Yes, it is! Thanks!
Wait, really?!
60 new replies in a closed topic from while i was asleep for 16 hours? that canโt be a good thing.
it was not.
Then no. iOS is entirely superior to android.
My house isnโt different from anyone elseโs house. Thats an arbitrary use of might.
Closed ecosystems are always worse than open ones. Luckily I live in the EU where even Apple is forced to open up their platform for all apps. Shame for Americans, though, if they donโt also get those customer first changes from Apple.
Itโs the case with Apple that if you already have an Apple laptop and a phone, then you have to pay Apple hundreds of bucks if you want wireless headphones that work without issues with your existing devices. Thatโs just super disgusting form of vendor lock-in to me. Buying one Apple product is a gateway of being only able to use products that Apple wants you to use. Apple also can entirely decide when certain headphones for example are too old and have to be replaced. Whereas in an open ecosystem you can pick headphones with the features you want from multitude of manufacturers who need to compete for your money with either features or other factors about their products.
It doesnโt matter, if might makes right then there exists no arbitrary use of might, for all use of might is automatically right.
Worth it because Appleโs technology is so much better than cheap cringe android(not to mention viruses, scams, and cringe mobile ads).
Did you not see the news? Literally a few posts above thereโs a warning to all iOS users that they need to update their devices immediately to fix an exploit.
You do realize you are telling a person who uses Linux, an open source operating system, on their computer rather than the locked down Windows which has literal ads in the operating system, this? To me on the criteria that matters Apple gets a 0 in terms of phone OS properties and fails before you even get to consider some cool new feature Apple is selling their latest and greatest phone with.
you can turn off the ads and with knowledge of how to manually uninstall things through the file explorer you can make it pretty customizable in what you can do
right out of the box windows is pretty bad, and i will probably make 200 operating systems before i ever switch my computer to windows 11, but if you cut parts of it out it is a very usable OS
Ive been thinking if i should move to linux instead of windows 11. Do you think that would be a smart choice? Ive heard some good stuff about linux, but some compatability issues with games and software. But i really dislike windows 11.
MacOS is the best. Linux is good for developing I guess. Windows is evil.
Android has security breaches much more often. Donโt bring up Androidโs reputation for cringe mobile ads and cringe, repetitive content. Which Cell Phone Is Most Secure in 2024? iPhone vs. Android | All About Cookies
" Android phones are generally considered less secure than iPhones thanks to Appleโs focus on encryption."
โ Me when I cherrypick
Just a note: this extends to ALL Apple OSs.
Yes, and is the reason why you need to jump through 2 extra hoops to play Thrive on desktop Mac OS:
To get around that we need to pay to be a registered Apple developer and have Apple sign all of our builds that we intend to distribute.
Yes, but the next Windows update may reinstall / enable those. Just check reddit to see how many people complain that Edge gets re-installed or even automatically set as the default browser when they donโt want to. Microsoft clearly is taking things in a more and more controlled, privacy violating, and less configurable way (forcing more Microsoft made software on users).
My opinion is clearly biased, but I will say yes. Gaming on Linux is pretty good now as long as you donโt want to play a few specific games that have anticheat preventing and a few new releases are a bit extra rough on Linux (though stuff like Starfield have been rough on PC in general so Linux players havenโt gotten a fundamentally worse launch).
[justify]You can run Windows XP viruses on Windows 11, according to PC Security Channel. If you were using the most recent Linux kernel, you wouldnโt be able to run a virus that could run on an older version of the kernel.[/justify]
[justify]Before Windows 10 dies, you could do a little research on basic linux stuff (directory structure, file types, Windows equivalency, etc. [I made a thread for that]) and then choose a distro and move to that distro. For a Windows user, Iโd recommend using either of the following desktop environment :[/justify]
[justify]For gaming, you can easily check your gameโs page on ProtonDB and see if a comment comes from a user who has the same distro as you (bugs tend to be the same for the same distro).[/justify]
What do you mean by cherrypick?
3650 from Entropy Zero 2: That sucks!
[justify]Users shouldnโt even have to remove all the bloat in the first place.[/justify]
[justify]Technical question: Would it be possible to rewrite the directory structure of Linux to make it more similar to Windowsโ and keep the rest of the kernel intact?[/justify]
What would be the point of that? Does it really matter that much if the userโs files are in C:/Users/Name rather than in /home/name?
Linux filesystem must always have a root, but I guess it could technically be an in-memory filesystem with basically no space in it. Then the hard drive could be automatically mounted with the name C: in the root of the filesystem. That could technically get you more windows looking setup, but Windows doesnโt have a folder for system configuration files, or log files. It also doesnโt have separate folders for programs to install their binaries, libraries, documentation and other files to like on Linux.
So while something could be done, I donโt really get why youโd really want to. You couldnโt convince Windows users any better to switch to Linux if the system files were put in slightly different folders, but the files would still be unfamiliar to them.
Also, for example the GNOME file browser, you need to look specifically to find how to even get to the root of the filesystem, all the default bookmarks to files, downloads, videos etc. exist by default and take the user to basically anywhere they need to go, and thereโs no very obvious button to go up from the userโs home directory.
i never said it was good, just very usable
picking what facts to listen to and which ones to ignore
HOLY BELGIUM
JAMES WEEB FOUND SOME INTERESTING MOLECULES ON A EXOPLANET THAT IT HAS A POSSIBILITY TO BE LIFE
I almost splilled my imaginary coffee when I saw this
I hope it leads to something instead of the phosphine on Venus
I guess weโll see in a year if that gets confirmed or not. Reading that article I was reminded of that phosphine news that were clickbaited a ton that the article referenced. Edit: and we never heard about that again, and now it seems itโs been basically disproved. At least BBC didnโt massively clicbkait the headline.