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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Do you play PC games?

Yes

Do you care about privacy?

Yes

LOL get fucked

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (6 children)

You can install Steam on Linux. In fact I have 2 PCs in my house for my sons. They run Windows games flawlessly. See for compatibility in the ProtonDB.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah I installed Garuda yesterday and games worked great. It’s literally everything else that had me wanting a “Linux for fucking morons” class.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Linux gaming is pretty good these days. Basically the only major games you can't play are the ones running super intrusive anticheats.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Windows isn't afraid of tech, but MacOS is? Give me a break, the Unix style terminal is the reason for using MacOS professionally.

[–] words_number 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly, most windows users I know at least know where their files are stored and stuff like that. Average Mac users don't know if something is synced with the cloud or not and can't unpack a rar archive without calling support because they are deliberately kept dumb by that restrictive, overly oppinionated, lock-in OS and unrepairable, un-upgradable hardware ecosystem. I'm using linux as daily driver on laptop and desktop for almost a decade now and I hate windows with a passion, but mac manages to be even worse. Although windows is also getting worse with every version since win7, so they might be on par soon...

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Yeah this used to be the case up until the early 2000s. Then Microsoft started making Windows much less technical (e.g. instead of showing Error: HRESULT 0x80070002 it just showed Sorry, something went wrong :(). Conversely, Apple started exposing more tooling for MacOS, e.g. tracing, terminal, etc. instead of just showing <bomb picture> if something went wrong.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Depends on the person. Most of the people I know who use MacOS, use it as a glorified Facebook machine. Outside of perhaps Word, they only use the web browser.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my circles it's used exclusively for software engineering. Mostly by people who like Linux but don't wanna deal with any instability brought by customizing your install.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Computers are a tool and people use it for the needs that benefit them.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To quote a designer friend of mine 'Apple is the king of average'. :-P Most people I see using apple don't even understand how shitty the UI is if your workflow is keyboard driven (snap windows w/o 3rd party programs for example.)

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

bro why is kali in the "you have no life" section ?? Everyone knows ethical hackers get all the girls

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Please, please, PLEASE do not use Kali as a daily driver... The maintainers and the organization and every hacking role-model and educator on the internet says to not use it as a daily driver. You want Debian Testing if you're that worried about having debian-like features but getting a rolling release

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I went to school in cybersecurity (ended up being a run of the mill web dev) and the people who ran Kali knew the least. I blame Mr Robot

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Having a life is overated. Praise be the glory of Arch Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guess I don't have a life.

Use btw I Arch.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

There's a Lemmy instance where you don't have to say that.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

i use linux BECAUSE i fear technology...

maybe more accurately it should be 'understand' technology, but then why would windows be there ?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (18 children)

I use Windows because i need to use certain Software

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I'm posting from an actual abacus.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What an odd take.

Every dev I know must be terrified of technology as they all use apple laptops. I don’t love apple but they make a pretty sweet *nix laptop for dev work.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

why the heck is gentoo isn't in no life section but Kali is????

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It's more about gaming compatibility for me.

I know Linux had been making great progress. But not every game runs well on non mainstream OS's.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Has Gentoo stopped being the distro of choice for people with too much time on their hands?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Linux is to main stream -> OpenBSD

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What is the puzzle piece? Linux from scratch?

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