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Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows 11 than on native Linux PCs, says Canonical
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This is happening because Linux is the default OS for servers, robots, machines, etc., it just sucks balls for normie personal computing, so they'll use Winblows for the basic stuff, and WSL for the server-centric tasks.
Ubuntu can make it as toddler-centric as it wants, it won't change the fact that eventually a person will find a thing their machine won't do without an on-staff geek.
If they have heart, they'll try chasing the black screen into the depths of google oblivion or use AI for infinitely recirculating bad advice. It's ironic that a LLM running on a Linux server can't fix Linux.
Most people will punt and go back to Microsucks which grows more evil and abusive every day.
I'm just mad I can't get any of my file-management containers to work properly.
Tell me one thing that is harder to do on Linux than on Windows nowadays. Something coming from OS itself, not from hostile vendor the community managed to patch support for.
print something on a piece of paper.
Harder with windows
That is literally impossible to say, as you said, "hostile vendors" and all. I've had a chance to think about it, and I'm not sure they're hostile, probably just lazy. At any rate, I sense some willful blindness on your part; exactly the kind of thing I was saying holds back progress. You type some terse retort and push your keyboard away, satisfied you've told some stupid normie off- I'm not the one on the wrong side of the philosophical fence here, and my argument is not unique or new.
I'm not sure how you're getting all that from sharing my experience that adding printers in windows is harder than in Linux, in my experience.
There are lots of examples where windows is way easier -- music production comes to mind as stupidly difficult in Linux compared to windows.
Printing is simply a case where Linux wins hands down, and has for years.
Was the last time you used any Linux distro 30 years ago? Shit is basically plug n play nowadays...
My self-hosted services run on a repurposed thinkstation with a headless Debian install.
I had a Mint VM I loaded up with stuff - bottles, etc. It was all going pretty well, the install was almost as big as winblows which I wasn't excited about, but I really like Mint. I had a Linux Lite VM i was using for a separate secure connection to my work vnc. I didn't want my personal computer being legally discoverable just because I used it to connect to the mothership. On both of those, I wasn't doing a lot of sharing, printing, or other intermediate or hardware tasks.
For what I was doing, it worked pretty mostly fine. There was always a level of tinkering that is beyond what a normie would be willing or able to do. I do get tired of having to manually enter the commands to make the distro display correctly on my ultrawide monitor, but it is understandable.
I don't hate Linux. I like it. It has gotten a lot better in the last 20 years; I've watched it happen. There are just some things that remain frustrating, especially since I'm too dumb to remember CLI along with all the other things I know.
the children in my life were able to connect to our printer with no help on Linux. Was there supposed to be a challenge here? IME, works as simply or simpler than the same setup wizards in Windows.
To be fair to your point, windows does seem to be biased toward HP products - I have a really nice Canon $100 laser printer that makes any HP look like dogvomit, and windows is awfully forgetful, acting like they haven't met on the rare occasions I have to use it.
Printers in general are a nightmare, good reason for all the hate.