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I'm Not Switching to Linux

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OK, so Linux isn't for you. Not everything is suitable for everyone. But why crow about it in public? To bask in some smugness? Or to justify your choice (not just to yourself but others)?

If FOSS and Linux users get to crow (EDIT: not my word choice, I'm quoting the parent post) about the supposed superiority of their software choices and Apple users get to crow about the supposed superiority of MacOS, then there's no reason this fellow isn't allowed to as well.

I'm not even crowing about it

It's weird how people can find all kinds of stuff where it's not present. Some kind of rhetorical pareidolia. I basically said "Windows sucks, but it sucks less than Linux for my specific needs and people who aggressively insist otherwise at me can heck off."

Look you do what works for you, but this sounds like technological Stockholm syndrome:

> I know how to take control of Windows and remove all the noise they try to add every year or so

I haven't found a thing people complain about that I wasn't able to remove. It's usually just 2-3 clicks, too.

That's my point.

I don't expect to have to remove preinstalled crap from my computer.

I'm not Kye but I equally don't expect to have to work around some developers ideals getting in the way of Linux being able to function correctly when faced with an Intel IGPU and an Nvidia DGPU in a laptop. I don't expect to have to work around tons of things in Linux that take way longer than two to three clicks when the alternative is just install Windows 10 or 11 and it functions as it should...

Edit: most of the pre-installed things that people talk about are actually shortcuts that make things install. When you go to uninstall those things or remove them from the start menu it's readily apparent that most of those things are just a couple hundred kilobytes or in some cases a couple megabytes.

It's not like it's not a selling feature on Linux or any other operating system to not have things pre-installed right? It almost seems like something's broken if you install Linux and it doesn't have Firefox right out of the box and it doesn't have a built-in image viewer and whatever else things people need pre-installed.

In a lot of cases you can't, many devices are locked in, especially in the arm world, you can't just switch, you have the os baked in which is a great way to cause an ewaste explosion. Like you can't buy an ipad and expect to run linux on it even though its chips are more than capable.

Not arguing with you at all, pick the tool that’s right for you, but I’m curious which tools you’re using that only work in Windows? I’m sure there are plenty out there, but I’m really only thinking of MS specific tools like Visual Studio and SQL Server tools.

Ableton Live: The WineHQ page says "disable Max." I need that!

Affinity Suite: There's a long, involved dance to get it kind of working.

Arturia V Collection X: Mixed reports

Native Instruments stuff: Mixed reports

And even if it works at some point, I don't look forward to the prospect of waiting for someone to figure out how to make the next version work.

There are official Nvidia drivers for Linux for my GPU, but I don't know how well it would work, and I don't have anything to put install media on to test. Doing the dance with configuring EFI to boot a live CD from the SSD doesn't appeal to me.

If Windows is the only OS that has the software you need and that's why you use it, I get that. But I wonder,

If you are a competent Linux user as you claim, then wouldn't you prefer if whatever software you wanted worked on Linux?

If the answer is yes, then why do you have a positive attitude towards Windows when it's a ball-and-chain that you only use because you have to?

I don't have a positive attitude toward Windows. I would prefer if the software I use worked on Linux.

Lol. Next time someone tries to evangelize Linux to you just tell them that

That was kind of the idea behind the post, sort of a macro, but it seems like a lot of people are getting the wrong ideas. I'll need to go in and figure out which parts are me not being clear and which parts are people reading their own assumptions into it.

Thanks.

Thanks for sharing.

Ahh windows. It's the Honda Civic of operating systems.

Articles like this remind me of the old civic's... rims, stereo and an engine that burns enough oil that you just added a quart when you added gas.

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