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I'm curious to hear thoughts on this. I agree for the most part, I just wish people would see the benefit of choice and be brave enough to try it out.

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[–] PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

If I could only count the number of articles that have made this argument before. Ugh. Nothing new to see here.

[–] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Mostly because not all games work on Linux. Also so far I haven't found one with a good update policy. It's either bleeding edge or an update a year.

[–] beach_pudding@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

yesterday i woke up and didnt found the settings icon in the menu. i had to sudo apt the thing (ubuntu, maybe this is a garbage distro. would fedora or deb be more stable ? ) also why would i have to look up arch documentation for a problem i had with ubuntu ? people using windows just worry about.. windows, not 90 flavours of the thing. nonetheless, windows has become bloated trash beyond win 7.

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[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

"There are 14 competing standards!"

"We should make a new one that has all the benefits of the others, and everyone can use that."

"There are now 15 competing standards!"

Rinse and repeat.

[–] Phantasm@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Argument: lack of a representative Linux distribution on Desktop setups.

" Also: Want to save your aging computer? Try these 5 Linux distributions "

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