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This kind of stuff makes me understand why people like Linux.
by ThrowawayTestr 1y ago
This kind of stuff makes me understand why people like Linux.
- globular-toast 1y agoFree software in general. Doesn't have to be Linux. But yeah, this is one of the reasons I use it. Even in free software some of it is more amenable to hacking than others, for example example Emacs vs LibreOffice. But software that is actively hostile and prevents you from hacking? No way.
- teekert 1y agoFor me it's more the "No TPM chip, no updates" and the "Here's some ads in your start menu". Both not valid for Apple obviously, but there it's the high price and I lost an otherwise perfectly fine MacBook Pro to a GPU issue (after de-soldering one component it worked for a ~day on the iGPU, but an update wrecked it after all, all 2 months after upgrading the ram, putting in an SSD and a new battery). Still a bit sour about that... but hey, at least thy won't let me do that anymore ;) I buy second hand business models (~300 eur), I have 2 (Dell and HP), both never failed despite being 10 and 6 y/o, both looked unused as advertised. Both are more powerful than I or my family need.