Oh yeah? Then explain this!! /s

XMR is the only crypto worth shit.

That looks amazing.
Please share the recipe.

Yup, all capitalist as fuck.
Couldn’t you see the “we’re horny capitalists for money” flag they all flew?

No, it has nothing to do with BTRFS.
BTRFS is barely slower than EXT4; you wouldn’t even notice the difference.
I use BTRFS on Arch with a plain KDE plasma desktop and it has no such slowdown experienced with the Garuda equivalent.
I believe it’s because they enable a bunch of resources heavy effects, such as wobbly windows and have a few extra background processes; things not enabled or included in a plain Arch install by default.

Just stop buying iPhones, problem solved.

Anything that involves money is automatically capitalism.

The driver issues I tend to have was with multiple USB WiFi adapters I’ve tried with my computer.

I just use WiFi tethering which circumvents that whole thing, so I can’t speak on that.

I also couldn’t run my TV at 4K 60hz on Linux, but I could on Windows.

This could be a few things, from the drivers to your display output configuration. I have a 4K 60hz TV that works perfectly fine with Linux, the display output just wasn’t configured correctly. This is something Wayland can indirectly streamline for us in the future.

Freesync has also given me issues when trying to activate it.

This is unfortunately an area that’s all up to one entity (AMD) to sort out but they just haven’t. The way they’d achieve this is straight forward on paper; they’d have to make a FreeSync standard driver and provide similar GUI tools.

don’t really think I’ve ever owned an OEM desktop before.

That doesn’t mean you’re not using the components found in common OEM pre-builds.

Doesn’t Windows run on other things as well besides just your typical desktop?

Not really, no.
There’s Windows server but it’s woefully unused and is basically dead. Why even use it when Microsoft Azure (Linux based) exists.
Additionally the driver problem is flipped in this area; I could grab just about any server hardware and it’ll likely work with Linux no problem. However with Windows, I’d have to look specifically for Windows compatible hardware.
You can find Windows XP running on random legacy crap. But as of modern Windows, a Microsoft Surface and Valves Steam Deck is about as unique/exotic as the hardware gets.
Windows just isn’t flexible enough to be used outside of the desktop in any real compacity.

Yeah, because companies like Realtek & Mediatek are Taiwanese/Chinese.

How are you “ridiculing Linux users”?
You’re the one who brought up a completely irrelevant topic and got all pissy when you got told it’s not relevant. You shouldn’t have even brought up the RPI to begin with and just ended it at “I used it 4 months ago…”

I’m done with your constant circle jerking because you can’t put 2 & 2 together to make 4.

Facts, they can be a huge pain due to manufacturers not providing proper documentation; essentially forcing you to reverse engine the driver from scratch.

How long ago was this exactly?

Yeah, Nvidia has to work out their Wayland support before I’d recommend using Linux in your case. Much of Linux (including in gaming) is improving because of wayland but Nvidia’s shotty wayland support makes it hard for their users to get the benefits.

Literally the entire fuckin post, comments and replies are about Desktop Linux.
Why the fuck do you think you got down voted when you brought up the RPI? Because it’s completely irrelevant; You even literally said so yourself just now.
How the fuck do you remember to breathe when you’re this inept?
If you want to talk about the terminal then talk about the terminal, don’t be a smart ass thinking nobody will notice.

I can agree with that judgement.
M series is probably the best thing they’ve made in years, and the OS isn’t bad, maybe a little hand-holdy at times imo, but at the end of the day it’s still a decently flexible Unix system that uses ZSH as it’s shell.
If Apple didn’t make it such a walled garden, we could’ve seen it become a really popular OS.

Asahi Linux coming in clutch with bringing Linux to the M series and pushing Linux on ARM development forward tho.

Nobody here; including the original comment you replied to; is talking about using Linux on an ARM device like a RPI except you.
Nore is Linux on a RPI an equivalent to using it on an actual desktop and that includes the terminal too because not every CLI tool outside of the coreutils has an ARM version or equivalent.
You realize bring up the RPI in your reply is completely irrelevant to the conversation… Right?

RIGHT?

Don’t hurt yourself trying to comprehend the difference between ARM & x86_64 architecture my man!

Deadass, I challenge you to install Windows on that Raspberry Pie, actually use it for a week, film the whole thing and upload a video on “just how amazing and usable Windows on ARM is compared to it’s X86 version” & seriously mean it. If you can do that, only then will your obvious troll energy turn into anything real. Fuck it, if you manage to install steam on Windows 11 ARM that’d be enough.

I’ve been there, done that. ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

RPI is ARM not X86_64.
You really think that’s a proper equivalent?
Because it’s not, it’s not even the same at the terminal level because you’re missing quite a number of select tools that aren’t cross-compiled (yet).

Try Windows on ARM and compare it to the x86 version.
Not to mention both Linux and MacOS are way more developed on ARM than Windows is.
MacOS being the best ofc, thanks to the compatibility layer.

I believe your judging Linux too harshly based on an uneven playing ground.

First off, you really don’t need the terminal if you choose to avoid it. You can get by just fine with a GUI package manager included in the “user-friendly” Linux distros; which is essentially a graphical app store that handles all installs, uninstalls, updates & system updates for you with a point and click.

Second :
Tab key, Auto completion, command cycling, command highlighting, man pages, TLDR pages, and so on.
There’s no; absolutely 0, zippo, nada; reason you should, need, or want to remember individual commands or how to use them when the previously mentioned exist.

I installed Windows (both 10 & 11) last month on separate occasions, it took nearly 45m for it to install (with both 10 & 11), on top of that Windows 11 fucked up the first time around & I had to do it again. All to just update the BIOS because HP sucks.

When a Linux distro like Linux Mint installs in 5m-10m flat on the same exact device, first time around ever time.

Linux doesn’t need AV software, “security by design” is a key principle of Linux, and I don’t even think Windows itself actually “needs” AV software. It’s called common sense.

Automatically installing drivers won’t work if your WiFi card is unsupported out of the box like others have mentioned, especially with Windows 11 where you need internet to even install it the official “Microsoft way”. While Linux has all such supported drivers built-in and can provide support for these devices long past their EOL on Windows.
Nvidia drivers will auto install on Linux distros such as Mint too.

Windows 10 is a great OS, it’s hilarious how people attempt to pretend it’s not.

Nobody said it wasn’t, his comment comes off more as shitting on HP than Windows; we just don’t ignore it’s downside when looking at the whole picture.
Also Windows 11 is arguably worse than Windows 10.

Each OS has pros & cons and it’s important to look at each closely without assuming someone else is in fairyland because they chose a different OS then you, if you’re not careful you may find yourself in the very fairyland you’re accusing others of being in.