Exactly. With youtube’s shitty tutorial search functions ever since they removed dislikes, i kinda need to see the start of the video to know if its even relevant. But no. Full on 2-3 pre-video ads.

Wont it be able to take screenshots of my desktop and such?

Is this actually true withoit using wayland?

Well im having quite some troubles with it often. Msoffice has some annoying anti features related to automatically changing my keyboard layout, but still works better.

What program do you use for filling pdf files in RTL languages? For me no program works properly except adobe pdf.

Well, for one, there is a difference between using your pc for work or for your hobbies/free time. There are a lot of foss drivers for devices not officially supported on linux. However, since this is your job, you probably have no reason to rely on those when windows just works.

And about the windows-only software, some probably work on linux through wine. However, since this is what they make a living out of, they have no reason to even try that. Windows works for them, why waste time?

On my personal, non-job related pc, i have ran many windows-only apps or windows only peripherals when i made the switch. Overtime i need those less and less (either due to new alternatives or linux support being added).

Most people use their computer solely for browsing the web and looking at images/videos, which linux is completely capable of. Next most used thing is office suites and printing - as long as you dont need to use right-to-left languages, the office suites are completely sufficient. Printers are dependent on the manufacturer, but most work, some with even less problems than on windows.

Now when we jump to the more niche areas, it depends on the area and your needs. Programming is obviously flawless on linux. Photoshoping images should be good enough for hobbyists, but not for some proffesionals. Video editing is really good for all levels, except fpr adobe products (davinchi and KDEnlive for example). Gaming works pretty well, and is improving over time. Other niche fields have linux support/alternatives, or their products may work through wine/proton.

At the end of the day, you can do basically anything on linux, not necessarily with the exact same tools as on windows.

Perhaps second times are different, reinstalls are different, or they changed it. I definitely sae on a friend’s computer how many different things dedault to Edge.

Same. Those companies abuse the fact they control the platform to push all of their other products. Nowadays to compete with a microsoft product in a fair way you also need to develope a popular deskrop OS, an office suite, cloud services and multiple programmong environments, because each of their products keeps pushing the other peoducts, and the platform control part simply gives them advantages only they can have.

On windows 10 its 1 click away only for Edge. For any other browser the settings page is opened and you do it feom there. Now, for me and you the settings page is the most trivial thing to operate, but for others it might not be.

On windows 11 they have broken down the default browser to a million default settings, and you need to change each and every one individually.

In google pixel a chrome-like search bar is stuck to every page on your homescreen, takes a full row, and very accidently clickable. You need to change the OS or launcher to stop this.

And then some things on all of those systems will always open eith chrome/Edge with no non hackish way of changing that.

But then you have windows 11 where it takes about 5-10 whole minutes to get rid of all the defaults that point to Edge, and even then some things, like help pages links and the start menu’s search bar will keep openning Edge.

You of couse have google phones where chrome and google search are shoved to each one of your home pages and to the global phone search bar.

At that point you need to wonder - are people just being lazy, or do those companies make it just hard enough, and often impossible, to not use their pre-defined defaults?

Personalized ads are never wrong!

I wonder if their chat AI is sophisticated enough for her to realize the life mistakes that led her to this point and start working towards having a better life.

Some of these dont really ship worldwide. Not all of them offer a good bang for the buck in terms of hardware specs, and big companies sometimes offer more options (system76 traditionally didnt offer screens over FHD, most laptops are only 14"…).

Dont worry, the market will simply regulate itself.

I understood the problems are about security patches being late there, and the freeze periods. Why not usw unstable?

Dont those companies that collect your data always keep stressing how much they dont directly sell your data so third parties cant actually know its you?

Opera is chromium based though.

You dont even need this DRM bullshit to become law. Chrome will simply put a warning before entering websites without it that goes “this website doesnt use name of a technology the user doesnt understand and therefore might be dangerous”. Thats it. Every and all websites will immediatly implement this DRM bullshit or die.

The problem is that the ones that will benefit from AI taking over are the big companies that create such AIs - Google, Meta, Apple. They will grow exponentially by having AIs work for them 24/7. So its not like himanity as a whole will grow, it will just be these companies, and they will slowly become the rulers of humanity.

I never used siduction, im juat aware of its existence. I think they add some stability(=reliability) on top of sid and also keep updating packages during sid’s freezes. Dont quote me on this.

My best middle ground is openSUSE tumbleweed. It is a rolling release but very reliable. Its not bleeding edge. It has snapshots which function like very small stable releases every few days insteqd of every package being updated individually. Every such snapshot has automatic testing. So all in all, very stable for a rolling release.