Linux users are the computer equivalent of Vegans.
Fair cop.
Linux users are the computer equivalent of Vegans.
The caption shows you how things have actually changed. I suspect that Apple usage is much higher as well.
I for one recognized your humor in your original post. However, given the heated temperature of the conversation to that point I was afraid that joining you in a laugh would cause spontaneous combustion in others.....Oh, I see. I assumed that he was referring to Vegans, the inhabitants of the Vega star system.
It's not clear to me what their dietary choices are, or even whether the system contains life, or even a habitable planet or other body. But in context I felt it was the best inference to draw. Either that, or I was attempting humour - but the evidence against that possibility is overwhelming.
Apples and oranges, Jokodo; we are discussing desktops and laptops at least according to the original poster. And you don't see companies substituting smartphones for desktops yet.Android is a derivate of Linux.
If we count smart phones (and we should: the average smart phone today has more computational power than the average computer when most of us were already using computers), more machines are being sold with a variant of Linux pre-installed than ones with Windows preinstalled, every year since the early-mid 2010s.
It is incredible how so many have survived the hell of Windows. I can’t speak to Windows 10 as I have 7 and would like to avoid the data farming in 10, but people are talking as if Windows is always like 95 with its memory loss or Windows Vista with its bump into the limits of 32 bit.
XP, 2k, and 7 have been powerhouse OSs.
I think 10 is the best system I've used thus far, except on phones. Gawd windows on mobile sucks in my opinion. But on PC, it's been smooth sailing through 4 laptops I've had the opportunity to run it on. It runs smoothly, without hassle.
Except for a little complication:
Vegans are making their life harder. Linux users are making their life easier.
I’ll take remarkably out of touch statements for $1600. It is akin to answering the question, “Any computer recommendations” with “Build one yourself, it is much better!”
browse the internet, listen to music, and maybe do a bit of online banking Microsoft makes this impossibly hard to fuck up. Buy computer, turn it on.. is all you have to do. And this is what the overwhelming majority of users need in a computer.
There is a computer being marketed over here on TV targeted to older people and those computer illiterate. It powers up in a GUI. Everything is available via touchscreen. No user accounts.
browse the internet, listen to music, and maybe do a bit of online banking Microsoft makes this impossibly hard to fuck up. Buy computer, turn it on.. is all you have to do. And this is what the overwhelming majority of users need in a computer.
This is palpably not true.
Bought a Lenovo Yoga 920 with w10. Plugged it in, switched it on. Managed to avoid the billion dumb questions it asked, and get it connected to WiFI. Had to wait 35 minutes while it figured out how to start updating itself. Updates took forever. Updates broke WiFi driver and Bluetooth....lost connectivity. Had to do a factory reset. That took several hours. Connected it to the internet via a USB WiFI dongle, because the updates had to be done all over again. Install a new WiFi driver after digging into Lenovo support. Finally got to the part where it wants to set up your personal account. Don't have or want a m$ account, so used Google account. Then had to find ways of turning off the barrage of adverts you now get on the home screen and start menu (if you can even find it). Had to turn off the repulsive Cortana and the shitty OneDrive, which requires a REGISTRY HACK!!!. Anyone who uses Edge or IE is insane, especially if they do online shopping and let windoze have their credit card info, so go find and install Chrome or Firefox. Now delouse the start menu and the screen with all the live tiles of the Bundled crapware like violent games or Candy Crush. Get rid of the XBox adverts. Remove the Office365 nagware. Oh, crap - there's no malware checker, so go find AVG free or preferred tool of choice because using the m$ supplied stuff is the fox guarding the henhouse. Go get iTunes, because no-one uses the laughable m$ product.
Gentoo users don't do that shit. They have a package manager.- "./configure && make && make install" That shit should be the sole domain of the hobbyists playing on Gentoo or LFS.
Gentoo users don't do that shit. They have a package manager.- "./configure && make && make install" That shit should be the sole domain of the hobbyists playing on Gentoo or LFS.
Won't argue with you there. Out of interest, did you submit new package definitions to the AUR for stuff you were missing?Gentoo users don't do that shit. They have a package manager.- "./configure && make && make install" That shit should be the sole domain of the hobbyists playing on Gentoo or LFS.
Fair enough. My ill-stated point was that many software packages are distributed to Windows users as installers/binaries but distributed to Linux users as source code rather than as compiled packages for the various Linux package managers. This is one of the reasons why I've rarely ventured from Ubuntu; many vendors only distribute Debian (and RPM) packages, and I can add third party PPAs to supplement the Ubuntu repositories. At this point I will only move to another distro if I don't have to hack packages or compile source just to keep my current tooling. When I was running Arch, I spent too much time maintaining my software when I should have been doing work.