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I think without instructions most people would need help due to not knowing what a partition is. So depending on your interpretation of incapable this seems like a huge exaggeration. The Linux installers with GUIs I’ve seen at least explained how to set them up.

Couldn’t you just compile those dependencies yourself and use your own blobs then?

I think the message is that many cyber security experts indeed gained their expertise by doing not so legal things when they were younger.

I’m confused by this comment

But I want to keep Christopher Street Day :(

CSD stands for Client Side (window) Decorations in this case.

Yup and then I have a startup script that asks me if I’d like a GUI. Saved me setting up a display manager and it’s basically the same amount of effort when logging in.

The other computers were clean installs and still an update made one Windows installation unbootable and the other had sometimes daily BSODs which a computer repair store assured us was a RAM issue despite it working fine with the same configuration on Linux. After a few months the problem seemed to have fixed itself but I just switched to Linux on both machines.

It looks like we’re both cursed with weird issues just with the other OS. I have had 5 times that I’ve had kernel panics and of the ones that I needed to troubleshoot it was Nvidia drivers and a hardware failure.

Nope, I wasn’t really aware of such things, I bet they would have helped though. Now that I think about it the one laptop had a weird antivirus software preinstalled which caused quite a few problems too.

Why? So you can experience win10 for a few months?

It seems like a weird middle-ground that might be used in a weird 5 year old server. Probably not great for gaming. But I too had stability issues with all of my windows installations. (1.5 laptops, a prebuilt and later the machine I use now which I started using with windows) All of them had regular BSODs (though the laptops were a little older and might not always have been that way) and one pc even broke the Windows Bootloader so that I couldn’t boot it anymore.

I can read the manual that comes with a camera and it will teach me how to set it up and take some pictures. Most (at least all that I’ve used) linux distros have something similar. Unless there’s some sort of incompatibility with your system it should not be an issue. If you do have problems you get to choose whether or not to troubleshoot them but in my experience doing so on Linux is a lot easier.

When I first set up Ubuntu I was astonished by the fact that I could just download a windows executable and double-click to start it. But I loved how simple it was to download stuff using the package manager.

I had a bit of experience with the Windows terminal and had been coding for two years at that point so I was able to almost fully switch over within two weeks and found it significantly easier.

I have recieved two spam emails over the course of my life and two or three on messengers of varying degrees of privacy. Am I just lucky?

Wouldn’t they still need to know the username and telephone number then? That seems like something most people would be unable to link.

My cat let’s me know that I’m slow because of my bad posture every time I feed it too…

Probably a good idea either way but Windows has broken itself more than I have had hardware failures on the devices I’ve used with Windows.

I might actually do this, it seems nice.

Yeah yeah I forgot that power word, let’s hope you have at least 100hp then…

Thunar + (i think) gvfs does fine with network drives, it mounts them as soon as I try to click on them. If I wanted otherwise I wouldn’t use the tool that’s meant to show me files when I want to look at them.

When administrating (an admittedly horribly set up) computer system I hate that Windows automatically saves the address without asking because then after turning the protections back on after installing a program from there, the users still see the network drive and want to play around with it.

For me it works all the time on x11, on Wayland I still sometimes have some issues though.

But I was hit over the head with one, that wasn’t safe either!