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Linux too mainstream for some 🀷 (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 196 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Technically false
Gamer here, use Linux cause proton is good and I'm fed up with windows lol

[–] [email protected] 70 points 10 months ago (3 children)

This is probably an old meme. I use Linux as a dedicated gaming OS, macOS for everything else except when Linux is already booted or nothing is and I want to do something quickly.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's so old you can see the age on the image itself, lots of artifacting

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why not Linux for everything else? Art apps?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

In my case, Inventor and AutoCAD. I hate AutoDesk with the fury of a thousand suns, but FreeCAD just isn't stable enough.

Oh, and currently needing .NET automatic source generation (long story), which is very difficult to develop on anything other than Windows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Because I just prefer macOS more. And Safari is good.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I use Windows only when a certain game has a quirk in Linux. Everything else is Linux. Video editing, photo editing, gaming, browsing, etc

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

I kind of really dislike the notion that you only use Linux because you are too poor for Apple.

I don't use Apple because I don't like to be stuck in a walled garden where a company decides what's best for me.

I know it's just a meme, but I think too many people actually think Linux is somehow inferior to Apple (MacOS) while I think it's the other way around.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Also. MacOS is absolute garbage. I've used it for 4 months now, and it pisses me off how inconsistent it is, and poorly designed and written. Two days wasted because of an almost bricked laptop because the monitor was set to 60Hz while installing an update. Just think about that.

I also had the misfortune of booting into windows after changing a motherboard. It was an absolute shit show there too, with broken drivers. Two hours of debugging. Had to use a long ethenet cable to even start fixing it, a flashback to a Linux experience I had in 2007.

Same system in Linux? Not a single second spent. WiFi drivers, microcode. Everything worked fine. Only thing necessary was fixing the grub/mbr partition that Windows decided to write over, on a separate drive. But that's also Microsoft being shit.

People just don't know how much more usable Linux is these days. Especially for power users. You can do so many things, so easily, that either works out of the box, or you can do with simple scripting. The only issue is software availability, but that too is mostly a thing of the past, and not really a fault of the OS.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Yes, I agree. Just holy cactus, MacOS is just so bad these days. The inconsistency us driving me nuts. Why do the windows you open with the "help" menus inside of apps have small buttons? Why do some apps (e.g. Music) have a Search entry on the left side, and why do so have it on the left? Why do we still have tons of icons for system apps (Photo Booth, I'm looking at you) who have been programmed in a time where there have been dinosaurs around and seem to have never changed? ... And so on. Like honestly, MacOS is so much better that Windows (which admittedly isn't hard), but when I open up my good ol' Fedora I dont have the feeling that I see a new shiny operating system, and when I click on a wrong button I am in the 1990-s again. Or 2050-s. Or God knows where. Linux has its unique set of challenges, but I fully agree that the notion that "MacOS is better than the rest" just isn't true anymore. Maybe it was, when Linux distributions were worse and there was more money put into bugfixing OS releases. But not anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I kind of really dislike the notion that you only use Linux because you are too poor for Apple.

It's supposed to be funny 🀷 πŸ˜‚, like a very simplified version of how things actually are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You’re confusing iOS, where you are in a walled garden, with macOS, where you can just do whatever the hell you want (There’s a recovery partition you can boot to where you can disable just about every bit of security that’s not hardware much like booting to grub in Linux)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

You're right, although I wouldn't be surprised that at some point MacOS will have a mandatory app store to protect you.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Proton is so fucking good these days

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm close to switching to Linux with proton

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Go for it πŸ‘.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Bottles is great, and it puts links in for you into Steam, so you can launch the games directly from inside the Steam client.