I am a Linux user, as well as a Windows 11 user. Since I work from home, I think it’s better to have two laptops for safety, in case one breaks… I have a lot of trouble choosing between Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora. I’m currently using Ubuntu, for some reason I didn’t like Fedora 42, and I’m still going to try Debian 13…
But on my Ubuntu, everything works as expected, just as it does on my Windows 11.
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That has nothing to do with what I am saying!!! You give me a reason why I should build my next PC, using only Linux!!! I have yet to find it!!!
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I think they will get it up to standard eventually. Canonical are trying, and it is not in their interests to have the snaps initiative fail.
Most new technologies start out with problems. They ard best avoided in the early stages.
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They are paying for a service that Linux users get for free. Theft by deception.
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Sorry Daniel, did not want to single you out or offend you.
Most of the people I see only use about 10 % of the capacity of the computer and could do it all on a android tablet if the screens were bigger to help vision.
For mail, internet, odd document then it would not matter what was chosen.
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I tried doing my work on an Android tablet. Big fail. I had a separate Logitech keyboard for my tablet (a Samsung Galaxy Note 8 iirc). Oddly enough, the fail was not because of the size of things. I’m visually impaired, Android has some functionality to resize things and most apps resize right along without any trouble.
No, the problem was more the ToS of the software I needed (Campfire Write, nothing else was suitable). Now, they didn’t exactly have an app which worked on the tablet, but making a PWA of their website worked just fine.
Android works great for most stuff, but for writing you need a decent keyboard. Those are few and far between. So, back to my trusty PC, where I was running Linux (flawlessly, by the way) and had a nice mechanical keyboard. Typing works better than on the Android tablet.
NovelWriter is a great application which works on Windows, Linux (deb, AppImage), and Mac. It’s developed on Linux however and the developer hasn’t got access to a Mac. Mac support was added when a drive-by developer helped out with that. Needless to say, that developer is gone now. Nevertheless, NW is still a great application on all three platforms and its maintainer is quite active.
As for being decieved, all Linux users fall into that category!!!
@Daniel_Phillips I feel offended by being called deceived. Please don’t generalize on the basis of what OS people choose to use.
I use Linux because it’s GUI (Cinnamon, in my case) stays the same across iterations. I don’t need (nor want) to jump through hoops in order to get a usable system, nor do I want my GUI to change with every iteration of the OS. Linux Mint is usable out of the box. No need to do anything other than install the stuff I want.
NovelWriter, the application I need, isn’t packaged in the repositories, so I get it directly from its maintainer as a .deb file. Works flawlessly and I don’t need to leave the GUI to install/update/uninstall it. Quite convenient.
Personally, I am puzzled by most Windows users for quite a while now. They tolerate all kinds of crap being pulled by Microsoft - such as obsolescence of a perfectly good computer they bought six months before the introduction of Windows 11 and ads being inserted in the OS. On top of that, the ToS of Windows leaves nothing to the imagination: when things go wrong, it’s entirely your problem… for a paid product, mind! Oh, and you don’t own your copy of Windows, you’ve got a license to use it - which can be revoked at any time without explanation. Microsoft doesn’t even guarantee Windows is fit for any particular purpose! Mind: you paid for that OS.
I think we can safely agree Windows users are the deceived people here, based on the evidence I provided above. Would you tolerate the exact same I outlined above from say… the provider of your car?
Yes, I built a your car for you, but you don’t own it. On top of that I do not guarantee it’s fit to drive in and I am allowed to disable it at any moment I see fit. You’re also not allowed to modify it.
You would be up in arms, but regarding paid for computer operating systems, which could cause a fire in the right circumstances, you’re all of a sudden like “yeah, not having any recourse when things go awry is a-ok.”
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That is a big issue with modern tractors. Electronic controls are taking maintenance out of the hands of owners.
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