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Linux is used primarily due to the propaganda and available admins. Large networks like Netflix depend on BSD. You’re the first in years that has contested what BSD is generally regarded as better for. You’re literally disagreeing with what even your fellow Linux advocates would agree on about BSD. -Not that there isn’t misinformation about Linux so there could be about BSD, but you’re also not showing any evidence either.

You mean destroying careers of peers because of Stallman vendetta.

You go happily run a grocery store with a ‘free food’ stand/bank across the street that survives due to government grants, legal interference and exploitation of unpaid / low paid workers.

Richard Stallman started GPL to exact revenge on his peers in an attempt to destroy their careers.

No, if it didn’t exist, we’d have better competition for Windows. It’s too self-limiting with its unstable ABI/API, and commie GPL. BSD is freer and has better load handling, efficiency, networking stack, security, cohesiveness, documentation, etc. And then there’s all the OSes that were promising that Linux squashed by idiots saying ‘we can do that in Linux’ when Linux is flawed at its foundation. -Haiku for example is made for less robust hardware and is much better than Linux for it, but LiGNUts only see Linux.

Linux is destroying the industry. If you hate Microsoft: hate Linux because Linux is the best possible competition scenario it could have. Google is far worse than Microsoft though, and they were enabled by Linux.

yeah, the one that can actually make points and not have to resort to anecdotes, personal attacks, brigading, and debunked propaganda.

cool anecdote bro

or i jdc to argue much with brick walls

But not Linux, that shit is just a duct taped mess on top of a monolithic kernel putting amateur hacked drivers in ring 0 and can’t maintain stable ABI/API.

skill issue

It’s fine: Windows 11 is great. People complaining are those that aren’t even using it, using it ‘at work’ or have min. spec system.

Yeah, I see no examples.

The ‘activity’ makes the OS better by reporting trouble areas to the developers. -Specifically, what’s going wrong for you. Microsoft has been in business for decades and has more than earned trust.

Conspiracy theories don’t make a point.

what does it matter?

Propaganda.

Right, The only people concerned about Telemetry are conspiracy theorists. The other 80% of people don’t care, and a good amount of them understand that it’s used for improving software.

What Linux advocates call ads are introductions to features and things that would benefit them, and they’re far easier to turn off than switching OSes.

Many of us have been using Windows without ever encountering a virus. -I went out of my way to get one so I could test my skills on it (only time and I’m 55).

There are far more than just ‘kernel level AC games’. We’ve seen this propaganda for years while Proton keeps realease new compatibility updates. Also, even your Linux loving LTT called ProtonDB a what? Only recently did WINE (not Proton) fix the frame timing issue that made some games unbeatable mid-game (far worse than not working).

Most people aren’t bothering with an email client these days.

What is so precious on Linux that you cannot do on Windows? Dynamic Tiling? - Komorebi. TUI file manager? -Yazi. Custom themes, and bars? -Yep. Bash? -Yep (along with uutils). GPU accelerated terminal emulator? - multiple including Windows Terminal.

What you’re giving up on Linux is most professional industry standard productivity software, and many of the games real gamers actually want to play (not all crap that pirates collect). You’re giving up security by default (Arch, Gentoo and the like along with TWMs will have people storing browser passwords in the equivalent of a text file for just one example). You give up an OS that evolved to deal better without ECC memory (todays Windows is far more resilient to bitflips).

Even FOSS software runs better on Windows. VLC causing Linux to seize was just one of many examples.

So yes, I agree that for 99.9% of people, dual booting is a waste of disk space.

We don’t have internet explorer anymore and Edge is objectively the best browser by far with only Opera comparing in the feature set. Curated extension store, so MV2 with better security than mv3 providing full uBlock Origin. It has memory management for better performance on low spec PCs. Built in ad-blocking and tracker protection. And co-pilot integration is great. -You might call all that bloat, but native features > extensions if they’re good (they are).

I tried local AI, didn’t like it. Cloud link is fine, was easy to remove (and restore). Windows does a great job of introducing us to great new features without having to hear from others.

Windows is more resilient to bit flips. -Fact. It cannot correct them, but it can survive them better. I’ve written about this before as it has multiple mechanisms to help deal with them.

As for any potential actual issues, I recommend trying Linux again

Damn me for responding before reading your whole reply.

“I’d say probably more than half is bloat”

I’d say more than half of the commonly recommended Linux distros are bloat. When you mix software from multiple toolkits, you’re pulling in a lot of bloat with them.

You’re not specifying what you consider bloat here. -It is a matter of preference. There are services I appreciate in Windows that you may not. In Arch, it would mount a drive without checking it (which cause a seize). A Linux seize is what caused the issue to begin with (Linux is supposed to have ECC memory btw because it’s not designed or evolved for desktop). -And that explains more “bloat” as Windows provides several mechanisms to deal with bit flips while Linux has nothing.

Had I only used Linux, I wouldn’t have been able to try the drive on Windows (which checked the drive before mounting, found the error caused by Linux seizing (probably for lack of ECC mem, but also issues like it had with VLC which were actually Linux’ fault, not VLC) and fixed it automatically before mounting it. Had I not had Windows available, I would have tossed the 4tb external drive.

The whole ‘bloat’ propaganda gets old to people who know what they’re talking about. A link to a cloud service like Co-Pilot being called bloat is also laughable.