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John Thomas??

Well, I wasn't about to go through every single one of those results haha. Search "office assistant" in any city and you'll have a thousand ads to go through. If I knew anything about the Indeed API and was better at scripting, I could probably count every single one that mentioned MS Office or some variety of it (and I'd be willing to bet that most would contain that due to having seen hundreds of those ads over the last few years) but I'm shit at scripting and honestly just cba.

And no worries. I got offended was getting snippy anyways, so I should take my own advice.

Okay, so firstly, stupid != deceitful. Secondly, there's absolutely no need for insults. Lastly, when a person says "office job" they generally don't mean "Linux sysadmin." They mean someone who writes documents all day or puts numbers into spreadsheets. And in the context of this conversation, it should be obvious that it's referring specifically to those that use word processors or spreadsheet software. Furthermore, that link pulls up a whopping 4 jobs. That is not a good sample size, even if any of them did mention having to use a word processor, spreadsheet software, etc.

But hey, just accuse me of lying and stupidity. Not like there's a person on the other side of your screen or anything.

Sampling bias. The people you know are likely more technologically inclined than the average user. Really, effectively anyone who uses Linux is simply due to the nature of the thing. To people like you and me, the average user is a literal idiot. And that's something we forget. The average user doesn't ever have to finagle with registries and probably doesn't even know they exist. Hell, they probably don't even know how to change their default browser from Edge. And don't get me wrong, Windows is a piece of shit. But it's undeniable that its standardized protocols and coherent ecosystem make it easier for the average person. I do concede that this is due in part to software developers targeting Windows primarily, but I don't see a world where Linux is used by the masses unless some distro sees adoption and standardization by some larger body.

As for old games, if I played Morrowind via Steam it would work fine but the reason I play OpenMW is because it modernizes the engine. 1080p isn't even possible in vanilla. 100% improvement imo, but it causes me problems on occasion.

https://ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=4f87b9a36bbb1839

https://ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=061114cdc20ef415

https://ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=4736c4c40c53499b

https://ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=34e18aa739dd2a54

https://ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=3cdb4d0af94558c3

https://ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=46bf61f624a4900b

Top six jobs on Indeed, search query "office assistant" in Calgary, AB. Ctrl+F for "MS Office" or "Microsoft". Can't show you the one that wanted WordPerfect because it expired months ago and I didn't save the link. Not to mention it would dox me.

YeAh, ThAt'S a LiE

Literally every office job ad in my country wants MSOffice experience. Many also want GSuite even though that's redundant. I've even seen one in the legal sector that wanted WordPerfect. Can't speak for the other guy, but not everyone has an option to "get a better job."

The only thing I ever had consistently break on me on Windows was the search indexing running constantly and eating up all my resources. Easy enough to turn that off, but then you can't search files. I switched because I don't like corpos. Just curious what happened with your system to make you ditch it.

Play better games lol (/s)

I can't agree with you tbh. It depends on the distro. On Windows I can basically one-click install OpenMW and it Just Works™. I can't even play it on my distro because for whatever reason it's broken. I ended up having to flat out purge it and install the daily build to get it working. Maybe it works better on other distros, idk. Worked fine until my distro updated some months ago. When I was still running Lubuntu I had to build it from source to get it to work.

This is the nature of open source and decentralized platforms. And there's nothing wrong with that. But if anyone expects the mainstream to adopt it when ease of use has been the name of the game for the last 20 years then they're mistaken. As good as Linux has gotten, there are still kinks that need worked out before the average user will adopt it. One step towards that is government adoption. This will almost certainly lay out a stable baseline standard that can be built off of for a more coherent experience. I can see Linux competing with Windows provided it comes up to par on UX.

The live action has been pretty average, but this scene is gonna be fire af I'm sure

Literally read past the word "configurations" and you'll see that I'm talking about how a distro is configured by its maintainers AKA the meta level, not fucking dotfiles. Grow a brain.

I mean, Windows is undeniably more stable than certain linux configurations. Nothing will ever be 100% stable, but if you compare Windows to basically any rolling release distro, Windows is gonna be more stable. That's just the nature of the two things.