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byPhantomHarlock ( 189617 ) writes:
Linux on the desktop continues to be a hobby in and of itself rather than a tool to get other things done. There's no way I'm spending the time and frustration that he did to get basic things running. That cascading failure mode of package dependencies and "it all works great except this one little instance when you combine these two pieces of hardware or software together) is just maddening. I've dabbled in and out of it for years. It takes far less time and frustration to effectively neuter Windows 1
bytest321 ( 8891681 ) writes:
There's no way I'm spending the time and frustration that he did to get basic things running.
One of them was trying to get linux working on a Mac. The equivalent of getting Windows to work on a Raspberry Pi
If you want things to Just Work, you get a laptop with linux preinstalled, just like your Mac or Windows laptops came with their OS.
It takes far less time and frustration to effectively neuter Windows 10 to do your bidding and stop leaking your information.
That's not true, it takes more time to to neuter Windows 10 on a laptop that came with windows 10, than just using a linux on laptop that originally came with linux where no tinkering is needed.
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byaRTeeNLCH ( 6256058 ) writes:
Good point and thank you for making it. The parent poster however will not be swayed, his past experience, how true and unfortunate but perhaps also how dated, keeps him not believing that others have an easier time at it. My wife uses Linux since 24 years. I admin, obviously, but actually after setting things up, don't have much to do.
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