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Or Windows just works on so much different hardware. You can build a PC with the weirdest mix and match of hardware, and Windows will just… work. Also I bought a Microsoft sidewinder wheel from 1998 from a thrift store for $8, plugged it into my Windows 10 PC, and it just worked. Nothing special was needed. 1998 hardware literally plug and play on Windows 10 (and I’ve tested it on 11, and it works the same).

You can install MacOS on non-Apple hardware, but you need to buy very specific hardware, and download very specific hacks, to make it work.

Even Linux only works on specific hardware. This entire thread has people talking about how broken Linux is on their setups. The suggestions are to buy specific hardware and run very specific versions of Linux.

Can’t wait for Linux to be mainstream in 2085!

They also push their VPN a lot. Every week or two I open Firefox and they send me to their VPN page on their website telling me to try it.

Like no. I’m not interested in paying for a rebranded mullvad.

That’s an extremely small minority, and you can turn it off if you want.

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Ubuntu is the best bet for a distro to just work well out of the box.

Granted I have still had a fuck ton of issues, errors, etc, but Ubuntu is the only distro that has worked the best out of the box. Fedora was a broken mess, and Mint was in between.

So if you want anyone to not give up on Linux, direct them towards Ubuntu first. You can always switch distros later, but spending 3 days trying to fix issues on a different distro isn’t fun.

Other than me, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a person, business, etc, in the wild running Linux.

Even business signs/billboard I’ve seen run Windows.

Going to be honest, I don’t really care that I got rid of my VHS tapes and 480p DVDs.

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Then learn to fact check instead of believing rumours.

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The context is that code made its way into shipped open source software.

The type doesn’t matter. It proves that there can be slip ups.

Move goal posts, though.

But oPeN sOuRce iS sAfe.

Meanwhile I have 25ft cables running my large format vinyl printers lol

Ubuntu, one of the most popular Linux Distros, already did that.

Remember when Ubuntu had Amazon ads baked into the OS, and would send everything you typed in your dash to the web, to advertise to you? and it was enabled by default?

Or are we just hating on Windows?

Neckbeards fighting about Linux. No girls in sight.

Like Lemmy.

Sadly the quality isn’t better

I don’t? Are you assuming because I clicked a random post I saw on the active tab that I run pirated Windows?