Too much insularity is also harmful for society and yourself. Viewing different opinions, unless they teeter on the nazipedogore stuff, is not particularly that harmful. Trolls can be annoying, though, but people should not be categorised as trolls if they are simply arguing civilly and in good faith.
Free software, as defined by the fsf, preserves the users freedom to study, change and distribute the software. The right to study entails that the source code be made available: Wikipedia article. Calibre is licensed as GPL3, thus it is free software as defined by the fsf.
Visual studio code. There’s nothing else that’s anywhere near as good that doesn’t cost money. Those annoying terminal text editors just don’t do it for me. I need code autocomplete and do not understand how there exist people who have the patience to get by without it. I do not have the time to be switching tabs 20 times a second because I can’t remember function parameter overloads. That intellisense autocomplete is just too good.
Fair enough. I get that it takes to much time to setup. But it definetly is possible to get autocompletion and syntax higlighting etc. In a terminal based editor like vim.
I don’t mind spending a copule of hours setting up my development environment, since I spend so much time coding anyway. So its a trade off. But if VS code works for you, theb definetly stick with that. I used VS code alot myself but tried exploring other tools and switched to vim. But it nerver hurts to try other things out.
both GNU emacs and vim can have autocompletion powered by the same language servers that vscode uses. They support the same features (jump to definition, rename symbol under cursor etc etc) as well.
I suspect the op doesn’t realize that you need to setup plugins in order to achieve this functionality. But yes, the functionality on VS Code that provides auto complete is from Language Servers and Neovim and other editors do support the Language Server Protocol via plugins.
What are you talking about? Neovim LSP autocompletion is way faster and smoother than VSCode’s, and one of the reasons I personally have trouble working in the latter nowadays.
Luckily, I ended up signing up for Google Play Music the day it was released for $7.99/mo and that price has been grandfathered in to every change and price hike they’ve done. So now I get YouTube Music and YouTube Premium for the same price 12 years later. I don’t think I’ll ever switch music providers or stop watching YouTube if I get to keep the current price.
I don’t remember the last time I saw an ad on YouTube.
I like Cisco hardware. And if it was purely a question of routing packets, I wouldn’t consider an alternative to IOS. But… if I could run a *nix of some sort on Cisco hardware, that would be pretty neat. Opens up some other possibilities. (I REALLY wish I could just get something like a raspberry pi in a WIC card format. Cisco does make something similar, but the software is horribly locked down. I’ve rooted one, but… that didn’t really gain me anything. Everything about those Cisco boards is uncooperative.)
Snowden’s document dump proved that was not the case. He showed the techniques the NSA used to hack Cisco’s, and it involved intercepting the physical machines being shipped. They did NOT have back doors in the machines as Cisco shipped them. (Plus some specific models with bugs that the NSA took advantage of.)
Windows over Linux based OSes. The support (albeit via mass adoption) is much better. I can run almost any old software, including games. Plug in anything that’s plug and play and not worry about driver compatibility. Things tend to just work and I’m not one accidental sudo away from wrecking the whole OS.
I just disable ads, put a custom start menu in place, and I’m golden.
I’m not saying Windows doesn’t have issues, but for me personally it’s likely far less than a Linux OS.
The driver thing confuses me. What I love about Linux is I DON’T have to go on a wild search expedition for drivers or install random software to get my hardware working.
Wacom tablet just this week… plug in and works perfect on Linux.
Wasted 30 minutes getting it to work on Windows and disabling the junky software it comes with on boot.
Yep. I’ve got a Logitech mouse that always bugged out on Windows. Tried downloading their app/drivers and the install indicator just kept going and going above 100%. Completely broken.
I have a razer mouse, the OSS alternative for linux has never worked perfect.
Often times it forgets the color settings, which admittedly isnt a big deal and not life altering.
but the clutch has never worked, and considering I have hand tremors, that clutch really helped me with sniping in games on windows, and now its just a dead feature i can never use on linux.
Just sucks that the very thing I bought it for, to help me overcome a physical issue, is now functionally useless/nonexistent thanks to switching to linux.
if I knew then what I knew now I’d have just bought a cheap PoS generic mouse lol
Blaming windows because Logitech fucked up is a bit weird to me.
It’s up to the hardware company to make drivers. If they do a shit job it’s their fault not windows. If the driver isn’t working well it’s the developer who wrote it.
The only issues I’ve ever had with drivers in windows is when the company building the hardware does a bad job at it. Super rare for me anyway.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a driver issue in Linux where something straight up didn’t work, except for printers (but I’ve had printer issues with Windows and osx too, so that’s more a printer than an OS problem). I have had to find different drivers when I want some very specific feature though. Really most of my issues with Linux are just because I’m trying to do something complicated in the first place. If I had simple usage I don’t think I’d have any problems at all, vs Windows where sometimes it just randomly fucks itself up.
I use Linux as my main pc, and while things will work without looking for drivers. They don’t always have 100% of their functionality. My Logitech keyboard and mouse for example, worked without doing anything but the macro or “G” keys aren’t re-bindable by any software currently.
I like Linux but there are absolutely some driver problems with laptops. Just go on the arch wiki and search for any recent laptop and it’s quite likely that something will be slightly buggy or not working. Often there is an easy solution.
I used to think all of these too bud, trust me, but it has gotten better over the last 5 years. I did have a couple of hiccups but for the most part Ubuntu was pretty smooth. Steam makes all of your old games real easy too.
I attempted a home Linux machine about 7 years ago and had to give way over family needs. I’m now running mint on the next iteration of the family computer.
You specifically mention old software, but for older software Wine on Linux seemed very reliable to me, probably because older interfaces are better tested already. Some very old games (i.e. Win 95-XP era) worked better for me on Wine than on modern Windows out of the box.
For obscure problems I actually find it easier to solve issues on Linux. The problem with Linux support isn’t that it isn’t out there, it’s that there’s so many variations that it’s hard to know which one is right for your setup. It’s the main reason why I stick with Ubuntu forks.
I came here to say similar. macOS > all for me. I personally generally detest Windows, but I keep an install around because I want to game and don’t want getting my games to run to be a hobby. I’d much rather do most productivity types of things on Linux rather than Windows. That said, I’m far and away most productive on macOS, and the tooling there is just better for me for most things, especially given that I use an iPhone as my mobile. Just the integrations between those two would make switching either one hard, especially given it’s not nearly as good on any other platform. But honestly, even trying to use a computer without Keyboard Maestro and Launchbar just feel straight up broken to me now.
Also, people downvoting in this thread maybe didn’t read the question? “Which do you prefer?”
This will get me loads of downvotes, but Windows 10 Mail and Calendar (not Outlook) is simple yet works flawlessly and is miles ahead of Thunderbird by usability, stability and user-friendliness. On the other hand though, Ubuntu Evolution is even better and is open-source.
Interesting… what do you like better about Evolution compared to Thunderbird? I’ve never tried Evolution but am curious if it’s worth the upgrade to Win 11 to switch
I feel like Win 10 default apps just waste so much screen real estate. I’ve been using Thunderbird for years and while 5 years ago I would agree the user interface is obtuse the refresh that happened a few years back really improved things. I’ve also never had stability problems and I have thunderbird tracking 7 email accounts with hundreds of thousands of emails total (I’m a data hoarder)
Evolution on the other hand, hoo boy, I have to use it at work and despise it lol. That program gives me stability problems and frequently fails to interact with Exchange. Gives me a great excuse for missing meetings haha
Guys try out Thunderbird 115! You need to create all your stuff new I guess, because they changed so much a lot of things broke for me, but once set up, its pretty great
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