Obviously, a bit of clickbait. Sorry.

I just got to work and plugged my surface pro into my external monitor. It didn’t switch inputs immediately, and I thought “Linux would have done that”. But would it?

I find myself far more patient using Linux and De-googled Android than I do with windows or anything else. After all, Linux is mine. I care for it. Grow it like a garden.

And that’s a good thing; I get less frustrated with my tech, and I have something that is important to me outside its technical utility. Unlike windows, which I’m perpetually pissed at. (Very often with good reason)

But that aside, do we give Linux too much benefit of the doubt relative to the “things that just work”. Often they do “just work”, and well, with a broad feature set by default.

Most of us are willing to forgo that for the privacy and shear customizability of Linux, but do we assume too much of the tech we use and the tech we don’t?

Thoughts?

  • ColdWater
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    4 months ago

    Linux is clean and nicer looking than Windows and that is enough for me to switch to Linux

    • flashgnash@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      This is more just that it’s customisable, doesn’t look like anything except a terminal until you put a desktop environment on it

      (more or less all the options look better than windows but I think the reason for that is they’re options and people tend to choose the one they like the look of)