Apart from all of the people working using it

I actually quite like outlook, better than Gmail and both are better than any of the desktop clients I’ve tried on Linux

In hyprland you click and drag to resize the window, is that the same?

Less energy efficient, less efficient on your time while waiting for things to load/compile/whatever

I think old devices are great, my laptop is from 8 years ago but it was considered a monster of a laptop back then so it still holds up today. I think I would struggle to get any work done on anything less

Think they should be standard, they solve the problems a lot of people solve with multi monitor without having to buy multiple monitors

I think to a certain extent there are multiple desktop environments, you don’t have to use gnome

Have tried hyprland on a tiny tablet screen before and it was perfectly usable (besides the fact said tablet melted the moment I tried to load YouTube)

I would say 1080p should be the baseline for desktop development nowadays, I haven’t seen a display lower than that in use (with the exception of physically smaller screens like tablets or steam deck) in years

Eye candy is what makes a lot of people take the plunge to switch to Linux in the first place

I’m in the camp of liking the padding and rounding to the point of having themed a bunch of sites to look similar with user css

I am however usually on high res screens and am in the habit of removing everything unnecessary from the screen to make space with my theming

Also generally if I open graphical applications at all it’s because I want it to look nice and clean, if I wanted pure space efficiency I’d just use the terminal for everything all the time

There’s a workaround to this in hyprland in that you can rclick anywhere on the window to resize it (while holding meta), unsure if gnome/kde have this feature but I imagine it’s possible

What is the thing being shared here?

I think educating people on the dangers of social media is akin to educating crack addicts on why crack is bad for them

The vast majority are already addicted and already know the dangers

I stayed away from social media till around 18 because everyone told me how harmful it was, all that did was socially exclude me, and delay the addiction til later in life

Nix to my knowledge doesn’t have anything like that at least by default

The first two are not true on my distro

People complain about being notified about windows updates all the time, and they generally install quietly in the background for me while I get on with my work

The only time I consciously update is when I get wind of a CVE

It is the professional version yes but even when I used to have windows 10 I managed to turn auto updates off permanently

Why is this a thing

Do people store their money in these things? I use Google pay quite often, but it draws the money from the bank at the time of payment

I don’t get the forced update thing at all, use windows at work and don’t get nagged about updates ever. if it ever has updated on its own it’s done so completely imperceptibly to me

The only argument I see is that they’re dropping support for win 10 soon which kinda sucks but the majority of people will not even notice they’ve been upgraded

I haven’t had an update forced on me on my work machine ever

If you’re having the house fumigated, or making some renovations you’d have to be out of the house for a bit

I’d say they’re more like the developer, they’ve made the house their way, you can kinda change it, change the paint, move the furniture but you can’t make any major structural changes.

As much as Microsoft sucks their os is generally pretty solid. Not great but good enough for most

(I say this having not had a windows install on a personal machine for over a year now)

Make me

Actually don’t it’s hard enough with certain web apps

Ubuntu, various versions of, fedora for a bit, suse for a bit, Debian for an RPI

Nixos is my home distro and I’ve spent probably double the amount of time with it as I have all other distros combined, the distro hopping phase a given distro lasted about 2 weeks before I threw it out

I’m not comfortable enough with other distros to able to help someone who already knows enough about Linux in general, and given he’s familiar with fedora silverblue seemed like an obvious choice