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for the most part, HN is pretty squarely in the 'windows bad linux good' camp. It is dumb af since according to a lot of the users on here, linux is gods gift

for the most part, HN is pretty squarely in the 'windows bad linux good' camp. It is dumb af since according to a lot of the users on here, linux is gods gift to humanity. doesn't matter that pretty much all software is a dumpster fire, and linux is just another, less hot dumpster fire compared to windows.

sneak 5y ago
This is a false equivalence.
- l30n4da5 5y ago
  how, exactly?
hanselot 5y ago
At least in Linux the dumpster fire's contents isn't hidden behind a corporate framework of people trying to hide the flames. At least the Linux fire doesn't attempt to take over other trashcans and force you to update your trash without consent. At least the Linux fire doesn't preinstall its fire in my trashcan artifically driving up the price of trashcans in the market. At least in the Linux fire, if you apply yourself and learn enough about your trash, you can choose how much trash and fire is in your trashcan. At least in the Linux fire, the fire tells you that its dangerous, instead of hiding everything behind stripped down excuses of flames from yester-year. At least in the Linux fire I can plan to barbecue something over a section of fire and know that it will consistently burn the same way, instead of spreading everywhere and the trashcan exploding. The irony of course being, that the people who argue for any other fire, have to first answer, why does Windows now feature Linux embedded inside itself?
bogwog 5y ago
> doesn't matter that pretty much all software is a dumpster fire, and linux is just another, less hot dumpster fire compared to windows. Yeah, but the difference is that Linux is MY dumpster fire, not Microsoft's!
- l30n4da5 5y ago
  fair point. counter-argument: i'll start modifying my C:\Windows directory and make it my own dumpster fire.
adrian_b 5y ago
The difference between Linux and Windows is that in Linux I have never encountered any problem that I could not solve, in the worst case, when all else failed, by reading many source files of the offending programs, while on Windows I have encountered many cases of unsolvable problems, for which not only I was unable to find a solution (even if I have a lot of professional experience with all Windows versions since 3.0 till present) but also nobody else from IT support. Just to give a recent example, 3 different IT support people, from 3 different countries, have worked one day each, trying to discover why MS Teams does not work on a certain new Dell laptop, while it works fine if you move the Ethernet cable to the old laptop. After many efforts, nobody has any clue. Such things cannot happen on Linux.

sneak 5y ago

This is a false equivalence.

l30n4da5 5y ago
how, exactly?

hanselot 5y ago

At least in Linux the dumpster fire's contents isn't hidden behind a corporate framework of people trying to hide the flames. At least the Linux fire doesn't attempt to take over other trashcans and force you to update your trash without consent. At least the Linux fire doesn't preinstall its fire in my trashcan artifically driving up the price of trashcans in the market. At least in the Linux fire, if you apply yourself and learn enough about your trash, you can choose how much trash and fire is in your trashcan. At least in the Linux fire, the fire tells you that its dangerous, instead of hiding everything behind stripped down excuses of flames from yester-year. At least in the Linux fire I can plan to barbecue something over a section of fire and know that it will consistently burn the same way, instead of spreading everywhere and the trashcan exploding. The irony of course being, that the people who argue for any other fire, have to first answer, why does Windows now feature Linux embedded inside itself?

bogwog 5y ago

> doesn't matter that pretty much all software is a dumpster fire, and linux is just another, less hot dumpster fire compared to windows. Yeah, but the difference is that Linux is MY dumpster fire, not Microsoft's!

l30n4da5 5y ago
fair point. counter-argument: i'll start modifying my C:\Windows directory and make it my own dumpster fire.

adrian_b 5y ago

The difference between Linux and Windows is that in Linux I have never encountered any problem that I could not solve, in the worst case, when all else failed, by reading many source files of the offending programs, while on Windows I have encountered many cases of unsolvable problems, for which not only I was unable to find a solution (even if I have a lot of professional experience with all Windows versions since 3.0 till present) but also nobody else from IT support. Just to give a recent example, 3 different IT support people, from 3 different countries, have worked one day each, trying to discover why MS Teams does not work on a certain new Dell laptop, while it works fine if you move the Ethernet cable to the old laptop. After many efforts, nobody has any clue. Such things cannot happen on Linux.