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Windows is not free as in freedom (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Fuck Micro$oft

It's time to switch to Linux! Because it's free as in freedom.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 17 hours ago

It’s called windows because they are always looking in at what you’re doing. It’s “open” so they are now public about looking inside your windows.

They were stealing my data from my desktop as it was syncing to their cloud. Seeing those sync icons when I had one drive disabled made me switch to linux about the time they were taking about the AI tech screen shots. F that, I’m out.

Been on Linux for a while now and it’s been great.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 20 hours ago

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Say it with me:

micro-soft-small-mind-energy

[+] [email protected] -21 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (9 children)

Aye so you can spend your Free™ time getting stuff to work aye sounds great mate

Edit - ha ha Linux users ITT

"Sudo reinstall mouse driver so I can downvote this guy's comment come onnnnnn!!!"

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 16 hours ago

I've had far more problems on Windows than Linux. For example:

SOs computer marked the GPU driver as disabled?? WTF? I thought her monitor died...
SO's computer audio was messed up, and it took me an hour of fiddling to get it working (probably more AMD's fault than anything)
had to manually download drivers for a variety of stuff...

And this is just since I upgraded my SO's PC a couple years ago.

Here's a similar process for my Linux PC:

all HW recognized OOTB - I ended up swapping my WiFi card to something better, and it worked OOTB

That's it, everything just works. I sometimes need to fiddle w/ audio settings, but that's because I have three audio outputs (headphones, and both monitors), and it understandably gets confused, but switching takes like 10s. That's it. Oh, and I run openSUSE Tumbleweed, a rolling-release OS, and I've had fewer problems in the 5-ish years I've used it (and upgraded HW in between) than my SO has w/ Windows.

So yeah, don't know what to tell ya, Linux has pissed me off way less than Windows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

Controversial opinion, if you enjoy Windows and want your software to work like Windows just use Windows (shocking)

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