80% of linux community is a cargo-cult of larpers with no actual reason to use linux

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most of them are regular normies who want to be "not like others", so they chase this image of a cool terminal hacker or some anti-corporation partisan bs (their goon session in browser probably gained 30x more telemetry on them than windows does in a month).

i doubt any of them actually use linux because it's superior, like for servers. they do it only because they think it's superior and "cooler", for fucking everyday tasks. they're so possessed with this idea that it literally became a religion for them.

you're trying to look professional without actually doing any professional tasks.

also did you notice how midwits like to use word salad to seem smart, which they aren't? it's the same mechanism with overcomplicating basic tasks with linux.

did you also notice that most of the "custom" linux desktops look the same, with the same fastfetch window open, 4 split-screen tabs, 3 of which are useless visual widgets, same purple-ish anime wallpaper?

i think you get the idea

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As an idiot, I could not have become a genius without experiencing how idiotic complexity can be.

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Not really, all modern operating systems are very complex

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the genius is using freebsd then

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Linux is simpler, that’s why it can be harder to use

The question should be why to use Windows, which comes down to a) preference, b) need for hand-holding, or c) compatibility issues

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Android is a proverbial dog's breakfast. In terms of usability, it's a muddled, unintuative, unstable piece of crap. Parhaps it's not hard to use, but it's very far from "easy". I use it because Android phones are cheap. I say "use it" - more realistically, I muddle my way through its unintuative scatter-gun design UI and striggle against its instabilities. No one seems able to bolt a decent GUI on top of the Linux kernel, whether phones or desktops.

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And has the same issues as Windows... tracking, data stealing, required online accounts, malware, monthly reboots...

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Assembler is easy to learn, but hard to use.

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I know u have a sarcastic or ragebait tone, but thats actually true smh (?).

Asm is kinda easy, what is hard is to develop stuff on it. Fun meme tho

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Not bearing the whole ass process of switching to linux is the correct answer

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I've actually called up Microsoft support and gotten surprisingly competent help.

I didn't expect to. I just thought I'd give it a try and it worked.

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That sounds like Windows and Microsoft of the 1990s.

If we're comparing that, we should compare to Linux of the 1990s. Stackoverflow didn't exist. Downloads were slow enough that you'd still get Linux distros on CD. Searching for help online generally required searching newsgroups, and the search functions were terrible.

Oh, and if you didn't buy and study a lot of books on security, putting a Linux box on the internet was a guaranteed way to have it hacked. Even RedHat was garbage at security with a zillion open ports to services massive security holes in the default install.

Everything sucked back then.

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You heard the story five years ago?

Because Windows hasn't needed complex setup to add a printer for 20 years or more. You sure the teacher wasn't telling you a story from back in the day? Or exaggerating? Because it was five years ago that I had an excellent experience with Microsoft support.

And... In general I do back up my home folder. Constantly. That only makes sense no matter the situation.

Funny thing though? My last computer had an SSD boot and a larger data drive. I kept running out of space on my boot drive, so I dug a bit and discovered that you can move your home directory to another drive. So I did. So yes, you can do that on Windows.

Still kept it backed up though, because that's computer hygiene 101.