In a cli you only type commands and send them with Enter, in a TUI you can click/move around with the arrows just like in a gui.

Edit: dont know about good front ends.

There are multiple gui front ends, but its still very popular to use it in the terminal. Its a TUI, so it practically works like a GUI.

Depends on your definition of an IDE, but nowadays vim can be extended to have basically any feature you’d like. Especially neovim.

Exactly. With youtube’s shitty tutorial search functions ever since they removed dislikes, i kinda need to see the start of the video to know if its even relevant. But no. Full on 2-3 pre-video ads.

Its a rectangular that is detached from the taskbar. Makes no sense.

A floating window for things that should clearly have a tab-like look, like windows 11’s start menu - why in the world does it float like a window?? Why is it not connected to the taskbar like in every other desktop? Or firefox’s new tabs design.

Is it possible to learn this power?

At this point its easier to find new movies through pirating platforms. So many different streaming services and they only allow searching through their own platform, and obviously push all their newest and shittiest shows. I just go to a neutral platform that has everything and no agenda and find great movies in a matter of minutes.

Well im having quite some troubles with it often. Msoffice has some annoying anti features related to automatically changing my keyboard layout, but still works better.

What program do you use for filling pdf files in RTL languages? For me no program works properly except adobe pdf.

Well, for one, there is a difference between using your pc for work or for your hobbies/free time. There are a lot of foss drivers for devices not officially supported on linux. However, since this is your job, you probably have no reason to rely on those when windows just works.

And about the windows-only software, some probably work on linux through wine. However, since this is what they make a living out of, they have no reason to even try that. Windows works for them, why waste time?

On my personal, non-job related pc, i have ran many windows-only apps or windows only peripherals when i made the switch. Overtime i need those less and less (either due to new alternatives or linux support being added).

Most people use their computer solely for browsing the web and looking at images/videos, which linux is completely capable of. Next most used thing is office suites and printing - as long as you dont need to use right-to-left languages, the office suites are completely sufficient. Printers are dependent on the manufacturer, but most work, some with even less problems than on windows.

Now when we jump to the more niche areas, it depends on the area and your needs. Programming is obviously flawless on linux. Photoshoping images should be good enough for hobbyists, but not for some proffesionals. Video editing is really good for all levels, except fpr adobe products (davinchi and KDEnlive for example). Gaming works pretty well, and is improving over time. Other niche fields have linux support/alternatives, or their products may work through wine/proton.

At the end of the day, you can do basically anything on linux, not necessarily with the exact same tools as on windows.

Perhaps second times are different, reinstalls are different, or they changed it. I definitely sae on a friend’s computer how many different things dedault to Edge.

Same. Those companies abuse the fact they control the platform to push all of their other products. Nowadays to compete with a microsoft product in a fair way you also need to develope a popular deskrop OS, an office suite, cloud services and multiple programmong environments, because each of their products keeps pushing the other peoducts, and the platform control part simply gives them advantages only they can have.

On windows 10 its 1 click away only for Edge. For any other browser the settings page is opened and you do it feom there. Now, for me and you the settings page is the most trivial thing to operate, but for others it might not be.

On windows 11 they have broken down the default browser to a million default settings, and you need to change each and every one individually.

In google pixel a chrome-like search bar is stuck to every page on your homescreen, takes a full row, and very accidently clickable. You need to change the OS or launcher to stop this.

And then some things on all of those systems will always open eith chrome/Edge with no non hackish way of changing that.

But then you have windows 11 where it takes about 5-10 whole minutes to get rid of all the defaults that point to Edge, and even then some things, like help pages links and the start menu’s search bar will keep openning Edge.

You of couse have google phones where chrome and google search are shoved to each one of your home pages and to the global phone search bar.

At that point you need to wonder - are people just being lazy, or do those companies make it just hard enough, and often impossible, to not use their pre-defined defaults?

Im not exactly against capitalism, but i do think that a hardcore capitalistic aproach such as the one in the US has many downsides.

Please try not to throw insults or mean assumptions. We are here to discuss.

Moatly about capitalism i think. If you put on privacy restrictions, you are regulating the market, while capitalism believes that the market should regulate itself, and customers will simply stop using those websites/softwares overtime if its too bad. I find this completely delusional in the era of mega corporations, but thats the capitalistic aproach to this.

You cant disable all telemetry for “security reasons”.

Dont worry, the market will simply regulate itself.

You are also the product coz they keep raping your data and selling it to advertisers on other platforms.