This post is basically to encourage people to check Linux out. What is stopping you from ditching Microsoft?

Edit: I forgot to mention this but if someone is looking for a recommendation for a Linux distribution then I'd personally recommend Manjaro KDE or just any of the popular distributions with KDE Plasma as the Desktop Environment really. Edit 2: For those who might be looking for more stability and don't need to have the most up to date software I'd recommend Kubuntu.

    • _else [she/her,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      drivers can be hard, but programs are super fucking easy most of the time. easier than windows in many cases.

      once you can move in terminal its all just easier. command line is like the emergency option in windows, but in linux its just nice. saves steps over GUI so many times.

        • _else [she/her,they/them]
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          4 years ago

          yeah but a lot of the basic commands aren't that hard to get your head around; you just need to stumble through them for a little while, put in the effort to learn, and then your computing experience will make you more, rather than be an accomplice in your dissolution to todler-level intelligence mindless consumer.

            • _else [she/her,they/them]
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              4 years ago

              well, if this were 2005 and windows was a slightly problematic insecure mess but you still mostly owned your computer, and your phone was some nokia that could survive a nuclear explosion and keep sending texts, I wouldn't necessarily have a good argument against that.

              but this is 2021, we live in a pretty fucking explicitly cyberpunk dystopia, and if you don't want to be a filthy fucking snitch, you need to have a basic grasp of your devices. if you want to be a part of any resistance to power in any meaningful way, you need to be on your shit.

              you don't have to fucking elliot alderson or lisbeth salander, but you need to learn how to function in society (or fight against it) while minimizing your complicity in engines of oppression-that doesn't just mean not buying nestle anymore, it means not searching google, not giving facebook a single byte of data, and keeping your ISP in the god damn dark.

              if you don't either have a handle on your tech, or live in a shack in the woods with no access to the outside world, you are a capitalist asset. you are a tool. you are not an asset to any dissident movement. you're just another snitch. don't be a fucking snitch.

    • Pirate [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I haven't had any problem installing programs on Linux. It's way easier than on Windows actually because you don't need to look for an exe file to download. I hear drivers can be a problem for some people tho