Any fellow Linux users on here?

[Chimorin]

I use removable/swappable SSDs. If I do opt to use Windows 12 (?) it would be as a separate drive. The easiest way to stay ahead of Microsoft attempting on occasion to shut out Linux users.

Very good idea. Microsoft did that to me on my Laptop, it was a nightmare. Got to love when products try to make you the product.

 

[Chimorin]

I did that for about 10 years, but as time went by I found myself booting Windows less and less. Initially I had to keep Windows for gaming but as that started improving in Linux I started noticing that games just ran so much better in Linux. Better memory management and a less hungry desktop environment.

I get you, all I really use Windows for now is for music production. Games run really well for me on Linux, it’s night and day compared to Windows. Linux tends to be extremely good or extremely bad for me, there’s no middle ground lol.

 

[Judge]

Very good idea. Microsoft did that to me on my Laptop, it was a nightmare. Got to love when products try to make you the product.

Over time I've surmised that whatever hacks the public creatively invents, that Microsoft in taking their sweet time eventually gets around to neutralizing them. The only reason I'm reticent to consider dual-booting.

 

[Chimorin]

Over time I've surmised that whatever hacks the public creatively invents, that Microsoft in taking their sweet time eventually gets around to neutralizing them. The only reason I'm reticent to consider dual-booting.

Funny how when you let the government backdoor your OS, you can suddenly get away with more anti-consumer stuff, haha.

 

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The only reason I'm reticent to consider dual-booting.

I was dual booting, but like you I used separate physical drives. The Linux drive was always unplugged before installing Windows though, otherwise it wipes out your Linux boot sector and boot menu.

Once Windows was installed properly and it believed it was the only drive in the system I'd plug my other drives back in.

 

[Judge]

Funny how when you let the government backdoor your OS, you can suddenly get away with more anti-consumer stuff, haha.

Funny, reminds me of reading an article on YouTube about the NSA approaching Linus Torvald over "a similar issue"....

Gotta love Linus' middle finger...wherever it points. Love him or hate him.

 

[Chimorin]

Funny, reminds me of reading an article on YouTube about the NSA approaching Linus Torvald over "a similar issue"....

Gotta love Linus' middle finger...wherever it points. Love him or hate him.

Agreed. He’s got balls sticking it to them, he has my respect on that one.

 

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Funny, reminds me of reading an article on YouTube about the NSA approaching Linus Torvald over "a similar issue"....

The big problem is that once you open a back door like that it doesn't take long for others to find it and start using it, hackers and scammers as well as commercial enterprises. These days both groups seem to amount to the same thing anyway.

I use Thunderbird to check my email accounts and almost never log in to google when I'm online. Every time I log in to google on the web it sends me security alerts about a new device accessing my accounts. It's not a new device at all but google doesn't have permission to scan my system looking for component serial numbers.

 

[Chimorin]

The big problem is that once you open a back door like that it doesn't take long for others to find it and start using it, hackers and scammers as well as commercial enterprises. These days both groups seem to amount to the same thing anyway.

I use Thunderbird to check my email accounts and almost never log in to google when I'm online. Every time I log in to google on the web it sends me security alerts about a new device accessing my accounts. It's not a new device at all but google doesn't have permission to scan my system looking for component serial numbers.

Major respect to you using Thunderbird, especially these days. And yeah, with great power comes with great responsibility, and if you let bad actors get control of it, let’s just say we’ll be on the receiving end of it.

 

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And yeah, with great power comes with great responsibility, and if you let bad actors get control of it, let’s just say we’ll be on the receiving end of it.

Welcome to Android.

 

[Judge]

Welcome to Android.

Reminds me...I'm still waiting to see smartphones exclusively Linux-based.

Oops...bad idea to the NSA, DHS, etc., etc.....

 

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Reminds me...I'm still waiting to see smartphones exclusively Linux-based.

There's been a few attempts so far but they haven't been great. It's coming though. I'd probably be more inclined to use a phone if I trusted it more.

 

[Judge]

There's been a few attempts so far but they haven't been great. It's coming though. I'd probably be more inclined to use a phone if I trusted it more.

Yep, that's all I've heard so far over time. I've come to hate the phone....and would prefer any computer to have a display of at least 1080p across 27 inches!

 

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Reminds me...I'm still waiting to see smartphones exclusively Linux-based.

Iphones aren't very popular in the eastern hemisphere, mostly because of price, but they're just as invasive and as insecure. Android has about 85% of the market here. Both IOS and Android are corrupted versions of Linux by the way, which is why I struggle to understand why we don't have pure Linux phones available yet.

 

[Judge]

Iphones aren't very popular in the eastern hemisphere, mostly because of price, but they're just as invasive and as insecure. Android has about 85% of the market here. Both IOS and Android are corrupted versions of Linux by the way, which is why I struggle to understand why we don't have pure Linux phones available yet.

Unless it really does come down to any and all governments lobbying to keep it that way.

Quite possible...maintaining any and all "backdoors". A tad contrary to the nature of pure Linux.

A proposition that may be akin to the "Tucker" automobile. So revolutionary for its time that competitors collectively did them end rather than compete. Maybe that may have something to do with the absence of a pure-linux phone.

 

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Unless it really does come down to our federal government lobbying to keep it that way. Quite possible...

I suspect that the devs keep trying to put in the same entire suite of desktop and software packages that they supply to desktop computers and that's never going to work. It's more than the hardware can handle. And let's be honest, what's the point of having a full office suite on a phone? I can't imagine trying to write a letter on a dicky little touch pad screen.

 

[Judge]

I suspect that the devs keep trying to put in the same entire suite of desktop and software packages that they supply to desktop computers and that's never going to work. It's more than the hardware can handle. And let's be honest, what's the point of having a full office suite on a phone? I can't imagine trying to write a letter on a dicky little touch pad screen.

LOL...I'm the last person to ask that. It makes me cringe seeing people who are substituting their phones as computers these days, and that's a lot of consumers we're talking about. Too many who prefer the supposed convenience of a mobile device. -Just not me.

 

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What does the software engineer say about a program that works perfectly?

"Well... Obviously it doesn't have enough features yet...."

 

[Angular Chap]

i use arch btw

Good to see you've already been welcomed into the forum Linux club, but welcome again!

I used Arch for a good long time, then tried out Gentoo. Both fun distros and great for deeper Linux stuff. Then come system update time, I switched back to Lubuntu for day to day use for productivity reasons. Now I'm on the Raspberry Pi for the fun stuff.

 

[Chimorin]

Good to see you've already been welcomed into the forum Linux club, but welcome again!

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I used Arch for a good long time, then tried out Gentoo. Both fun distros and great for deeper Linux stuff. Then come system update time, I switched back to Lubuntu for day to day use for productivity reasons. Now I'm on the Raspberry Pi for the fun stuff.

That’s awesome man! I’ve been meaning to try Gentoo out at least once. Definitely wouldn’t install that on my main machine (I don’t want to wait a day to compile Firefox lol), but wouldn’t messing around with it on my VM or my old laptop. You only live once, eh?