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Re:How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too by ikfmpwdsoz on Saturday January 19, 2019 @11:38PM (#18951135)
You pay for Windows, but Linux is free. Windows is filled with ads; Linux has none. Windows is slow; Linux is less slow. Windows tried to pull some weird tablet hybrid nonsense; Linux desktops are just desktops. Cinnamon, Mate and KDE took the very best parts of old Windows and made them better. Gnome and Pantheon ripped off macOS and they're also great. Every single one of them is more polished and more useable than Windows 10.

But seriously, who in their right mind would tolerate advertisements in software that they paid good money for?

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Re:How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too by tjoff on Sunday January 20, 2019 @04:47AM (#18952206)
I have never seen an ad in windows in my entire life on any of my machines. Apparently it is the first thing I disable when I open up the settings on a new install. It's gotten to the point that I'm almost curious about it. Ubuntu has the amazon integration which bothers me about just as much.

Ubuntu tried to pull some weird netbook phone hybrid that didn't work well on any type of device. 8 years we had to live with Unity.

I'd say that the UI of Windows 10 is about ten years ahead of anything in the linux world (and I doubt linux well ever be as polished). I say that as someone who is possibly going to do the switch to linux this year, but I'm in for a rough transition.

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Re:How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too by chess_buster on Sunday January 20, 2019 @06:17AM (#18952495)
> I'd say that the UI of Windows 10 is about ten years ahead of anything in the linux world

Windows 10 is really really nice these days...

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Re:How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too by CFeminine on Saturday January 19, 2019 @11:44PM (#18951170)
i hear you 5 by 5, i would also wonder who would tolerate subsription like leasing of software such as norton or office 360.
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Re:How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too by killjoywashere on Sunday January 20, 2019 @04:20AM (#18952123)
Some one who has deals with top 5 orgs on Earth gives zero shits about the software or who made it, as long as it gets the job done. Actually, they might care, in a sort of "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" sort of way, but if you're on deadline and there are jobs on the line, people paying rent, you really can't afford to worry about whether Office costs you $100/year every year for the rest of your life.
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