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> Do you truly and honestly sense software quality as a hallmark of Linux? Yes, but that reflects my experience. I use emacs, st, zsh, SBCL, Python, Go, Debia
by zeveb 10y ago
> Do you truly and honestly sense software quality as a hallmark of Linux?
Yes, but that reflects my experience. I use emacs, st, zsh, SBCL, Python, Go, Debian: the flakiest software I run is Firefox.
Others have a different experience. They use gedit, gnome-terminal, bash, Ubuntu: the most stable software they run is Firefox.
Windows, OTOH, is so bad that it tries to download OS updates as monolithic, multi-GB blobs instead of small package updates. This can be bad when one has insufficient hard drive space for the monolithic blob but plenty of space to install a few packages and update them.
Windows advertises to one. Debian doesn't. Windows tracks one's input. Debian doesn't. Windows is slow on old hardware. Debian isn't. Windows has a fairly crappy interface. Debian doesn't (whether default, or using one of the available replacement DEs/WMs).
- groovy2shoes 10y ago> Windows has a fairly crappy interface. Debian doesn't (whether default, or using one of the available replacement DEs/WMs). You clearly haven't tried using AfterStep ;)
- anonbanker 10y agoOr FVWM2. or IceWM. or MacOS 9, or Windows XP PlayskoolOS. But let's keep the comparisons to desktop environments made this decade. Enlightenment 0.17 GNOME3, KDE Plasma 5, etc. if you're using Mint's Debian Edition (and new converts should if they're too scared to try Calculate Linux), you're likely to boot into something relatively pretty the first time.
- groovy2shoes 10y agoI didn't take "crappy interface" to mean "aesthetically unpleasing" (not to say that such isn't a valid interpretation or belief). FVWM and IceWM, for example, might be ugly (though only by default -- I've seen pretty configurations of both), but I've always found them quite usable. AfterStep, though... * shiver *.