I didn’t come here to complain about linux, but the number of distros that give me a black screen after some hardware change or update is more than I can count on two hands. What this post is denying that both userbases have wildly different skill levels because linux generally requires a higher skill level. Windows is over a much more massive userbase that includes people who can’t set the time display on a microwave. And they don’t use linux.

Furthermore, pre-downloading the driver is completely unnecessary as the default windows driver would allow you to continue using the PC and download the correct driver after installation. No “series of misfortunes.”

The only thing reading something like this does for me is paint the linux community as completely inept and dishonest.

I swapped GPU in windows by downloading the new driver, shut down the pc, swap cards, boot pc that then loads a default windows driver, install the new driver I downloaded, done. If it asks for a reboot, that takes another 20 seconds.

Done.

Sesame Street, Muppets, The Electric Company.

Completely dated, but these older shows introduced a white kid in whitesville to a completely different world. Plus fun, educational in a way that kids don’t mind.

There have been several. I think mostly all little things. Someone not making you fish for the last bit of change for a purchase. An rare cup of coffee. One somewhat recent one was I went to grab food at an ethnic restaurant. Real basic place, not a chain. After I’d ordered and they were handing me the food to go, I realized I’d left my debit card behind. I only had $5 on me. He must’ve seen the surprise on my face. Dude behind the counter was “Just take the food, don’t worry about it.” I was really surprised. I tried to refuse the food, it wasn’t like I couldn’t find some cash, but he insisted. So I gave plenty of thanks, took the food, and made myself a promise that I’d pay it back and then some if I could. Funny thing, I used to go to the city the restaurant was in probably every other month or so for work. Never been back for years.

Edit: Just took a quick look and it looks like the place is closed. Shit. Really wanted to pay the guy back.

Water does have tastes. Hard to believe others don‘t notice it.

I‘ve got this one too. It smells like dry hay or straw to me.

Absolutely. And that also applies to some immigrants from harsh dictatorships. I worked with a pro-trump Russian. He liked trump specifically because he wanted someone to “crack skulls” and all that. (This was during the BLM protests.) He wanted the police state to shut up everything inconvenient to his way of thought.

Numerous reasons.

Lots of people don’t want anyone to disturb the system…”upend the apple cart” as it were. A known, even if shitty, is still better than the unknown. Like people pining for lives under the rule of some harsh autocrat. Even if your neighbor disappeared one night thanks to the State Police, it was better than worrying about the less-harsh policing that lets kids get away with graffiti-ing everything or the petty theft you’re always hearing about.

Also, if they come for the rich people, they’ll come for you. If they tax the rich, they’ll tax you. If you support the rich, people will remember that, and they’ll come for you.

Maybe a little of the “I could be rich someday” idea too, so they support obscene wealth with the idea they could somehow also be rich no matter how minuscule the chance. The irony being the wealthy are the ones supporting barriers preventing you from even achieving financial security, forget ever being wealthy.

The OP made a distinction between wealth and power. Your question salad conflating the two, even if wealth does grant power, is muddying the original question with “What is the definition of ‘is’?” It isn’t meaningful.

I have 7 devices running various distros right now. 4 Pi’s, 2 PCs and a laptop.

#1 reason linux isn’t my daily desktop. Want to install [thing]. Thing doesn’t work. Doesn’t (build, install, configure, make, whatever). “MAKE” not installed. What? Install MAKE. Still doesn’t work. Wrong permissions. Doesn’t offer error messages so you know why it doesn’t work. Missing dependency. Install dependency. Still doesn’t work. No documentation other than forums full of other users with the same problem and the solutions are: 5 different ways to do the same thing that don’t apply to your distro or version which has changed 5 major versions since the answer was valid. Gave up and installed a different distro. A long set of instructions that, even when followed precisely, only works 20% of the time. Don’t use SUDO to install? but SUDO is the only way it works! Software has no GUI, command line only. Doesn’t work on your distro even though documentation says it does. Even if it’s available in a package manager in the distro you have doesn’t mean it will work. Spend hours chasing down ways to make it work and finally give up.

I love linux and the ability to get under the hood and do whatever I want with it. When it works. But it ABSOLUTELY is not for everyone.

4080 still very pricey nearing $2k and the 5-series is even worse. 3080’s are in the $500+ range, so that’s decent.

That is some flawed logic my friend. Linux is for everyone that doesn’t need those exceptions, of which there are many, therefore it isn’t for everyone. However, you can use linux the rest of the time.

Some have no holes. Seems pretty inconvenient to use as a loom that way. Some were too small for knitting.

I would imagine a non-insignificant amount. The Right Wing’s propaganda has so thoroughly associated any social policy by the democrats as socialism that the people coming from dictatorships that promised power for the people with socialist policy yet wrecked the country with kleptocratic authoritarianism flee into the arms of the Right Wing who promised them freedom. For some reason the people refuse to see them for what they are – actual dictators and kleptocrats.

Firing Victoria was really the end of the Old Reddit. It felt like the loss of that side of reddit - the un-guided AMA’s by famous people - just led to reddit descending further into bots and reposts. The site had nothing to talk about other than itself anymore.

I understand that, which is why I suggested a codified standard for those “sames” we have in common so that they’re all signed the same.

Yeah, there’s different sign language “languages”, with other variations and slang. No perfect system. Plus words for things thar only exist in that area, like a schnitzel vs fried chicken. It’d still be great if we could codify a thorough set of words that are the same across the board for basics like bicycle, toilet, hospital, food, drink, face, leg, etc., things we all have generally in common, so that learning the area specific words would be all that is needed.

Because it doesn’t work anymore, especially with the Republicans in charge. They know that if trump goes they’ll be held to account, too, so better to keep the PoS in office so they don’t have to deal with any fallout. They’d have to follow through with removal from office. Impeachment has become nothing more than wagging a finger and a furrowed brow

I like this idea. Generally somewhat simplified, and no “pronunciation” needed if it were standardized.

Pretty easy when they took away my favorite app and tried to force me into their ad-riddled POS - along with their hostile treatment and shuttering of subs that didn’t conform. It was already getting to the point that, after a decade plus of being a “redditor”, the place was wearing thin. The constant reposts and karma whoring, the hive mind, the low-hanging fruit of quips getting the most upvotes vs a well-thought out reply, the shills and bots, they were killing Reddit IMO. The action against third party apps was the final straw.