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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] YourMomsTrashman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Minor compatibilities aside, Nothing that Windows itself has to offer, maybe some wallpapers I can just get online anyways lol

[–] thezeesystem@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Inconsistency of things, can't change things easily, random outdated stuff that would help if it wasn't abandoned several years ago and patched together to barely work. Gaming on Linux isn't good, so so much distros and not a lot of information besides "whatever you like". Hard to find things online because of outdated posts or just "top 10" type sites.

Windows is just plug and play, with a few apps that remove most annoyances. Nearly all games and modding of games are mostly just works.

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[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Well, based Terry absolutely makes me want to move to TempleOS

[–] gerdesj@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What on earth is a TempleOS?

I own an IT company. We are some sort of base metal partners with MS. I remember a huge box of "Select" CDs turning up back in the day. Nowadays we get demands for customers. ie we should be making more cash for MS. Its all one way - take, take. take.

I'm not a massive fan of owning a company and working for another one. So I don't. MS are receding into the rear view window.

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[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I tried to daily Linux on my laptop but gave up after about 6 months. The two major issues for me were the speakers amp and the fingerprint reader not being supported. The speakers wasn't that big of a problem because audio still worked so I could use headphones or Bluetooth. The fingerprint reader not working grew to be a major annoyance though, it's so much more convenient to use than typing out a password.

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Some games don't run (runs badly) on Linux.

I have to work on a windows computer so I'm regularly reminded of the horrors that is W11.

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[–] dontblink@feddit.it 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Video editing softwares definetely, kdenlive is nothing compared to stuff like sony vegas.

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[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am dualbooting but booting to windows fucks up my Bluetooth but I wanna boot to windows to play cyberpunk (I get almost half the fps on linux for that game spesifically), to play modded skyrim and fallout and last but not least run my ai chatbot for text adventures through koboldcpp (too difficult to build from scratch on linux) and oh fortnite, oh also roblox because I somehow fucked up grapejuice on linux and it crashes, if someone would.like to help me troubleshoot that hit me up. Other than that linux is awesome tho. Recently got.my openmw mods working. It is a treat.

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[–] settinmoon@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I use all three. I have Windows on one of my machines that I use occasionally for gaming. I use Macs for work since that's what all my corporate machines comes with and I daily drive Linux and use it for all my home servers.

[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm having weird issues with my Wifi where it will just suddenly stop working (Plasma will show "no available connections") and I have to hard reset the machine because Linux won't shut down otherwise. It's not a hardware issue since it doesn't happen on Windows.

[–] kattenluik@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you tried troubleshooting the issue?

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[–] gianni@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

There occasional hiccups with Linux that are sometimes by design, like Flatpaks not having access to /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. This makes some things need minor workarounds where they wouldn't otherwise, because there aren't enough people on Linux to make these workarounds the norm. I don't really mind, but it is nice not having to do anything like that on macOS (although there are other issues there, like not having access to /usr/bin in the first place :P)

At the end of the day, though, the development workarounds necessary on Windows are absolutely insane. Even as well documented as they are, I am very glad I don't need to touch Windows ever again because they still suck.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago
[–] catguy@mastodon.social 3 points 1 year ago

@ani honestly temple os just does what I need my computer to do nothing else can come close to it. I have tryed everything.

[–] hellvolution@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago
[–] root@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Drivers for the Tobii eye tracker do not officially exist.

Brain damage

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[–] Junkers_Klunker@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I only play two games and cant for the life of me get them to run properly on linux, and i only start the computer when i want to play so windows it is.

[–] authed@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm thinking about whonix+qubes... Just because it's the best... https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Qubes/Install

The main problem that I heard is that it is power hungry for some reason

[–] Alivrah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Not enough hymns from God, sadly

[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Your attitude towards OS is like what you enjoy about car ownership: Linux: you enjoy building cars and maintaining them. Windows: you prefer to spend your time under the hood working on difficult problems. Mac: you just want to drive.

My optimus laptop freezes sometimes when using the nvidia card. Idk why, I should look at the logs sometime to figure out what causes it.

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