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Left thing is the right thing

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Really?

Because nothing I use works in Linux or at least doesn’t easily.

My 10 year old Logjtech mouse doesn’t work, at all, until I Google how to make it work.

Then there’s OneNote, which syncs directly with every machine, no server required.

Or excel - got Tables in Libre office yet? You know, what 97% of people use Excel for?

I could go on for days. At every turn, Linux is inferior to Windows as a desktop.

And I use Linux every day as a server: Truenas, Proxmox, Freedombox, Rpi, etc. It’s briliant for purpose-built systems.

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Just make them install Arch, I did just fine…

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Same, but normies wont bother to RTFM

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The wiki is great for those, who have some experience in Linux, not so for beginners.

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It isnt that hard, moved from wondows 10 to mint, and a few months later to arch, and it took me less than 2 hours to install arch, and thats with slow internet.

And i learned a lot whole doing it, like Dekstop environments, disk partitoning(root, swap, and boot), filesystems, and a lot more.

I wouldnt recommend it to everyone, but it is great if you want to learn more about computers.

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The wiki is actually good for beginners, too. As you are often forced to reallylly read through subpages and cross-referenced topics until you somewhat understand why you are doing something instead of just how. Doesn’t make it easy ofc but a beginner can totally handle the wiki, it just takes more time.

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Why not Gentoo?

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Because debian.

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I installed black arch once, even my right click was weird

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Unfortunately I have to do both ;n;

… or at least I will have to when I try to get my homemade game engine working on Windowsintoyourbrowsinghistory 11

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My home firewall blocks ads and telemetry, no matter device/OS.

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Maybe M$ one day decided make Windows unbootable because it cannot connect to somesussymicrosoftprivacyviolater.com

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It still would have to get past my firewall to try to make it so.

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So your firewall is going to prevent OS updates?

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I’m more and more a fan of keeping my devices without any internet connection.

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I would rather use gentoo on my gaming rig than fuck around with DLLs for even a second

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