base configuration for Office--that being each individual program in the suite, God knows--required a hunting expedition and a lot of googling to track everything down in multiple locations and I still had to do a lot of it manually; putty and kitty required copying bits of the registry; calibre I gave up as it was less work to do it myself from memory; firefox was the only thing I could just copy and paste a folder and be entirely done. That part was nice. Every other program I needed I had to track down and install separately then hunt up configs in multiple locations and Windows kept interrupting the process because oh, we forgot, here's more updates and one to three restarts. Why?
And Windows 11's start menu is just insulting; talk about salt in the wound.
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You're on "Microsoft time". 100% in "Microsoft time" does not mean complete. 100% means you're in a time loop that will never end. RIP OP
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5 minutes is about as long as it took to download that mammoth 2MB jpg from this struggling Lemmy server.
Seriously though, I can download an ISO, flash it to USB, boot up and do an entire system install in less than 15 minutes. The only limiting factor is the speed of the internet.
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You can do the same for a modded windows install. Depending on hardware ofcourse.
Only thing is with Linux I could do it on my pi with a crappy SD card instead of a full desktop with decent CPU and a good nvme.
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I do wish I could hit a key chord or something to show a terminal of what is happening under the hood with Windows...
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Honestly one of the biggest reasons I can't go back to Windows.
Something breaks? Here's a cryptic error message, your options are google and hope someone knows a registry hack, or just deal with it and let daddy microsoft dictate your computing experience.Linux? Here's an error message, error code, logs upon logs, crash dump, forum of people who can help, and stack trace...
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Not to be a downer here, but after a couple minutes I just hold the power button down and make it go to sleep. Linux has given me similar issues too and I also hold its power button down. My bigger reason for switching is all the privacy invasive stuff and bloat.
Edit: Is that a T14? Good choice
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Windows has a tendency to no longer boot when updates or whatever it's doing is interrupted.
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First thing I did with my new Laptop, was to switch Out the hard drive for a bigger one and then I proceeded to install Linux.
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Are you forced to run Windows on this laptop or could you throw a #Linux distro on it?
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Oh this is at work - they all use Windows, I dont have a say in that. Multi-billion dollar company.
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Is that a mouse nipple?! They're still using those??
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Those have been, and still are, popular in business laptops.
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Thinkpad.
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So, you prefer Linux and show us a booting Window screenshot. What happened?
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Linux has customization and superior security. All of the security features on Windows like bitlocker are probably backdoored.
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My other favorite is when they add Edge to my desktop periodically
Oh, and the one time they put a fucking arrow on my wallpaper pointing at Edge. That’s what finally convinced me to make it my default browser
what how?
Or "let's finish setting up your PC" full screen on a 4 year old system. Then you click through just to find the only options are 1) share more data with Microsoft, or 2) make Edge your default browser. The day I find a decent note taking tablet running Linux, windows is dead to me.
Why not install it yourself??
Ive never seen that.. lol
That is weird