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Yea my comment was really retarded ngl
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Indeed I’m not disputing that. No offense to the guy but it reminds me of those tech support stories.
Yeah, but the whole point was “Linux is a Goddamned nightmare!” from the guy who bought something that wasn’t fit for purpose and had a difficult time using unofficial, unsupported tools to try and turn a hammer into a table saw.
Chromebooks are more or less targeted towards light users who need more than a tablet/smartphone but either can’t afford or don’t desire a full laptop, and to be fair I say it succeeds in that respect. You apparently can install Linux (another selling point) but when I was playing around with one it was in the beta and I don’t really have any experience with it, so…
Most Chromebook->general use Linux conversions involve replacing or bypassing the firmware and loading a more mainstream Linux-based OS like ooooboooontoooo. ChomeOS itself is pretty well locked-down.
…isn’t ChromeOS Linux-based anyway? And yes, the way it’s normally set up from the factory, it’s basically what we used to call a “thin client” that is, from the end user’s perspective, not much more than the Chrome web browser. But the OS is capable of more, and the hardware is certainly capable of more.
Hey, I didn’t even buy it okay? I was like 16 at the time
“I bought a machine that’s literally just a physical web browser and had a hard time hacking it to play video games instead. Linux is a nightmare!”
I used to own a chromebook and needed Linux to install Steam
Or install PonyOS without virtual machine. Haha.
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I’d say a lot depends on your expectations and how you want to use it.
Me, I’m an oldfag and I am perfectly comfortable at the command line, reading manpages, which are nothing if not thorough. I know not everyone is. But if you work with servers, with embedded systems, being able to do things like navigate manpages and use vi is vital.
And I know that there are people who want Linux to be a “modern” desktop OS, that you can use to mess around on the Web and read emails and things like that. And that is… well, actually M$ did some strategic lawsuits against particular parties 15-20 years back whose visual shells were too close to Windows in “look and feel” (you know, the GUI interface that M$ stole from Apple) that absolutely fragmented the Linux community and destroyed any standardization. Instead of there being one, more or less, X-windows implementation, and maybe in it you could choose from a few visual shells, maybe a Mac lookalike, a Windows lookalike (Red Hat used to install with a window manager called fvwm95, basically a Windows 95 clone, as default) and a few other experimental ones that behaved in more different or unexpected ways compared to what people who were used to a GUI would expect.
Now, though, there’s KDE and Gnome and Plan Nine and I can’t even remember how many other GUI frameworks out there and it makes things very hard on the devs, just as much as the constant top-down decisions to rip out all the device drivers every year or two and rewrite them all from scratch, Just Because.
So you can certainly play with desktop Linux. Mint is a very good distro for that, lightweight, compact, not resource-hungry, very stable, with lots of features for handling media. Any old ten-year-old processor and an SSD and four gigs of RAM with Mint, maybe with, say, the Cinnamon desktop environment, will be a stable, responsive, blazing fast system that boots up and shuts down in seconds. It (currently) behaves more or less enough like Windows, in things like menu structure, in right-clicking to bring up a “Properties” menu, and so on, that it’s not too difficult to learn. But in the long term? No. Do anything important with it? No. Do anything with it that requires software you can’t get through “Software Manager?” No.
tl;dr servers are where Linux lives, and where Linux shines, and Linux on the desktop is best for learning about the tools to manage Linux servers. That might have changed with Lindows twenty years ago, but we don’t live in that timeline.
I mean…if you don’t know how to read, I guess…?
But to be fair, the documentation for most other Linux distributions sucks. Hard.
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