Rikudou_Sage

Yeah, that one would be huge, it’s pretty much the only thing I envy Mac users.

I started using CTRL+R with McFly and now I don’t use the up arrow, except if I remember it’s in the last ~10 commands.

Nice. Always wondered whether there was such a software, but was too lazy to actually search for it.

Android is not Linux, it only uses (modified) Linux kernel. Android experience is not transferable to any other Linux distro. While Steam Deck’s is. You’re not saying your smart bulb runs Linux just because it uses its kernel.

Well, we got Steam Deck on that front, so at least there’s something. Not a desktop, but a regular consumer device with Linux is still nice.

Not even close. Most hardware issues I had were with Windows. Additionally, that thing gets slow over time, no matter what you do. If you use it often, it’ll get to an unusable state in a year or two. And you can’t do anything about it except fresh reinstall. It spies on you so much even Google could learn from them. And nowadays it even has ads. You pay for the OS and then you still have ads, classy. And as a bonus, all the spying and ads are so unoptimised that they make your computer slower.

Anyone who uses Finder as a file manager is a masochist. That’s the worst file manager I’ve ever used. And that includes shitty Android file manager which have more ads than file managing capabilities.

Well, that sounds like issues with your specific hardware, because that’s definitely not the usual Linux experience.

Tip for next time: find some distro that has up to date kernel. Ubuntu, Mint and Debian are definitely not good if you have very recent hardware, they stay on old kernels for quite a long time. And drivers are in the kernel.

I have to disagree about Windows being easier, but that’s fairly subjective. What’s 100% objective is that it’s definitely not the reason everyone uses Windows, the reason is much simpler: it came with their machine.

Anyway, I recommend Nobara for gaming - it’s basically Fedora, but preconfigured for gaming and general normal use.

Oh yeah, Windows storage driver issues are great if you need to kill time. Nothing better than your Windows installer claiming there’s no disk. Great in combination with missing touchpad drivers. But hey, at least I found out it can indeed be installed without a working mouse and that includes installing the storage driver!

Win10 was extreme crap, you just feel it was good because Win11 is worse.

Makes sense, you want your spying software more robust than something unimportant like an OS.

Which for me is just pressing enter.

I remember the old joke when Ubuntu was the hot new thing: If you put grain around the enter key, a chicken can install it.

Nowadays it’s true for every graphical installer. Hell, even NixOS can be installed by pressing enter (though good luck doing anything else after boot if you’re a basic user).

Eh… What? That nevet happened to me. With every new laptop I just turn on Bluetooth, connect my mouse and am done with it.

Did the users you mention accidentally compile Gentoo or something?

You should’ve seen some of the Windows machines I had. Like 25% of them ran horribly and Linux was actually the perfect solution to a laptop I’d otherwise replace with a different model.

Not that Linux is perfect or anything, I have as much issues with it as with Windows. But that’s kinda my point, both suck, might as well use the one that doesn’t spy on me.

As the old Mayans foretold.

Nah, this is the year of Linux on desktop for everyone. The old Mayans foretold so.

The year of Linux happened a long time ago. I assume you mean the year of Linux on desktop, in which case yes, it’s been foretold.

You can’t, you have to move instances.

Hmm, now that you mention it, you got me thinking I’d actually like the Win11 UI on Linux (without the ads and tracking, of course).

That was kinda heavy sarcasm.