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What Linux does better than Windows

Linux-based operating systems are free alternatives to Microsoft Windows and MacOS, which ships with Apple computers.

While Linux technically only refers to the kernel, the core program of an operating system, it is often used as shorthand for any operating system that uses Linux.
 
Just upgraded my wife's Windows laptop to Mint last week after a hard drive failure. Windows10 was also killing the old laptop, a dual core celeron with 8GB RAM (only picked up 4GB).

Running like a dream now but granted it is only used for browsing (back office is LAMP on Raspberry PI ).

My wife has had no problem using Mint, nor her assistant. Even the sound started working again on the laptop after we thought it was physically broken. Must say Mint is looking way better these days.
 
Meh.

There is so much more to it than just the little list of GUI relevant stuff.

Still think OSX screenshots are the most straight forward around.
 
cbrunsdonza said:
Just upgraded my wife's Windows laptop to Mint last week after a hard drive failure. Windows10 was also killing the old laptop, a dual core celeron with 8GB RAM (only picked up 4GB).

Running like a dream now but granted it is only used for browsing (back office is LAMP on Raspberry PI ).

My wife has had no problem using Mint, nor her assistant. Even the sound started working again on the laptop after we thought it was physically broken. Must say Mint is looking way better these days.
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You should set up Timeshift to take snapshots of the install to easily roll back if they do break something or just to have to be able to quickly reinstall Mint and have all your configurations.
 
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quovadis said:
OSX supports commandline package managers since it’s basically BSD under the hood
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Please don't bring MacOS into this, as a Mac user I prefer to b left out of this Windows/Linux pissing contest.
 
the only reason i have not gone to linux is due to the lack of gaming (tried this many years ago with wine) and was battling to get any game running decently on it. How is gaming these days on linux, especially around AAA games as i dont want to have linux and not be able to play a AAA game that comes out (not that there are any at the moment that interest me)
 
Genisys said:
Please don't bring MacOS into this, as a Mac user I prefer to b left out of this Windows/Linux pissing contest.
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It might be weird for you, but some people use their Macs for things other than browsing Facebook and editing cat videos.

The community has implemented a lot of functionality from the open source world on OSX in the form of package managers like brew.
 
Stillie said:
the only reason i have not gone to linux is due to the lack of gaming (tried this many years ago with wine) and was battling to get any game running decently on it. How is gaming these days on linux, especially around AAA games as i dont want to have linux and not be able to play a AAA game that comes out (not that there are any at the moment that interest me)
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Have you checked out Steam's Proton yet?
If not, there's some good news heading your way ;):thumbsup:
(It's not the perfect solution [yet?], but it's a big step in the right direction)

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/gaming/272823-valve-launches-new-version-of-steam-play.html
 
Stillie said:
the only reason i have not gone to linux is due to the lack of gaming (tried this many years ago with wine) and was battling to get any game running decently on it. How is gaming these days on linux, especially around AAA games as i dont want to have linux and not be able to play a AAA game that comes out (not that there are any at the moment that interest me)
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It really is getting better and better. Linux has great support for AMD video cards, but for nVidia not so much. Not to say it doesn't run, but it doesn't run as well from what I have heard. Many AAA titles have been ported to Linux and others are available on Steam via Steam Play.

It's still not up there with Windows in terms of support from developers and programmers but they definitely are making strides in the right direction
 
PhireSide said:
It really is getting better and better. Linux has great support for AMD video cards, but for nVidia not so much. Not to say it doesn't run, but it doesn't run as well from what I have heard. Many AAA titles have been ported to Linux and others are available on Steam via Steam Play.

It's still not up there with Windows in terms of support from developers and programmers but they definitely are making strides in the right direction
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Yup, seen some Linux-nerds get all gitty about Proton :laugh:
 
I run Mac as my primary computer and linux as secondary and both are awesome.

I do programming and prefer mac as taking screenshots etc, I also prefer its GUI, its easy to understand and customisable enough, don't need to customise any further. My mac just works.

We are running ubuntu on a super old ACER at this stage too and it just works, it is a bit slow but cannot imagine what it would look like if it had windows on.
 
GNU Wget, a program that downloads content from web servers, is one such utility that is not installed on MacOS by default. MacOS does still have cURL, a similar tool which supports additional protocols, but doesn’t have all of the same features Wget offers.
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I feel like if you're going to mention that it's missing by default, mention it's available via homebrew?
 
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