Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Total Linux Desktop PCs Now Over 56 Million" video.

  1. Yeah but people will get over it. They'll get as annoyed with Linux as they got about Windows. Then they'll go back and decide it's not so bad after all. Sure some will stick around but it'll be a low percentage. This has happened before. Windows 8 was a big time for refugees.
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  2.  @MrEdrftgyuji  does old Windows software even run on new Windows?
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  3. I don't run Windows because Windows makes me feel dirty.
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  4. I've seen some Windows updates not go too smoothly. I guess it could happen in Linux too. I've had some updates go a little south in Linux. But I was able to fix them.
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  5.  @toby9999  I don't like you as a human being.
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  6. PC use has dropped off dramatically with the rise of mobile devices. You no longer need a PC to participate in the digital domain. You can get by with just a smartphone or a tablet or something. So that's what many people do. Owning a PC is a hassle that many just don't need.
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  7. I'd imagine it is.
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  8. Microsoft walked Recall back though. I expect them to trot it out again. But as of now that's not the case. Eventually we'll reach feature parity with Windows as far as spyware goes too. Parity is always a goal with Linux.
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  9.  @trippvanmunch  Recall was a good idea. It just wasn't a good idea to tell anyone about it. Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. That goes double for foreigners too. Microsoft has been compromised since they lost to the DOJ in 2001. How do you think they got off so light? They were given an option then. You either do what we say or else. They folded. It's not like they had any choice. Bill Gates was a pal with Epstein. So every alphabet agency has had total access to every machine running Windows for a long time now.
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  10. I changed the color of my cursor. There's other cursors available that you can use. I'm using Breeze_Snow right now. I have Xcursor.theme: Breeze_Snow in my ~/.Xresources file.
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  11. I run a Window Manager so it doesn't have a file manager. So I have installed a couple file managers and none of them are great. But I manage with what I have.
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  12. 50+ million is a lot.
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  13.  @AmericanDiscord  For a long time we were under 2% of the market. So yeah 10% would be exciting.
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  14. Commercial software is a slippery slope. Linux wasn't designed to support closed source software well. So that binary code operates on Linux at a severe disadvantage.
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  15.  @CommanderBeefDev  you can tune Linux too. But generally you don't have to. But if you have nothing better to do you can waste a lot of time profiling software if you'd like. Trying different compile flags to see what you can get. There's different performance configs for the kernel too. You can spend a long time down that rabbit hole. You ain't gonna find much. But maybe something? I've managed to speed up boot speed by 20%. It only took 3 weeks to do that. I was actually trying to lower latency then. What I learned was if I wanted a faster computer I should just buy a faster computer.
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  16. In Windows things just work until they just don't work. Then you've no recourse in the matter. That's where I have a problem with Windows.
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  17.  @ordinaryhuman5645  all mods and utilities work in Linux for OG Doom. I launch with a shell script that I wrote. I type pd and I'm playing Doom. pde opens up the script for editing. Make your own tools!
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  18. Hardware needs drivers and kernels provide drivers. So you can just install a kernel with the driver support you need. That's what Linux is all about. If one distro can do it that means the driver is out there. So it also means it can be installed in any distro. Configuring and building a custom kernel is something every Linux user should do at some point. Doing that is the reason for Linux to be.
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  19.  @LTPottenger  the something you're talking about is nothing I've ever heard of. There's always something new in Linux though. No matter how long you've been running it. I've been running Linux for quite some time now too. I'm coming up on 30 years. There is a way to view errors in Linux. They're logged. The dmesg command should show you errors too.
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  20. They read browser identifiers at websites. That's one way they do this data collection. But you can spoof that string. So it isn't entirely reliable. I've had to spoof that when I had a browser that sites deemed "too old". Well excuse me for running oldstable Debian! But people spoof that for a lot of reasons.
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  21. Android is not desktop Linux. At best Android is a fork of the Linux kernel and nothing more.
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  22.  @KAZVorpal  there's a fundamental difference between mainline Linux and Android that makes them different. Almost everything from Android was merged back into the mainline Linux kernel but not entirely everything. Some of what Android does was deemed too stupid and unreliable to get merged into the mainline kernel. Which is why Android is not Linux but rather a fork of Linux. The stupid bits have to do with spinlocks for power savings. What Android does there is considered too risky as far as stability goes. But it is a useful feature for a mobile device.
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