“Ответственный взрослый говорит «нет» проприетарным операционным системам.”

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What do computers and air conditioning have in common? Both stop working when you open windows.

“What do you think about taking a shower?”

/s

You know, every time I see something like this, I wonder how many government endpoints are Windows-based. This sends a shiver down my spine.

There is a quote from a TV programme called “firefly” which I like.

“It’s my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of a son of a bitch or another. Ain’t about you. It’s about what they need.”

Quite fitting, wouldn’t you say?

To be fair, none of this would have happened without Stallman, and I understand the criticism. But let’s remember, there are things that he did that were very positive for computing. If it weren’t for Stallman it is doubtful that we would have a free operating system to this day.

And I’m glad that the UK left the EU, because now the EU has its own Cuba in front of its shores. Makes life more interesting, doesn’t it?

IMO the apple campus looks like a urinal. Fittingly.

It’s always nice when new people come into this community!

To my knowledge, it still happens. The concept’s called “Windows Rot” and has been there since the 90s. Hey, but maybe adding bloatware like screenshotting your entire screen, every five seconds will magically fix it. Also, Windows has moved away from its own framework for the start menu and has instead used the JavaScript React thingy, result being that if you spam the start menu button, you can saturate your CPU. That’s not a joke.

Won’t someone think of the investors?

When I still used this trash many years ago, it gradually made my PC slower. At that, consistently with every update.

Micro$hit was my favourite.

Got it.

How so?

The lesson I personally learned is: for normies, don’t configure. They don’t need it, and they don’t want it. They want something that just works. And if you stick with the “just works” distros and don’t try to configure them, you’ll be golden and they’ll be happy.

But nowadays you don’t need to do that anymore. Every distro has its own app store. You can install the applications you like with one click and update them all, together with the entire system and drivers, with one click as well. It doesn’t get much simpler than that.

My suggestion would be PopOS. Also, I have an Nvidia graphics card. Literally never had to install any driver separately. It’s all packaged for me, which I like. Rock solid and LTS release basis. Became a Windows refugee in 2021, never going back.

Times have really changed, especially in the past five years. Even completely tech-agnostic people use GNU/Linux in my family. Reason is “Because it just works.” no more Windows installing things that you hate. No more advertisements in the start menu or file manager. No more screenshots every five seconds. No more Windows slowing down the computer gradually. A relative’s computer was unusable because of Windows, because it has slowed down the computer so much that the start menu took 10 seconds to open. All she did was her net banking, text editing and some very light photo editing. Ever since switching to GNU/Linux, her computer works again normally. And all of the tech questions about weird things like programmes randomly not starting have disappeared.

Also, nowadays you really never have to touch the command line. You can use an App-Store-like experience to install your programmes, just like you would on a phone. It also handles all updates automatically. This alone makes it such a better, “normie” operating system than Windows. Hit “update all”, and it updates all of your packages for the system, the kernel itself, drivers, the apps themselves, literally everything. Because try explaining grandma, she needs to update the system, then the drivers, then every single application separately. Now you can tell Grandma instead: “Press this button and wait for 20 minutes.”

The difference is night and day. Old computers work normally again. You don’t need such overkill configurations like most Windows computers have to just run your text editing on net banking. By now it is objectively better.

If you’re new, just use one of the many pre-configured options. No need to tinker with your system if you don’t want to. Just install one of the literally hundreds “just works” distros that package everything for you.

Lastly, I’m going to say it is no exaggeration if I say installing GNU/Linux has solved literally every single issue people in my family had with computers. Because now it just works. No bloat, no nonsense. Just a computer.

Edit: typo.

I’ll take any excuse that I can get to dump this story somewhere. A relative of mine has bought an iMac. She created some videos with it. After some time has passed, the Mac’s native Apple media player (I forgot the name) refused to play the videos she has created with the Apple iMac software. But it conveniently pointed her to a 20 € “upgrade” that she could buy to make it work again. She asked me for help, I installed MPV instead. Worked like a charm. On an unrelated note, that thing is glued together, and the storage is soldered on, likewise is the ram.

“Apple’s design is so simple!”. Why do people put up with this trash?

Edit: I forgot to mention all of the videos were in Apple’s own .mov format.