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tobadzistsinion I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows

Never had an issue with GNU/Linux in the past decade. Everything "just worked". Maybe the author is a MS shill spreading lowkey FUD?

tobadzistsinion BC got rid of Daylight Savings

BC didn't get rid of it. Now it's permanent.

tobadzistsinion Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other

Did the LLMs form a polycule?

tobadzistsinion GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source

Github should charge everyone $1 more to disable Copilot on accounts.

tobadzistsinion Ask HN: Share your personal website

I could but I do not want to.

tobadzistsinion I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

Some desktop versions of GNU/Linux have rough edges. Self-important grognards think everyone should "git gud" and install Arch or waste a weekend waiting for Gentoo to compile in order to optimize the install. This article along with this one (https://www.theverge.com/tech/858910/linux-diary-gaming-desk...) go on about using an Arch-based distro rather than a Debian-based distro.

Clearly there will be challenges, minor or major.

The failure of these articles is the authors aren't going for distros that "just work". Want to undercut Microsoft's user base, grow GNU/Linux, and herald the year of Linux on desktop that's been promised for decades? Keep it simple.

Majority of people going online with their computers are browsing the web, doomscrolling, and engaging on social media. They're not pentesting with Rust, running an instance of a LLM, or setting up a webserver for giggles.

Keep it simple.

But pushing Arch and other beardy distros with these kinds of articles reeks of gatekeeping as if only "smart" people are allowed to engage online and control their experience. Everyone else should suck it up with Microsoft having Copilot phone home since they don't deserve to know better. And I don't care how much preamble they give about Debian-based and beginner distros, they're just wagging their dicks to easily-awed proles and relishing imagined egoboos from other neo-Stallmans.

tobadzistsinion I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

Article reads like an anti-Linux post because the author goes on about, "muh mouse buttons" and "how many desktop environments?" Screw that, do something simple like Ubuntu that just works without decision paralysis. The whole piece reads like, "Linux is good if you're smart so git gud" esp. since he makes a point of crowing how it's Arch-based.

tobadzistsinion [dead]

> The decision was made to ban him here, try to get him fired though I don't know if we succeeded, and attack him with sockpuppets on Reddit, and it seems to have worked because you don't hear his name much.

I am going to be uncivil but I hope the odds beat you.