Andrew15

2y ago

Playing an unsupported file

Average Windows user.

BTW, IEC units are superior and accepted unlike the SI units, so the correct usage is "2.5 GiB".

2y ago

It happens 🤷

Thanks. Yeah, I've heard about WSL2 (as if the first implementation shouldn't have also been the last one). But many probably refer to both as WSL without version number.

2y ago

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All this multiplatform stuff is bullshit according to my experience. The dotnet CLI is slow, files still use CRLF line ending, I also remember CLI autocompletion was not great. C# has only one working LSP server implementation that sucked ass in VS Code and Neovim. It's kinda like Java DX, but at least with Java the DX is equally isn't great on any OS. Maybe I like C# more than Java as a language, but I hate everything else. I also hate Java, btw.

Also .Net wasn't always OSS, therefore it has proprietary history (Java has less of the same).

2y ago

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*non-windows-fans /s

(I hate C# and I hate .Net)

2y ago

It happens 🤷

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Can you describe the essentials of what WSL is? Does it map UNIX file structure to Windows' one? Can I access the Windows FS through it? Does it have POSIX commands?

I heard/seen a lot of people using either WSL or "Ubuntu terminal" and I don't have any interest because I don't plan on using anything like this in my life, but I do want to at least understand what benefits it brings and can you replicate the true Linux terminal experience on Windows without creating a VM that have different FS from the host. Basically, I want to know if I still have any strings that I can pull to convert people to Linux, because there amount of such strings decreases every so slightly with every year, it seems.

2y ago

It happens 🤷

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Windows is a lot easier to get office work done. Everything is pretty much GUI based

No, most popular Linux distros have every GUI app you need to do your office work. What do you need? Office suite, file manager and browser? Check, check, check. Moreover, you don't have any office preinstalled on Windows and you even have to buy it (and the OS itself), or create a Microsoft account and use online, feature- and Internet-limited version. (With something like Fedora or Ubuntu you can run the live version from RAM from a USB drive, get done with your work, and you don't even have to install the OS, let alone buy it.)

Why bother changing something that works and gets the job done 🤷… plus, they gotta learn new things if they did that, why make their lives harder.

The point is that it would work the other way around, if Linux was mainstream (I'm already wet) and Windows was in the minority.

Not everyone cares about libre software… or even know it exists.

Yes.

If this does happen, this won’t be within a year, it will be within several years (or a decade).

We can only dream if this will happen within a year. But decades already have passed and look where Linux is at: dominating server market share, all the IoT devices, government related stuff, developers, free-believers, FOSS enjoyers. We have SteamOS, Steamdeck, other handheld devices that are Linux-based, Proton, Lutris, Wine and other stuff. We have a lot of progress already. Desktop market share year by year does show that Linux and alike take a bigger and bigger cut. Withing a decade, everything will probably run on RISC-V architecture (something already does) and Linux will probably only become stronger and its community and market share will only grow.

Most software products [...] now have at least a Debian/Ubuntu .deb package

Well, maybe not most, but definitely noticeable, if you search for/use it. I was very surprised to see Cisco Packet Tracer being available in a native .deb package (surprisingly, no one has created a comparable FOSS alternative thus far).

limited to that particular flavor of Linux which they provide the packages for

Side note. You don't always need the support, and the packages themselves can and do become available on other platforms. AUR and Nix repositories are the largest ones that have community-created packages that only available on Ubuntu or Fedora, etc.

So, yeah, I’m optimistic, but not too much. It might eventually happen, but not in the near future IMO.

I'm sure the year of Linux will happen before I die, or at least the next generation after me will have it. The progress is really huge and kinda becomes faster with every few years.

2y ago

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The point is that this is Linux community and majority understand that there is basically no reason in using Windows. But there are proprietary exceptions like games and stuff. I don't have Windows on my machine for years and I'm perfectly fine without it.

I'm not talking about "most people", because they all have been brainwashed by Microsoft and will refuse in adopting anything different than Windows. It comes pre installed basically everywhere.

2y ago

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Unfortunately, Windows becoming better and better. You can literally run Linux while running Windows (that's why coders still use Windows) and now you can even remove pre installed bloatware. Can you imagine? They even copy KDE look!

2y ago

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Medical stuff is not comparable to OS that you use on a daily basis. Everything just boils down that Windows was pre installed on such a huge amount of machines that "you have to be tech savvy" or whatever to use Linux. And the fact that no one wants to install anything that wasn't installed the first time, makes it that much harder to switch to Linux. But I believe that we all are slowly spreading the word of Linux more and more with each year. We definitely will have a year of Linux for sure (eventually).

2y ago

Recursive authentication

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Wait, is this really possible? With Steam you still will be able to access TOPT in the mobile app if you need to log in the same app, at least that's how it worked.