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I've had a pretty poor experience with it myself, so I wanna see what the Linux community thinks about this.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll parrot the others. I have a Windows PC issued by my employer. The only way to have some Linux is WSL. I use it to sync notes with server at home, python stuff, and w3m when I want to Google something without looking conspicuous in the office.

General Linux tools also help. I needed to make video half the speed - one liner ffmpeg solves it in a jiffy. On Windows I need to install some hive software.

[–] Resol 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, you guys have it so easy