Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "Logically Answered"
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This depends a lot on the hardware you have. For desktops and laptops Linux is still behind in hardware support (especially peripherals) because the companies making them didn't bother to write drivers for Linux, and OF COURSE that they don't opensource the ones on Windows or offer schematics or documentation of sorts.
Also, even for Windows, the stability of the system is again, determined by hardware. And user behaviour. I'm not now writing this from my almost 7 year old laptop that I've used DAILY for both work and personal use (aka A LOT). It still has the original Windows 10 install, except that at one point I upgraded to the Pro version to get rid of those F^#^&$#ING automatic updates (best $11 spent ever). In almost 7 years I had 4 (four) blue screens of death. And after I configured it so it updates when I say so, not when it wants, I can get to really high uptimes (I usually try to be between 1 and 2 months, but the biggest I got was exactly 100 days. It still ran fine, but I went immediately to update it, to not risk being the idiot who got hit by a ransomware)
Still, if you get a new laptop or premade desktop, you can check System76 or Tuxedo or Framework to get one that's guaranteed to work flawlessly with Linux. And even without that, Linux is evolving fast, so your experience from 1 year ago can be drastically improved. It's still not guaranteed. But in, say, at most 5 years, I think that more than 99% of people would be perfectly served by Linux. By then Wayland and HDR will be mainstream and mature, the GPU drivers will be perfect for all 3 vendors, the anti-cheat systems in games should no longer be a problem, all except the most obscure games should be playable, everything except Adobe software should also work with no hassle and drivers for over 99% of components and peripherals should be available.
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Wow, so many people over here that barely use food delivery. I feel quite special now, I'm kind of the opposite, I actually use food delivery a lot.
First thing, I don't think it's THAT bad here in Romania. From the apps mentioned in the video, we only have UberEats a vaguely popular around here. Bolt Food (Estonian Uber that's 2 times better both in car sharing taxi and food delivery), Glovo and Tazz. I basically only use Bolt Food for several years now.
Unlike the other apps, I can put the exact pin on the map so the delivery guys (which some really aren't that smart) don't end up on the other side of the boulevard.
Also, the prices have indeed gone up substantially. As someone who used food delivery a lot before the pandemic too, the prices are on average a bit more then double (and the inflation here hasn't been THAT bad).
One thing mentioned in the video, the difference between pizza chains which have somewhat working delivery and food delivery apps. It painted the apps as the new guy which doesn't have experience and doesn't know how to do things effectively. No idea how it is in USA, but I can confidently say that here with Bolt Food especially that is NOT the case. Just from the accuracy of the estimated time of arrival you realize that the infrastructure is quite advanced and mature. Not perfect, but clearly good. Also, we already have the range limit that it's mentioned in the video that somehow only pizza chains have. Here in Bucharest, which is a very large town for Romania, but it's probably just as big as one small district from New York, the range is about 1/4 of the city. 5-10 km, something like that, I don't know exactly.
It is very expensive for me, and I was always aware of that, I still prefer it over spending time shopping and cooking and cleaning and associated extras. Plus, there are days when I literally spend about 1 minute ordering, since I know what I want, about 1 minute answering the delivery guy and getting the bag, and I can eat at my laptop while paying attention to a meeting, effectively I spend no time at all the whole day for "cooking" and eating, I love it. To achieve the same time efficiency and confort I'd have to either a) consume mostly instant foods, which are significantly cheaper, but much less healthier and with much less variety in the foods or b) have a personal chef which would be ideal, but I don't have THAT much money.
From several hundreds of orders in the last 5 years I had only literally one order which was not delivered because there was no courier found, on a Sunday at 9-10 PM (don't ask, it was not at my place nor a normal day). And I had several bad deliveries where it was mostly the restaurant fault for not having good wrapping/casing of the food. And several deliveries with missing/wrong items, which were solved (kinda) with the help system of the app. Overall percent wise, not that many, something like 3-5% of the orders. Though there is a thing that I have to mention, I think it does help my good record, I rarely order at lunch times, when there's the most chaos. I usually eat significantly later.
Of course, for the end user it will always be expensive. Before the apps, when you had to call, and there were fewer places you could have delivery from, it was worth it if multiple people ordered, like 4+. The delivery tax was a bit steeper, but when you split that in multiple people, it gets quite cheap. And some places had free delivery after a certain threshold. Now with the apps, there's still that free delivery after a threshold (though not always) and the tax seems to take into account the distance, but the efficiency of multiple people (big order) vs single person (small order) has been much diminished.
All in all, considering the above points, I'd say that it can get to be mature enough to be sustainable. And I think that I am experiencing that.
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@L0gicalPsych0 Yup, you are correct. Sadly, convenience often ... who am I kidding, ALWAYS trumps over correctness, when we're talking mainstream public. That's why I'm saying it's a losing battle.
To be fair, when the idea is to get across that you're using an OS which is neither Windows, nor MacOS, nor Android, but uses the Linux kernel... simply calling it Linux ... it DOES the job. The contexts where you would say "I'm running Debian" and the other person is like "Oh, Linux. Nice" and you then go "WRONG! It's GNU/Hurd" are really, really niche contexts.
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