Re:Tech Is Fun Again: The Tech Monoculture Is Finally Breaking
by dsego on Friday January 23, 2026 @01:03PM
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It can never be user-friendly enough if how windows does things is the yardstick. Windows users bemoan about how terrible Macs are all the time just because things are done differently, and they don't even try to figure it out. If it doesn't work like windows it's not good enough.
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Re:Tech Is Fun Again: The Tech Monoculture Is Finally Breaking
by direwolf20 on Friday January 23, 2026 @04:52PM
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Why can't we make Linux work like Windows? Modifiability is supposed to be a benefit of open-source.
Re:Tech Is Fun Again: The Tech Monoculture Is Finally Breaking
by at1as on Friday January 23, 2026 @06:45PM
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The ASUS laptop I bought has a litany of issues: blue screens, audio dying, won't wake from sleep. MSFT, Nvidia and ASUS all blame each other.
I have a feeling modern Linux on this machine wouldn't be worse than what it shipped with. The days of fighting for 3 days with audio or printer drivers after an install are mostly behind us.
Re:Tech Is Fun Again: The Tech Monoculture Is Finally Breaking
by scheeseman486 on Saturday January 24, 2026 @03:18AM
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If you install a distro that uses KDE Plasma, you're already most of the way there. Not just because of it's design similarities to Windows but it's the desktop environment that's been getting the most financial support lately and has seen the most rapid improvement.
I personally prefer it at this point. Dolphin blows away explorer, window management is more slick and more flexible out of the box and it also happens to be deeply customizable.
Re:Tech Is Fun Again: The Tech Monoculture Is Finally Breaking
by mikkupikku on Saturday January 24, 2026 @05:45AM
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If Linux isn't uploading their FDE keys to Microsoft servers by default, Windows users will get scared and start crying. Needless to say, their tastes and desires should never be entertained.