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submitted 2 years ago by noodlejetski@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. Bleary-eyed at 9AM, it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft Edge had simply taken over where I’d left off in Chrome. I couldn’t believe my eyes.

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[–] Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I have tried to switch my daily driver to linux for more than 15 years now, Linux desktop just isn't ready.

Full disclosure: I am an IT admin with near 3 decades of experience, including administrating linux servers, so this isn't a skill gap.

[+] westyvw@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nearly identical story here, and I agree.

Habits and hardware are definitely the big ones to overcome. I still remember how absolutely lost I felt the first couple times I tried installing slackware in the 90s. I could install/set up windows in my sleep. But then slackware dropped to an unfamiliar command prompt, I can't dir, there isn't even a C drive, and now I'm expected to configure something called xfree86. Luckily I wasn't told to use vi or I'd be stuck there to this day.

New users aren't thrown into the deep end quite like that anymore, but it's still a big change for a windows power user. So much of what you learned is not applicable or just the wrong way to do things. Mac users and Windows non-power-users seem to have a much easier time accepting the changes.

It's definitely not for everyone (is any OS?) but it's been 'ready' as a desktop OS for me since Mandrake 8 in ~2001. That's about when I ditched windows 2000 and haven't looked back.

[–] peter@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You think it's impossible that Windows, an operating system with whole teams of people paid well to work on design and UX could be easier to use than Linux desktop which is primarily people working in their spare time?

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's hilarious. I was a full time IT admin earlier in my career and still have run Linux full time for well over a decade now. For anything proprietary, i have a qemu image.

Of course, now I'm a DevOps admin so I get play with linux all day, for $$$! Hundreds of servers of all distros! Ubuntu, Cent, RHEL, Alpine containers... My big task this year is to get off Docker/Mesos and into OCI/Kubernettes. It's going to be an incredible project.