Why wait for Microsoft to catch up with what we’ve been doing for decades?
Get Plasma, a modern, fully functional, clean, privacy-respecting, non-intrusive operating system now, regardless from where you live and ditch Windows for good.
Why wait for Windows to change when you can get Linux? ;)
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I love Linux and the community surrounding it. I love the flexibility, the privacy and the way Debian lets me choose my desktop environment at login.
But all of us know why people still use windows. It’s because you don’t have to install four different distros until you find one that detects your Bluetooth mouse.
Let’s not kid ourselves.
That hasn’t been true in a long long long long time and you damn well know it.
Two weeks ago is not a long long long long time in my book. Lenovo ThinkPad silent mouse and a ThinkPad X13 Gen2. Fedora: no. Ubuntu: surprisingly no. I forget which one I tried next before Debian finally detected it. Do you want to talk about fingerprint readers working out of the box?
Also, if you live outside of Europe, you’ll be waiting very long.
That’s why my registy moved to france
Tbh. I don’t really mind this ad. :) Non-profit? Ethical software? More people should use it
Not an Ad. PSA.
advertising /ăd′vər-tī″zĭng/ noun The activity of attracting public attention to a product or business, as by paid announcements in the print, broadcast, or electronic media.
Why can’t it be both? Advertising isn’t necessarily always a negative.
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In fairness it used to be a lot of trouble to set up and maintain a Linux desktop. That hasn’t been true for years but the attitude didn’t come from nowhere.
“Set up” I agree, “maintain” not so much. From the mid-2000s onwards Linux tended to be more stable and easier to update than Windows, as I recall.
@Bro666 @holycrap
I install it from a USB stick. It’s not hard. Last time that took me less than 10 minutes. I’m not an IT person, never using the command line or any IT things.
Linux is not perfect, but very usable. The distro I use looks after itself. If anything does mess up, I can simply reinstall.
It is quite possible that my memory is from the slashdot era of comments like
“I put Linux on my laptop and then the wireless didn’t work and it took me 3 hours on the help forum . .”
I’m curious when this was. A modern plasma desktop today just works. I have very, very little trouble with it. Conversely, my Windows machine (required for accessing my work VPN) is a nightmare of constant problems.
I personally know a lot of bioinformaticians that run linux on their desktops. If you live in the terminal you don’t wanna be bothered with all Windows bs and linux comes with everything you need. Most don’t even care about the DE that much.
I’ll take Things That Didn’t Happen for $500, Alex
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@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I use #gnulinux and KDE, now #kdeplasma since “I don’t remember when” years, before the existence of #fedora.
I use it at work, home, to play videogames, for everything, and I can only recommend them. Step forward, respect yourself, take back your freedom and give them a chance.How will people download chrome?
Microsoft Store lets you download some browsers last I checked. You can also use
wingetwhich is also preinstalled in Windows.@elxeno @kde
Chocolatey. https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/GoogleChromeFirefox, preferably. Also done via Chocolatey. Web browsers for getting a software install is so stringy.
I used that before quitting windows, but it doesn’t help since u have to copy commands from the website to install chocolatey.
I have the script in a text file on my ventoy USB for the odd time I have to even look at windows.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social “We turned your computer into a platform designed to bombard you with ads, full of useless bloatware, a system designed to pigeon hole you into using and paying for Microsoft products, which is unsafe to connect to the internet without an antivirus and which will break every time we force an update on you.” = What Microsoft would say if they were honest describing Windows!
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I wiped my drive and installed Linux on my primary deskyop the day I saw the first leaked screenshots of windows 11.
Never regretted it. And never going back.
Plasma is a desktop environment and NOT a OS. Might want to know whet you are talking about before posting.
You are right. Also, a desktop environment, at least from an end user’s perspective, is as part of the OS as a kernel, terminal, and its associated tools. We are just using the language that a non-techie can understand and act upon.
Either way, “operating system” is a woolly and ambiguous term that is hard to define precisely and changes meanings depending on who you ask. The common denominator in common non technical English seems to be “software that allows you to manage you hardware and applications”. If that is so, yep, Plasma fits the bill.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I already use Plasma 5.27 on Debian GNU/Linux :bunhdhappy:
Though I cannot wait for Plasma 6!@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Plasma=operating system ???!!!???🤔
@SanchoPanza @kde @kde@lemmy.kde.social Sure it’s not a full operating system but Plasma and the KDE Frameworks and apps are a large portion of the user space, has a lot of hardware integration and is that the user interact with not with the kernel directly.
@SanchoPanza @kde @kde@lemmy.kde.social Also it’s way easier to communicate to non Linux users that Plasma is an operating system than a desktop environnement has Windows and macOS have no concept of desktop environnement.
Or do you call macOS aqua?
@carlschwan @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Wouldn’t it be more accurate to describe KDE neon or another GNU/Linux distribution?
@carlschwan @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
So if we pull out the kernel/Linux, we can run hardware and applications with Plasma/KDE?
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@kde@floss.social @carlschwan @kde@lemmy.kde.social
So it’s not an operating system, it’s a desktop. It can also run on Windows. It’s not an operating system.
Can you define “operating system” in common, non-technical English, as to an end user?
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If your work machine is running out of RAM it’s either utter shit or you’re doing something on it that you couldn’t on a rpi lmao
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Office 2013 support ended in April. It’s EOL. No more updates.
@oldredsubby
Libreoffice may be of interest. I agree with everything else. I have to use Google Docs for school, and I have strong dislike.GIVE ME COLUMNS IN HEADERS PLEASE G00G13!!! I AM REQUIRED TO USE THEM!!!
@kde@lemmy.kde.social @kde@floss.social@oldredsubby @kde @kde libreoffice is a suite functionally as good as Microsoft, but is free software.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Using Gnome 45. Absolute adore it’s out of the box polish. But yeah, Linux > Mac >>>>>>> Windows
