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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    No time for distrowars

    ...says the guy that makes a meme shitting on users of every other distro.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    While at the same time not even using the meme format correctly.

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

    I‘m 14 and this is deep, linux edition. :)

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Isn't the point of this meme for the low IQ and high IQ people to have the same preference? Any way, I'm on Linux Mint usually -_-

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Well, ubuntu is based on debian, so it is the same preference.

    quickly escapes the comment section

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well I can tell you why Linux does not have a higher adoption rate: toxic shit like this.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Na the biggest and main reason why Linux doesn't have a higher adoption rate (on desktop) is that it's not preinstalled on the devices you buy.

    There are obviously other factors but they are miniscule in comparison

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

    Most people don't want to have to use a cmd line to use their PC.

    Edit: Seriously, why is it such a confusing prospect to linux users that linux is difficult. Literally, every thread on here comparing distros is filled with

    "I used debian, but I had to update it every day or my graphics drivers would fail."

    "Oh to fix that regularly occuring issue, just type 'cgreg320 -I1I0O xx /*poweruninstall the year your motherboard was manufactured' into the command prompt."

    "Oh yeah, Nvidia graphics cards, AMD motherboards, Steam, Chrome, Adobe products, left-handed mice, and the letter F are unsupported on this distro."

    Windows is easy. Not great, but easy.

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

    Cmon, this might have been true 15 years ago, but my grandma has been using Mint for 5 years + and TRUST ME she don't know shit about Bash. Big distros work OOTB today, as soon as you stick to regular use you'll never see a shell in your life.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux.

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

    You're such a shit. 😀

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

    Oh no, I can no longer tell if you are serious or making fun of the people who are serious.

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

    The best know how to tread the line perfectly. Some say that even they don’t know if they’re serious.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Honestly what is wrong with 'just works'. If the policies behind the project and the security and privacy is all in place using this option is nothing wrong.

    For linux to grow it needs to be more 'just works'. Let the complex stuff and simple stuff be there. It's not one or the other.

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

    Exactly.

    When I was younger, tinkering around was a hobby in itself. But today I actually used my machine and I want it to work without hassle. I don't want to think about swap partition sizes, modeset kernel parameters and that kind of stuff. I want a reliable tool.

    That's why so many devs use MacBooks. They're essentially Unix machines with a proper GUI and mostly work absolutely flawlessly.

    I've been using MacBooks for over ten years now and had exactly one crash: when the drive was failing so hard, it couldn't even spin up anymore.

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

    As an Ubuntu weanie why should I swap?

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

    I still love Debian to bits and pieces but I can't convince me to use it as a daily driver again. And I used it as such for nearly a decade.

    My main issue is the software being dated. Yes, there are backports, and with flatpak support we can circumvent that even better but... no.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

    How is Gentoo keeping it simple?

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

    Heh I went straight from Fedora to Debian. I'm 7 months late to this meme in true Debian fashion.

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

    Linux from scratch users : 🫣🤪🥵🤯😭😭😭☠️👹

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

    Quick attack users of the most popular distro before normal people start using Linux! We can't allow a good, stable and perfectly usable distro to get popular, we need to bully everyone back to windows or terrible things might happen like the year of they Linux desktop!!

    [–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

    Debian is for people who have shit to get done and don't care about a neon colored wallpaper, mostly don't have a wallpaper at all.