IAmNotACat @ IAmNotACat @lemmy.world

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I switched over to Linux because I was tired of fighting Windows to make it behave the way I wanted while struggling to solve obscure issues because of meaningless error messages. I use my Linux machine for gaming/work and everything in between. The only reason I boot into Windows these days is for VSTs and Photoshop.

And I'm not suggesting that Linux just works and never has any issues, but it's ludicrous to suggest that Linux doesn't work in a way that Windows just does. If Windows just worked I wouldn't have to fix stupid issues for my family and friends all the fucking time.

I know several people who would switch over to Linux if Windows cost that much and it would be: everyone I know.

It's a moot point, because the average user doesn't install any OS on their system. They get people like us to install it for them.

They don't generally solve their own Windows problems either. OEM is the real bulwark of of Windows dominance. Usability and familiarity is one aspect, but I've set a good few people up with Linux at this stage and very few of them know what a kernel is, or what Plasma/Gnome are, because they don't need to (same way they didn't know or care what NT was either).

You're just assuming that installing KDE was a solution to some obscure problem he had instead of it being his existing system.

That's how it's been for me at any rate. I read a lot of the original post while thinking 'I've never had that problem.' After the first day of setting up the installation, I don't really do any meaningful tweaking of the OS. Personally, I switched over from Windows because I was tired of fighting it to make it behave how I wanted and solving obscure problems with meaningless error messages.

You can mount and sync your OneDrive files with rclone, which I think is much nicer than OneDrive, but maybe not easy to set up if you're not comfortable with command line interfaces.

You are not in any position to say they are going to work against it if you are mistaken about a key component of it such as the financials.

You are literally in here trying to absolve the US from their role in an active genocide. You don’t get to moralise about damned fools.

If I still lived in America, I’d be voting Democrat because I think it’d be stupid to do otherwise, but your political stance is genuinely disgusting.

Why did they all go for the swipe model? That vastly reduced the size of their customer market while splitting that reduced market across several apps.

Let’s be real, a lot of people are saying it’s genocide. I’d say, if Israel stopped shooting journalists, even more people would be saying it.

He even had to change the ending of the rhyme to make it fit his worldview.

An outright instantaneous genocide would bring about too much bad publicity.

Crippling the sovereign functionality of Palestinians along with killing and displacing ‘enough’ of them to prevent them from clawing any of that functionality back is the goal, and that’s what is happening.

‘I’m not the one killing you, but I do support the people killing you, and may even be financially aiding their efforts.’

It is a bit odd that there’s an influx of anti Firefox and AMD stuff after Google and Intel were in the news for major things.

Well I’ll be damned if I’m gonna let some Internet rando think I’m an idiot.

It is degenerative, which is the point of the argument.

We fostered a society where both parents work, often far away from where they live. The time normally and naturally allotted to educating your own children has been steadily shrinking to make room for an education that normally lasts until adulthood. The expectation now being that your children will not pick up the family trade.

For some people, this trade off has been degenerative in some aspects, and that’s why they complain ‘school never taught me x’.

My dad did the same thing with me. It was obviously very helpful, but it’s not like there isn’t an obvious prerequisite.

Not everyone’s parents are financially competent nor will they have the time to successfully coordinate an effort like that on top of everything else they might be required to do.

Additionally, what function do we expect of school? Is it to equalise, for young adults, those opportunities normally limited by education? Then it should teach those things which are important that not everyone’s parents are capable of teaching.

The other point is that school is the main temporal and logistical barrier to actually teaching your children as a parent. Between work and school and the other bureaucratic necessities of life, there isn’t always significant time a parent can spend with their child.

‘It takes a village to raise a child’. Still true now as it ever was…we just seem to have lost our villages.

Some of your examples are just senseless. People don’t have DIY skills because of the increasing specialisation of our society. We’re not at home learning how to fix things, because we’re in school learning how to do other things instead.

This has been the case for so long in some places that a lot of peoples parents don’t have those skills to pass on in the first place.

That doesn’t preclude what I said, though. When there is installing to be done, it’s usually the tech friend that’s called in to do it. I know this by virtue of being that person and having been called on to do it several times.

And that raises a good point, since average users get their tech friends to do the installing anyway. I’ve switched many over to Linux because of this.