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- linux@lemmy.world
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Bot or actually stupid spammer?
Doesn’t matter, but they contradict themselves.
Headline: why isn’t everyone using it?
Body: This article breaks down what Linux is, why it’s great and how it secretly powers most of your favorite devices, from smartphones to servers.So it looks like most everyone is using it, they just might not realize it. Which to me is a sign of a great product, when it’s use is completely transparent.
Eh, someone who just discovered that there’s more to Linux than just desktop uses probably.
It comes as a shock that the world mostly runs on Linux to some people and they have to let us know that “HEY GUYS! Your phone uses Linux!”.
It’s cute.
We’re not interested in you self-promoting your blog posts, especially given its Kekestani meme.
First of all, many webpages use Linux, so everyone is actually already using it remotely.
For PCs it is, because ppl are lazy and MS made deals with hardware vendors to ship it preinstalled and Apple even have their own OS to preinstall.
Android contains a modified Linux though and also comes preinstalled. So to some degree many people are using Linux on their portable devices, too.
It’s also great to live in Switzerland, but not everybody is doing it.
I have a colleague. She doesn’t like Windows (more like she doesn’t like MS spying), has a laptop with Ubuntu, but she also doesn’t like change.
This put her in weird situation, when she still has PC with Windows 7, outdated firefox and complains youtube is borked all the time. And once she moves to laptop, there’s old Ubuntu (more than couple major releases old) which was never updated, because “she liked it that way”. Guess what? Similar problems.
I told her many times that if she wanted carefree linux experience, she should update it once in a while, there’s no evil MS behind it, but no. She never updates because reasons. She rather visit some obscure website that presents some terminal commands she doean’t understand, but copy them over anyway and voila… the linux is in even worse state than before.
That’s why linux is not hotfix for everything.
Microsoft taught people to distrust updates because they break shit and don’t ask if you want them or not.
That leads a lot of people to being “scared” of updates, and Linux updates literally constantly (a good thing).
Further, Ubuntu as well as others have moved towards phased rollouts, to ensure new versions don’t break things. I constantly have updates say “These updates have been held back due to phasing” which is intended to save me from any trouble if the small number of users who they have phased the updates to start having issues. Easier to roll back and fix for a small number of users as opposed to the whole world.
Linux doesn’t just handle updates better, but they’ve continued to grow and change how they handle updates to make them better for end-users long-term.
Breaking Microsoft ingrained habits is hard for some people.
I’m a lazy fuck. That’s why I use openSUSE Tumbleweed myself that has snapper preconfigured. I roll updates once I have time/will, sometimes twice a week, sometimes multiple months between. It’s fucking solid! And even if it breaks, it’s couple minutes to get it back to working condition and then I wait a week and next update is fine. This is the best!
I’m lazy and old so I’m doing it the least efficient way by just putting all updates into a daily cronjob (or doing updates on reboot). Much more modern ways to handling it than the crontab, but I too, am lazy.
So basically, people are stupid?
Not stupid, she’s definitely not stupid. It’s that everyone has their own quirks maybe? And different expectations.
This rubbish reads like it was written by ChatGPT.
“if flying is faster than driving, why hasn’t everyone gotten their pilot’s license?”
