• metaStatic@kbin.earth
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    no longer safe

    it never was and simply changing who you trust doesn’t mitigate that risk in the slightest.

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    Please excuse my rudeness. But people who, right now, after all that has happened; buy a new PC with windows pre installed. I mean…. How fucking retarded can you be.

    I know that Linux sucks. I’m suffering throug it at the moment. But I’m getting there! It just takes patience. Fuck windows and everything American.

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      Linux doesn’t suck. What sucks is using anything new after using something else for years. As a long time Linux user I am used to its idiosyncrasies and having to use Windows or Mac is painful.

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        I generally agree with you and I am trying to love Linux. But it’s hard when even the RBG keyboard doesn’t work. Just one example. Not gonna go on a rant. But yeah. On windows that stuff just works.

        And it’s the small things that eventually turn people away.

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          On windows that stuff just works.

          Not really, it “just works” after you install some sort of proprietary crap software that is a couple of hundred MB from the hardware vendor, that opens up a few security holes and is never patched and is constantly in your system tray.

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            I would phrase it as “this vendor refuses you support me as a customer”. It’s not Linux that doesn’t play well with X device, is X device manufacturer making the conscious decision of not caring.

            Similarly to how Apple watch doesn’t work with Android phones.

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      What about Linux is hard for you? I switched and barely noticed any difference, honestly. Even installing it was easy… Even my printer works and I was expecting to have to go back to wires for that lol.

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        My problems that I haven’t managed to fix/are unfixable on Linux Mint.

        -unfixable - no fractional UI resizing that works. If I use the experimental UI sizing it starts tearing and also locks 60hz. I could resize stuff manually but then some other stuff would still be wrong size.

        -fixable but not with my skill - audio randomly starts playing static and then is gone until next restart. Messed around with googling and AI-ing for a few hours but still broken. No idea if it has something to do with Dolby Atmos.

        I would be really glad if tomorrow these problems would randomly be gone. I actually love how snappy and clean everything is.

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        Same here, a few years ago I made the switch and never regretted it (from Mac, not Windows though) ;)

        It’s not perfect, but neither was macOS (or Windows) so I’m OK with that.