Oh yeah, there are advantages to each, despite the bickering and camps we put ourselves into. It all comes down to what abilities you’re gonna lose, and what you’re gonna gain when making the decision.
For me, I rarely game, and I do a lot of hobby electronics and programming, so Linux is a good fit. There’s so many cool open source programmer utilities out there.
For my wife, it fits not so much.
We gotta figure out a better way than strapping ourselves to a continuously exploding bomb and pulling some serious Gs for 8 minutes.
Wonder how some of those SSTO space plane projects are doing…there was a British one I can’t remember. Used hybrid air-breathing scramjets, switching to internal oxidizer once it was going fast and high enough.
I guarantee, most new users coming to Linux from Windows/macOS are going to laugh and look at you funny if you try to justify entering your password again and again and again.
That’s nice, but this ain’t MacOS or Windows. This is Linux.
Sorry but 20 years of “but this isn’t exactly like Winders11!!!one!” starts to grate on me. It’s a different OS with a different philosophy and a different workflow. Everbody coming from Windows had to learn to deal with the nuances of that OS as well, nuances they’ve completely forgotten about because it’s second nature.
Put your money where your mouth is and open source the Tesla software. Do it. I fuckin’ dare ya
Switched in 2002…because I wanted to fuck with web dev and IIS sucks donkey nads. LAMP stack good, IIS/ASP/MSSql bad.
For me it doesn’t really “fix” anything that I can notice. All my games and software work fine in x11, video works fine. It may be a giant convoluted beast from the 1980s, but damn if they didn’t do a good job of keeping it running well on modern machines.
I mean, you wouldn’t buy a sports car and then a month later post to a forum asking questions about how to tow a 40 foot camper with it, would you? You would research this stuff beforehand, or deal with the fact that it’s not compatible for that job. We can’t put Nvidias thumbs into a thumbscrew and force them to offer more Linux support, so that’s what we’re stuck with.
If you don’t notice anything else different between x11 and Wayland in your daily workflow and have no need for what Wayland offers, then yes your problem is solved and you can ignore the implications.
The only way to truly make a determination if a distro works for you is to actually try it out and use it. I’ve never listened to those people because they all have a favorite distro they will push on you for various reasons. I actually find Debian a breeze to use, and the vast majority of stuff meant for Ubuntu or Mint will work on Debian, since it’s the base of both those distros.
Mint is OK for beginners, but definetly not for me, old ass pakages due to the Ubuntu LTS base
What does that say about me, a guy who’s been using Linux since 2001 and uses Debian Stable? At a certain point you get sick and tired of dealing with bleeding edge bugs and just want a reliable, generic, standardized system you can depend on every day.
Keep reading:
The term “app” usually refers to applications for mobile devices such as phones.
I prefer https://i.imgur.com/E0QsRiQ.png
They are called “programs”, not “apps”. The word “app” was created for the iPhone and originally meant a “mini” slimmed down application meant for mobile devices, not a catch-all term for any user program running on a CPU.
/getoffmylawn
ASCII art does count as graphics I guess.
Reject Mint, embrace Debian.
Forums are for discussion of a thing, which includes both praise and criticisms. They shouldn’t be echo chamber cults. That’s how you get elitist Vim users…
Back to the 80s/early 90s where the only people using computers were the ones that actually knew how to use computers? Hell yes, take me back.
At some point I think some devs might be refactoring a switch case into an if-else and calling it an “update” to troll downstreams.
What makes you think there’s no way of updating the firmware?
I don’t know, but the amount of USB drives I’ve seen with a readily identifiable serial or jtag port and API documentation is exactly zero. 😉
I think most of them were one-and-done, as in, code/hardware was designed once, and never iterated on again, at least not for devices already in the field.
Yeah but…most people’s grandparents aren’t going to be riding rockets. This isn’t sustainable for widespread access to space.