• Kairos@lemmy.today
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    9 hours ago

    It is incredibly difficult for me to describe just how powerful a Linux desktop experience can be. You can buy a cheap computer that suports emulation and put QubesOS on it. Bonus points to putting a GPU in it and playing on either Windows or Linux with that GPU.

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      7 hours ago

      I don’t think Linux people entirely understand just how uninviting the prospect of messing around with an operating system is for the vast majority of the public.

      As bad as Windows is, and it is it getting worse by the minute, it honestly does just work. I dual boot my computer, mostly into Linux everyday and even now I occasionally come across problems that don’t exist on the Windows side. The community need give up with this idea that Linux doesn’t have major usability issues.

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        6 hours ago

        Yeah it’s funny. Post about stuff just working out of the box.

        First reply: Open source. Downgrade. So… Do exactly what the post is raging about.

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          2 hours ago

          There are many advantages to open source software and a lot of it does actually just work. Linux isn’t one of them though.

          To be fair that’s because an operating system is far more complicated than most open source projects which tend to be applications.