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    [–]officialgagbee[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Really?

    [–]Breadman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (17 children)

    Linux sucks 2020. Terrible desktop system

    [–]Optimus85 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

    Because Windows 10 with its telemetry, spying, NSA backdoor, forced updates and overall sluggishness is much better right? Not forgetting the fact that you have to pay for it. I'll stick with my "sucky" Linux thank you.

    [–]officialgagbee[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Thats great choice you will have alot of power

    [–]C3P0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    My problem with Linux is that every program needs custom instructions in order to use it. For example, how would you run Visual Studio on Linux? What if you needed specific functions only offered by Microsoft Office--how would you install Microsoft Office on Linux?

    How do you teach grandma console commands?

    [–]Optimus85 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Well that's the thing, those are Microsoft-centric programs and tools. There are equivalent open-source alternatives. If you're a professional graphics designer and you can afford the Adobe suite for Windows/Mac then by all means. If not there's GIMP, Inkscape, Blender and a host of office suites for spreadsheets, presentations, word processing like Open/Libre Office for free. And the console is a bonus if you know how to use it; it's faster for a couple of things and can be useful for system monitoring and troubleshooting issues. But you can pretty much do everything by pointing and clicking. Linux has some nice graphical interfaces(KDE, Gnome, XFCE, LXDE, etc.). I don't know, with Linux I feel like I'm more in control of my computer. I get to decide when updates are applied, what desktop environment to use, install it on as many machines I want to...And it runs great on old hardware.

    [–]C3P0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Next time Windows decides to auto-update with no way to turn it off, I might make the switch.

    [–]Breadman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    Didn't mention microsoft compadre.

    See here for more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZN5n6C9gM4

    [–]Optimus85 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    FreeBSD?

    [–]Breadman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Unsure if it has similar problems in the userspace

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      [–]officialgagbee[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      Mmm

      [–]Breadman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Didn't mention microsoft compadre.

      See here for more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZN5n6C9gM4

      [–]C3P0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

      It depends what you are doing.

      • If you are running a server or just programming, then you probably want Linux.
      • If you are a college student collaborating on a PPT then you probably want Windows.

      Hypothetically, if you teach your grandma Linux, she is probably going to have a hard time if she ever encounters Windows, so teach her Windows or the dreaded Mac.

      [–]officialgagbee[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Yeah then windows will be better

      [–]Breadman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Yea, agreed

      [–]officialgagbee[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

      Why?

      [–]Breadman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      Terrible long-term support of developed software. Things just continuously break, its hardly worth developing apps in the userspace on linux.

      See more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZN5n6C9gM4

      [–]officialgagbee[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Yeah It may be