“Just install Linux” is obnoxious but… you know you’re going to have to eventually, right?
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“Just install Linux” is obnoxious but… you know you’re going to have to eventually, right? The commercial OSes get less usable, fashier, and frankly more insulting to the consumer with each passing year. At some point even you will have had enough.
The jobs are drying up, chips and rare earths are getting tariffed, and having to get another year out of the old hardware is in the cards for all of us.
If you need a tech friend to get you set up, you probably did with Windows, too. It's ok.
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“Just install Linux” is obnoxious but… you know you’re going to have to eventually, right? The commercial OSes get less usable, fashier, and frankly more insulting to the consumer with each passing year. At some point even you will have had enough.
The jobs are drying up, chips and rare earths are getting tariffed, and having to get another year out of the old hardware is in the cards for all of us.
If you need a tech friend to get you set up, you probably did with Windows, too. It's ok.
I mean, you ended up on *Mastodon* ffs no matter how long you tried to fight it. You are that person.
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“Just install Linux” is obnoxious but… you know you’re going to have to eventually, right? The commercial OSes get less usable, fashier, and frankly more insulting to the consumer with each passing year. At some point even you will have had enough.
The jobs are drying up, chips and rare earths are getting tariffed, and having to get another year out of the old hardware is in the cards for all of us.
If you need a tech friend to get you set up, you probably did with Windows, too. It's ok.
@monkeyborg 26 year linux user here and i own non-computer music and photography hardware that needs firmware updates that can only be done in Win / Mac OS's.
So, even i, a linux user, have to maintain at least one dual boot setup for that. I wish it were as simple as just install linux and be done with windows but unfortunately that's often not the case.
It's other hardware needing things that can't be done on a linux machine that mean many at home, and at work may have to use it at times.
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@monkeyborg 26 year linux user here and i own non-computer music and photography hardware that needs firmware updates that can only be done in Win / Mac OS's.
So, even i, a linux user, have to maintain at least one dual boot setup for that. I wish it were as simple as just install linux and be done with windows but unfortunately that's often not the case.
It's other hardware needing things that can't be done on a linux machine that mean many at home, and at work may have to use it at times.
@transicorn Yes, this. I'm thinking right now of my Boss GT-1000Core guitar and bass multieffects processor that requires either macOS or Windows to run its control software.
Although you *can* actually access all the features from the front panel, it's vastly easier to use the software.
I also have several tc electronic Toneprint pedals that require a macOS, Windows, iOS, or Android device to access most functions.
Posting this from a 2012 MacBook Pro running Linux Mint Debian Edition 6.
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@monkeyborg 26 year linux user here and i own non-computer music and photography hardware that needs firmware updates that can only be done in Win / Mac OS's.
So, even i, a linux user, have to maintain at least one dual boot setup for that. I wish it were as simple as just install linux and be done with windows but unfortunately that's often not the case.
It's other hardware needing things that can't be done on a linux machine that mean many at home, and at work may have to use it at times.
@transicorn @monkeyborg Hadn't even thought of that - and I'm not sure it's going to affect me at home, but it's certainly a consideration for many users... another good reason to at least start with a dual-boot setup.
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@transicorn Yes, this. I'm thinking right now of my Boss GT-1000Core guitar and bass multieffects processor that requires either macOS or Windows to run its control software.
Although you *can* actually access all the features from the front panel, it's vastly easier to use the software.
I also have several tc electronic Toneprint pedals that require a macOS, Windows, iOS, or Android device to access most functions.
Posting this from a 2012 MacBook Pro running Linux Mint Debian Edition 6.
@gcvsa @transicorn I have a Vox Valvetronix amp - which I can use without a computer, of course, but there's like 50% extra stuff for it in the Tone Room app, which doesn't come for Linux. When I do the switch that's one of those things I'm going to have to get to work
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