[-] desconectado@lemm.ee 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I thought Romeo was a teenager too? I mean, the difference in age should be around 3 years they are supposed to be 13 and 16, although the age of Romeo is really never specified, I wouldn't say it's that problematic.

I find Anakin and Padme, or Bella and Edward more problematic, and there's not much outrage for those.

[-] desconectado@lemm.ee 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Being able to kill anyone (who's clearly not a threat) touching your property, without any repercussions, is the most barbaric, feudalist weirdest shit I've ever heard of. This type of shit doesn't belong to a supposedly developed country. It belongs to medieval vikings.

[-] desconectado@lemm.ee 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I use both. Sadly, I have lots of software that doesn't work (or works pretty bad) on Linux. I love Linux, but there's no denying it can be frustrated, specially if your hardware doesn't support it, and that applies to too many people who has no saying in the hardware they use.

So in what world? Corporate world, science, CAD modelling...

[-] desconectado@lemm.ee 17 points 10 months ago

Ha, jokes on you for thinking him and his followers think white immigrants are "immigrants". They use that word because it's the only acceptable one, but it's clearly not what they are referring to.

[-] desconectado@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago

I mean, that's what I do. Will I be able to convince my 60 yo colleague that had been using the same workflow for decades? No, not a chance.

[-] desconectado@lemm.ee 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

But can it run proprietary software used in the industry? From Excel to Photoshop, if you are in a collaborative professional environment, you can't run away from those, and don't tell me you can use the alternatives in Linux, because no, you can't. This is not linux fault, but it's still an issue you can't handwave.

I love linux, but you can't expect people to adopt it just because it's objectively better than windows.

[-] desconectado@lemm.ee 23 points 11 months ago

Because all your colleagues and collaborators use it because it comes free with the company...

[-] desconectado@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's still much better though. Lots of people die from lung cancer and other lung related illnesses due to pollution in cities. Also, if emissions are concentrated somewhere else it's more economical to treat them, instead of being spread out in an urban area.

This whole crap that something has to be 100% perfect to be a proper solution has to end. I'm against the use of cars, but let's be seriously, they will never go away.

[-] desconectado@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

I mean if you live in a country controlled by a terrorist group that kills anyone who is not their side, and someone goes to your door and asks if you support them... What would you say?

It's easy to dismiss this issue by thinking they have the same freedom of speech as we do in the west, and they can have political opinions without any repercussion.

Same can be said about north Korea.

[-] desconectado@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Jesus was friends with a prostitute. I'm sure he would be ok with some twerking.

The problem is religious nuts who take everything to the extreme .

[-] desconectado@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Whaaaat? You filthy windows lover.

But seriously though, some people talk here like if folks have a choice.

[-] desconectado@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Not OP, I don't have respect for JP, but he still was a professor back then. This is like Degree Tyson starts talking BS on behavioural psychology, that doesn't make him wrong about all his previois statements on astrophysics.

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submitted 1 year ago by desconectado@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

The main cloud services don't even work natively (GoogleDrive, OneDrive, iCloud) basically the only mainstream choice is Dropbox. I tried to use Google Drive in Mint, and it's a pain to get it to work, and usually it stops working after computer restarts.

Someone has a recommendation about how to handle these services?

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submitted 1 year ago by desconectado@lemm.ee to c/foss@beehaw.org

Let me start saying my first approach with Linux was around 2000, the first distro I installed successfully was Debian, then moved to more user-friendly distros (at the time) like Knoppix and Fedora, and ultimately to Ubuntu. In the 2000's I used Linux mostly for fun, do homework, and browsing. I used Knoppy for like a year because my hard drive was not working properly, it was glorious. I still used windows on the side for the occasional software that was not available on linux.

In the 2010's I stopped for the following reasons:

  • Most of the software I used (and I needed for my research and work) was not available: OriginPro, XRD analysers, EndNote, etc. I dabbled with Wine and PlayOnLinux but it slowed my workflow way too much.
  • No single distro recognised all the hardware of my computers (even after adding external repositories and spending unusual amounts in obscure forums). It could be the fingerprint reader, the HDMI output, SD card reader, the touchpad buttons... There was always something missing.

I could see that in the 2010's installation methods and GUIs improved drastically. Now in the early 2020's I see that there are new distros in town. And I wanted to give them a try:

• Arch: it was also around 2000's, but it was only for hardcore users or servers, I never gave it a try back then, and I am surprised so many people now recommend it as a regular distro, because it is not. Anyway, tried to install it in a virtual machine, managed to go through the installation, but it never booted up, I might have screwed up at some point, and I was not willing to try it again. • Debian: The installation was a breeze, recognized all the important stuff except fingerprint sensor. Tried to install stremio and I realised there were so many missing dependencies, and I was not even able to install some. I spent a good afternoon just trying to get stremio installed, and nothing. I gave up. • Mint: To my surprise the installation was slightly less friendly than Debian, but still easy. Recognised everything (expect fingerprint sensor), and most of the software installed just fine. Until I tried to get my GoogleDrive to work. I managed to mount one virtual disk with ocamlfuse, the second one was a pain. And they disappear randomly or with every restart. For me, that was a killer, as I use GDrive for uni/work/personal stuff. OpenOffice could now replace Microsoft Office just fine, and it is compatible with my current reference manager, but lots of people still use *.docx *.xlsx and *.pptx with features that are not compatible with *.odt. Most of my specialised software also work on linux (Matlab, Comsol), so that is refreshing. Still some software to manage hardware in the lab is not available, but hey, I only use them when I am in the lab.

So my final takes and my personal opinion on why linux is still not widespread among casual users, even when there are clear advantages of linux over other OSs. • Linux is very suitable for the computer illiterate, the grandma who just watches facebook videos, the kid who wants to watch youtube and edit basic files for homework. As long as someone set their system, linux is perfect. This is why Android is so popular, even if it is linux based. • Linux is very suitable for highly literate users. Being for using linux for coding, selfhosting, or if you work in a computing environment. • Linux is NOT very suitable for the literate users who collaborate with regular users. Most popular reference managers do not work on linux natively. Most of my collaborators still send me *.docx and *.pptx. • Linux is not suitable if you don't have the time to troubleshoot some hardware incompatibility for hours. • For some reason, personal cloud services in linux suck. Googledrive, OneDrive and iCloud don't even work natively. I guess Drobpox would be the best alternative out of the mainstream ones, but in the 2010's it was a pain to install on linux, not sure how easy it is now.

I still want to migrate full to Linux, but I just can't, I love the concept, I love how much control I have, but it is the minor inconvenient things that keeps me away. I will still go back to linux from time to time as an exercise, and to try new stuff.

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