The article is about how everyone uses status pages nowadays…

That still isn’t as good as just saying the hours…

I think you would switch your tune if you realized how much data your phone provider is selling about you. SMS is so much worse than Apple’s iMessage, which is e2e encrypted.

Like it’s pretty telling that Apple didn’t give data to the government when a literal terrorist killed a bunch of people, but the Feds can put in a simple request form and get the same data from Google in ten minutes.

The phone providers all sell off your info on their data marketplaces.

Prostrate is not the same thing as prostate.

Phone: 169 in Safari, inf in Firefox

Computers: uhhhhhhh probably several thousand? It would take quite a while to get a number.

That’s pretty funny that you say ten years ago because that’s exactly how long ago we moved into this house. So the last apartment we stayed at was exactly ten years ago (and a few months).

The rent we paid at the time was $2200 USD. It’s now $3000 which is actually less than inflation.

For me my fingerprint is unique, but the advertisers list was empty so yeah, it’s pretty pointless when you have Adblock at a dns level. You can be identified by first party sites, but that requires visiting every advertisers site to actually get them to fingerprint you. Otherwise your data won’t and can’t be sold realistically.

I’m not sure how the person you responded to did it, but LTT has a whole video series on doing just that from what I remember.

What are they?

I don’t know what you’re getting at. I have no issues on Cachy and it’s significantly faster than other distros. Are you trying to say that I’m lying? You do realize that Cachy literally is designed to use every trick in the book to make itself as fast as possible? Other distros don’t do that, except specialized ones like Garuda.

No, mint had horrible audio issues and gaming stuttered very badly. Bazzite was fast but not nearly as fast as Cachy. Zorin some games wouldn’t even start.

For me gaming on Cachy is literally faster than it was on windows 10. Of course everything is snappy, it’s Linux, but gaming was very noticeable.

I didn’t say jack shit about AppImages so clearly you are conflating this conversation with another one. You are the problem here, not me. My message has been extremely consistent. We are talking about installing, that’s literally the only thing I discussed in this thread.

But it doesn’t… windows has been the same (download and click) for decades. The same for Mac. Linux is different between every distro. And even for one distro you might have several install methods. It’s just not the same at all.

And if you start talking about other things, not just installing, then I literally covered that in my comment! Updating is much easier on Linux! Even with all the crazy install methods. But we’re not talking about other things, we’re talking about installing.

This is the same damn bullshit that I’ve been saying for years that the Linux community does. You’re the problem. Stop acting like Linux is perfect. Take feedback. Understand that there are things to improve and that something like having twenty ways to install isn’t a benefit of the platform but a major downside.

Sure thing! If you’re using KDE. What about Mint? Gnome, cinnamon, etc. these are all things you have to explain to anyone new to the ecosystem.

So none of your comment is on installing, but on uninstalling or how it installs. Like I said: search for app, download exe, install. That’s the windows workflow. Users do not care how it gets installed, temp files, etc. they just care about the process. It is much much much easier than Linux.

6 paragraphs to explain how it works on Linux vs one sentence for windows. Do you not see the problem here? Claiming that it’s easier on Linux is just plain lying. While you have more choice, sure, but that’s not at all what the author of the article said, nor the user I responded to. The author said it was more confusing on windows, which is just plain false.

I do not really understand the attitude towards installing on windows. It’s so much simpler than Linux. Don’t get me wrong. Updating is so much easier on Linux, but installing? No. I went to install digiKam today. Was it on pacman? No. Button for flatpak on their site though, so I’m already at the same point I would have been on windows. Click that. Error. Well wtf. K so I try through Shelly and that works fine.

Linux has sooo many ways to install. That’s not good. It’s the most common refrain I’ve heard “use your package manager!” That is never gonna work 100% of the time. Unlike windows where you always have to search for the application, download it from the website, and run it. On Linux it can be a tar.gz, a flatpak, an AppImage, a Snap, a deb, rpm, etc.

Does anyone ask what format to use to install things on windows? Or is it always “download an exe and run”? While one of the first questions a Linux newb will ask is “how do I install this?” when given twenty different install options on a software install page.

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On a different note, I completely disagree with most of the authors complaints about windows and also disagree with the things he likes about windows lol. The settings menu is horrific, applications (excluding windows three different UI themes) are themed extremely consistently unlike gnome vs kde apps in plasma, the task bar is for showing running things and is a way better solution to see that something is running that I don’t want running rather than opening btop.

The author complains about titlebar actions and says they are “such basic settings virtually every operating system and desktop environment support are unavailable on Windows is indefensible.” which is laughable when Linux is only 5% of the desktop market and Mac doesn’t support them either. I use arch and I literally didn’t know kde even had those. It’s such a niche feature but this is exactly what happens with Linux users. They think something is common when it’s impossibly niche.

Also, windows explorer handles compressed files out of the box, idk how he missed that. I literally helped my wife do so on her work computer last week.

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Windows sucks though. Go Linux. But seriously, being honest about shortcomings is what continues to improve Linux, let’s not pretend like it’s all sunshine and daisies.

Instead of using a custom keyboard you can just add keyboards like GIF Keyboard, but never actually open them. Instead you click the plus button and choose GIF Keyboard when you want to add a GIF, no need to use a custom keyboard.

This probably works with a lot of things

Nothing missing from windows. From Mac though? Being able to text from your Mac, easily airdrop, easier network shares, support for Lightroom, fusion 360, most cad and photo software really.

But it’s an immediate replacement for windows. Zero reason not to switch. Even if you love games that don’t work on Linux, you should switch just to force those makers to support Linux