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Re:Crystal 1.2.0 by hota_mazi on Saturday October 16, 2021 @01:07AM (#28885697)
It makes running Linux as a primary OS irrelevant.

Linux on the desktop has always been a joke, but it's even more irrelevant now. You run Windows as your main development OS and when you're ready to deploy your app to Linux, you launch WSL or run a CI/CD pipeline.

But there is now zero reason to ever run Linux as the main OS on your desktop.

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Re:Crystal 1.2.0 by southerntofu on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @06:23AM (#28916621)
> But there is now zero reason to ever run Linux as the main OS on your desktop.

s/Linux/Windows/ /s

More seriously, i don't understand your point. Just because you're happy with Microsoft's practices doesn't mean free distros are all "a joke" or "irrelevant". Many people use GNU/Linux as a daily driver and we're more than satisfied.

Personal opinion: i just don't understand the appeal for Windows. MacOS at least has some design/UX guidelines which you can like or dislike but they're consistent about... Windows has just so many anti-patterns i don't have enough fingers to count. The only times i ever needed windows was because of phone-related crapware, and even then Wine was more than enough. Why would i need Windows at all?

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