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    [–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (33 children)

    I am one of those people.

    I'm sorry but I can't dedicate the time. Last time I tried to install it for someone else I went down a 5h rabbit hole of finding a driver for a scanner, and I was at the point where I had custom pkg repositories and needed to fix pkg dependency conflicts myself and I don't have the OS knowledge to do all this, and I didn't have time because I had to travel back again.

    When I tried installing it for myself, I was missing critical software for a variety of things. For example, there's no good DAW on Linux, and even if there was, lots of VST plugins are only Linux compatible. Things like Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects have no solid alternative to this day for Linux and hence I'm struggling to replace them. Blender is on Linux (obv) but for example render engines usually only come with software for windows.

    And then there's a bunch of things where I'm not sure how compatible they are even if they were to run on Linux. Office uses proprietary file format constraints to lock down their ecosystem. Sucks, but everyone uses it, so I'm stuck. Unreal Engine, lots games, my audio interface, drivers for obscure small devices I need? I just don't know and I have to dedicate time to researching all of it.

    I hope you can see why someone like me has a very hard time just switching over. Yes I can just pull the plug and do it, but I will get no work done for a solid 2 weeks and even after that I will be heavily constrained.

    And this all on top of the fact that I regularly set up Linux VMs for specific things which break way too often on regular use. Which also does not spark joy.

    I hope you can understand why I'm fine debloating windows with Chris Titus for half an hour and then just enjoying 4 years on it without worrying about all of that is easier.

    And believe me, I bought a notebook and will try to go CachyOS x KDE Plasma on that, but it will be an experiment and I have lots of doubt that this can replace my setup.

    [–] HugeStone8574@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 days ago (6 children)

    Funny how people write a long essay why they stay on Windows, claiming what a hassle it is to set up Linux. Sure, you might know how do deal with Windows, but don't expect that other systems work the same way. Windows is the odd one.

    If you depend on Windows-only software, there is nothing wrong with sticking to it. Use the system that fits your needs the most.

    [–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    What other systems do you think the average user comes into contact with that shares a usage paradigm with Linux?

    [–] me_jumper@infosec.pub 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)
    [–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Nope. Seriously nope.

    Yes, it has a bash shell if you need it, but Windows does too.

    Yes, it's based on an unixoid kernel, but that kernel is not Linux and the average user has no idea what a kernel is, nor would they want to.

    Having a MacOS device means it comes pre-setup by the manufacturer with an OS that's 100% compatible to the hardware, where you don't have to think about drivers at all, where all the software needed just runs without any hacks or hassle. There's none of the tinkering involved that you'd need on Linux.

    And I say this as a Linux user who can't stand touching Macs.

    But these two OSes are not at all in the same category.

    [–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    But I use docker to write my react apps! Totally the same thing!

    Even with containers being easy apple fucked up file performance because of apfs and windows is the far better choice.

    [–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

    Ahh right the. 01% of users actually using Unix on their Mac minis 🀣

    Immediately you all go out to edge cases that pretty much only developers and maybe some days folks run into 🀣.

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