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Brainlet response.
Dafuq is a “brainlet”?
Getting popup ads is a far cry from “just browsing,”
I don’t know what part of this you’re not getting but you have to be browsing in order to get an ad, so it has absolutely everything to do with browsing, despite your insistence to the contrary.
that seemed to coincide with whether or not I was clicking the ads.
Wait you actually clicked the ads?
mad shilling comments
God I just love these comments. As if no one can actually genuinely like a product and any correction of disinformation makes you a “shill”… such big brain energy over here.
how not a single one of them addresses the carbon copy “BRowSeR tHAT PaYS YoU!!!” reviews.
Because we don’t care. We don’t read reviews from randoms online. We listen to experienced privacy and security advocates, and we actually use the browsers ourselves.
I realize you don’t want a “big clunky box” but you will make a variety of compromises for a mini-PC.
You can build a PC in a mini-ITX case (about the size of a shoe box) and get significantly better performance.
Otherwise, I have to agree with everyone else here, the SteamDeck is where it’s at. It’s just a ridiculously good value.
The new Lenovo Legion handheld looks promising also but it’s far too new to recommend.
There are just way too many variables here to give a definitive answer.
Namely what specific software you’re talking about.
Generally though, no, it is not more efficient.
Not surprising to see it consume more energy at idle than Windows 11 with all the fucking bloatware they have running constantly.
whos ‘you people’ here?
“You people” who are delusional and incessantly lie about how “easy” things are.
My point was that just as terminal for linux is scary, many people find even the control panel in windows scary and hard to use.
This is not even remotely comparable. You don’t need the control panel to install software (a basic task), and even if you do need it for something, it’s fairly intuitive. You just click around until you find what you need. Using the CLI requires you to have a working knowledge of a fucking encyclopedia of gibberish commands.
Your personal experience may vary but many issues you point to isnt linux specific.
Yes. They are.
You people keep saying this but it’s simply not true. I used Windows for 20 years and never went into the CLI, which is basically a daily occurrence to complete basic tasks in Linux.
For example, today I went to download the new Simplex app. On Windows, download and run the .exe and it installs itself. Done.
On Linux, they only have a .deb version. So to install that on Fedora I have to install some other program, and the only way to install the program is from the CLI. Tried to do that. The first command I copied and pasted the first command into the CLI and…nothing happened. Not even an error message. Give up.
The end.
Look, I just ran into another example. SimpleX just released a desktop version. Only they only offer a .deb file. Go to search for how to install this on Fedora. I have to install a whole other program just to install this program. How do I install that program? Straight to the CLI with you.
The Windows version is a .exe so all I had to do is download it and click it and it literally just installs itself.
You seem to be laboring under the impression that the success of Linux is tied to the needs of the mythical “average user”
Nope. You’re once again just fabricating statements that no one is making.
Linux is not a business so “success” can be measured in a myriad of ways. One of which could be the number of people adopting it as their main desktop/laptop OS. For that, it has to be able to run the software most people are using.
This is also the topic of discussion that you seem to be missing entirely.
in addition to thinking that Linux is somehow responsible for the fact that MS doesn’t make Office binaries for it, or Autocad doesn’t make binaries for it, etc.
More things you’re just making up. No one thinks Linux is responsible for those things. If you want to have an argument with yourself, feel free to write it down on a piece of paper or something.
I find your premise to be flawed
You clearly don’t understand what my premise even is, so you couldn’t possibly.
people are ok with using the command line but they get scared about the potential complexity
God you people are so blind. No one gets “scared”. They just don’t want to dedicate the time to memorize a thousand different commands across a hundred different OSes.
If a gui is equally complex, it would turn away users too
But they arent.
I take exception to this notion that Linux has some responsibility to be compatible with everything in the world.
Well this is a point you’ve fabricated in your imagination because no one thinks that. Windows and Mac will both run whatever software a typical user needs. Linux often does not. That makes it not suitable for most users. It’s as simple as that.
If the diversity of alternatives was putting off people, I guess we would still all be driving black Ford cars.
It’s very different considering your car only needs to run the software it comes with from the factory (for now).
If we had a thousand different types of fuel, and 95% of people used fuel 1 or 2, and then 5% used one of a thousand other lesser-know fuels, you’d probably just buy a car that uses 1 or 2, because they’re the easiest and most popular.
Why would they change the name instead of the version number? 🤦♂️