This is strictly my personal experience and is not meant to negate someone else’s experience.

I disagree, as a middle user myself, I’ve had much less problems since the switch to Linux. I don’t own a VR setup, so can’t speak to that, but I have used basically everything else you’ve mentioned since switching without issues. Older software seems to work better on Linux than windows 11 in my experience. The rare stumble I’ve had was easily remedied by searching forums and wikis.

Most windows problems I’ve had to search for solutions in the last several years led to either blind registry changes, following some useless wizard that rarely fixes the problem, or a nothing-burger circle where the OP ended up either giving up entirely or re-installing windows to avoid the problem. I’ve very much had better luck actually fixing a problem in Linux than just avoiding it.

Thank you both for the explanation, all makes sense now!

Can someone explain this like I’m an idiot? Is this good for me or bad for me?

Did they hold a moment of silence when that minnesota dem senator was killed? Honestly curious if there is even precedent for them doing it even for a politician.

I’m sure they don’t hold a moment of silence every time someone in the US dies of gun violence, since they would never be able to speak…

I figure first thing I am going to do with a new OS is change how it looks to my liking anyway. What’s underneath is pretty great imo - it was the only distro I tried that actually had working nvidia drivers for my laptop “out of the box”. I couldn’t even get it to play games with the bazzite image specifically for asus laptops with nvidia gpus. I was not smart enough to fix it.

True, GOS team has not quit, but we don’t know yet what the consequences will be. They have said hardware support going forward will take more time than it used to. We do not know how much time that will take. We don’t know what functionality might be lost in the process.

Just because GOS didn’t throw in the towel doesn’t mean that they won, or that the fight is even over. No one knows what roadblocks Google’s next steps will cause either.

Google has all but officially declared that they look at custom roms and anything other than Google’s official android to be akin to piracy and hacking (something similar to a mod-chip from the old playstation days). They are actively trying to start an arms race between their prevention tactics and the FOSS community’s way around those tactics (or win it before it starts), just like with adblockers.

I agree with your sentiment entirely. Hell, I do really like F360, but it isn’t enough for me to go back to using windows.

In most situations, especially ones typical users are going to run into, I’ve found the alternatives to be much easier for me to learn and use. I fucking love Krita for the image editing I need an image editor for. From my experience, 95%+ people would have a better time if they weren’t blindly sticking to proprietary software they think they “need”.

Graphene team already did a blog post about the lock down of AOSP and how it will significantly hinder their ability to support future hardware, since drivers was a huge part of what was moved closed source by google. Those open source drivers was the big driving force for why Graphene basically only supported Pixel phones. They made it significantly harder for people using AOSP derivatives currently to upgrade to a new phone when it is time.

Spoken like someone that’s never actually tried Linux. Enjoy your electron start menu, shill.

To be fair, Fusion 360 is pretty good… I hate to love it, to miss it. I can’t wrap my head around the work flow in FreeCAD.

But more often I am shocked by people saying they have to stay on windows because of Office… Like, the fuck? MS doesn’t even want you to have that installed on your computer anymore and is pushing all web based, but that is going to keep you on Windows?? Nothing there is particularly hungry, just put it in a VM if you absolutely can’t get by with one of the several great alternatives.

How delusional are you? Samsung holds over 20% of the worldwide mobile phone market, only beat by Apple by a few percent.

And that is ignoring the obvious trend from Google to lock down the Android ecosystem to only them and their partners. If they have their way, they will make 3rd party ROMs nearly impossible, block all 3rd party apps, and close the door on fdroid. Maybe what has been done so far doesn’t affect you, but if no one gets in their way, it absolutely will and soon.

Omg this is so troll-y, what in the every ungodly hell does that do if you run it?? What is this? How have I missed this for years? lol.

It is based on Debian (Droidian to be specific I believe), which to me reads as a fork or maybe a distro flavor with out of the box tweaks to specifically work with the hardware they are selling.

They say they aren’t stopping you from installing anything else you want on the phone, they just aren’t going to offer help getting a different OS to work, which is reasonable to me.

Exciting stuff.

This triggered me though, lol:

https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1/

I’m already seriously considering giving this a go as my next phone soon. My current phone is desperately in need of replacement.

If it goes well I will be vocal about it.

Maybe shit like this will push them down that road faster. We need options for sure.

Prosecutors are not cops. The prosecutors can never win a case if the cops dont investigate first. The comment you replied to never mentioned prosecutors bringing a case, only cops investigating a case.

From what I can tell most of the roadblock is drivers for hardware support. Basically every price of hardware has to have a reverse engineered driver to work. We need hardware mfrs on board to really gain traction in this arena.

Still, I’m pretty sure my next phone is going to be a Linux phone. I know I’ll lose functionality but if I can make calls, send texts, and browse the web I’ll get by. Hopefully that space keeps gaining traction and it won’t be long until it is a truly viable option to replace google/apple products.

Yea. Why are there so many sizes of clothes anyway? The average person doesn’t need pants with a 44 inch waist. And so many food options? The average person doesn’t need anything more than nutrient rich gruel.

None of this is actually about cheating. All of these companies want control over as many people as they can get their grubby fat fingers around.