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[–] donut4ever@lemm.ee 24 points 3 years ago

I get shit done on Linux, too.

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[–] FoxBJK@midwest.social 19 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Guess it depends on the industry. I'm a web developer so it doesn't matter what OS I use, and frankly it's far easier to install and configure the tools I need on Linux than it is on Windows. I can leave a Linux system online for weeks at a time, which in some cases is the entire length of a contract.

Windows is good, but it requires just as much training as any other system to become a real power user.

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[–] couragethebravedog@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I disagree. If you consider a power user using PowerShell or terminal, then sure. But simple things on windows are more complex on Linux. Like installing a program, if you can do it through snap or apt get then great, still more complex for the average user compared to windows where you just download and click.

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[–] kier@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

Literally it's just download and click.

From the Store if it's there, or from the application website.

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[–] couragethebravedog@lemmy.world -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

No it's not, if it's not on the store (outside of Ubuntu does a store even exist?) then it's more difficult to install. Half the time it's an appimage you have to download, make it executable and then run. Then if you install it from a website you have to go through the trouble of adding a shortcut into your application menu / desktop and it's just way more complex than Windows.

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[–] barfplanet@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago

The repositories for the big distros are so full that you rarely need to ever install anything that isn't already there for you. I use a crapload of software, and I have literally one thing that I've installed that I downloaded from the internet. All updates are handled by the package manager, so there aren't dozens of services running to check for updates. Installing software on linux was already so much easier, byt Flatpak and SNAP have made it absurdity simple.

On windows, you literally go to some website download an executable, and run it. Every time I need to do it for work, I'm shocked that it's such a messy and insecure setup.

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[–] skookumasfrig@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 years ago

For most things, Linux just works. There are specialized apps like cad packages, graphic design and such that are very problematic on Linux but most of it is fine. Just look at how successful Chromebooks are. They're all Linux.

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[+] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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[–] neveraskedforthis@lemmy.world 8 points 3 years ago

That's funny, that's the reason I ditched Windows completely. The workflow is just so bad on it.

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[+] stappern@lemmy.one 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

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[–] null@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Sure, and once you've clicked through the "finish setting up windows" pop up that inexplicably appears every few reboots, done the mandatory updates it keeps nagging you about and threatening to reboot if you happen to walk away for too long, and cleared out all the ads in your notifications, you can get right to it!

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