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I had erased that information from my memory. Also it took a long time for Linux to gain USB support, then a long time to get WIFI (also because of the cheap vendors that used windows drivers to do the heavy lifting). Yeah, it was a very uphill struggle, with Microsoft actively pushing against Linux (remember the ‘Linux is a virus’ narrative?) I’m amazed we made it this far.
Sorry everyone. Ill try to do better, I promise.
I understand that.
I upvote insightful, educational or newsworthy content and downvote clickbait. Especially YouTube clickbait.
Way back in the late XX century.
Oh look, Netscape Navigator is back.
They used to say that every product evolves until it can send mail. In that sense, this is now a mature product.
Of course nowadays no product is finished without built-in LLM functionality, so I’ll wait for that
Inertia is an immensely powerful force.
You can and should use whatever OS fits your use case. Right tool for the job and all that.
What you should not do is post a clickbait video to trigger the penguins into giving you views.
You don’t have to sell Linux to me, I’ve been onboard since 95. :-)
All I’m saying is: if I needed to run Windows apps with zero hassle, I’d use Windows. I don’t, so I won’t.
Can you run non native binaries on Linux? Sure, Linux is the Swiss army chainsaw of the OS world. There are multiple ways to achieve that.
Is it complicated? A bit. You’re interfacing a binary created for a completely different and alien environment. You’d get the same answer if you asked “why can’t l just run Mac apps in Windows like any other .exe?”
The best way to run .exe files is Windows. You have wonderful tools to help you run Windows apps on Linux, but the experience will probably never be as seamless as you want.
Nice work.
I used to get teased by the veterans for using nano instead of vi. Nowadays, I’m the one doing the teasing. Even if you don’t like it, learn the basic stuff, it’ll save you someday.
What I learned this week:
ping _gateway
is faster than looking up the gateway’s ip address and pinging it.
I also learned how to deploy stuff on AWS using OpenTofu, but the _gateway trick is neater.
Having a nVidia GPU does not stop you from running Linux, it just makes it more painful depending on what you’re trying to achieve due to nVidia’s poor Linux support.
I merely suggest that one should use the appropriate tool for the job or endure the consequences. Blaming the tools achieves nothing.
Microsoft is free to publish minimum requirements for Windows (TPM 2.0 for Windows 11, for instance), but you don’t have that in Linux. You are free to throw it at any hardware you want, and it will mostly work out of the box.
But that depends on companies and volunteers working on the hardware support. Intel and AMD provide good support for their hardware. NVidia does not. You should act accordingly, either buying supported hardware or sticking to software that supports your hardware (Windows or Mac).
I read the first paragraph and saw your prerequisites included working with nvidia.
That is a non-starter, right there. You can blame Linux for a whole lot of little flaws, but most of the blame should go to your hardware vendor for providing shitty support for Linux.
Using the tool that best fits the use case is not weird. It’s common sense.
Security people sure are an enthusiastic bunch of fellows.
I understand the rationale behind you doing this, I’ve done it myself.
Your company sends you abroad for a week or two. You want to access your Netflix account but don’t want to do it on the company computer. On the other hand you don’t want to carry two laptops with you.
As others have said, tampering company hardware can get you in trouble with the IT department, and it’s enough to get you fired in some cases.
If you value your job get permission to do it or get yourself a tablet.
I remember Corel Linux as a great disto. I used it for a while and found it very beginner friendly, polished, and it looked like it could one day become what Ubuntu eventually did.
Unfortunately, Corel saw no revenue would ever come from it, so it was sadly dropped.
This is the attitude the OP is talking about.
Being snobbish helps noone, we’ve all been noobs at some point.
Can’t argue with cool points.
All I know about British politics I learned from “Yes, Minister” and “Yes, Prime Minister”, so I know for sure nothing will change.