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Interesting how so many people keep defending what is essentially an uncomfortable hack (alt button) when others complain that they want right-click drag and move when the latter is so OBVIOUSLY more efficient. Reminds me of how Mac users defended their 1-button mouse systems compared to 3-button sy...

That's just what happens when you attempt monolithic driver support, the mainstream stays and third party falls away over time.... a giant weak side to linux which is partially fixed with sideloading some drivers but there is no proper "institutional" way of doing this yet. Similar to old hardware n...

FF REALLY made a mistake when they dropped the old addon standard While I disagree it was a mistake to migrate Firefox to a new extension architecture (like, here we are with 16 core desktop processors becoming mainstream and you'd want to go back to a single threaded web browser? No thanks :)) it ...

You know, I don't think I've ever actually SEEN a Chromebook physically....

I still stick to FF but at this point it's mostly out of brand loyalty and the fact that vivaldi just does not really press my buttons the right way somehow. FF REALLY made a mistake when they dropped the old addon standard and the addon devs have been extra slow in adapting with some even saying th...

Yeah Unity and Gnome are quite beneath me..... for tablets Unity could be great (neva actually tried it mind you) but gnome is becoming dumber by the year.

Most Linux boards, especially in the late 1990's and early 2000's were notorious for the "RTFM" mentality, and driving off newbies. Thank G_d we are getting away from that elitist, snobby, counterproductive mentality. that probably has to do with the ease of use of linux this day and age. a lot mor...

from 7 forward each version of windows has been designed to work on older hardware than the previous version. 8 running on older than 7. 8.1 running on older than 8, 10 running on older than 8.1. yes peeps def need to avoid 8, 8.1 was released to address major bugs in 8. Honestly 8.1 was basically ...

improper support for one. typically in a windows help forum you are presented with a solution and every step to apply said solution. in the linux forux peeps have a very nasty habit of say do /whatever, and /this, which is fine you have the commands to use but not where to put those commands. peeps...

That's completely counter to the common narrative of Linux running better than windows on older computers..... a lighter distro won't necessarily solve hardware problems. That's likely no longer true for Win 10 with its rapid forced auto-upgrades to new versions at least twice-per-year, ie older co...

Some don't even know what windows or mac is, they just know it as "the computer".

That's completely counter to the common narrative of Linux running better than windows on older computers..... a lighter distro won't necessarily solve hardware problems.

My one recurring problem with Windows users though that I did not mention.... some still think that simply deleting a folder uninstalls the app... thank goodness for reg cleaners though sometimes a full OS re-install is still needed. So yes coming back full circle to OP.... some Windows users will d...

There is no real need to lock me down in order to protect me from myself. I survived 20 years of driving cars that did not even have an airbag or an anti-lock braking system. :wink: I fondly remember the days of my childhood bouncing around on the back of a pickup truck now and then and being told ...

Maybe it is a SoftwareDistribution folder issue in Windows? To fix badly jammed windows update can require to remove or rename Windows\SoftwareDistribution and Windows\System32\catroot2 folders. I find windows update bafflingly badly done in general.... half of what they do makes no sense in the lo...

Both gm10 and karlchen were correct in my meaning behind what I said, the former more than the latter though. I was commenting more on patterns of user behavior than technical differences, when users switch OS they tend to keep old behaviors whether good or bad and I was explaining why they do what ...

I once knew someone that actually bragged a bit about how quickly she could accidentally wreck a winxp installation.... though I vaguely suspect the habit was for getting attention when she eventually shoved her laptop in the nearest "geek's" face....

/home is just for configs and documents The easiest example is /usr Most packages get unpacked to /usr which would generally make it the "Program Files" of Linux.... most of what goes into "Program Files" is non-critical with the glaring exception of "Common Files". "Program Files" is generally cons...

The problem is the lack of distinction between system space and user space. Most windows users (especially win10 users) are used to the system preventing them from removing critical files so they assume that anything deletable is not critical in other OS's as well. Also it's probably the case that m...

This is what happens when professional managers take over the top management of companies.... no one actually gets anything done properly because all they care about is maintaining profit margins and no technical objective or goal is safe for longer than 5min.