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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Is Linux As Good As We Think It Is? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Obviously, a bit of clickbait. Sorry.

I just got to work and plugged my surface pro into my external monitor. It didn't switch inputs immediately, and I thought "Linux would have done that". But would it?

I find myself far more patient using Linux and De-googled Android than I do with windows or anything else. After all, Linux is mine. I care for it. Grow it like a garden.

And that's a good thing; I get less frustrated with my tech, and I have something that is important to me outside its technical utility. Unlike windows, which I'm perpetually pissed at. (Very often with good reason)

But that aside, do we give Linux too much benefit of the doubt relative to the "things that just work". Often they do "just work", and well, with a broad feature set by default.

Most of us are willing to forgo that for the privacy and shear customizability of Linux, but do we assume too much of the tech we use and the tech we don't?

Thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"Windows is pretty good if you bribe them more than usual"

I don't want to hear about "proper licensing" for a $100 per key, per device OS. We're not the product, the product is the product. You're just apologizing for them making the lower tiers into shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Also, CloudStrike couldn't have happened if CloudStrike hadn't been negligent on their own, but Microsoft was the root cause.

Either Microsoft was negligent in allowing CloudStrike to pass instructions to the kernel without being properly signed (and therefore, checked for critical errors), or Microsoft was negligent in not knowing what CloudStrike was up to.

[–] pirat 1 points 4 months ago

* CrowdStrike

[–] TechNerdWizard42 1 points 4 months ago

$100 key is the basic key. You buy that, you are the product.

I have all licenses from home to pro to enterprise to datacenter. My datacenter installs, which are just Win11 without the consumer spyware bloat is rock solid awesome operating system.