Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux
by the_only_law on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:20AM
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> If on your distro something isn't configured correctly for 4k screens the fanboy says its workable because there is a readily available resource that will tell you how to achieve the result you desire.
> The anti fanboy will throw up their hands and say Linux sucks.
This is a strange false dichotomy
Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux
by ziftface on Monday October 12, 2020 @02:38PM
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I think the implication was that it isn't a dichotomy. There is a third group of people who are neither fanboys nor anti fanboys.
Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux
by michaelmrose on Monday October 12, 2020 @09:24PM
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Perhaps I should have said hater. Yes there is a massive group in the middle that doesn't have a dog in the race only techies and nerds have favorite OS like other people have sports teams. On average people are buying boxes that come with software and using whatever came with their box.
The linux fanboy definition of works is either works out of the box or can be made to work.
The opposite position seems to be must work out of the box on any of 50 distros on any hardware I buy at Walmart AND must invent time travel to change the fact that it didn't work 7 years ago on the Acer I bought from that weirdo on Craigslist the only time I actually tried installing it.
Take High DPI
It kinda looks like cinnamon for example supports HiDPI out of the box but all the knobs are there if you want to tweak how different things scale.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI
If on your distro something isn't configured correctly for 4k screens the fanboy says its workable because there is a readily available resource that will tell you how to achieve the result you desire.
The anti fanboy will throw up their hands and say Linux sucks.
An argument can be made that that this isn't good enough for "grandma" or "regular people". I see problems in consumer electronics and windows that are too hard for grandma or "regular people" all the time.
If they don't want to install and configure it presumably they can pay Lenovo or Dell to do it for them just as they do presently. If it comes with a high dpi screen presumably they will configure it for such.