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Linux is better in every conceivable way
by coffeebeqn 11mo ago
Linux is better in every conceivable way
- bryanlarsen 11mo agoBoth Chrome and Aluminium are Linux, so which are you trying to say is better? Or are you saying more conventional Linux is superior? Gnu/Linux is a good term for that.
- dontlaugh 11mo agoIt’s not a great term, there is a small and shrinking proportion of GNU in most distros. Things like systemd or Wayland are far more important.
- bryanlarsen 11mo agoSystemd is Gnu licensed.
- fsflover 11mo ago"GNU" in "GNU/Linux" isn't about the license but about the GNU OS, https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#why https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#why
- yjftsjthsd-h 11mo agoThat is not how anyone uses that term. For starters, Linux is also GPL licensed, so if it was like that then we wouldn't bother calling it GNU/Linux, we could just call it GNU. More to the point though, being GPL-licensed doesn't make something part of the GNU project.
- Max_Limelihood 11mo agoGNU/GNU
- yjftsjthsd-h 11mo agoI've actually used GNU/GNU to refer to HURD:)
- bigstrat2003 11mo agoWhen someone says "Linux" in isolation, they mean a conventional Linux distribution. Only extreme pedants and Richard Stallman call it "GNU/Linux".
- surajrmal 11mo agoI prefer to call it systems/Linux these days. The amount of gnu bits in a desktop Linux distro is ever shrinking.
- pxc 11mo ago> The amount of gnu bits in a desktop Linux distro is ever shrinking. What GNU software is actually being removed from any distro?
- Max_Limelihood 11mo agoUbuntu replaced their core userland utils with uutils, so the bulk of it. I’m guessing most other distros will follow suit.
- pxc 11mo agoHuh. I didn't know Ubuntu had replaced GNU coreutils. I'm not sure that alone counts as "the bulk of it", but it's definitely very significant.
- surajrmal 11mo agopipewire, systemd, Wayland, etc. none of that is produced or maintained by GNU.
- pxc 11mo agoALSA, sysvinit, and Xorg weren't GNU projects, either.
- bryanlarsen 11mo ago
- SirFatty 11mo agoThis is the year of Linux on the desktop!
- andrewinardeer 11mo agoAny decade now.
- pelagicAustral 11mo agotwo more weeks
- danpalmer 11mo agoIt sure is: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
- pjmlp 11mo agoExcept being able to buy GNU/Linux laptops from known brands, the same that sell Android and Chromebooks with 100% supported hardware, at FNAC, Worten, Saturn, MediaMarkt, Publico, Dixon, CoolBlue,.... It would be great, however it died alongside netbooks.
- wkat4242 11mo agoOnly the first netbook came with Linux. The Asus EEEPC 701. This was mainly because it was so underpowered it couldn't run windows (and some nonresizable dialogue boxes didn't even fit on screen). But they dropped it with later models.
- pjmlp 11mo agoAs owner of an Asus 1215B, that lasted from 2009 until last year, having gotten disk and memory upgrades during its lifetime, going through all Ubuntu LTS upgrades, bought with it pre-installed, that is certainly not true.
- wkat4242 11mo agoAh ok, here they were all windows in the shops after the first one. I can imagine also because Asus' distro was pretty terrible, it probably gave some backlash against Linux. I think the only reason they made it was to make it work on that tiny screen. I spent ages at the time trying to make macOS work. I had it booting but due to the CPU being below 1 Ghz the timing screwed up and timing related actions happened in slow motion (this was a timing divider issue not sure to the slowness itself). I even messed with the kernel code trying to get it to work. On a later Acer netbook I got it running perfectly though.
- laidoffamazon 11mo agoThe 701 did run XP, even came pre installed with it on some models in later 2007!
- pjmlp 11mo ago
- Klonoar 11mo agoArguably not in security model.
- IlikeKitties 11mo agoThey hated him because he spoke the truth. An up to date ChromeOS is extremly secure compared to the non-existant security model of the linux desktop. Only Secureblue or QubesOS come even close.
- throwaway173738 11mo agoYou only have to give up control of the computer.
- Max_Limelihood 11mo agoAndroid is open source; MacOS and Windows aren’t. This gives me more control over my computer, especially since this means LineageOS and GrapheneOS for the desktop soon.
- pbmonster 11mo agoI can conceive a couple of ways. GrapheneOS-style sand-boxing for every app is long overdue in Linux. I'd love to have it's granular permissions for every single service. I'd love to have the battery management, the unified settings UI, the effortless disk encryption UX and key management. Could you build it with SE Linux and a lot of glue? Yes, but nobody has. And doing it well, everywhere, would take a lot of hours.
- kangs 11mo agojust run bazzite already
- dlt713705 11mo ago> the unified settings UI You will never have a UI capable of encompassing all the settings available in Linux. You will only have a UI capable of configuring your desktop experience, which is just a small subset of the full Linux experience.
- pbmonster 11mo agoIs it unreasonable to ask "why not"? I like the state of Android's (as packaged by GrapheneOS) settings UI much better than any other settings system, period. It's all in one place - I can't think of a single thing I would want to configure that isn't found in that one dialog. It doesn't always make sense, but it's searchable, and the search works.