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areyouevenreal , to linuxmemes in Windows updating just before thesis defense

Fairly often if it wasn't for the whole fast startup thing, which isn't present in Linux land. I would say at least every couple of weeks, which is good enough for updates.

areyouevenreal , to Technology in A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back

It isn't impenetrable. ChromeOS and Android are Linux based after all. If you don't want to be prayed upon by Google you can use things like UBlue (inc. Aurora, Bazzite), PopOS, or Mint.

The advantage of PopOS and UBlue being you can download an image with Nvidia drives pre installed.

PopOS is a very mac like interface so you might not like it. Otherwise it's pretty much install and go, has good community support, and even comes pre installed on some high end machines.

In the case of UBlue they include images for specific manufacturers of laptops like ASUS, Framework, and Microsoft surface. You also get fully automatic atomic upgrades with rollback in case of failure, similar to Chrome OS. This means even if you do something very stupid like reboot in the middle of an OS update, it won't matter. It's engineered to be almost unbreakable even for new Linux users thanks to being partly immutable. You get a choice as well between varieties for normal users called Aurora, one of gamers called Bazzite, a development one called Bluefin, and a server version too. Being based on Fedora it's also reasonably up to date as well, but without sacrificing stability like Arch does.

Linux Mint is the classic easy to use Linux that runs on most computers made in the last 10 years and often older. It does sometimes struggle on newer machines with drivers though as it's not using an up to date kernel. What it's good for is that it pretty much just works when you have it installed and set up. It's popular so you should get plenty of community support. It's a quite similar interface to Windows while arguably looking better and definitely using less resources.

areyouevenreal , to Technology in A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back

I wouldn't go for Ubuntu. They are also run by a corporation that has done problematic things with the project. It also just doesn't work that well anymore. Better off going for something Debian or Fedora based, or even an Ubuntu derivative like Pop OS.

areyouevenreal , to Comic Strips in So...

In oversimplified terms, you could say they're a straight man in a biologically female body.

It actually says they want to date all genders, so pansexual/omnisexual rather than straight.

areyouevenreal , to Comic Strips in So...

It says the driver is open to dating all genders. So only the wife doesn't lineup here.

areyouevenreal , to linuxmemes in Windows updating just before thesis defense

Other systems like ChromeOS and Silverblue do atomic updates in the background and then switch on next restart. No waiting at screens like this. Heck even the conventional Linux update system, while far from foolproof, doesn't require waiting like this.

areyouevenreal , to Technology in Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10

Fedora, Arch, Void, and other distros with newer kernels have less issues with new hardware. By not using the latest hardware I mean hardware that's been out a year or two. Not stuff that's ancient. You probably won't have any issues with the latest CPUs and GPUs on say Arch, but it can be an issue for things like WiFi cards or on distros like Debian, Linux Mint, and Ubuntu.

areyouevenreal , to Technology in Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10

Also the reason I am recommending you move away from Ubuntu is because of what Canonical has done. I actually was a fan of earlier versions of Ubuntu, even Unity.

areyouevenreal , to Technology in Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10

Is anything I have said actually wrong? Do you actually have any idea what you are doing?

areyouevenreal , to Technology in Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10

Erm, no lol. I don't even use Arch. I've tried it don't get me wrong, but I don't understand the fascination with it personally.

areyouevenreal , to Technology in Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10

Android and ChromeOS are also immutable, this isn't just a trend. Stop being insufferable. You don't have to go to using immutable OSes, using something sensible and stable with snapshotting would work just fine. Like OpenSUSE, or Fedora. Setting snapshots up on Debian I think is more work but still doable.

areyouevenreal , (edited ) to Technology in Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10

I am sorry but you aren't good at tech stuff if you are having these issues. It's common knowledge that macOS and Windows don't use the same file system, why would you assume Linux is any different? macOS meanwhile can't write to Windows partitions at all by default. Windows can't even read Linux ones. Linux is actually the good guy here, it can read and write to Windows partitions, and even read macOS ones I believe.

Backing up all your stuff before formatting or reinstalling is common practice. You tried to get away from that by using multiple drives without actually thinking through the consequences.

Also using Fat32 is a terrible idea. Use ExFAT, or better yet just use a real Linux file system and be done with it. Honestly you could have stuck with NTFS and it would work better than trying to use FAT32.

This is like amateur hour for running servers.

Up until this point your arguments sort of made sense. You do tend to run into more issues on Linux than Windows, primarily because of the lack of support from third parties but sometimes because of Linux distro shenanigans too, and the community is kind of toxic. But my god this last couple comments reframe it all. Your trying to do things beyond your understanding then blaming Linux when they go wrong. By the sounds of it you aren't even running RAID or have any kind of data integrity/bit rot protection.

areyouevenreal , to Technology in Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10

So why is it manual cars are disappearing if it is the better way to drive?
Well a few reaons:
While easy to drive, it is hard to learn, and there is alot to learn, don't ride the clutch, how to start moving on a hill, how to start smooth, you have to constantly be changing gears in traffic, more prone to bad shifts, the car requires more attention, ect, ect.

Then why does most of the world use manuals? Automatics are mainly a thing in the land of bald eagles and school shootings. Across the rest of the world the manual is still more popular. The fact that so many people can only drive automatic tells me that maybe some of those people shouldn't be on the road, and that maybe Americans are too dumb to drive real cars.

We live in a reality where Linux is more popular, just not on the desktop. Most smartphones run Linux, and do most smart appliances, servers, and embedded devices. So no Linux isn't harder to use, desktop distributions not run by giant corporations are harder to use for some ineffable reason. Really Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Debian and so on all need to take a page out of Linux Mint, Chrome OS, and so on and become more user friendly.

areyouevenreal , to Technology in Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10

Ubuntu is bad, that's why you are having stability issues. Stop using it.

Also it's dead easy to recover a Linux installation that has snapshots. Just boot the previous snapshot and go. Also could just use an immutable Linux if not breaking things is your main concern.

areyouevenreal , to Technology in Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10

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