Andrew @ Andrew15_5 @mander.xyz

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Android is running on Linux.

You see, all non-root things start to work after you log in (including Android). So, not only that I have to restart my machine, but also wait for the login screen and authenticate myself. Then lock the user to see the big clock (I need it). That's why it's not just reboot and go to sleep.

A lot of the time I can't finish my stuff before bed so I have to leave everything as it is. It's normal for developers, but it's not common for regular users (I think).

Again, even if I need to reboot, it will take 1-2 minutes and I can continue to use my machine. You cannot expect such a quick update-reboot from Windows.

I didn't know that transferring/synchronizing files can be that fast. It's almost as if I run the server locally. And the clients are open source too.

You can try transferring files through MEGA. Its parallel synchronization is really fast.

But some or majority do use Home version. Metered connection is more of a trick than actual off switch for auto updates (bad UI). It means that you have to lie to turn it off, because most people don't have metered connection (I assume).

You can blame Microsoft for making it's OS default on most desktop machines and therefore most devs are making games specifically for this proprietary OS. Steam is doing it's best to make more and more games available on Linux. Almost all games that I have are perfectly playable on Linux.

Jokes on you I technically skip breakfast for several weeks now, if breakfast is only eaten in the morning. Now, I want monkey in my office until lunch, unharmed.

I don't know why you asking me since I don't stop updates. You mean prevent OS from auto updating itself? Probably because it can be annoying waiting "you don't know how long" for your OS to update + it will continue updating on boot, so you can't use your machine right away. There is also problem of force updating: https://mander.xyz/comment/2012361.

It depends on the user. My machine is on non-stop, because I always need that instant ability to do anything (I am a dev). It is a hustle if you have some work going on and your OS tells you that it will be forced to update itself (restart the machine) no matter what. This is the default behavior on Windows and without trickery you can't disable it.

I read it as monkey, and it didn't make any sense.

Yes, if the job will force me to use this (cursed) OS. But there are already 2-3 scripts on GitHub that can disable updates and much more. And I recently used them in virtual machine. Well, they do help, but I can't test by how much.

See, you said it yourself, the majority never updates anyway. The problem here is security updates. I'm not sure, but probably Windows has a lot more of those then Linux itself. So Windows users should update to keep themselves "relatively" safe (telemetry doesn't go anywhere). But on Linux if there is a kernel update, then you can run an update in the background and restart whenever you need to. The will be no additional time waisted after you restart the machine (unlike some other OS).

I mean yes, but I haven't used any of those yet, so I can't fully agree.

I mean... alias woman=man?

We need piped bot here.

Hmm, sounds about right

Appimage/Flatpak ring any bell?

All the hustle for the issue that does not exist on Linux distros.

Tough luck if you are using NTFS file system. All my homies use EXT4.

Dammit! How dare you expose me like that!?

It's not weird, it's powerful!