M$ loves locking users into their totally bulls*it ecosystem with deliberately broken “standards.” LibreOffice, on the other hand, actually respects open formats like ODF and doesn’t treat interoperability as a threat. Word still can’t properly open documents it didn’t create, unless you pay the vendor tax and pray the formatting survives…
Raccoonn
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If a program insists on Windows, it is instantly deemed incompatible with my operating parameters and fails my system requirements…
Raccoonn@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•Tell one thing that you miss after switching from another OS to Linux.3·9 months agoWhen I switched from Windows to Linux back in 2002, I never looked back. I missed absolutely nothing. Linux offered everything I needed and more, with unmatched freedom and flexibility. In late 2008, I bought a unibody MacBook, and while macOS wasn’t bad per se, it just didn’t feel like home. I missed Linux too much, so I wiped the MacBook and installed Debian. From that moment on, I’ve never switched again—Linux has always been home. I’m currently rocking Arch (btw) on my main desktop & Debian on my laptop…
Raccoonn@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•There are sane people with this many VMs on a personal machine, right? RIGHT?2·11 months agoMy motherboard is a stock dell from around 2012 so I doubt performance would be at all good. Thats even if it worked in the first place…
Raccoonn@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•There are sane people with this many VMs on a personal machine, right? RIGHT?1·11 months agoGPU passthrough has always been one of those exciting ideas I’d love to dive into one day. My current GPU being a little older, has only 4GB of RAM. Oh the joy’s of being a budget PC user. Thankfully it’s more of a “would be nice rather” than an “actually need”…
While I appreciate the utility of snaps and flatpaks for providing sandboxed, cross-platform apps, I’ve often found them slower than traditional packages. Their tendency to take up more disk space also feels inefficient, especially when system resources are sometimes precious. For these reasons, I generally prefer using apps installed directly through the system’s default package manager, which tend to offer better performance and use space more efficiently…
I really want to love Elementary OS, however, its foundation on Ubuntu has me hesitating, as I’m not the biggest fan of Ubuntu lately. If it were built on something like Debian or Fedora, I’d definitely be more inclined to give it a serious try…
Arch can definitely be a “set & forget” type of distro. Just install it, use it correctly, and that’s really it. No need to upgrade to new releases; just keep the system up to date…
Personally, I consider a “bloated system” to be one that has a bunch of installed apps that I’ll never use…
Raccoonn@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•A large state corporation in Brazil is currently trialing 800 Linux PCs. If successful, it will deploy and replace 22k Windows installs, comparable to the migration happening in Germany.2·1 year agoIn the past, some people have expressed dissatisfaction when I’ve sent them files in .odt format. However, it’s the superior format in terms of support and functionality, so I always make them aware of that and of the fact that I will never use some shitty ms product…
Personally for me Arch on my system has been more stable & faster than both Debian & Fedora…