also windows: “Can i use X app” “sure here’s a .exe”
also Linux: “can i use X app?” “here’s an open source alternate that doesn’t work as well as the windows version, but you don’t care about that, you just wanna be cool!”
1993 called and wants the inferior FOSS software you last tried back. Haha.
I find that Linux apps for basic stuff are now well ahead of their Windows counterparts.
It’s getting hard to find quality free software that is Windows native, and not just a recompile of a Mac or Linux tool.
I’m happy to pay for software too, but the paid stuff has all been shit, for awhile, in my weird experiences. (Weird, in that I’m not doing music or video editing or non-developer power user stuff. I’ve heard mileage may vary with those.)
I’m not a programmer, I’m a guitarist, and yet I still manage to use Arch (btw)! Linux isn’t just for programmers, it’s for people who don’t hate learning things, but do hate someone else controlling their machines.
And you hang out here and do what exactly? Either you’re happy with win11 or you’re not. Replying to random people’s comment by raging against linux in a linux memes community while supposedly running windows and liking it is a bit weird isn’t it?
And you sound like you havent touched a proper linux OS in the past 5 years. Things have genuinely gotten better. But I see you seem quite fixated on coming here to argue instead (again… quite weird to do so when you have no horse in the race)
i have used linux alot, and if there’s anything that annoys me the most is A) people who say linux is for everyone and B) some rando downloads a distro and when they run into HW issues they post on fourms and reddit like its personal tech support. when you get to that point, stop, and reinstall windows 11.
My experience installing Linux for tech illiterate parents and grandparents was lovely.
They never noticed they’re not on Windows. They just wanted their two desktop icons - web and email.
Edit: Funny related story - they (grandparents) always rebooted with the power button after Linux told them it had updated - which was almost never necessary. I always just told them “good job”, when they mentioned it, though.
If I may ask, what software are you referring to? The only software I could think of off the top of my head that doesn’t have suitable replacements for Linux is creative production software like the Adobe suite and DAWs, professional CAD software like AutoDesk, and, like, AutoHotKey.
also windows: “Can i use X app” “sure here’s a .exe”
also Linux: “can i use X app?” “here’s an open source alternate that doesn’t work as well as the windows version, but you don’t care about that, you just wanna be cool!”
1993 called and wants the inferior FOSS software you last tried back. Haha.
I find that Linux apps for basic stuff are now well ahead of their Windows counterparts.
It’s getting hard to find quality free software that is Windows native, and not just a recompile of a Mac or Linux tool.
I’m happy to pay for software too, but the paid stuff has all been shit, for awhile, in my weird experiences. (Weird, in that I’m not doing music or video editing or non-developer power user stuff. I’ve heard mileage may vary with those.)
dude, linux is not a desktop for non-programmers.
It literally is. Please get out from under your rock.
no its not and stop trying to push it like it is.
I’m not a programmer, I’m a guitarist, and yet I still manage to use Arch (btw)! Linux isn’t just for programmers, it’s for people who don’t hate learning things, but do hate someone else controlling their machines.
ok.
Pewdiepie runs arch and hyprland. What’s your excuse?
good for him. I like my apps to run natively. so i use windows 11
And you hang out here and do what exactly? Either you’re happy with win11 or you’re not. Replying to random people’s comment by raging against linux in a linux memes community while supposedly running windows and liking it is a bit weird isn’t it?
And you sound like you havent touched a proper linux OS in the past 5 years. Things have genuinely gotten better. But I see you seem quite fixated on coming here to argue instead (again… quite weird to do so when you have no horse in the race)
i have used linux alot, and if there’s anything that annoys me the most is A) people who say linux is for everyone and B) some rando downloads a distro and when they run into HW issues they post on fourms and reddit like its personal tech support. when you get to that point, stop, and reinstall windows 11.
your info is outdated at best.
Please confirm: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=linux+for+non-programmers.
It’s for people who aren’t tech literate. The people who don’t know/shouldn’t be using cli commands or editing the registry.
are you saying linux is NOT for people who don’t know how to use a cli? because thats my point.
Windows is for CLI, Linux is for guis.
My experience installing Linux for tech illiterate parents and grandparents was lovely.
They never noticed they’re not on Windows. They just wanted their two desktop icons - web and email.
Edit: Funny related story - they (grandparents) always rebooted with the power button after Linux told them it had updated - which was almost never necessary. I always just told them “good job”, when they mentioned it, though.
If I may ask, what software are you referring to? The only software I could think of off the top of my head that doesn’t have suitable replacements for Linux is creative production software like the Adobe suite and DAWs, professional CAD software like AutoDesk, and, like, AutoHotKey.
And that’s not even a linux problem! The software/hardware vendors don’t want to support Linux. It’s their loss!
you’re barking up the wrong tree mister/ms. Go yell at your software/hardware vendor