Why do you think the most unanimously hated windows versions

I know that people hated every single one since Windows 98SE… it’s basically a constant cycle of releasing shit, then keeping it relevant -mostly via forcing people to buy it with their PC- long enough that people resignate and believe tech has to be that bad, then forcing the next and even worse version on people. So which were those unanimously hated versions. Or -maybe easier- which version was widelys adopted before people had no choice because all support for older ones was cut?

People are used to Microsoft Office, Acrobat Reader, Outlook, the Creative Cloud, etc.

And that is some kind of law of nature? Or the result of paying massive amounts of money to flood everything with this shit for free? Seriously… I think you competely misjudge the majority of users. They are not so much clinging to the familiar as just lazily sticking to whatever pops up when they press the power button.

Why do you think chromebooks sell so well?

They do? I have seen one chromebook in real life. Which I would probably not have noticed between all the other laptops and tablets if it wasn’t for the fact that this was the most overpriced piece of shit constantly having issues with even the most basic stuff.

(Edit/PS: I just did a quick search and most numbers I found point to chromebooks being more rare than Linux. Which is an achievement given that barely any piece of basic consumer laptop/tablet/whatever comes pre-installed with Linux.)

But I know the sales internationally were declining for quite some time until they spend a lot of money to bribe governments to hand them out as the tech version of a gateway drug.

So for example at the moment increases in chromebook sales in the last years are mainly caused by government procurements in Asia. Japan alone saw sales increase by a factor of 20 in 2024… so I really, really doubt anyone actually wanted a chromebook. But this will probably change after the next generation of students conditioned to think that this shit is how it’s supposed to be enters the market. *sigh*

1. “They use Windows because they are used to Windows” is not an argument but a cop out.

2. “They know Windows better because they use Windows” is not an argument because… guess what… people can learn. That’s how they got their (probably very basic) knowledge of Windows in the first place.

3. Paid and externally supported Linux/Foss exists. Choosing Windows instead because that’s somehow magically the only one with support available is just a recursion to #1.

If you want to talk facts however, start with money spend on lobbying, on pushing it on education early, on forcing people to buy their hardware with Windows pre-installed etc…

The ‘random numbers’ I mostly generate are UUIDs…

which can indeed be done nicely in the terminal by just reading directly from the kernel’s rng at /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid

I was about to ask how to get that error after checking with a non-firefox-based backup-browser…

But people stupid enough to still run actual chrome nowadays don’t deserve any better.

Unless you use modern artillery. Then you want to aim even higher because at those ranges/heights it’s beneficial to reach less dense air layers quickly.

Ubuntu:

It has strong security, automatic updates, and great hardware support.

As basically all distros (or in the case of auto updates: all DEs) have.

Mint:

It’s stable, lightweight

As every Linux is compared to Windows.

Zorin OS:

supports many Windows applications through Wine

Is there a reasonable distro that doesn’t?

Pop!_OS:

it has built-in NVIDIA and AMD driver support

So again like basically all distros that don’t go out of their way to only use free-software… for NVIDIA that is, AMD drivers are part of the kernel anyway.

Debian:

supports several desktop environments like GNOME, KDE, and Xfce

Same, same… again.

Seriously… How many sloppy “Which distro is for you?” articles do we need to finally get a single one competently describing differences and not trying to pin general Linux features to specific distros? 🥱

I just saw that bind now comes with tls support (for quite some time actually…), which was the reason I originally went with unbound instead. So I guess I have an excuse to look at it again… 😀

So one in five doesn’t do proper backups. That’s much better than expected… 😅

Isn’t that the whole point of containerised solutions? Having some pre-setup, auto-updating solution with very little requirement to dive into the details like what your database is and which dependencies you need to manage…

“It’s madness…”

So they get what they voted for… 🥱

was very popular on 90s

This feels like you just called my PC old…

But the bear referenced there is not the animal but the constellation…

Arctic = towards the bear, so north

Antarctic = the opposite (=ant[i]) direction

“Arktos” is greek for bear.

The arctis is the region towards the bear, meaning the constellation so north… while the antarctis is the opposite direction (ant(i) = opposite).

And the newer ones then “removed” the color coding by doing one half of the circle in green, the other half in purple…

but generally people just don’t install Windows, it’s already there

In my opinion that’s the main point.

People love to discuss how Linux isn’t fit to replace Windows (yet) or how it needs to be more user friendly or how it needs to work better out-of-the box.

Yet in reality 90% of the users couldn’t install and properly set up either OS from scratch. But with Windows they simply don’t have to as it’s already pre-installed and set up. And so they somehow fool themselves into thinking one just runs automatically while the other needs additional work…

Yes, they often do… implicitly.

Every time someone pretends that it’s a Linux problem that he had to look up and install a certain driver because it “wouldn’t work properly out-of-the-box” he is basically lying because guess what… Windows doesn’t work properly without the right (externally downloaded) driver, too. Or it required you to install the newest DirectX version for decades before you could even start any game… Yet somehow I never read complains about Windows being unfinished and needing to improve because you could not start gaming out-of-the-box.

But is it vegan?

There’s a RAT in Arch Linux (because someone made one downloadable in the Arch User Repository) is about the same level of non-sense as telling the story of how Windows ships with hundreds of viruses because those can indeed be freely downloaded as .exe-files from the Internet which you can access via Windows. 🤣

Now that I think about it… It’s even worse. You cannot actually get an AUR package without explicitly installing the tools to get them (and most likely reading the disclaimers and warnings for using the AUR on the way), while you can can in fact download and execute malicious content with the pre-installed Windows tools.

The actual problem is (and has been for a long time) the enormous amount of absolute trash-level uefi implementations.

Updating keys is easy. Alas… a lot of them are completely broken beyond repair and fail everything but running with the pre-installed keys, which includes updating (or adding new) keys (bonus points for the really screwed up devices that even sign some their own hardware with the pre-installed MS keys thus bricking themselves if those keys are changed).

Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems […]

No.

Some Linux users lazily using shim-based Secure Boot implementations provided out of the box by some distros. Mostly exactly because that’s a setup that came with their install where they don’t have to do anything and they also don’t actually care.

Everyone actually caring for Secure Boot has the option to setup and use their own proper keys easily.

The real problem is (and has been for a long time) the amount of absolute trash level UEFI implementations still in use nthat are basically non-functional once you try to use any Secure Boot funtionality beyond just using the pre-installed MS keys.