• AliceAEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    You can’t handle the truth

  • Riker@lemmy.world
    54·
    6 months ago

    Linux will never be a home operating system for most people. It will not even come close to windows or Mac. It is not user friendly, it is not supported by the VAST majority of home use software and it has too many distros. No one wants to get with an OS when the first question is which version. The learning curve is too steep and when stuff goes wrong it is way harder to find and solve.

    It’s nice that yall like it but the amount of forceful shoving of Linux on lemmy is hysterical knowing how no one listens.

    • Temperche@slrpnk.net
      21·
      6 months ago

      The discussions on Lemmy were exactly what made me try out Linux, and now I’m an avid Linux’er. +1 for Linux.

      • x4740N@lemm.eeOP
        3·
        6 months ago

        My post (on my other lemmy account before I switched this one to my main) sharing a video by a youtuber that said some open source software was badly designed in terms of UI and how it could be improved received so much hostility that I got fed up and ended up deleting it

        It wasn’t even a negative video, my post wasn’t even negative

        What was the point of sharing it if people just react hostile towards it even though you shared it in good faith

        The bad design with some open source software is why I don’t use some of them and why I haven’t installed Linux as a dual boot operating system yet

        I use blender and krita because they have good designs with the gui and its catered towards the user using the software in this case creatives

        Gimp however and other badly designed open source software don’t cater GUI towards the user demographics that would be using them

    • karashta@lemm.ee
      4·
      6 months ago

      As someone with decision paralysis and executive dysfunction issues, this is true for me. I’m probably more than capable of using it for a daily driver but there are 5000 flavors and I will likely never be able to make a solid choice until one is obviously vastly superior in some way I need.

    • Donebrach@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      Agreed, I don’t get the argument for using Linux beyond vague “windows bad” hand waving. Frankly, having to use computers probably every hour of my waking life for work and entertainment, I find nothing wrong with windows, or Mac OS. Or iOS or iPad OS beyond just the idiosyncratic annoyances each OS brings to the table. Is there any tangible reason Linux is superior to all the other OSs out there beyond it being open source? Also how is being open spurce objectively a benefit?

      • cRazi_man@lemm.ee
        1·
        6 months ago

        Privacy/no data mining is (frankly) a huge deal and a major problem in modern society is that this is not valued at all. To me, this is really analogous to the climate crisis in the sense that we’ve known about the impending climate crisis for decades and no one valued it till we got to the point of no return/crisis point. I really cannot emphasise what a big deal it is to value your data/information/privacy.

        Other than that, Linux really is a functional OS and there will be other benefits like multiple desktop styles to choose from, the possibility to do more advanced things if you need to (if learn how), the OS is virus-free, better performance (because the computer doesn’t need to work so hard on your OS and can spend that energy on other things), giving life to old hardware that Windows no longer supports (and saving your money as well as the planet from thr e-waste), the importance of a choice the market is not monopolised by predator corporate giants. There will be loads more benefits, but those a a few to begin with.

        It also has downsides (as mentioned above).

    • BodaciousMunchkin@links.hackliberty.org
      1·
      6 months ago

      This kind of self-fulfilling prophecy is what will drive down even more support for Linux. The thing we need to do right now is to let more people try out Linux so that corporations will see Linux as a potential target on the desktop and make products for Linux, not the opposite like what you are saying.

      • Riker@lemmy.world
        6·
        6 months ago

        Me: Linux won’t work because Linux people push it too hard despite it having multiple downsides in comparison to the more widely used OS

        You: NO, YOU JUST NEED TO USE LINUX

        • spittingimage@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 months ago

          You: “Linux will never be a popular OS.”

          Him: “I think it actually can be if we --”

          You: “WERE YOU NOT LISTENING?!”

          It’s fitting that you used a gif of Riker before he grew the beard.

          • Riker@lemmy.world
            3·
            6 months ago

            Funny how I literally quoted the part of my post that was relevant and you still blindly ignored it. Blind subservience… Gotta be a Linux fanboy

  • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 months ago

    Nuclear power plants won’t help solve the climate crisis.

    They take too long to build.
    While the risk of a catastrophic failure is very low, its effects are so bad they can’t be included in any sensible risk assessment.
    They prolong the dependence on energy companies that are too big to fail and can therefore blackmail the government.
    They depend on enormous amounts of water for cooling, at a time when rivers frequently get too warm for that due to climate change.
    They run on a non-renewable fuel source that is imported from politically instable countries.
    And when you include the cost of building them, insuring them, dismantling them and dealing with their waste, they’re simply not economical.
    The only way to run them is with massive subsidies and unconditional securities from the state. I.e. tax money being funnelled to big corporations.

      • Thorry84@feddit.nl
        3·
        6 months ago

        Wtf are you talking about? Nuclear power facilities are freaking huge and have top notch security. You ain’t getting anywhere near any place you could ever do any damage. And since everybody who’s supposed to be there needs clearance, it’s easy to have strict security protocols in place. Anybody who isn’t supposed to be there or takes anything in or out they aren’t supposed to is identified easily and taken care of.

        Any nuclear facility is more worried about espionage than any kind of attack. Even if you are able to bomb a part of it, worst case it will be shutdown for repairs for a while and maybe kill a dozen or so people who are near the bomb as it goes off. Something like a crowded square in a city centre is a much easier target for terrorism and probably has more impact in the causing fear department than bombing some energy facility.

        So no, denying nuclear power based on fear of terrorism isn’t only unfounded, it’s also exactly what the terrorists want. Fuck them guys, don’t give in to fear.

        And in case you don’t know: a nuclear power plant is not a nuclear bomb, it can’t become a nuclear bomb and it doesn’t contain any materials to create a nuclear bomb. Just because they both contain the word nuclear and work on a fission principle, doesn’t mean they are the same thing.

        (I blame the recent Chernobyl series for fueling the fear of nuclear once again. You should know that whilst it is a good series, it is not a documentary and they dropped the ball hard on all the science parts)

      • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Honestly if the UK can spend a couple of decades with half a hiroshimas worth of high explosives sitting unguarded within sight of London I think a nuclear facility with actual security will be fine.

    • x4740N@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      6 months ago

      This highlights issues with using capitalism and some human mindsets

    • AliceAEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      My ass Is the powerhouse of my farts

    • Patapon Enjoyer@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months ago

      While we’re at it let me get something off my chest

      Mitochondria is plural. One powerhouse of the cell is a mitochondrion. Bacteria is also the plural of bacterium.

      Does this matter? Not really.

    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      I had a prof describe the nucleus as “the power house of cell function” and the confusion that statement caused was fucking palpable lol.

  • SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.netEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    Gutenberg was a grifter. He stole money from people, sometime his own family, and ran up debts that he couldn’t pay.

    The only reason that he started printing bibles and became religious was because he was going to be thrown in prison for swindling people out of money, and it’s a bad look to throw someone in prison who prints the word of God. In fact, most of what we know about Gutenberg comes from his court documents.

    Also movable type and the printing press were already known in Europe and had already been invented in East Asia several hundred years earlier than Gutenberg. (the first printed texts date back to 700 CE and movable type prints around 1000 CE, both in modern China). It was nothing new.