Linux can and has destroyed hardware

-It also almost had me toss a perfectly good 4TB external drive, and a Bluetooth. (Luckily I checked them on Windows).

“Matthew says with about 20 lines of code on Windows, you can cause the same havoc. He points out that mounting EFI variables as read-only could break some user-space applications and isn’t the solution to the problem.”

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/UEFI-rm-root-directory

I’m looking forward to it. Not everyone is a conspiracy theorist (they’re only like ~20% of the population).

When you tack on what it needs to be a desktop OS, you’re tacking on vulnerabilities. Take a point release distro like Debian, and you end up with more out of date packages which adds to vulnerabilities. Also, a web search will reveal decades old issues with Linux used as a server. -It’s not bulletproof, we just don’t hear about it like we don’t hear about Linux much IRL, and it’s something evangelists like to suppress.

I happened across a mention of a BIOS option that no one else - not the official documentation nor the 99.9% of other forum posters I read - bothered to mention: I needed to switch my hard drive setting from IDE to AHCI.

I used search on the guide here for “AHCI”:

https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-ubuntu-desktop#1-overview

-Not found on those pages.

On reddit, it will eventually break the user experience. (page loading times / errors). Does this site handle the database differently?

I bet Jim Jones said something similar once. It’s not like the ‘hobby’ doesn’t have a belief system using faith attached.

No need to respond, I can remove ‘What?’ responses in the future. Seems like something a bot would do, should I ban them?

So you’re correcting every lie (of which there are many) in Linux communities then, or is this personal?

Apparently I misunderstood what I was reading and hearing. So, it’s Linux users that are cheating so much that they’re getting Linux players banned rather than it being Linux enabling them that’s the problem.

Windows keeps nagging people to upgrade to 11

Which will protect them from root kits, boot kits, and keyloggers. It’s ran by a corporation that has a reputation to uphold and we’ve seen in the past where people complain about Windows yet weren’t being responsible with updates. -Nagging justified.

how they keep breaking their own product

Inherent with features. In contrast, Linux users harassed FOSS developers into quitting projects (Ueberzug for example) which broke several daily softwares for me. Updating to Pipewire because ‘it’s ready’ broke ac3 passthrough. Wayland because ‘its ready’ broke drag and drop between windows and doesn’t work with a DWM that took time and effort to configure. Then, there’s the breaking problems faced by running rolling release or cutting edge (which still runs behind Windows on tech) - This topic could be it’s own thread.

how they haven’t fixed 20 year old bugs

Linux has had decade old bugs in recent news.

how they tack on stuff like AI that nobody asked for

Features that are in expensive Photoshop are now free and yet not available in GIMP. - I certainly am happy about that. I’m also interested in the Notepad re-write feature. Things I didn’t ask for were a dozen desktop environments (especially Cinnamon), multiple display managers, multiple file browsers (that are practically the same), etc.

“I use Linux” is an assertion that you haven’t ceded most of the control of your computer to Microsoft or Apple, and that you are willing to trade a little bit of convenience for software freedom.

Which matters to? - Game cheaters with kernel level anti-cheat.

Anyway, this isn’t “Windows Sucks” or a debate forum. We get enough of that elsewhere.

“Use this command”, without explaining what’s going on

rm (-for remove) -fr (French language) /s

If it’s not your cup of tea, you can mute it.

It’s no joke. Linus users trash talk Windows and call it spyware. Meanwhile Firefox (most common default web browser for Linux) has a lot of telemetry, Google as default search engine, and Google as it’s financier. (In addition to Android being Linux according to some).

I’m not against telemetry, just the hypocricy.

People argue that slavery is a choice.

Yes, and that’s the FUNNY part about it! Lennart went against the UNIX philosophy and is hated for it, but so did Linus Torvalds with the monolithic kernel, and Richard Stallman with Emacs.

emacs

I remember using a script as a solution, so I’d be a gonner!

Ok, but Bluetooth is a well known issue for Linux. I know because I had to look it up for myself, and learn some commands to write a script from scratch to reset the USB when needed. -I almost discarded the bluetooth if I hadn’t tested it in Windows first (Linux can cost us money in many ways). It’s also a generally accepted issue commonly posted about. Anecdotes like ‘it works on my system’, ‘all my games play’, ‘doesn’t crash for me’ aren’t really contributing like an article from a reputable site comparing the issue, and anecdotes just come across as brigading, being overly defensive.

Thanks.

I’m ok with them simply making a point or correcting errors.

Not sure what to do about the down-doots because I’d like this to be more welcoming to critics (or the sub topic). I was never a fan of the Karma system. People who can’t argue a point, or simply want to avoid karma trashing themselves abuse it. I practically gave up on reddit alternatives because they all adopted the same major problem with reddit.

I’m trying to deter people from using promotional phraises like ‘I use Arch, btw’. I know it was probably sarcasm, but it can throw me off, cause inconsistency, and I’m not good at remembering names. -Did recognize yours (this time), thanks for your contributions!