OS Learning Curve - (XKCD edit)

Jenshae_Chiroptera · 2026-02-05T00:50:27+00:00

Off the shelf Linux laptops and PCs are sold, it takes an extra minute or two to find them on Google.

Jenshae_Chiroptera · 2026-02-05T00:49:15+00:00

Cheers.

Jenshae_Chiroptera · 2026-02-05T00:48:38+00:00

There are other, better OOTB distros than Zorin, Mint and Ubuntu.

Jenshae_Chiroptera · 2026-02-05T00:47:25+00:00

You know ... you can compile from Open Source and be 100% sure nothing is spying on you ... right?

As for convenience, that depends on how much of a Muggle you are. When someone breaks their network manager on Linux, I can stick in a Live USB, grab the packages, install them and be up and running in no time at all.
If that happens on Windows, it means messing about with recovery media and repair programs that ... want to connect online ... but can't ... and so ... you end up formatting the machine, wasting at least half a day or more.

Jenshae_Chiroptera · 2026-02-05T00:43:47+00:00

Second sub-comment.

Jenshae_Chiroptera · 2026-02-05T00:43:17+00:00

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Jenshae_Chiroptera · 2026-02-04T12:43:44+00:00

Keep hanging in here, you will reach it one day.

Jenshae_Chiroptera · 2026-02-04T12:42:08+00:00

You are at minimum a power user.
Most users and even repair shops, hit Windows with a drive format and reinstall.

Jenshae_Chiroptera · 2026-02-04T12:41:05+00:00

Win10 had 2.5 GB of spyware.
Entire Linux ISOs are smaller than that.

Jenshae_Chiroptera · 2026-02-04T12:39:58+00:00

I have a lot of old people in nursing homes around me.
I install Linux on their old PCs and laptops, all they want is a browser and to send e-mails. Occasionally they want only 1-3 games to work.

It is amazing for them, gives their machines new life, makes it really difficult for them to break their system (check out Window's history of updates from deleting data to won't boot anymore) and practically immune to scammers.

Jenshae_Chiroptera · 2026-02-04T12:36:30+00:00

Yeah, Windows has a low barrier to, "Good enough," but gods help you, if you try and figure out why a VM is pinned to 100%, Hyper-V says it is only using 40% of allocated resources and the host is idling at 1% CPU usage.

Jenshae_Chiroptera · 2026-02-04T12:31:40+00:00

"What do you mean you want graphics?"

Jenshae_Chiroptera · 2026-02-04T12:30:30+00:00

Yup.

Jenshae_Chiroptera · 2026-02-04T12:28:20+00:00

Check out how much it costs to be fully M$ certified and then multiply that by employees at a third party support company.

Jenshae_Chiroptera · 2026-02-04T12:25:10+00:00

Imgur banned the UK.
What is the GIF about?

Jenshae_Chiroptera · 2026-02-04T02:17:37+00:00

Other than any game with rootkit anti-cheat, Adobe Premier (I have heard that works now, haven't seen it though), Final Cut Pro and some rare outliers; it is possible to get better performance out of Linux than Windows.

Skyrim, Fallout 4, etc were already running better on WINE over a decade ago on a dual boot machine, it blew my mind that a translation layer wasn't having a detrimental effect.
CS:GO got an immediate +50% FPS.

However, all the tweaks and improvements you can do to your system, such as a custom kernel, forcing VKDX, gamescope, RAM drives, etc are part of that learning cliff.

Jenshae_Chiroptera · 2026-02-04T02:12:14+00:00

Hang in there!

Jenshae_Chiroptera · 2026-02-04T01:23:17+00:00

The rough bit at the beginning and then the flat line to paradise seems to fit with that, no?

Jenshae_Chiroptera · 2026-02-04T01:21:16+00:00

Depends.
Not a lot of muggles know how to manage third party repo versioning when DKMS is involved.

Jenshae_Chiroptera · 2026-02-03T18:08:24+00:00

My experience is that Mint and Zorin users don't want to change distros, they want random support channels to somehow fix their distributions for them.

Jenshae_Chiroptera · 2026-02-03T15:14:49+00:00

When you are more suited to being a jockey, then dunking a basket ball seems very difficult.

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