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Cake day: November 7th, 2023

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  • I personally see it like this:

    Linux is REALLY good for people who do very basic as fuck shit, basically chromebook adjacent. if all you do is use a browser and use web apps to do work (e.g google docs, google sheets). Linux is amazing. Your hardware never ages and slows down because there isn't major additions to the OS to bog down the system down the line.

    its also amazing for people who are extremely technically inclined, because you have a lot of tools to fix or create a lot of shit, and modify stuff due to its open sourceish nature.

    where it's not exactly ideal are for people in the middle. If you use it for specific programs (e.g youre a gamer, you mess with hardware drivers and worry whether your game will even run on linux. Youre an artist, you have to use alternatives to adobe suite. youre a streamer, you have to worry about which hardware you buy because not all off the shelf streaming hardware works on linux, list goes on) then you play this game of merry go round to get something working. Sometimes theres an easy solution, sometimes you have to jump through several hoops.


  • i wouldnt necessarily say user unfriendliness, its more privacy unfriendliness.

    part of the reason why people use the industry major stuff is because their basic needs is covered for the most part.

    While im enjoying my partial transition to Linux, I would not necessarily call it user-friendly, despite me being technically inclined. How i perceive it, windows is niche and hardware friendly, but modification unfriendly. Linux is friendly for self customization, but falters at times on getting what some people would consider very basic things (e.g how long it took to get monitor features working. like how long it took mixed resolutions working. Hell barely any distro yet is HDR ready) which is why Linux is a game of finding the right hardware to make your experience less of a pain rather than the reverse.