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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I already have a 60+ hour per week job. I don't need a second one, endlessly diagnosing why the simplest of tasks are constantly breaking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Huh, funny. I say the same about windows. Typical tasks performed at work on windows machines take hours that take me minutes. Constant random failures, etc etc.

My Linux machine at work is rock solid

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nothing, but my biggest gripe is with the fucking file explorers. All of them are super inferior compared to win10 sadly

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What are your favorite features of the Windows 10 file manager? Listing what you miss from other operating systems can help the Linux ecosystem to improve.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Very old comment, but my 2 cents: sorting by extension instead of MIME type. I don't want my jpegs, gifs and pngs mixed up when I tell PCMan, Thunar or Dolphin to sort by type. It annoys me to no end that something Windows has had since at least 95, most distros' default file explorers don't.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Inconsistency of things, can't change things easily, random outdated stuff that would help if it wasn't abandoned several years ago and patched together to barely work. Gaming on Linux isn't good, so so much distros and not a lot of information besides "whatever you like". Hard to find things online because of outdated posts or just "top 10" type sites.

Windows is just plug and play, with a few apps that remove most annoyances. Nearly all games and modding of games are mostly just works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As someone who dailied Linux for years and years and whose primary use of my PC is to game... I have to disagree with you. The only title in my entire Steam library that doesn't work is Halo: Infinite, and that only because I'm using an Intel ARC card which has a known issue running Infinite on Linux due to an incompatibility between a specific set of DirectX 12 calls and Vulkan. If I had chosen to upgrade to a new AMD card instead, I'd still be running Linux. But I wanted to support Intel, so here we are. When I'm done playing around on Infinite, I'll switch back and never think about Windows again.

Hell, some of my library runs BETTER on Linux than on Windows with the ARC card. The only game that runs better on Windows is Halo: Infinite, and that's only because it literally doesn't run at all on Linux. 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Wish it was like that for me. I duel boot Linux and I often times get to frustrated at basic things with gaming in Linux, like installing mods through vortex and Windows only mod managers in Linux I just switch to Linux and not much trouble.

Note I'm not a seasoned Linux user I know the basics but when I have to go through multiple configs and websites just to have one program work properly, it kinda just ruins it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Nothing TBH. I find Windows too stressful, Macs are too boring, and I can't use TempleOS because I don't have schizophrenia.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

At a certain point I just feel like Linux isn't designed to let me talk to God. All that bloat like networking and hardware drivers get in the way. I need to get away from the CIA mind control and return to something pure and simple. And when I feel that way, Based Terry is always there for me.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

RIP Terry Davis, Temple OS forever

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I feel like this post is guerilla marketing for "TempleOS", which I've never heard of before and will absolutely not be looking up after this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's not. TempleOS is a famous from scratch OS created by a guy with serious mental illness. It's a sad story, but the capability of that guy was incredible. He's gone now :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

For real though definitely do not access this site right bellow here and install this OS

▶️▶️▶️❗❗ https://templeos.org ❗❗◀️◀️◀️

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The fucking GTK file chooser. It's like all application developers have made a pact with each other to never use a consistent UX, with the exception of having to press ctrl-L to edit the path textbox. It's painful. And as much as I like XDP, support for it is spotty at best, and sometimes downright broken.

I mean, who the FUCK puts the filesystem root in a submenu? Or sorts files and directories together? I just want to talk and explain why they're beyond salvation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

GTK my behated 🥲

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The longer you use linux excluslively, you don't think about windows or mac. You think about fedora or suse, kde or gnome, yay or apt, distrobox or toolbox.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That is...true, actually. The longer I use Linux, the more I'm like "....but what if, man, what if I ditch Arch for Fedora or NixOS or give Pop_OS! another chance (and i very well might when Cosmic launches)?" And sometimes I do...and then always come crawling back.

Going back to Windows full time ain't even crossed my mind for a hot minute. Partly because i have a spare driver running it for emergencies (that i barely use anyways, only because Windows literally runs one important app that I need, that I can't run on Linux), and partly because going back means being stuck with Windows 11 again, and I really dislike Windows 11's design choices, personally (and Microsoft in general, but i digress).