Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop"

On 2024-12-16, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

Le 2024-12-16 à 05:24, RonB a écrit :

On 2024-12-15, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

Le 2024-12-14 à 18:29, DFS a écrit :

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"I will use Windows 7 or Mac OS interchangeably as desktops, and often
surprise people when they find this out. I actually try to avoid using
Linux on the desktop because it's a distraction from my focus, which is
Linux userspace internals (non-GUI stuff.)"
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2012 interview
https://usesthis.com/interviews/daniel.robbins/
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Say it ain't so!

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It's probably because like most Linux users, he ends up tinkering with
the system rather than actually getting things done. All MacOS desktops
more or less look the same but it doesn't matter because most Mac users
see their machine as a tool to accomplish a task. With Windows, it's
often the case too but there is always a distraction to keep people away
from their work. With Linux, it seems to be nothing but distractions.

 
Bullshit. I use Linux for the same things I used Windows for (when I still
used Windows). Email, writing, streaming movies, some forums, OCR scanning,
listening to music and using the for Internet news and research. What most
people use their computers for at home. Linux is more efficient than either
Windows or Macs (I know, I've tried both — both are crap in my opinion).

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Both operating systems have their distractions and I don't find myself
any more productive under Linux than I do under Windows. If anything, I
constantly have to spend time getting Linux to do the basic things
Windows gets right out of the box. Even if I get it to work on Monday,
an update might cause it to break on Tuesday necessitating a new kind of
fix.

I'm guessing this is because you have a whole lot more experience with
Windows than with Linux. I don't have issues getting Linux to do "basic
things." Not even sure what "basic things" you're talking about.

I just spent about three hours getting my wife's desktop to boot and update
to the newest Windows 11 update (which is why I suspect it locked up in the
first place). Once I got Windows to boot (by disconnecting the hard drive
and removing it from the "boot choice" in the BIOS — it took an hour and a
half to download the update and install it — than about another ten minutes
after rebooting... doing something or other. This is on a 10th generation
Intel CPU, with 40 GBs of RAM, using an NVMe SSD, with an Internet speeds of
about 650 Mbps. Heaven knows how long it would have taken with slower
Internet, an older CPU and 8 GBs of RAM.

So, one of the "basic things" for me is being able to start and update the
damn computer without it locking up and taking over an hour a half just to
download and install an update. I have never had to deal with something like
this in the 18 years I've been using Linux (except when supporting my
family's Windows' machines).

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