Because words are used on basis of usefulness. Non-useful meanings die out. This community is primarily a platform and only vaguely centered around Linux.
Neither is the BSD community closer to playstation users.
I have an old Surface Book 1. I have windows 11 on it and it works ok. I can’t run anything heavy on it of course but little web browsing and zoom meeting etc. works fine. I really enjoy the awesome camera and face id login. I am worried with Linux install, the camera will not be as good. If someone can confirm their experience on SB1, I can be convinced to install Linux on it.
We like Linux. Freedom. Privacy. GNOME UI is really well adapted for tablets with it’s gestures and overview effect. Plasma is also very good. Animations are way more smooth and responsive than on Windows.
The actual answer, there is no reason to switch. The vast majority of users do not care about Linux or why they would want to. For us there are lots of benefits and things we enjoy about getting away from Windows but for them “why?”
I will object on this one. Even if the majority of user does not care about privacy they do care about ransomware , viruses, speed of the system and in my opinion Linux / BSD is secure, fast and speed remains after time not like Windows where I felt that after 6 months I had to reinstall to get a performant system. I guess it is all about convincing your family and friends about those benefits.
I don’t use one, it’s unnecessary. Keep your system light, use only free software and utilize some of your common sense and you’ll be all right.
This one time my brother had his pc(winblows) infested just by plugging in a flash-drive, seriously, just that!!. I hate proprietary software.
You could do straight Debian or anything else Debian-based like Mint Debian Edition or MX.
Otherwise Fedora is very recommended for general purpose desktop Linux. But, that isn’t Debian.
I don’t know if Kali is really recommended for general purpose.
I’m interested in seeing the other recommendations here, it is always fun to see what other users recommend or use. I use Alpine but it isn’t always perfect as a desktop for people who don’t like things breaking.
It works because every time I launch the browser it does so in a Disposable VM. When you close the browser, the VM is deleted. Launch a new browser, and it creates a fresh VM.
What about performance? I have an 8 gb ram machine, so I can’t imagine ever runnign Qubes. What sort of specs would you recommend for trying a system like that?
This is great and most relevant answer from all comment on this topic imo! Viruses are evolve everyday, hacker always find a way to intercept computer that has same framework system.
QubesOS breaks that framework pattern and make their system more dynamic with VM-ing everything, so the impact of viruses are near-to-zero.
++ QubesOS also provide all security enhanced out of the box SO we can enhanced it more with other security tools rather than start from RAW system like majority Linux OS…
I use most of these that you listed, except that I don’t use office apps at all, and do all my documents using LaTeX in neovim.
Also, I have small helper scrips for pdf manipulation for tasks that I do regularly, like making my handwritten notes ready for printing at my office since I don’t like the algo my office printer uses to convert them to B&W. I also use sejda-console for merging PDFs as it has nice options for manipulating TOC during the merge.
Another nice utility is ffpb which is basically a wrapper around ffmpeg that gives it a nice progress bar.
I had Linux Mint several years, it’s a great Distro on Debian/Ubuntu. But, as a heavy gamer, I needed fresh and up-to-date sources for Mesa and the Kernel and so I switched to EndeavourOS, which is Arch-based and I can highly recommend it! It’s rock solid and gaming is great.
Chimera Linux actually uses apk or Alpine Package Keeper as its package manager, they acknowledge this but despite that market themselves as if they did something revolutionary that has never been done before
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