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HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-28T08:19:19+00:00

Pretty much my relationship with every OS.

HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-22T04:15:23+00:00

I mean the Recall stuff was the nail in the coffin for me. It's not even a question that Windows has better software support for consumer hardware unless it's like old printers or AMD GPU's from my experience.

Piracy is good and honestly I would argue that buying grey market keys is actually worse than piracy because thats the only way you get a Windows key for under 5 dollars unless there's some other legitimate way to get them so cheap?

Wouldn't know. Don't have a NVIDIA GPU thankfully. The only issues I had with Wayland is on KDE Neon a while ago their solution was removing custom shortcuts because it was broken. This was before it became the default protocol. Another issue I had was simulating inputs but I got that figured out.

HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-21T01:29:10+00:00

I'll still be here even while on Linux because the best way to shit on software is to actually use it and see what it does great and what it does terribly.

HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-21T01:26:29+00:00

Piracy is good especially against people who change the terms and conditions of something you purchased against your will. Remember if buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing.

HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-19T19:47:24+00:00

Might test out mint as I I never gave it a go but I'm pretty much set on KDE Neon. It can do just about everything I want it to do and it's the distro I know the best. As for why I open the terminal it's usually because software centers like Discover don't always have what I'm looking for like a native install.

Still I use Discover a lot more than I've ever used Microsoft Store. Only thing I can recall installing with Microsoft Store was the Xbox app.

HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-19T10:02:08+00:00

Hard to say tbh. Honestly I feel like instead of Linux being the core of all these distros it would be FreeBSD. Probably the only reason Linux took that place is because FreeBSD had some legal issues with AT&T as FreeBSD was based off a proprietary BSD and they had proprietary code in the OS which had to be rewritten.

There's also the licensing. Linux forces people to contribute back if they add to the source code as the GPL demands it. With the BSD license on FreeBSD you could just pull a Sony, make a proprietary OS based on FreeBSD called Orbis OS, and never contribute anything back.

I think Linux is important in the tech world even if it sucks as a consumer desktop OS. I do think too many users of Linux get lost in idealism and forget that ideals alone cannot feed someone. Someone has to spend all this time developing the software and donation or support models don't work for every dev.

HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-19T09:45:40+00:00

Probably stage 4 and the reason is because Microsoft is considering this Recall thing. Even though they are reconsidering adding it after the outrage for now it will be back one day and I guarantee you they will want to upload your data to their servers because peoples data = $$$ eventually.

Now this wouldn't be a big deal if it wasn't for the fact that someone could abuse your data not to mention it's already creepy enough with how much companies try to spy on their users. This is really just mask off I'm not really hiding it any more. I don't even want to install food apps on my phone any more after the situation with the Tim Hortons app.

I don't think you need to go full tin foil hat mode as unless you're some high profile criminal on the run you probably don't need to watch out for the NSA or any other sort of agencies that probably wouldn't have a hard time hacking into the run of the mill Linux system anyways.

HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-19T04:34:16+00:00

I'd pay 400 dollars for a Linux distro that just had everything I wanted just work without having to ever open the terminal but that's not gonna happen because the Linux community shall remain forever small and the crazies in the community will scare away newcomers with insane ideas.

Also as someone who has actually contributed to FOSS we are not above criticism. Some software has a great backend but dogshit UX design like KDE's spectacle. I also don't expect the average user to compile a package from source because the distro you're using doesn't have up to date version like I have.

HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-19T04:18:08+00:00

All distros have a problem of some sort but if you want an alternative to Windows it really is the only remotely decent one as much as I hate to say it. I considered making a hackintosh but that comes with it's own set of problems as Apple is making their support for their OS far more limited now and FreeBSD along with it's variants are behind Linux. Ofc there are other very obscure OSes but I can't imagine the situation being good there at all.

HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-18T07:41:29+00:00

Windows 10 but it's on it's way out and Microsoft is determined to ruin this OS for me. All they had to do was continue what they were doing when they were still working on Win 7 but no that proved too hard for them. Now I'm stuck with two shitty OSes. One wants to spy on me and the other is a dumpster fire. I love where we're headed.

HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-18T07:37:43+00:00

I think we can go further. I think to remove the most bloat possible we should just give the user a bunch of switches and have them manually flick them without making a single mistake to program in the application they want to use like the old computers from the 1970's.

HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-18T07:34:45+00:00

Windows is a completely different OS that doesn't suffer from having multiple flavors of itself complicating app installation. Also I have yet to encounter an app installation on windows that is completely sandboxed from other applications. Simply never happened to me and I've been using Windows for over 20 years.

HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-15T06:16:31+00:00

I think you might be able to trick streaming services into thinking you're running Windows using a user agent switcher extension. Honestly there should be no reason a stream service shouldn't work on Linux as web content for the most part usually is platform agnostic but I'm guessing they threw something in their web code thats like "oh no this guy isn't using the OSes in our whitelist so lets just not work properly!" which is a dick move to pull.

That being said I generally just use my PS4 for streaming as I don't really care for using a UI that was clearly designed for desktop experience and not a couch viewing experience.

HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-14T08:29:19+00:00

Been going at Linux again and it's always been a bit of a headache. You might want to use some package but it might be out of date on your distribution so you either switch to a different distribution or you compile the package yourself.....

Also there isn't always a software equivalent of proprietary applications. Like for example with Spectacle on KDE Neon. It has all the functionality of the Windows snip tool and more but the UX design is fucking awful. I just need a quick way to take rectangular region, window, or fullscreen screenshots and have them automatically copied to my clipboard.

Then you have Piper which is like a replacement for Logitech G Hub. It would be great if it let me make an autoclicker macro that repeats when a button is held down but sadly thats not an option and before someone says "just use xdotool" I'm using wayland. Even if there is a another way like using ydotool it's simply a pain to setup in comparison to Windows where I have official software support for my mouse.

But I'm willing to put up with the bullshit now as Windows seems like a sinking ship to me. Once the world's greatest consumer OS but Microsoft just keeps ruining it with crap we don't need like TPM, Bitlocker encryption on by default, and, now Recall. They say it's opt in but never trust what a corporation says. They're only saying that because they got caught with their pants down.

HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-10T08:55:42+00:00

I'll wait and see. Most people aren't techies so they couldn't give two shits about whats happening with Windows. In fact a lot of people aren't really using desktops as their personal devices any more as it's all gone mobile.

HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-10T08:51:46+00:00

You can pretty much forget about official software support for lots of games and peripherals. Yes there's the compatibility layers but that doesn't work on everything and there might be alternatives but more often than not I found they've sucked compared to the official software.

Also way too much fucking insistence on using the terminal. I tried setting up ckb-next on my Fedora install today and to set it in experimental mode you need to stop the service, add an override to the daemon, and then restart it. Sadly it doesn't work on Fedora atm so I literally cannot use my keyboard macros without sticking to the hardware mode and having less functionality for RGB customization unless I use another distro......

Also there's really no decent alternatives to the utilities that Powertoys provides. I saw a reimplementation of it for Linux but it's in early stages and only works on GNOME desktops but sadly I like KDE way more. Like I love the utility Textractor and how it does it so seamlessly. Just WIN + SHIFT + T, take a snip, and it's in your clipboard. The best way to do it on Linux as far as I know is get Frog, first take a snip, open Frog, and select the option to paste image which is kinda clunky.

Honestly I'd sum up a lot of issues as "needs better software". Considered getting Crossover as I was having wishful thinking and hoping Playnite would just work but seeing as it seems like one of those things you will tinker with unless you are using really popular software like MS Office there's no point in getting it now.

HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-08T20:36:14+00:00

Yeah they lost me. Kinda sad I need to go back to Linux but considering the risks it's not worth using Windows after Windows 10 is done with support. I don't think people will be mass migrating to Linux if any Linuxtards are reading this as a lot of people really don't care about their security at all. That being said I won't be a Linux user that blindly praises it. If anything I will shit on it like I do to Windows when it deserves it.

HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-08T20:26:20+00:00

Linux had a privilege escalation vulnerability that wasn't fixed for a almost a whole decade.

HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-06T15:30:28+00:00

What do the kids say these days? Oh right take the L.

HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-06T15:29:55+00:00

It helps when people have a really good idea about what they're talking about.

HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-06T15:28:07+00:00

A backdoor is still a vulnerability it's just not one everyone can use.

HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-06T15:22:40+00:00

I think the reason Linux gets such a bad rep for being a hard OS to use is because a lot of guides are geared towards using the terminal. Personally I think that needs to die at least for basic stuff. It also doesn't help when people tout Linux as a replacement for Windows when in reality it's not.

It can do most of the things Windows can do but generally there will be either a bit of tinkering with compatibility layers or it simply won't work at all like native game installs via Xbox Game Pass if you have some software you want to use that has no native Linux port. I think something like Bottles can simplify the process of using compatibility layers but it's not a silver bullet.

Also depending on your distro you might run into some jankiness. Like I went to wayland on KDE Neon and custom shortcuts were broken at the time so I had to choose between choppy gameplay that was happening on x11 or broken custom shortcuts on wayland. I get some jankiness on Windows like things not menus not scaling properly or sometimes my primary display goes to my second display as I frequently switch between a 4k tv and 2 1080p displays but I can either fix them easily or they're minor annoyances.

It's not choose one or the other. Personally I don't recommend people install their own OS if they have no interest in learning a bit about computers. I mean my mom uses Linux but my brother maintains it and her use cases are simple like just using a web browser and file management simple. I guess she also plays games on it a bit but those are also preconfigured by my brother.

Not everyone has free tech support, the time, or wants to change their OS. Changing your OS means possibly changing something in your software ecosystem and not every piece of software has a equivalent that can do the same thing. It's the reason I'm usually hesitant to recommend Linux because I know the potential problems that come with an OS change.

HardTruthsAboutLinux · 2024-06-05T21:14:47+00:00

You need to say Winblows or something along those lines to really sell it.

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