If you don’t decide to even parse my answers, there is no good reason to argue further.

I have shown, that Ubuntu has done practices that go beyond subscriptions for extra Support, instead risking free users security. They have added Amazon ass once. They broke big parts of the os and made debugging harder by forcing a proprietary snap format, going against the decisions of users.

Ubuntu is a simple install

So is about every os by now. Ubuntu was special back in 2010 maybe. Now, no anaconda installer is the exception if you wannabe the arch btw guy, not the rule

What is the exception by now, is breaking your entire OS with a rust rewrite, forcing a propriatery package format even when the user requests the normal package from the package installer, hiding security updates behind a subscription (even if its just your email), and putting Amazon ads in the OS

When 90% of even niche Linux distros like Rhino, Vanilla or mint or Endeavour or Cachy or even fucking Artix have the same experience as Ubuntu, I’d rather recommend someone an Os that hasn’t shown it would go the Microsoft way if it had the opportunity to

So is fedora. Opensuse. Bazzite. Debian even

So why Ubuntu then?

Yes, but you can use any input device with steam, unlike the consoles where you need a controller thats partnered with the brand.

Just a heads up, you have apparently never helped any stranger.

Once they know you can help for free, they will expect this of you all the time, for free.

And the questions will be infuriating as ever. If you want to try it, just go to a beginners forum like gutefrage or your equivalent shitposting site and just answer every question on linux. No skipping.

Trust me, or if you dont at least just get a second phone number for it so you dont have to migrate to a second one once you decided that it takes a way too big toll on your mental health

bargain

only runs a15

400€

You know you can get a pixel for 500€, with 7 years of updates, right?

We tested an orange peeler on an Apple, and found that the universal peeler is better at peeling things that arent oranges

The fuck?

GNOME network monitors exists.

512MB of Ram

Arch does technically „„run”” on it™

Otherwise regarding the CPU, I would set up a gentoo with distcc on it, since you dont be daily driving the thing anyways

I love Fedora atomic, really do, but it youre a power user and need docker regularly, you cant go around doing some Atomic bullshit, which in turn breaks stuff (for me it was sddm)

But for stuff like a media center, its godly

But still, all of it implies you can get Linux on that thing in the first place, which is (especially with fake specs) very hard to guess

Sure, if someone puts in the time to sort those, great

But even at 5$ a piece, and if 1/5 work decently with Linux, you are looking at like 45$ / working piece, or even more if someone is refurbing it

For comparison: I can buy a lot of x64 (kinda nice, since arm is not as supported everywhere) thin client with way more ports, changeable memory and everything, for 30$

https://www.ebay.de/itm/306411387131?keyword=fujitsu+thin+client&relatedSearch=true

Tl:;Dr: sort of

The guy mentioned here got really lucky

the android TV had a standartised rockchip SoC which had a port for Debian, and booting externally was really easy

That’s the 1/100 chance. Even when, what are you going to do with 8 gig of rom and 1 gig ram?

Where Android 16 Open Source?

grapheneos’ attacks on other groups

Where Attack? The worst Graphene ever did was say that they don’t support certain Phones like FP because they are not updating their OS to their liking

Are you gonna go to Qubes OS next and complain that they are attacking laptop manufacturers (don’t officially support Laptops because they don’t have an open source UEFI)?

Great, but when kbigscreen.

I need a decent Chromecast replacement

Thats what I mean, in the last few weeks/months, there was no big thing that win users needed to be able to switch.

Linux in a vacuum is a great OS, and what it cant do in the context of Windows is more a „Proprietary formats and software being Industry standard” problem than a Linux problem.

I’m not saying that everyone should just abandon the standards , but that if you need to have these standards, nothing is going to change in a production envoirment that magically makes Linux work for you (in home you can argue about VMs and proton, but that’s not a valid tactic for companies), and you need to keep using windows.

And the other way around, if you don’t need any of these standards, you don’t have any reason to still use Windows, except that you don’t want to change.

This.

For Years, you had the Option to use Linux. Since the release of the win 11 beta, Linux has not made any relevant big steps. The leopards have simply decided to eat your face this time.

A refugee would be someone losing their home in a bombing. A windows 10 turned Linux user is more like a Trump voter turned no kings protestor because he though sending the government emails will sure stop the anti trans laws.

And no, sOmE uSeRs hAvE tO uSe WinDoWs is not an argument. If everyone who was still on windows until now was reliant on it, why are they installing and switching to Linux? Every new Linux user is someone who was simply too ignorant to install it.

you do not want to fiddle with settings or command lines

Kinda the reverse for me

I need to fiddle with Massgrave and various debloat scripts to run win

Your applications/games only work well on native Windows

Windows for docker, winboat, etc

serious group policy support or other device/software lockdown methods

I would argue sudo and normal file permissions do the same

Makes helping Windows users harder

???

Are the banking apps still blocked?

Depends on the app.

You can just install Googles Camera without Gservices if you want

is the only difference the syntax ? How libraries interact? How disks are mounted ?

Ah, yes.

You know, the things you just mentioned ARE the basic differences. As long as both work on the same architecture, and none reinvent the wheel, everything is the same.

And as long as you don’t reinvent the computer and make a new assembly and binary, a kernel and libraries will be the most effective ways to work.

Its like saying „what is the difference between python and c++ anyway? If we just strip away everything differentiating the 2, we just get a programming lang.

And yes, I would prefer Linux, for the same reason a python Dev prefers python and a C++ Dev prefers C++: because I’m Used to the syntax and the quirks of Linux. I don’t want to jump back to the ungodly CLI of cmd, powershell and everything else. I have learned the ins and outs of Linux, and that’s how its gonna stay.