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Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4 (www.theregister.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] ar0177417 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

You are mostly right. Its tricky to get into Linux.

Linux is not for running windows programs. Linux alternative of such programs suffice my need. although some can be installed using wine but its highly likely you will likely run into bug. Some apps such as adobe suite, office 365, etc won't work at all.
Those distro recommendation websites are garbage, don't trust any of them. There are "basically" three main flavours
Arch
Debian/Ubuntu
Redhat

Everything else is just based on them. Like pop os, Mint, Zorin are basically same under the hood. You can make any distro do whatever you want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I like how you put Ubuntu there. It’s based on Debian.

I just have been out for too long. I don’t recall arch being a major flavor. I thought it was slack?

[–] kescusay 4 points 8 months ago

Slack still exists, but it's not particularly popular. Arch is one of the big ones now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Slack is practically dead

Ubuntu has diverged from Debian enough to call it its own thing, aside from it using the same packaging format (they want to get rid of anyway)

[–] kennebel 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

For Steam/games, i was trying to run "windows" stuff, as the games were not native. For other things, like sound (never worked right), Blender (took me a few days to learn i had to run Blender through an app that forces GPU), or the file sync, they were supposed to be native. But I was doing a lot of fighting. I wasn't reading distro recommendation sites, I was trying to troubleshoot issues. "Here is how you fix this issue on Ubuntu, no instructions for any other flavor)." (but I installed a derivative of Arch because I was interested in the rolling release instead of fixed releases, and turns out there was significantly less troubleshooting material)

I might go back again, maybe with a dual boot scenario, and try again without

[–] ar0177417 2 points 8 months ago

Arch wiki is the most comprehensive Linux wiki. Try that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've never got Wine to work. Gave up with Windows programmes as there's nothing I need there. Other people have different uses though.

Looks like my distro hopping days are over now though and settled with EndeavourOS. I'm well aware it's Arch with a fancy hat on but it suits me. For now 😉

[–] ar0177417 2 points 8 months ago

Its better to dual boot windows for windows programs. I am currently on Artix (Arch without systemd). I just like the OS to get out of my way when I am doing something and upgrade manually myself when i have free time.