Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "The Most Uncomfortable Truths About Linux" video.

  1. I was a Linux user in 1994. In ten years I might be dead. They need to speed it up for this user, or I will never be a Linux user again. ;-)
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  2. I have a Macbook from 2011 that runs just fine on an old version of OS X and a PC from 2013 that runs WIndows 10 that can't be upgraded to 11. I do all my engineering design work on that machine. There are ZERO problems with using either computer. You are talking absolute nonsense. If you don't know how to make emergency repair discs and backups for old Windows computers that can be use to replace installations after a hard drive failure, then you are the last person on Earth who should be meddling with people's computers. If you have much older hardware than that, then it's more than likely that the decoupling caps around the CPU will fail soon, anyway, which results in a dead motherboard that you won't be able to repair, either.
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  3. So now you have a fast computer that is absolutely useless. Sound of one hand clapping. ;-)
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  4.  @mihairomulus2488  Just the truth. For most people Linux is completely useless. It can't even play 4k videos. Or HD videos. The last time I tried it on a laptop none of the browsers were able to use the built in hardware decoders and they all fell back to software decoding at 7 frames per second. ;-)
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  5.  @mihairomulus2488  You are missing that hardware support under Linux is spotty, at best. None of that was ever a problem on Windows and OS X platforms.
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  6. I have always managed to do more things on Apple computers than on Linux computers. You are correct, though, I never got that remote control software for that science telescope in the Atacama desert to work on my Apple laptop for which I found the source code in one of the Linux repositories. I did learn, though, that that telescope was decommissioned around 1998, so maybe that's not such a big loss of functionality. ;-)
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  7.  @BruceNJeffAreMyFlies  No, Bruce, I don't. I use my computers for analog and digital circuit simulation, printed circuit board layout, mechanical design, FPGA design and embedded controller design. I also write both Python and C code. Several of the tools I use are exclusively Windows and some that are available on Linux have insanely difficult installations procedures unless you use exactly the version of Linux that the maker of those tools prescribes. You know what? Why don't you go and feel sorry for yourself for being such a fool. Productivity is obviously of no concern in your world... the world of the amateur. ;-)
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  8. Wait, Linux prevents your ISP and Google from spying on you? Which distro does that? Dude... stop fantasizing. ;-)
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  9. Not invented here syndrome is an incurable disease. What's worse, it spreads much faster among people who never have sexual contacts. ;-)
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  10.  @numipinkpanda5486  Windows NT was better after four years of development than Linux is after 30. It's amazing how "not invented here" can turn a bunch of mediocre people into a bunch of total losers. ;-)
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  11. You are right. That's why I had to buy another keyboard at the second hand store today. My keyboard just died. ;-)
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  12. That's on purpose. If you can't even read your own screen, then nobody standing behind you can spy on it, either. One can never be too safe from spying eyes. If all else fails, you can always go into the bedroom, turn the lights off and pull the comforter over you and your computer. With enough dark adaptation even you will finally see just barely enough contrast to use the controls. ;-)
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  13. I want to highlight and contextually expand that drinking is not good for you. ;-)
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  14. My Windows 10 just crashed. It worked without any problems for 3 years. Oh, wait... it wasn't my Windows 10. My SSD developed premature CRC errors. It was a hardware defect. When was the last time you had to reinstall Linux because of a hardware defect? Never, right? You always had to reinstall it because of a software defect. ;-)
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