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> You can go to linux. Things will be better, but not perfect A lot of people say Linux is not perfect or it is not as good as windows or mac. I have used all t

> You can go to linux. Things will be better, but not perfect A lot of people say Linux is not perfect or it is not as good as windows or mac. I have used all three operating systems and all of them are not perfect, Linux may be the best among them for a software engineer.

whateveracct 6y ago
With Linux, at least it's easy to fix things myself. Doubly so for NixOS which is especially hackable. The UX is atrocious and you don't get the network effects of the mainstream though.
- YetAnotherNick 6y ago
  It's because you are programmer and worked with command line. I had seen many technical minded people completely mess up their linux installation.
  - whateveracct 6y ago
    That's why I like NixOS! If I ruin everything, I can just reboot & pick the last known working config since it's all immutable.
hyperman1 6y ago
I've been running suse/red hat/ubuntu/debian since 2000 and I'm very happy with it. KDE mostly. I'm a software engineer, so it makes sense. Sometimes I have a hickup, but I can fix it. People drop random hardware at my house, and it generally works. I recently started some casual gaming, and wine works great most of the time, but not always. Now I am free tech support for quite a few people in the neighbourhood, so I know what goes on in the windows world. I mean it when I say linux isnt perfect, but windows is worse. My wife and parents got linux. A local school got 20 debian PCs for corona remote classes. If you want my free support and you have to call me once to much, you'll get linux or no more free support. And it works. Normal people can do as much or more with linux as with windows, gaming being the major hold out. Power users complain, but then they son't get support from me anymore. There's a lot less trouble with my linux users as with the windows club.

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> You can go to linux. Things will be better, but not perfect A lot of people say Linux is not perfect or it is not as good as windows or mac. I have used all t

by agent3bood 6y ago

whateveracct 6y ago
With Linux, at least it's easy to fix things myself. Doubly so for NixOS which is especially hackable. The UX is atrocious and you don't get the network effects of the mainstream though.
- YetAnotherNick 6y ago
  It's because you are programmer and worked with command line. I had seen many technical minded people completely mess up their linux installation.
  - whateveracct 6y ago
    That's why I like NixOS! If I ruin everything, I can just reboot & pick the last known working config since it's all immutable.
hyperman1 6y ago
I've been running suse/red hat/ubuntu/debian since 2000 and I'm very happy with it. KDE mostly. I'm a software engineer, so it makes sense. Sometimes I have a hickup, but I can fix it. People drop random hardware at my house, and it generally works. I recently started some casual gaming, and wine works great most of the time, but not always. Now I am free tech support for quite a few people in the neighbourhood, so I know what goes on in the windows world. I mean it when I say linux isnt perfect, but windows is worse. My wife and parents got linux. A local school got 20 debian PCs for corona remote classes. If you want my free support and you have to call me once to much, you'll get linux or no more free support. And it works. Normal people can do as much or more with linux as with windows, gaming being the major hold out. Power users complain, but then they son't get support from me anymore. There's a lot less trouble with my linux users as with the windows club.