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It's been over 2 years since I first installed Linux. 2017-05-07 09:16:33 Post No. 60266636
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It's been over 2 years since I first installed Linux. 2017-05-07 09:16:33 Post No. 60266636
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It's been over 2 years since I first installed Linux.
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2017-05-07 09:16:33
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At first I had pretty high hopes, it seemed to me like it was worth putting up with the difficulties of learning how to navigate in a new operating system, since devs were just ironing out the kinks anyway.
Right? Not so much.
In my experience, Linux is just as unwelcoming and user unfriendly as it was when I first installed it. So many things would require a GUI, but nobody can ever be arsed to make them. Information is scattered all over the internet, on dozens of websites, so good luck finding it. Distros are often quite buggy, and break the user experience.
For some reason DEs like to innovate for innovation sake but never in a way that make sense or follows any logic that I can comprehend. In particular I used KDE 4 at first, which seemed stable and decent enough, but devs decided to can the whole thing and develop KDE 5 instead, which is a train wreck and a memory hog. Gnome is absolute trash, and completely unusable from my viewpoint.
Also: gaming on Linux is still as far, if not even further away from becoming reality than before. I know i'm kicking a dead horse here, but still.
That said, not all things are bad. I do think there's potential in Linux, if only they started making it for ordinary people instead of neckbeards whose sole response to everything is: it works on my machine :^)
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> my brain doesn't work
what i read
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>>60266636
>if only they started making it for ordinary people
ordinary people need to learn how their computers work
it's like being a serf in the 1300s that didn't know how to read vs being an independent literate merchant, you can choose ignorance and serfdom or literacy and agency
the only reason it isn't "user friendly" for you is that you were coddled from your childhood by operating systems that were built to keep your stupid
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>>60266636
>It's been over 2 years since I first installed Linux
Why do you inform us of this information?
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>>60266636
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
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>>60266772
He's writing fiction.
>So many things would require a GUI, but nobody can ever be arsed to make them.
Like what?
>For some reason DEs like to innovate for innovation sake but never in a way that make sense or follows any logic that I can comprehend. In particular I used KDE 4 at first, which seemed stable and decent enough, but devs decided to can the whole thing and develop KDE 5 instead, which is a train wreck and a memory hog. Gnome is absolute trash, and completely unusable from my viewpoint.
So why didn't you use a stable distro with XFCE or Mate?
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>>60266757
You know that won't ever happen though. The vast majority of people will use their macs and windows setups with cloud capability for ever since it's the easier alternative to a smoother os
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>>60266827
and they'll become techno serfs
just like those obese people that get mobility chairs instead of exercising
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>>60266757
>it's like being a serf in the 1300s
>you can choose
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>>60266636
>using the smiley with a carat nose
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