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		dsego on April 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Lin... "You're using Ubuntu, you should use Pop OS/Mint/Fedora/new Fedora/new/old Debian, it's flawless". And "you are using Gnome, I haven't had any issues with KDE, Plasma, XFCE, i3, Mate, oh Enlightenment, Enlightenment is the best."Why are you using Geary/Thunderbird/LibreOffice, I do all my email/coding/music in emacs/vim, you never have to leave the terminal and it has worked fine for over 30 years." "Everyone knows VLC is buggy, use mpv... mpv is not working for you? You should use VLC, never had problems with it." "Linux is wonderful on my machine, once I recompiled my kernel to verxion xyz everything worked out of the box."

sergeykish on April 3, 2021 | [–]

And that's it, Linux allows to craft experience.

Different philosophy. Linux — everything is possible, some achievable. macOS/Windows — some things allowed.

dschuetz on April 3, 2021 | [–]

Yes, exactly. And the classic: "idk, works for me", cracks me up every single time.

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