Comment by hilliardfarmer
5 days ago
As a Linux user it's hard to understand people using either windows or mac. At this point it's looking more like brainwashing than out of convenience.
5 days ago
As a Linux user it's hard to understand people using either windows or mac. At this point it's looking more like brainwashing than out of convenience.
As someone that bought all paper editions of Linux Journal, PS2 Linux owner, got introduced to UNIX via Xenix, it is a matter of convenience.
People can't buy Linux laptops at Media Market, there are no Linux stores with genies,...
A BSD user would likely have the same sentiment about Linux users.
Yeah, like, it's not even that difficult to re-compile your media player in order for it to support a new format you want, like FLAC.
Yes yes, I can already hear the naysayers "it's not that easy". It actually is! Just make sure you have the appropriate GLIBC version and a specific version of either clang or GCC that is compatible (hey it's Linux, you can choose!). Then do the usual ./configure --with-openssl=<CUSTOM_SSL_LIB_BECAUSE_THE_STOCK_ONE_IS_TOO_OLD>, make, make install (remember to use sudo on that one because we write some system files).
Honestly, the whole process took me just two hours from start to finish. Easy peasy.
I'd much rather do that than buying hardware that is massively overpr... oh, you're saying they're cheaper than Linux laptops now? Idk man ... I would still not buy any of that, those are definitely for brainwashed cattle.
As a long time user of all 3, it's hard to understand why people would use Linux as a main driver, especially if they aren't just programmers, but also dabble in video or music.
Because 1 is free and the other 2 cost $$$.
Really? When every thread about linux on a laptop includes comments like “palm rejection doesn’t work but I use an external mouse so I don’t care” and “the laptop gets hot in my backpack because sleep/suspend doesn’t work so I just power it down” you’re still not sure why people are using a windows or a mac?
At this point I’m beginning to suspect that linux users have stockholm syndrome. Or is Tux standing behind you with a gun?
I know, I know, you don’t have any of those problems. You have the Blessed Configuration that has the right tradeoffs for you. But like… most people don’t want to spend waking hours reading Archwiki to figure out why their wifi drops when they move from one room in their house to another…
most people don't have any of those problems.
what you need to consider is that only those people who actually do have problems will talk about them. the rest of us stay silent. also, linux users are more vocal, they don't stay silent about problems. that's what gets things fixed
People make choices based on information in the market. The question in the thread was “why are people using Mac and Windows?” One answer is: linux is not well known, and what is know is that Linux is a hassle.