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MintelIE ◴[23 May 20 18:52 UTC] No.23285409[source]▶
Why don't companies come out and tell people what they're doing these days? Telemetry is getting to the point where people such as doctors and lawyers might be violating the law by using a modern computer. And people in the defense industry? Doesn't Apple employ thousands of forns? Who's audited their datasystems and ensured that this stuff stays private?

Much easier and better to just stop using it all and move to a system like Linux or BSD. 99% of people do everything in a browser these days anyhow.

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ancarda ◴[23 May 20 21:01 UTC] No.23286398[source]▶
If only moving to Linux were an option for everyone.

The other day I tried for the 100th time to move to Linux. I installed a recent build of a maintained, popular distribution (no it doesn't matter which one - I have tried them all), on hardware that is famous for it's Linux support.

Everything worked for a day and a half, then the sound just fucking died. No input or output.

I get millions of people use Linux daily, and are happy with it -- I'm genuinely grateful that's a thing. I would love to also use Linux, but I really don't have the time to diagnose why it broke yet again.

Any suggestions for people stuck on macOS? I guess I could block all Apple domains in my DNS resolver? Other than app updates, I can't think of anything that would stop working. That still sounds less painful than trying to deal with Linux's atrocious UX.

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1. nine_k ◴[24 May 20 02:33 UTC] No.23288616[source]▶
I had sound drivers die on me on famous brands laptops under Windows.

I had OSX lock up or lose any display on MBPs with NVidia chips.

On my wife's old windows desktop I had to plug a USB audio dongle, because of audio glitches.

Some of it is sloppy drivers, some, faulty or poorly designed hardware.

"Sound just died" is, unfortunately, not specific to Linux in any way.

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2. ancarda ◴[24 May 20 04:10 UTC] No.23289005[source]▶
Sure, though I am describing my latest attempt in like 15 years of using Linux on and off. At some point "every OS has its problems" just stopped being true for me.

Linux really sucks for anything other than servers. I hate to say that because I badly wish it weren't true, but it is.

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3. pjmlp ◴[24 May 20 04:38 UTC] No.23289136[source]▶
How could it be any different actually?

A Linux conference is usually focused on the Linux kernel, drivers, filesystems, networking, more or less everything POSIXy.

If you want to learn about improvements at the UI level, there are XDG, GUADEC, Kacademy, each focused on their own silo, and other parts of the stack or UI tooling don't have any at all.

Meanwhile WWDC, Google IO, BUILD / Ignite are about all levels of the stack.

4. robotbikes ◴[24 May 20 11:19 UTC] No.23290768[source]▶
I've had good luck with System76 & PopOS, they put in the extra effort to make sure Linux just works on the hardware they sell and will respond to any tech support issues. Recently switched back to running Debian desktop on a older system and have ran into some intermittent sound issues that are frustrating, so I can relate but haven't had that kind of issue with any of the System76 laptops I've used.