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Same here, to a certain extent.

I was referring only to Linux’s lack of bullshittery in comparison to Windows, nothing else.

Far easier to do too. I did one of each last month and there’s no question that the Windows setup experience is terrible in comparison.

I’d happily pay a one-time fee to be able to use my own cloud service like Google Drive, OneDrive, or iCloud.

You can do that without paying. Obsidian vaults are just plaintext files on your disk. Just make a vault in your GDrive/OneDrive/iCloud sync folder and it’ll be synced.

There’s likely a extra hoop or two to jump through if you want mobile access, but it’s not too much extra effort.

Ah I was just referring to my laptop there. I do still use Android, but with LineageOS instead of my device’s stock image.

How am I the product when I bought it outright and installed Linux before ever booting it up?

I guess I didn’t buy my phone or my laptop then?

Supporting your position through things created in your brain is called “explaining yourself”, or more specifically “explaining the rationale behind your position”.

Did you think you were being clever?

I have skipped through every single mandatory interactive training thing I’ve ever been assigned and passed the quiz at the end using basic common sense. Every time.

I swear it only exists for the bottom 1% of the workforce who are, in this day and age, are somehow dumb enough to still fall for email scams that have been around for longer than I have.

It’s odd how poorly phrased the text on that first image is.

Sign in with work, personal, or school account to access to devices and apps

Surely it should be:

Sign in with your work, personal, or school account to access your devices and apps

Alternate title: Apple charges fortune for underspecced machines, morons still buy them

Please tell me, as someone who has not given Apple money in over a decade, how I am paying for this.

Sundar wants them feet pics

Can you be more specific?

I may be reading this wrong, but it sounds like you think Linux requires all your files to be converted to some other format before you can use them. There is no such thing as a Windows-JPEG and a Linux-JPEG, it’s just a JPEG. All your files will still work. It’s the software that opens the files that might need to change (e.g. MS Word or Photoshop).

Unless you’re talking about filesystems like NTFS and ext4, in which case there is no argument to be made as Linux supports NTFS already. In my experience, it “just works”.

Just out of curiosity, I calculated that the article’s (War and Peace * 875,000) claim would net you less than 1TB of storage space (~973GB), assuming it was GZipped (and ~3x that if not).

The most concrete number we have is from another article (also on an official Microsoft page) that claims it’s upwards of 7TB.

It might feel that way, but people switch from one platform the other all the time.

It’s not impossible, just inconvenient. People nowadays often seem to conflate the two.

Yes, not everything needs to work. But everyone needs the things they want to work, if that makes sense. In other words: everyone has different requirements.

I require SteamVR to run acceptably in order to play VR games on my main computer. I have yet to find a distro that satisfies this requirement, so I must use Windows since it is the only thing that works for that use case.
Conversely, I do not require VR support on my laptop. Everything I want to do with my laptop can be done to an acceptable level with Linux, so I run Linux on my laptop. Simple.

Some software unfortunately requires it. Yes, Wine/Proton exists, but it doesn’t fix everything.

If you want an answer to your question, spend your 3 seconds typing it into a search engine or AI.

5000 seems like way too much. That’s roughly 1 every 15-20 seconds, including at night.

I would be interested to see what percentage of those are actual real interactions (e.g. DMs), which are general interactions (e.g. “XYZ liked your post”) and which are marketing CTAs.

I’m 90% sure all of System76’s offerings are rebadged Clevo laptops.

There’s a browser extension that suggests (and optionally redirects to) better wikis when your search results include a Fandom/Fextralife link. I think it’s called Indie Wiki Buddy.