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PewDiePie made a video on why he installed Linux and explained why everyone should do it too. Due to his number of followers, this might be the year of the Linux Desktop? Hooray?

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I have, we're a multi-OS houshold. Linux, Steam Deck, Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android.

Different tools for different purposes. You wouldn't have just one kind of screwdriver, right?

[–] superkret@feddit.org 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

No.
But if I only need a specific screwdriver cause none other fit these screws, it costs $200 and plays ads while I hold it, then I'll use different screws instead.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I get having Linux and Windows, after all you need a backup solution for when you can't use Linux. But why do you also have a Mac?

Then I guess iOS makes sense if you have a Mac, but why also have Android?

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

Linux = Freedom, customizability MacOS = Usability Windows = ???

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Windows for interoperability.

Try job hunting without a Windows machine. Good luck!

(My wife hates it when she hits websites that don't work properly and starts swearing, then I ask "Are you using a real browser or just Safari?" - "FUCK YOU!" Somehow we're still married. 😀)

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Firefox with user agent switcher extension. Problem solved.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you using a real browser or just Safari?

I used to do web development, Safari is honestly worse then IE6

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I admire the perpetual Linux optimism but man if I could make money betting against you I would (I'd feel a little evil about it, but I need the cash).

When corporate slop all around us is continuing to thrive despite lower and lower quality products and receiving government support now too, to think the big money makers will somehow lose traction in a meaningful way to open source enthusiasm is niave imo.

I'm not even sure Taylor swift could make Linux happen this year, nevermind this racist dirt bag.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago

It definitely won't happen as long as the corporate world is slaved to Microsoft. We actually have a few Linux computers on our domain at work and they're a pain to administer as are the four Macs that we have.

[–] astro_plane@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I feel like the GUI'S and user experience have barely changed in the last ten years since I started using linux. You still need to use the terminal for basic things like installing WiFi drivers when your distro didn't automarically install it and smooth scrolling on a trackpad has been garbage for years.

Needing to fiddle to install basic drivers on a 2012 macbook air is kinda unacceptable in this day and age. I had to pull put a USB Ethernet jack and go through three updates and restarts for the drivers to finally pop up. I like tinkering so I don't mind, but a regular person with basic computer skills would have no clue what to do.

[–] 3laws@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

NO MY WALLED GARDEN ANTI CONSUMER OVERPRICED APPLE PRODUCT DOESNT HAVE WIFI DRIVERS THIS IS THE FAULT OF THE NERDS THAT FIGHT FOR TECHNOLOGY INDEPENDENCE OF BIG COMPANIES LIKE THE ONE I DECIDED TO INVEST IN WAH WAH

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[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I have to bam communities on the daily, just so I can go one day on Lemmy, just one day, where Linux isn’t shoved down my throat to the point where I don’t wanna hear it anymore

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