I genuinely had an experience like this myself. I suggested Linux as a solution for something to a friend of mine who was a physicist doing a start up. This was around 2015-2016. He went on an angry rant about frustrating Linux was and nothing would work. His last experience with it was in 2002.
thebardingreen
joined 1 year ago
Bro do you even alien?
Highly disingenuous comment. I run older and newer software side by side in Linux all the time. It mostly just works.
Are you using snap or something?
My Ubuntu box I use for browsing/watching videos and listening to music just barely works and was frustrating to get properly configured.
Something is wrong. Have you tried Linux Mint? -Someone who has used Linux as a daily driver since 2001.
Ah. I forget that real world paper exists, my ADHD brain can't make functional use of it.
Funny. But, as it runs on Windows, it's definitely not the most private.
I suggest Emacs or vi running in a Qube.
I always find these breakdowns to be a little bit disingenuous. Like, you could do this same analysis on the whole email system, or on the whole world wide banking system, including ATMs, or on the energy usage of all DNS queries or even on global ActivityPub activity, not to mention shopping on Amazon or browsing Facebook. People DO do these kinds of breakdowns on generative AI, for exactly the same reasons, and reach the same kinds of conclusions.
Having a global computer network is INCREDIBLY energy intensive, with a massive carbon footprint. It's not shocking that a given application of that network is energy intensive, with a massive carbon footprint. These kinds of analysis are put together by people who already don't like cryptocurrencies (for all kinds of reasons both valid and ridiculous) who then go cherry picking MORE reasons not to like them.
Thanks for the breakdown. When I read the headline, I guessed at a bunch of what the article said and you confirmed most of it.
All my machines are named after Autobots.
Given your requirements, why not just accept Bitcoin or other crypto? It sounds like you want to self host it semi anonymously.
Your surround sound, I'm sure it could be done. I've set up some pretty successful visual / audio stuff with Linux. I did IT for an Indy film festival four years in a row and we used Linux for all kinds of stuff (mostly because the festival was broke and didn't want to spend money on new computers or software). We would run into hardware and configuration issues and our philosophy became "if you can't solve it in two hours, distrohop."
For the rest of it, I couldn't agree more. If you need the tools that lock you to the platform, you need the platform FOR THOSE TOOLS. I have Windows and OSX machines (although it's been like a year since I couldn't do something on Wine, even if it's glitchy). My Windows machines dual boot and I haven't booted the windows partitions in literally 6-8 months. One OSX machine gets used almost exclusively for video conferencing (just because it's in a convenient place) and for Garageband. The other OSX machine literally... just runs linux VMs that I can connect to over the network for various projects. I had other plans for it originally, but someone gave me a 6 year old Dell all in one that now runs Linux Mint and performs better than my actual Roku TV anyway. It's a bit smaller than the TV, but it doesn't matter to me. The TV disappeared into my wife's office and now she's the only one that uses it.