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?

[nshrubs@mstdn.social]

@rgegriff @Olyindivisible As an Apple user since the Apple IIe & Mac Classic SE, I would love to see if I could run Linux on my old 2012 MacBook Pro. If I could, that would probably convert me. Mac OS pretty much sucks these days. Every update makes things worse.

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@Nshrubs @rgegriff @Olyindivisible I was running Linux on my non-retina 2012 MacBook Pro without a hitch. Most of the older (before T1) Intel stuff is probably no problem.

[lmac1970@mstdn.social]

@rgegriff Half of it is nervousness that #Trump effectively has a kill switch on M$ software, as the EU recently found out, which made me go looking for something European.

[davbram@ravenation.club]

@rgegriff How could they have known that using your own hardware to build a little digital model of you in order to control your thoughts and actions was the line?

[ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club]

@hipsterelectron @davidgerard @rgegriff Non-engineering staff at my clients have started asking me if they can move their gaming rigs to Linux

Not all of this timeline is dark, just most of it

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@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

[kyle_pegasus@scalie.club]

@davidgerard @ludicity @hipsterelectron @rgegriff the best part about buying an AMD card was knowing i wasn't funding that annoying prick jensen huang

[efi@chitter.xyz]

@rgegriff ads on the main menu

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@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

[Gæst]

@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.

[maddad@mastodon.world]

@thecrawford @kevinrns @T045T @rgegriff

The best move you could make

[operand@todon.nl]

@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.

[hfinyow@mstdn.ca]

@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.

[dfs_comedy@mastodon.social]

@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?

[orb2069@mastodon.online]

@davidgerard @ludicity @hipsterelectron @rgegriff

Bought red last three systems, agree with Torvalds, Fuck NVidia.

[fred@social.fthevenet.eu]

@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.

[v_perjorative@mastodon.org.uk]

@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.

[turi@kinkycats.org]

@rgegriff
100 %
The fact that I run Linux as my main OS should be seen as a scathing review of Microsoft business practices.