As a long time Linux user; do you know how bad you have to fuck up your operating system to make people WANT to use Linux?
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@ludicity @hipsterelectron @rgegriff i still fear this cos nvidia support is still shaky, which is 100% nvidia's fault. AMD is solid and makes happy users. sigh
@davidgerard @ludicity @rgegriff nvidia is very effective at making drivers which break at build time or runtime and especially make it essentially impossible to track kernel master. nouveau was supposed to be an answer for this but curiously does not support displayport output on my machine. ubuntu previously had tested support for nvidia drivers and suddenly stopped doing that for unknown reasons
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As a long time Linux user; do you know how bad you have to fuck up your operating system to make people WANT to use Linux?
Regular people in my life keep asking me for advice and... I mean, cool. But, like, what the fuck is Microsoft doing over there?
@rgegriff I believe that the fact that they decided to put Copilot in Notepad is a great sign.
I only use Windows at the company laptop, but it's incredibly stressful. Every update breaks something. As of now, connecting cameras or bluetooth headphones causes random reboots. Has been worse in the past.
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@thecrawford @kevinrns @T045T @rgegriff
The best move you could make
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@ludicity @hipsterelectron @rgegriff i still fear this cos nvidia support is still shaky, which is 100% nvidia's fault. AMD is solid and makes happy users. sigh
@ludicity @hipsterelectron @rgegriff @davidgerard in my experience, AMD cards work... eventually. if your card is more than three years old it's gonna be solid. luckily, nobody can afford cards newer than that anyway.
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As a long time Linux user; do you know how bad you have to fuck up your operating system to make people WANT to use Linux?
Regular people in my life keep asking me for advice and... I mean, cool. But, like, what the fuck is Microsoft doing over there?
@rgegriff My guess is that MS decided that users needed them more than they needed users, so the users would suck it up. So this was the year (with Trump elected, and the oligarchs firmly in charge) to mandate all this stupid shit, like no more local accounts, and you rent your software.
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As a long time Linux user; do you know how bad you have to fuck up your operating system to make people WANT to use Linux?
Regular people in my life keep asking me for advice and... I mean, cool. But, like, what the fuck is Microsoft doing over there?
@rgegriff No. I've *wanted* to use Linux since I started using it, which was back around 1994.
What makes you think you have to do something bad to drive people to want to use Linux?
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@ludicity @hipsterelectron @rgegriff i still fear this cos nvidia support is still shaky, which is 100% nvidia's fault. AMD is solid and makes happy users. sigh
@davidgerard @ludicity @hipsterelectron @rgegriff
Bought red last three systems, agree with Torvalds, Fuck NVidia.
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@rgegriff look, the whole *point* of running linux is so i know none of my shit works but also *why*
@davidgerard @rgegriff yeah, it's 2026 and shit don't work, that's a given.
All that's left is to decide if you're going to let your own terminally broken computer to also grief you with non-consensual chatbot abuse and leak all your shit to ad mongers, IMO. -
@ludicity @hipsterelectron @rgegriff i still fear this cos nvidia support is still shaky, which is 100% nvidia's fault. AMD is solid and makes happy users. sigh
@davidgerard @ludicity @hipsterelectron @rgegriff
My experience so far has been:
Easy to use Linux with shit Nvidia support,
or:
Fiendishly difficult to use Linux with excellent Nvidia support.Yay.
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As a long time Linux user; do you know how bad you have to fuck up your operating system to make people WANT to use Linux?
Regular people in my life keep asking me for advice and... I mean, cool. But, like, what the fuck is Microsoft doing over there?
@rgegriff
100 %
The fact that I run Linux as my main OS should be seen as a scathing review of Microsoft business practices. -
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