Leaks suggests that the iPhone 15 will have a USB-C charging port. Also I can’t imagine Apple going full wireless thus incapacitating the user’s ability to effectively use the phone while charging.

What app so you recommend?

Mine doesn’t seem to be blocking anything

Are you using Threads on the duckduckgo browser?

I never head of memmy. Don’t worry Android has lots of good Lemmy apps

Saying that Windows has driver support means that drivers are supported by the system (because they exist and are available) regardless of the driver’s provider. The entities providing the drivers are essentially what gives Windows support.

Sure you have to spend time installing drivers just like you would have to spend time installing any type of software on a machine to achieve the operating function you require. I don’t think I fully understand what you’re trying to say here.

I miss the niche subs I was a part of, I recreated them on Lemmy and hopefully they can gain some traction, I loved the discussions on those subs and I hope I can have the same experience on Lemmy. If not, life goes on.

I didn’t know you could sell your Reddit account. I deleted posts and comments on my 4 year old account with over 14k karma.

I just did the same thing. I deleted all my posts and comments on my 14k karma account. I’ll be keeping the account though, just for the memories.

Running Lubuntu on an old office PC with i5 650, 12gb of RAM and 6 160GB hard drives in RAID 10 for my home server that runs 24/7 in my closet with poor ventilation and a DVI monitor that begs to die.

It’s situational, I’ll tell you that. I build PCs and repair them as a side hassle and I’m not saying I never come across issues with Windows (even dating back to the XP days) but I find the troubleshoot process much easier than on Linux regardless of the distro. What I mostly come across is viruses and malwares which I have to clean up on those machines.

Windows breaks in all sorts of new and interesting ways when it finally meets the real world.

I would love if you could elaborate on that, I don’t want to misunderstand. If I have to guess, for some users the “real world” doesn’t go past office work.

I don’t doubt a serious Linux power user would find their way out of most situations. The steep learning curve for Linux is what’s keeping most people (the ones who don’t need rely on Windows for some types of exclusive softwares) from switching. When I first “switched” I was a 16 year old with a lot of time to spare and I started figuring it out to an extent. Can’t say the same about everyone, at least not the people that come to me asking me how to stop programs from opening on their own at startup.

Printers suck universally, no matter the OS. It’s something everyone can agree on.

I had the opposite experience, I couldn’t find drivers on Linux for my old Audio Interface (M Audio) from the 2000s but I was able to find an installer for windows on some website and ran just fine on Windows 10. This isn’t even the issue with old tech, if I can’t find drivers (on either OS) for a 15 years old Audio interface, it’s not the end of the world, I just have to accept it. What I find troublesome is sometimes getting modern hardware to work on Linux, especially something that was never designed to work on it.

Do you know what makes windows great? It just works out of the box with broad driver and software compatibility. Extensive hardware support (Windows 10 runs on any brand new hardware as well as old hardware from 12 years ago). Many professional software applications, such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Autodesk products, and Microsoft Office, are primarily developed for Windows. If you rely on specific professional software, Windows offes better compatibility and support.

Linux offers better security and has a large repository of open source software as well as being very developer friendly. If you’re reading this it’s thanks to Linux. However switching to Linux isn’t a viable option for everyone for the aforementioned points. It surprises me to this day how many smart and tech savvy individuals still can’t grasp this concept.

Deliberately using an alternative is a form of protesting.

And it can be, sure, but it’s not always the case.

I’m not just using Lemmy until or if Reddit backtracks, I’m using Lemmy because I believe it’s the superior platform in many ways and has more to offer. I didn’t make an account here in sign of protest, I made one because Lemmy was suggested to me and I’m liking it better than where I came from.

I’m also aware that many users on this platform would go back to Reddit if they backtracked on the API keys.

No point in protesting, we already have a better alternative.

Fair enough. I would never recommend anyone to switch to Linux unless they absolutely need it for certain applications that are not possible on Windows. Linux requires some level of expertise to operate, that’s the truth because the moment something small breaks (could be something as silly as the package manager) and you don’t know how to trace it back or you don’t know basic terminal commands, you essentially stepped on your own foot.

I was running Majaro on my old laptop that I only used for basic tasks (mostly studying and taking notes), until I needed the laptop for a music project I was working on. I couldn’t even find the drivers for my audio interface or get any DAW to properly work on Linux, let alone all the plugins I needed. I had to reinstall Windows.

Now if I ever needed Linux (which I haven’t in a long time) I have a VM set up for it.

I’m on windows 10, use my PC for work and gaming. The thing with windows is that it works right out of the box, all major softwares are developed for windows in mind. When shit stops working is when you start messing with stuff that isn’t your typical “start the PC -> download program -> install -> run the program -> shut off” which is what most users do. Updating the os, softwares and GPU drivers are easy tasks.

It’s when you start messing with python or softwares that aren’t too mainstream and require a bit more effort that things have the potential to break. Even then, the os itself won’t break on you unless you really try. I broke windows a few times in 15 years but it’s worth mentioning that I was manually and willingly changing registry keys and messing with a lot of other stuff. Even then most of the time I was able to fix it.

With Linux is different. If you just use the OS for basic stuff like browsing the internet and editing documents you should be fine for the most part (if you choose a user friendly and stable distro like Ubuntu or Mint). The moment you try getting to run niche softwares or something that requires you to manually open the command prompt to change things in order to accomodate what you’re trying to achieve, that’s where it gets tough for most people. That’s how Linux works, it’s the user’s fault though not the machine’s.