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Deciding for ourselves: 98% of people want a browser choice screen, Mozilla study finds (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What if we got to easily choose our web browser, and didn’t have to rely on complex operating system settings to change the pre-installed default?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Most people use their computer solely for browsing the web and looking at images/videos, which linux is completely capable of. Next most used thing is office suites and printing - as long as you dont need to use right-to-left languages, the office suites are completely sufficient. Printers are dependent on the manufacturer, but most work, some with even less problems than on windows.

Now when we jump to the more niche areas, it depends on the area and your needs. Programming is obviously flawless on linux. Photoshoping images should be good enough for hobbyists, but not for some proffesionals. Video editing is really good for all levels, except fpr adobe products (davinchi and KDEnlive for example). Gaming works pretty well, and is improving over time. Other niche fields have linux support/alternatives, or their products may work through wine/proton.

At the end of the day, you can do basically anything on linux, not necessarily with the exact same tools as on windows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am a RTL user and LibteOffice is much superior than Microsoft one in this area

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well im having quite some troubles with it often. Msoffice has some annoying anti features related to automatically changing my keyboard layout, but still works better.

What program do you use for filling pdf files in RTL languages? For me no program works properly except adobe pdf.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Each of my family/friends work in different industries. None of us can move to Linux.

I have a print shop, where I run wide format Roland printers and Graphtec plotters. Graphtec needs Windows/Mac, Roland needs Windows.

My dad is a farmer, uses a ton of farming software, all Windows-only.

My girlfriend is a biochemist, and the whole industry runs off Windows-only software/drivers.

I could go on and on, but pretty much Linux cannot be used in any of our fields. So again, I am convinced Linux users are either developers, or don't have jobs, because it's nearly impossible to find any industry that doesn't require Mac or Windows.

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

Well, for one, there is a difference between using your pc for work or for your hobbies/free time. There are a lot of foss drivers for devices not officially supported on linux. However, since this is your job, you probably have no reason to rely on those when windows just works.

And about the windows-only software, some probably work on linux through wine. However, since this is what they make a living out of, they have no reason to even try that. Windows works for them, why waste time?

On my personal, non-job related pc, i have ran many windows-only apps or windows only peripherals when i made the switch. Overtime i need those less and less (either due to new alternatives or linux support being added).