The second Cubase is released, I repeat, the SECOND Cubase is released for Linux I’ll switch to Linux and rip out the Windows installation of my HDD.
Linux is a lot like a duck with teeth.
and a good firm swirly penis
Just they way the good lord intended, swirly.
FREEDOM
Linux is awesome. The upsides of my distro (Mint) are all better than all the downsides of Scumsoft’s Micro(penis is)soft.
The funny thing is that the biggest practical benefit to most Linux users is not the access to do these things.
It is the secondary effects of not needing to restrict access in order to preserve lock-in and enshittification. It makes the whole user experience better because it is only doing wider you’ve asked it to do. For example, I apply updates more quickly on Linux than I ever did on Windows, even though my Linux DEs are way less pushy about it, because the process is an absolute breeze!
Look at each OS option like you were a product development team, and think “who are my stakeholders?”
The commercial products have long lists of what’s driving the product features and anti-features. Linux has the developers who want the code to be helpful and stay free, and the users who want it to do what it says on the tin, with the option to audit or modify the system’s code. But of course it’s still run by humans, so big personalities and bad actors and whatnot do affect things.
oh just you watch me delete system files on my rooted android
And now your bank app doesn’t work.
it works quite well actually. even got tap to pay!
And other people get to use my bank account as well. Paying is so much easier, when I’m not even involved with it. \s I don’t know much about rooted android, isn’t it less secure?
Only if you’re physically handing it over to nefarious strangers that have a shitton of technical experience and you didn’t encrypt a damn thing.
So, basically no.
Linux needs to be a Canadian goose. Those cobra chickens are just fine when you let them do their thing and ignore all the shit left behind cause you’re not sure it’s important to the planet, but the moment you start to mess with it and you don’t know what you’re doing they will fuck you up!
“I can’t run the application you need”
“I can’t digitally sign a pdf without a phd”
I think digitally signing means different things in different contexts. I made a GnuPG key but idk what I’m doing. But I use docusign all the time.
Docusign is a certificate authority that requires no actual signing. You can literally sign with an “X” and if someone asks “did Sem sign the contract?” they can check their database and say “yep”.
That’s all Docusign does. It’s a middle-man.
GPG keys cut out the middle-man, and if someone asks “did Sem sign this document?” you can literally say “yes, please use my public key to test”
Or “when something doesn’t work you’re going to crawl through old forums hoping to find the solution”
Tried Linux again recently. No thanks. It’s come a long ways, but that’s one thing that hasn’t changed.
When that stops being as frequent of a problem, I’ll switch without looking back. Fedora KDE Plasma was pretty slick, and some things actually worked better than windows, but I cannot stand having to Google around to fix basic things as frequently as Linux wants from me. Not that Windows is perfect, but I don’t know. The problems feel easier to fix and are less… Outright broken?
And now here comes the Linux users telling me I’m wrong like they do every time I say this despite my experiences being very recent lol that’s another thing that will never change.
Just installed Fedora today. Can confirm, a Lemmy post and several wikis really helped me out.
I think that other distros are less like that, but experiencing breakage and having to search for solutions is a perennial problem.
I’ve had far more problems installing windows over the years than I’ve had with linux and linux has been the only OS I use at home for quite a while now.
More like “I will run literally anything besides things you shouldn’t run because of privacy concerns… Though you may need 3 hours to install it.”
“RAM shortage? What RAM shortage? I smell DDR3 somewhere in the room, use that, I will still run fine”
Ddr3? Thats way too modern i run linux on ddr1 and sdram machines
That app that infringes your rights is the one you need to earn a living.
Ok then use wine or dual boot
It won’t stop privacy concerns but at least it makes it more complicated for microslop to collect everything about you
Wine sometimes works. Windows in VM might be possible if you have beefy hardware. With dual boot is probably the best option if you can manage the intricacies.
“I can’t run multiplayer games that have anti cheat.”
I solved this by getting better friends
That was keeping me dual booting but marvel rivals and helldivers now work so I made the switch.
Windows malware not working on Linux is an often touted benefit.
I am not into competitive gaming but I’ll be damned if I understand why the the anti-cheat modules are built into the game instead of being an aditional package that is installed and verified through the tournament platform.
I play tons of multiplayer games with anti cheat. The ones that don’t run are the ones I wouldn’t even play on a Windows machine though
Except Linux can run them.
It’s the anti-cheat that is deciding to not let the game run.
Feel free to try and convince me otherwise but, games shouldn’t be accessing your kernel at all. That’s a major security issue. Also part of the reason why Linux has complete separation between kernel and OS
it’s a bit more complicated. Linux runs games with anti-cheats perfectly fine as long as the anti-cheat doesn’t require kernel-level access.
Basically, this allows to detect some cheats that would be undetected otherwise. But it also allows anti-cheats for absolutely unrestricted access to any user data. In other words, it’s a giant safety vulnerability, that you’re forsed to intall, that still doesn’t solve the cheating problem.
Not like the devs are actually interested to solve anything anyway, cheaters buy new accounts regularily, stimulating post-release sales.
Marvel Rivals, Team Fortress 2, Halo Infinite, CS2, Back 4 Blood, Payday 2, DotA 2, ARK, SMITE, Xonotic, For Honor, Dead By Daylight… https://areweanticheatyet.com/
There’s a clear difference between “can’t” and “developers won’t fix it”.
In the case of BF 6 and fornite it’s “could run, but we actively don’t want you to”.
and I took that personally
Ouch.
But it depends on the developer of said multiplayer games. For example, Arc Raiders uses BattleEye for anti-cheat and it runs fine on Linux.
On Linux you can indeed install old apps. You will just need to spend few hours doing so… or use Flatpak I guess.
I use Debian GNU/Linux ftw.
If your old piece of software is not available through Flatpak, you can use DistroBox to run your app inside a container with older Debian/Ubuntu.
The only old software I’ve installed worked fine but I also compiled it myself. Which was quick because of the comparatively small codebases.
I would love to try kde3.5 again. The desktop of my childhood. But trinity project takes long to make it happen.
Trinity Desktop is the closest you’ll get.
The green is palpable
One of the levels this joke works on is that ducks and dogs and fish and birds are all among the best adapter to their own niche.
Some people just need what Microslop, Apple or Google aree peddling, at some moments.
Another way the joke works is because Linux is still the best, for anyone with a choice. Lol.
“Unified Package format” sadge
i’ve used linux and i got to say it’s gotten way better than it was a few years ago. most of the stuff works and only had to troubleshoot like a few times
Also, troubleshooting in Linux is different than on Windows. Every time I had to fix a problem with my Linux system I walked away smarter than before. I learned a bit more about how my computer works, so in total it was a slightly positive experience for me.
But anytime I had to troubleshoot my Windows computer it was because Microsoft fucked something up. Fixing Windows feels like wasted time to me, because you never know when they will break it again.
I’m convinced I would need to do a lot more troubleshooting on windows nowadays. Just turning off all the AI is probably a pain in the ass.
i constantly have to troubleshoot my linux computers, but still less than my windows laptop, which is a pain to even boot up
Is your Windows laptop still running a spinning disk? Putting a SSD in there is a game changer.
no it has a tiny ssd, but every time windows takes about 30 min to 2 hours to start because it’s configuring and updating and rebooting before i get to even log in. kubuntu starts in a minute but i have to go through a blindingly white bios menu to start it and then it can’t suspend or even shutdown properly…
Yikes, less than 60 GB? I’m betting you are practically out of disk space and/or you don’t have enough memory. What’s the model laptop?
If you feel really froggy, post the memory configuration too: number of sticks and size.
I realize it’s a Linux conversation, but some people need Windows-only tools. Case in point: there is no way I’m updating insulin pump firmware via a compatibility layer
HP elitebook 840 G5, i think it has a 128 GB disk, bought it used a few years ago just for school use. but linux partition has 10 and windows has 30 gigs free, it has 8 GB ram. i gave up with it and ordered a used thinkpad yesterday, I’ll put linux on that and HP can be my win laptop if i ever need it for updating firmware on anything. (still waiting for a fixed FW for my buggy ass keychron…)
Yeah, that shouldn’t be struggling as you explained. I say this as one who cheated curates these things professionally. I assume the 128 disk is a SSD, because that is the biggest bottleneck right there. Next is to disable as much startup stuff as possible.
If you are anywhere near Cincinnati, I would come buy that laptop off you.
