• CIWS-30@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Maybe for now, but as soon as more people switch to Windows 11 or Microsoft apps that constantly show you ads and are basically spam / adware themselves, Linux will get more appealing.

    Microsoft is unfortunately learning from social media companies. Not only do you PAY for the product, you are also the product, and get your personal info stolen and get served ads even while you pay.

    It’s getting to the point where I’m seriously eyeballing Mint again, or Kubuntu. And I’m the kind of person that’s generally too lazy to even dual boot anymore.

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      1 year ago

      Sorry for the uncalled advice, but you might want to avoid Ubuntu. Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) is being rather obnoxious pushing for a technology called “snaps” that has a bunch of issues, among them performance.

      Mint is fine. In fact I’m distro-hopping from Ubuntu to Mint again.

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    1 year ago

    I have had to spend so much more time thinking about drivers on Windows than on Linux it’s not even funny

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      1 year ago

      I have spent very little time worrying about drivers on either.

      On windows geforce came preinstalled and I just updated it occasionally when something didn’t work

      On NixOS I add one line to my config file and it handles Nvidia drivers for me and updates with the rest of my packages