It really is a huge issue. And when you see stuff like this you kinda understand why the RIAA takes the approach they do.

There’s maybe 4 things I buy a year on Amazon. I set the price watch, when it hits the price I want I chick the link and buy it.

Not sure why you would need to buy more things to make it worthwhile.

The lungs generally take the longest to get better. They’re constantly flexing without stop, so it’s a slower process to repair.

I’m saying this from experience as someone who has asthma, allergies, and had a cold or bronchitis an average of once every four months or so growing up. It can easily take several months for a general cough to go away.

Don’t take any of this as medical advice, but if it’s not getting better (or if it gets worse), you should go get it checked out.

The “pro” version of Betamax was good. It wasn’t the consumer version. The consumer version was no better than VHS.

You joke, but this is the argument of some of them.

Nope, they were really saying that you can’t see anything there unless you go for the whole weekend.

We walked around, checked out the castle, saw a lame touristy film about Nessy, sampled some incredible whisky and were home for dinner.

It was kinda the same with St Abbs. They said we had to leave Friday morning and leave Sunday evening (again from Glasgow) or we wouldn’t get to do much. Now I’m not going to say the place isn’t gorgeous, but what we did was hang out in a… cottage? I’m not sure what to rightly call it, but we hung out at someone’s place, played board games, played cards, hung out by the bluffs, on the beach etc.

I don’t disagree that it was a relaxing and fun weekend, but we didn’t need to spend a full 2.5 days there to do what we did. They made it seem like if we lost even an hour the weekend was lost.

Same experience when my wife and I went to Scotland to visit friends. We were in Glasgow and wanted to check out Edinburgh, less than an hour bus ride, for the day. They told us that we were crazy and that’s a whole weekend trip.

We laughed pretty hard. A full hour drive is only half of a daily work commute in Toronto, on a good day.

I’m sure if you’re doing advanced things in Windows then you can mess it up fairly badly

I’ve helped so many people fix their Windows systems who barely know how to open their email. Computers are complex. No system is perfect (Windows less so IMO).

but can happen in both camps

That was my point.

let’s just say yesterday my friend brought their PC to my house and spent an hour and a half debugging a graphics card issue (yes, it was Nvidia) before we could play Distance

Oh please, you say this as though no one has ever spent literal days debugging Windows quirks and issues. Windows updates especially have nuked many systems.

The price increase I can deal with. The drop in quality and getting rid of password sharing (after they actively endorsed it) is why they lost me.

Even 3% is not insignificant. Especially when you consider that most computers come with Windows pre-installed. Imagine how that would change if Linux came pre-installed.

And those numbers really start to skew in favor of Linux when you exclude markets like China. IIRC when you exclude China for desktop marketshare stats Linux alone (not including “other”) jumps closer to 10%.

Can we also include WSL?

There are 3 options for dns over https in Firefox and none of them work.

Then you did something wrong.

Ya, I kinda figured that’s what you might mean, and in that case it’s entirely wrong.

Long uptimes used to be a point of pride for admins with how long they could keep a single boot session running. But these days a long uptime just means very outdated security patches.

“Never touch a running system” is very much the same vein now. You should constantly be touching the system for system maintenance and such.

A good chunk of that 4 billion have never used anything aside from a phone as a computing device. If you widdle that number down to only desktop users the Linux marketshare jumps to about 5%.

The one thing I cannot stand about Edge is that if you want to use it for some specific webapps, but still use another browser as the system default, it will always open links in Edge.

For example, I use Teams and Outlook for work. I have each of them as a PWA installed as a webapp. I used to have them via Edge, but use Chrome for everything else. But anytime I clicked on a link in an email or Teams message, it would open a new Edge window and ignore my system settings.

To be clear, I’m doing this on Ubuntu, and not Windows. So we’re not dealing with that anti-user choice crap that Microsoft does with Edge over and over.

Guaranteed reproducible builds

Any distro that uses Pipewire (most at this point) is incredibly stable with the audio setup.

PulseAudio was a bit rough at the beginning, but it got much better. But Pipewire at this point is hands down amazing.

Nobody wants to use them as a Desktop.

Except for millions upon millions of users, right? Screw those guys because they aren’t the majority.

it’s funny how the butthurt Firefox users downvote me for just talking about my experience with the browser.

Nobody is downvoting you for just talking. They’re downvoting you because you very clearly lack knowledge in what you’re doing but are blaming it on the browser.