VR is only usable if the game and the entire supporting stack works perfectly (graphics drivers, USB 3 controller, power management etc). There are tight framerate/latency requirements and everything goes through intricate off-screen rendering as VR headsets don't pretend to be an additional monitor anymore.
This leads to two classes of major problems: total failure (crashing outright) and stuttering (low framerate, high latency, or occasional "hiccups"). These are equally unacceptable (stuttering ruins VR and can make you feel ill).
It is difficult enough to avoid these issues on Windows where the OS vendor, the graphics card vendor, the motherboard vendor, the game developer, and the VR rendering API developer are focusing their attention and releasing frequent patches to fix VR issues. There seems to be a general opinion that an Nvidia GPU on Windows 10 is the standard VR development target. If VR doesn't work perfectly for you on Linux, it's going to be a pain to sort it out, assuming that's even possible without hoping a third party releases an updated binary blob in the future.
Valve does pay attention to Linux and provide SteamVR support, but they haven't officially released Half-Life: Alyx for Linux yet. They will probably release more information about compatibility when they do.
Adobe definitely keeps people off of linux, although it is a shake, because linux or not, their software is terrible for most things compared to alternatives.
PC gamers. Graphic designers who can't afford a Mac workstation. 3D artists who use 3rd party render software such as Octane. I'm sure there are many other groups that I'm unfamiliar with.
Baring games with anticheat you can play pretty much any game release within the last 20+ years with Wine + Proton + DXVK/D9VK. Usually with minimal fussing. You can check out ProtonDB[1] to see if you favorite game works.
I tried Ubuntu for the first time in years last month. At first I was pretty happy with it, but gradually I grew frustrated. Every time I would install a new library in R (statistical programming language) I would have to spend 10-15 minutes trying to figure out why it didn't work. I'd end up in this deep rabbit hole of missing dependencies that I never had a problem with in MacOS or windows
The setup process for Arch is challenging, but it can be a rewarding exercise if you want to have a better understanding of how a Linux system is put together. It's like Linux from Scratch, but less time consuming, and you end up with a system that you can actually use when you're finished.
But yeah, once it's set up, and you've figured out how things typically work in Arch (e.g. you install a package first, but nothing is enabled by default - you have to decide how you want it to start), it's a great system. You'll learn how to actually use systemd, and will generally have a better feel for how everything is supposed to function, which will make you better at investigating things when they break, or when they don't work out of the box, even on other systems.
Also the Arch wiki is an amazing resource regardless of what you're running.
I don't necessarily have any reservations about recommending Arch to a beginner, but you do have to be curious and willing to learn. People who tried Linux and then got frustrated because some piece of software didn't work quite right out of the box probably wouldn't enjoy using Arch.
Manjaro takes the edge off Arch.
After having tended my Arch garden for a year or so (very grateful for all the learning) I’m happy with the balance of some handholding without losing the AUR.
This probably isn't the advice you're after, but you can install CRAN packages from the Ubuntu archive. apt install r-cran-<whatever>.
I haven't actually used R much, but this might be less error prone than downloading the packages from the web. TeX packages from CTAN can also be installed in a similar way which I know works pretty well.
For future reference the package r-base-dev includes all of the tools needed to build R packages on Linux. The R maintainers should really do a better job of publicizing this. (It's not even included in recommends/suggests for r-base!)
Edit: To clarify, r-base-dev is a .deb package, not an R package.
Every time I try a Linux desktop, I find it unpleasant and/or time consuming to use. If I use it for long enough that I get used to it, it's a breath of fresh air when I do go back to macOS or Windows. They just don't have the UI/UX polish I want.
Agreed, it’s telling that all the discussions about switching to Linux get right to “... and all you need to do it compile your own trackpad, WiFi, and display drivers. Sleep doesn’t quite work and scaling on HiDPI is still broken, but at least you’re not using Windows...”
Linux guys, I love you, I really do, but please spare a thought for those of us whose jobs and personal commitments don’t permit us to tweak our set-ups ad infinitum before you recommend the switch. Computers are fun, but we also need to get work done.
Have you actually tried installing Linux on a computer recently, or just read discussions? If you've actually tried it and ran into issues that required you to compile your own drivers, either you're using a user-hostile (users != programmers) distro like Arch or you might have just gotten unlucky. None of the computers I've used with Linux over the past nine years have had more than two small issues (all of which I was able to fix within a few days), and two of my boxes had no issues at all. Hardware support in Linux is so much better than it was two decades ago.
I wouldn't say that Linux maintenance is completely smooth
for me, but if something happens it's usually due to my own
poor attention.
OTOH Windows 10 is determined to force its updates on me at
the most inconvenient times. Once I left Windows 10 to update over night, to be greeted with grub rescue screen in the morning. Took me most of the next day to fix things.
Linux isn't perfect but at least it doesn't break everything and I'm the one in control of things.
I started working remotely on my home desktop due to Covid. I bought a webcam for meetings. On Linux it usually works fine, except about 20% of the time it crashes and can't be brought back up.
I can fix _that_ issue with a script that disables and re-enables the USB hub it's part of, but that script, in turn, causes the kernel-mode uvcvideo driver to crash with a null pointer exception about 40% of the time I run it. Once I get in this state, a reboot is the only way I can find to fix the issue.
Not a distro thing -- it happens in both Ubuntu and Fedora as well as with a stock kernel built from the latest git source.
Webcam is working 100% fine with no issues on Windows.
Totally agree, just wanted to point out that I've been running Arch on multiple desktops & laptops for years and never had to compile a driver before. Maybe that's a thing for niche hardware but pretty much everything just works, even on Arch.
That's the reason I use linux. I need to get work done.
I guess I could do it on windows but it's much more convenient on linux to set up a working environment and lots of the tools I use are already there.
How is it possible to ship OS without tens of thousands of packages? Programming languages, libraries, utilities. Everything works, installs without dialogs, EULAs, automatically updates.
It is not consumer OS, it is mega IDE. It has special place for /include and /lib, logs and man(). It boots if UI broken. It stores everything valuable in $HOME so one can easily move to a new host.
It just happens Ubuntu paper decorations can't protect users from factory floor they are covering. You'd better either don't touch them or move them away.
PS: I'm certainly not against improvements. But home decoration differs from factory organization, and truck is not family car.
Yeah, not mentioned in my comment, but I routinely use Linux on the command line, and it's great. It's just when I try to use a desktop environment that it breaks down for me.
This is my anecdote, but when using crummy old printers and scanners I've had a lot more luck with Ubuntu just working out of the box with them (with maybe a selection dialog), but I had to hunt down and download the driver software on the Internet on Windows 7. With Windows 10 I've had a better experience where it has generally found drivers through Windows Update. So drivers are mixed bag on any OS, I think.
As someone who uses Linux as their main OS, I can tell you a few:
1. Ugly UIs: Of all the distros I've tried, the only one that doesn't make me wanna gouge my eyes out is Ubuntu. Most Linux users seem to have accustomed to ugly UIs to the point that they don't notice their ugliness anymore.
2. Bad UX: I've been using Gnome shell for 2 years and I still don't understand it. I never remember if ALT+TAB switches between groups of windows or between windows, or between windows in the same group. Or was that ALT+ESC?. I've never had such issues on Windows. Am I just too stupid for Gnome?
Also, why do I have to edit 2 obscure files (from the POV of a regular user) in order to have a simple 'show desktop' button in my taskbar?
Also, why do I have to install an external application (Gnome tweak tool) to disable mouse acceleration? And if you're not on Gnome, good luck trying to use libinput (used by Linux Mint and Ubuntu Mate) directly, because for some bizarre reason the "flat acceleration profile" setting is ignored if you're using a touchpad.
Also, why do I have to install an external plugin and edit an obscure file to have audio compression/normalization when Windows has a single checkbox that reads "Enable audio normalization"
Also, why does PulseAudio start to crackle each time I open reader mode on Firefox?
* Note: You can choose a desktop environment with decent UX, but it will look ugly (xfce). Or you can choose a DE that looks good but has bad UX (Gnome Shell with Ubuntu customizations)
3. If the app you want isn't in your distro repos, you have 2 choices:
a) Install a ppa whose server doesn't work anymore, so now each time you update your repos, there'll be ugly warnings about the dead server. Now you have to Google "how to remove ppa" and choose between 5 articles telling you 5 different ways to do it.
b) download a .tar.gz and spend 1 hour installing the right dependencies the right way, and then 'make'ing and 'make install'ing only to find that there's some obscure error.
After all of this, I still use Linux because I think Windows is slightly worse overall. But would totally understand why some people still choose Windows.
>Agree. I can't understand why anyone is still on windows or mac os. The world does not make sense.
Because the average person is a moron, that's how we have steam, mmo's, uplay, origin, etc. DRM and windows 10 with drm in it is a sign of idiocracy.
Remember there was a time when there was no steam, origin, uplay, aka we got honestly coded software, complete games with dedicated servers and level editors. That stopped because the companies realizing their customers were computer illiterate morons beyond their wildest imagination.
The average person is not a moron. The average person has a job and a family not related to computer science and does not want to spend 8+ hours editing configuration files and compiling drivers just so they can print a poster for their daughter's graduation.
You don't seem to understand any piece of software that is running between two computers, means you no longer own your machine and they can do whatever they want to it, you are running corporately hacked software. The level of stupid comming out of HN commentariat is alarming.
You're literally buying internet dongle enabled software, aka something someone stupid would be doing. Imagine in the 90's you bought a PC and windows required a second disc and an ethernet cable coupled to the back of a staples store you bought it in.
That's "software as a service", aka something morons would do. Whenever you don't get a complete piece of software you are literally being robbed, the fact Hacker news commentators think themselves "hackers" while supporting defective software, means your brains aren't working.
The idea that having microsoft and big companies ability to spy on everything you do is somehow enlightened is nonsense, you're an idiot building a turnkey tyranny, if politics ever goes south all these companies will have all the data they want about you and your behavior and you'll morn the day you gave away your basic rights to privacy for stupid consumer convenience.
i had a time sensitive mission critial task for work a few months ago. had to reboot and windows 10 began a forced automatic update. the next day i installed debian and i have not looked back, its a glorious feeling to have control of my own computer again!!! very stable and very fast. it used to take me like 10 seconds to open phpstorm (turns out that's windows defender at work). takes 1s on linux. try it!!!
The Year of the Linux Desktop will be 10 years after you can set up a Linux desktop, including installing all the software you need, without opening the terminal. Anyone who distributes software for Linux end users but doesn't include a one-click installer should keep this in mind.
Great! We're like a year away from that then. I remember installing Ubuntu in 2011 with no issues. It installed with Windows using a burned CD, and had a store that I could download everything from. Updates were via gui. Of course I played with the terminal because I was a geek, but a layman could use and update the computer with absolutely no issue.
It already is essentially free. I did a full install the other day on a new computer build and didn’t need a key. All it does is put an always on, fairly innocuous message in the lower right corner of the screen.
I’ve become increasingly annoyed with this trend. Apple is doing it too on iOS, though the ads are all for first party products. If you use Apple News you can’t turn off all the teaser headlines for News+. If you use 4Gb of your free iCloud storage you’ll be pestered with “Upgrade” notifications.
Similarly, it’s a little more expected on the web, but I used to have YouTube Premium and now that I’ve canceled, every new YouTube session has a pitch for premium.
Oh don't worry, even if you never showed one iota of interest in Youtube Premium and skip every single annoying popup related to it - you'll still get asked every single time you open the app.
Deezloader is quite a miracle in that regard btw. after so many years there still are the ways to illegally download music from the legal service and that is just... something.
I'm a Spotify Premium user and it still annoys me with a modal popup pitching something stupid every now and again. Not very often at all, maybe once every few months, but still.
I have had premium since 2011 and aside from the occasional oddball popup for a concert near me (which is always based on what I listen to), I never get ads. What exactly are you seeing?
Whats not to get? He doesnt want ads and doesnt want premium so he leaves. Seems like the freemium product is working in separating the paying customers and the never-will-buys via annoyance.
Install Telegram. Open up a chat with you favorite music downloaded bot and listen whatever you want for free on the go. It steams but also caches what you already listened so it's pretty much better than anything you could easily fire up without spending a weekend.
I've never gotten an ad for anything in iOS, but I also do not use iCloud or Apple Music or Apple TV. At least the ads seem to be contained within their own apps, then.
I think for established public orgs this really is the nature of public pressure for constant growth.
People have to show numbers and eventually a couple ads here or there is just a little white lie for a solid couple of percent. And it's totally cool because everyone else is doing it wink. And then it becomes normalized and suddenly Hulu premium is showing ads on every show.
I think Hulu was the last subscription service I ever paid for, years ago.
I don't have any ads on my Windows 10 desktop, so how is it not the same? Apparently I must have disabled them all. The implication of throwing up a link to distrowatch and claiming "pick a flavor" is that you won't have this kind of issue with Linux. When in fact even if you choose a distro without ads you may find yourself upgrading one day and surprise! There are ads all of a sudden!
Sadly the year of Linux on the desktop has yet to arrive.
Last time I tried a Linux distro on my NUC6i7KYK wifi was going down every few minutes, despite upgrading to latest drivers and support for 200% magnification of the UI on my 4k monitor was pretty bad.
The Linux driver situation will be the same until it becomes more popular. Most hardware works and some doesn't, and older hardware works better than newer hardware because popular hardware whose vendors suck often have better drivers produced by the community eventually.
This is only a minor inconvenience because it means you have to choose the right hardware. It becomes a major inconvenience if you choose the wrong hardware, but nobody is forcing you to do that and you can always sell your thing and buy a different thing.
> This is only a minor inconvenience because it means you have to choose the right hardware. It becomes a major inconvenience if you choose the wrong hardware
So, year of linux on the desktop is not here yet..
Ubuntu did this for a while with embedded Amazon ads, and this cycle they seem to be experimenting with Windows 10 style non-negotiable automatic updates on their schedule via the Snap store.
I highly recommend Linux, but I'd go with something else (Debian, Fedora, Arch, depending on your comfort level), at least until they correct this mistake.
Clearly, this is a far more intrusive alternative than web advertising.
Many advertisers surely love the idea of being able to advertise "from below the application layer," via the operating system itself, using ever bit of data they can collect directly from you, from the heart of your computer, bypassing browsers, ad-blockers, firewalls, ISPs, etc.
Looks like this is the inevitable future -- I mean, present -- of Windows, Android, and iOS.
It's almost like humanity is too stupid to understand when you buy criminally coded stolen software as a service, you will get screwed.
The fact that parts of the OS functionality are living on some remote server is a sign of idiocracy.
Steam, origin, uplay, epic games store, Windows 10, are all signs humanity is stupid.
Watching the entire tech community steal software from the public beginning in 1997 with ultima online was enlightening.
No one should complain about windows 10 ads, you literally bought an OS that is fraudulently coded, there is no reason for any OS to be client-server. It's exactly the same as buying windows 95 or XP with missing files and a missing CD/DVD that they didn't give you which is sitting in some remote servers drive.
Why would anyone buy an incomplete piece of software or software that can be disabled remotely unless they were stupid about a corporations intent? Which is what windows 10 is by the way, why would you buy a PC which microsoft literally can tell you what you can and what you can't do with your computing device?
You don't seem to get the entire tech industry knows mots of our species is stupid, they can't believe how dumb humanity is. That's why they celebrating the death of software ownership and the gullibility of humans.
The idea of using reason against itself so that you can conflate two separate categories; feelings and emotions is fundamentally wrong. Every step you take down the emotionality path away from the mind, is a step towards pools of emotion being sucked up into heirarchy and class.
Mommy will be there at the end of the day to clean up the garbage wilfully dumb people create and she will freeze emotional hearts still with enough guilt that the heart can no longer beat without permission.
If thats the road you want to take so that you can spend a few years playing with the toys lying around, then at least make another Simpsons show so that the dumb can self signal their mindless emotional state non-destructively to the rest of us and we wont have to forcefully limit the zombie invasion.
I love Windows 10 except for the ads and the intrusive spyware installed. This is why I stopped being a .NET developer and went all in on open source stuff. Switched to Ubuntu and Fedora and today they are so good there is really no reason to use Windows for most folks.
My dad now uses Ubuntu, he doesn't seem to really notice any big difference since he mostly use the web browser anyway. My grandma uses Ubuntu and my mother used to but now have a Macbook.
The only negative thing with running linux is that some hardware has much worse support still to this day.
I admit you need to uninstall a bunch of crap when you first install Windows 10. That sure sucks but its not a Windows thing. You get default apps on every platform and the more of an "advanced" user you are the more likely you will need to replace them. For a majority of people these apps are however what they will use so kinda makes sense to have them preinstalled. Even for games, people would find it weird if no game was present. Every windows they can remember had games preinstalled.
Anyway simply remove what you don't need including OneDrive and you will not get ads or notification. Lock screen and stat menu can be configured to not show tips or recommended apps. The store itself can even be de-installed (if you don't need it). Obviously everything is opt-out but that has been the case since ever.
PS: There are powershell scripts to automate cleanup if you have to do this regularly its just a github search away.
It certainly is if you can find any platform that comes with Debian.
You may pick your distro and even pick predefined software collections you want to have installed or simply install only the core. But really thats not the point. You can build your personal windows 10 image an replace the default apps too.
You can not compare the debian software repository with a windows 10 image. I do not need to buy new hardware often because Debian runs nice even on very old hardware.
I type this on a computer 14 years old, that just got apt-get dist-upgrade since then. You can not do that with Windows.
You completely an intentionally missing the point or my post. And on top of that your "Facts" are simply wrong
-There are software repository for windows wit GUI or CLI
-I have a T60 it's about 14 years old it runs the last version of Windows 10 just fine.
-There is no special hardware necessarily at all. Some super old CPUs may lack NX, PAE or SSE2 and thus would not run anything after Win7. but that's irrelevant machines with such old CPUs can not even render a modern website in a useful time no matter what OS is running underneath.
I know this is three years old, but my question remains the same (for lack of data) – Is this localized to non-Pro or Enterprise editions of Windiws 10?
I haven't seen this behavior anywhere on my machine. Then again, I don't use any of the default applications, and I've spent many an hour going through every tiny setting wrt privacy/analytics settings.
The only place I've seen this crop up is a relative's computer which is the Home edition.
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 193 ms ] threadI'm starting to look into a Valve Index setup on a Linux gaming PC. But I'm unclear about what kind of VR goodness I'd miss by avoiding Windows 10.
This leads to two classes of major problems: total failure (crashing outright) and stuttering (low framerate, high latency, or occasional "hiccups"). These are equally unacceptable (stuttering ruins VR and can make you feel ill).
It is difficult enough to avoid these issues on Windows where the OS vendor, the graphics card vendor, the motherboard vendor, the game developer, and the VR rendering API developer are focusing their attention and releasing frequent patches to fix VR issues. There seems to be a general opinion that an Nvidia GPU on Windows 10 is the standard VR development target. If VR doesn't work perfectly for you on Linux, it's going to be a pain to sort it out, assuming that's even possible without hoping a third party releases an updated binary blob in the future.
Valve does pay attention to Linux and provide SteamVR support, but they haven't officially released Half-Life: Alyx for Linux yet. They will probably release more information about compatibility when they do.
Baring games with anticheat you can play pretty much any game release within the last 20+ years with Wine + Proton + DXVK/D9VK. Usually with minimal fussing. You can check out ProtonDB[1] to see if you favorite game works.
1. https://www.protondb.com/
Dont buy the hype that arch is hard, its a really simple system imo.
But yeah, once it's set up, and you've figured out how things typically work in Arch (e.g. you install a package first, but nothing is enabled by default - you have to decide how you want it to start), it's a great system. You'll learn how to actually use systemd, and will generally have a better feel for how everything is supposed to function, which will make you better at investigating things when they break, or when they don't work out of the box, even on other systems.
Also the Arch wiki is an amazing resource regardless of what you're running.
I don't necessarily have any reservations about recommending Arch to a beginner, but you do have to be curious and willing to learn. People who tried Linux and then got frustrated because some piece of software didn't work quite right out of the box probably wouldn't enjoy using Arch.
I haven't actually used R much, but this might be less error prone than downloading the packages from the web. TeX packages from CTAN can also be installed in a similar way which I know works pretty well.
Edit: To clarify, r-base-dev is a .deb package, not an R package.
Pretty convenient, has a ribbon interface same as MS Office. Honestly I can't even tell the difference.
Except for one thing: It doesn't take as long to start, and doesn't require a supercomputer to run with a decent performance.
Lotus 1-2-3 or Quattro Pro on a 286 feels faster than Excel.
LibreOffice, Caligra Office (formerly KOffice) and Gnome Office (Abiword, Gnumeric) are not quite there yet.
Linux guys, I love you, I really do, but please spare a thought for those of us whose jobs and personal commitments don’t permit us to tweak our set-ups ad infinitum before you recommend the switch. Computers are fun, but we also need to get work done.
OTOH Windows 10 is determined to force its updates on me at the most inconvenient times. Once I left Windows 10 to update over night, to be greeted with grub rescue screen in the morning. Took me most of the next day to fix things.
Linux isn't perfect but at least it doesn't break everything and I'm the one in control of things.
I can fix _that_ issue with a script that disables and re-enables the USB hub it's part of, but that script, in turn, causes the kernel-mode uvcvideo driver to crash with a null pointer exception about 40% of the time I run it. Once I get in this state, a reboot is the only way I can find to fix the issue.
Not a distro thing -- it happens in both Ubuntu and Fedora as well as with a stock kernel built from the latest git source.
Webcam is working 100% fine with no issues on Windows.
How is it possible to ship OS without tens of thousands of packages? Programming languages, libraries, utilities. Everything works, installs without dialogs, EULAs, automatically updates.
It is not consumer OS, it is mega IDE. It has special place for /include and /lib, logs and man(). It boots if UI broken. It stores everything valuable in $HOME so one can easily move to a new host.
It just happens Ubuntu paper decorations can't protect users from factory floor they are covering. You'd better either don't touch them or move them away.
PS: I'm certainly not against improvements. But home decoration differs from factory organization, and truck is not family car.
I'm a fan of linux and used it as my primary OS for over a decade. Now Windows 10 is good enough and is less hassle.
1. Ugly UIs: Of all the distros I've tried, the only one that doesn't make me wanna gouge my eyes out is Ubuntu. Most Linux users seem to have accustomed to ugly UIs to the point that they don't notice their ugliness anymore.
2. Bad UX: I've been using Gnome shell for 2 years and I still don't understand it. I never remember if ALT+TAB switches between groups of windows or between windows, or between windows in the same group. Or was that ALT+ESC?. I've never had such issues on Windows. Am I just too stupid for Gnome?
Also, why do I have to edit 2 obscure files (from the POV of a regular user) in order to have a simple 'show desktop' button in my taskbar?
Also, why do I have to install an external application (Gnome tweak tool) to disable mouse acceleration? And if you're not on Gnome, good luck trying to use libinput (used by Linux Mint and Ubuntu Mate) directly, because for some bizarre reason the "flat acceleration profile" setting is ignored if you're using a touchpad.
Also, why do I have to install an external plugin and edit an obscure file to have audio compression/normalization when Windows has a single checkbox that reads "Enable audio normalization"
Also, why does PulseAudio start to crackle each time I open reader mode on Firefox?
* Note: You can choose a desktop environment with decent UX, but it will look ugly (xfce). Or you can choose a DE that looks good but has bad UX (Gnome Shell with Ubuntu customizations)
3. If the app you want isn't in your distro repos, you have 2 choices:
a) Install a ppa whose server doesn't work anymore, so now each time you update your repos, there'll be ugly warnings about the dead server. Now you have to Google "how to remove ppa" and choose between 5 articles telling you 5 different ways to do it.
b) download a .tar.gz and spend 1 hour installing the right dependencies the right way, and then 'make'ing and 'make install'ing only to find that there's some obscure error.
After all of this, I still use Linux because I think Windows is slightly worse overall. But would totally understand why some people still choose Windows.
Ubuntu is hardly manageable. It breaks once you tweak. I've switched to Arch:
* no Gnome, use simple DE
* ALSA, no audio normalization, no cracks
* AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/ - it has everything, if not building package is simple with PKGBUILD
It is beautiful under skin.
Because the average person is a moron, that's how we have steam, mmo's, uplay, origin, etc. DRM and windows 10 with drm in it is a sign of idiocracy.
Remember there was a time when there was no steam, origin, uplay, aka we got honestly coded software, complete games with dedicated servers and level editors. That stopped because the companies realizing their customers were computer illiterate morons beyond their wildest imagination.
You're literally buying internet dongle enabled software, aka something someone stupid would be doing. Imagine in the 90's you bought a PC and windows required a second disc and an ethernet cable coupled to the back of a staples store you bought it in.
That's "software as a service", aka something morons would do. Whenever you don't get a complete piece of software you are literally being robbed, the fact Hacker news commentators think themselves "hackers" while supporting defective software, means your brains aren't working.
The idea that having microsoft and big companies ability to spy on everything you do is somehow enlightened is nonsense, you're an idiot building a turnkey tyranny, if politics ever goes south all these companies will have all the data they want about you and your behavior and you'll morn the day you gave away your basic rights to privacy for stupid consumer convenience.
Similarly, it’s a little more expected on the web, but I used to have YouTube Premium and now that I’ve canceled, every new YouTube session has a pitch for premium.
I’m actually thinking about going back to pirating music and just building my own player that load things off of S3.
That’s the kicker…
As such, you're far more valuable to Spotify than its free users.
Big fan of play:Sub as a client for iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/play-sub-music-streamer/id9553...
This happened out of nowhere on an iPhone I use for development, where I've never even launched the app in question.
People have to show numbers and eventually a couple ads here or there is just a little white lie for a solid couple of percent. And it's totally cool because everyone else is doing it wink. And then it becomes normalized and suddenly Hulu premium is showing ads on every show.
I think Hulu was the last subscription service I ever paid for, years ago.
2. Choose any other distro and be done.
I was very unhappy about the shopping lens, but these two don't really play in the same league.
Last time I tried a Linux distro on my NUC6i7KYK wifi was going down every few minutes, despite upgrading to latest drivers and support for 200% magnification of the UI on my 4k monitor was pretty bad.
This is only a minor inconvenience because it means you have to choose the right hardware. It becomes a major inconvenience if you choose the wrong hardware, but nobody is forcing you to do that and you can always sell your thing and buy a different thing.
So, year of linux on the desktop is not here yet..
The HiDPI problem has improved a lot recently. On Gnome 3.36 most of my HiDPI problems have gone away.
I highly recommend Linux, but I'd go with something else (Debian, Fedora, Arch, depending on your comfort level), at least until they correct this mistake.
Many advertisers surely love the idea of being able to advertise "from below the application layer," via the operating system itself, using ever bit of data they can collect directly from you, from the heart of your computer, bypassing browsers, ad-blockers, firewalls, ISPs, etc.
Looks like this is the inevitable future -- I mean, present -- of Windows, Android, and iOS.
:-(
The fact that parts of the OS functionality are living on some remote server is a sign of idiocracy.
Steam, origin, uplay, epic games store, Windows 10, are all signs humanity is stupid.
Watching the entire tech community steal software from the public beginning in 1997 with ultima online was enlightening.
No one should complain about windows 10 ads, you literally bought an OS that is fraudulently coded, there is no reason for any OS to be client-server. It's exactly the same as buying windows 95 or XP with missing files and a missing CD/DVD that they didn't give you which is sitting in some remote servers drive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Why would anyone buy an incomplete piece of software or software that can be disabled remotely unless they were stupid about a corporations intent? Which is what windows 10 is by the way, why would you buy a PC which microsoft literally can tell you what you can and what you can't do with your computing device?
You don't seem to get the entire tech industry knows mots of our species is stupid, they can't believe how dumb humanity is. That's why they celebrating the death of software ownership and the gullibility of humans.
Mommy will be there at the end of the day to clean up the garbage wilfully dumb people create and she will freeze emotional hearts still with enough guilt that the heart can no longer beat without permission.
If thats the road you want to take so that you can spend a few years playing with the toys lying around, then at least make another Simpsons show so that the dumb can self signal their mindless emotional state non-destructively to the rest of us and we wont have to forcefully limit the zombie invasion.
My dad now uses Ubuntu, he doesn't seem to really notice any big difference since he mostly use the web browser anyway. My grandma uses Ubuntu and my mother used to but now have a Macbook.
The only negative thing with running linux is that some hardware has much worse support still to this day.
PS: There are powershell scripts to automate cleanup if you have to do this regularly its just a github search away.
This is not true for me with Debian.
You may pick your distro and even pick predefined software collections you want to have installed or simply install only the core. But really thats not the point. You can build your personal windows 10 image an replace the default apps too.
-There are software repository for windows wit GUI or CLI -I have a T60 it's about 14 years old it runs the last version of Windows 10 just fine. -There is no special hardware necessarily at all. Some super old CPUs may lack NX, PAE or SSE2 and thus would not run anything after Win7. but that's irrelevant machines with such old CPUs can not even render a modern website in a useful time no matter what OS is running underneath.
I haven't seen this behavior anywhere on my machine. Then again, I don't use any of the default applications, and I've spent many an hour going through every tiny setting wrt privacy/analytics settings.
The only place I've seen this crop up is a relative's computer which is the Home edition.