PewDiePie made a video on why he installed Linux and explained why everyone should do it too. Due to his number of followers, this might be the year of the Linux Desktop? Hooray?

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
    213·
    2 days ago

    I have, we’re a multi-OS houshold. Linux, Steam Deck, Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android.

    Different tools for different purposes. You wouldn’t have just one kind of screwdriver, right?

    • superkret@feddit.orgEnglish
      141·
      1 day ago

      No.
      But if I only need a specific screwdriver cause none other fit these screws, it costs $200 and plays ads while I hold it, then I’ll use different screws instead.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      32·
      1 day ago

      I get having Linux and Windows, after all you need a backup solution for when you can’t use Linux. But why do you also have a Mac?

      Then I guess iOS makes sense if you have a Mac, but why also have Android?

        • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          22 hours ago

          Windows for interoperability.

          Try job hunting without a Windows machine. Good luck!

          (My wife hates it when she hits websites that don’t work properly and starts swearing, then I ask “Are you using a real browser or just Safari?” - “FUCK YOU!” Somehow we’re still married. 😀)

          • theherk@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 hours ago

            Requires Windows to apply? Easily in the “nope” pile. Which is a privilege, I realize.

          • zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            4·
            11 hours ago

            Try job hunting without a Windows machine. Good luck!

            I don’t have any problem job hunting on a Linux box. Why would that matter?

            • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              9 hours ago

              Quite a lot of job portals are not only Windows dependent, they can even be I.E./Edge dependent.

          • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
            3·
            20 hours ago

            Are you using a real browser or just Safari?

            I used to do web development, Safari is honestly worse then IE6

            • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              19 hours ago

              It’s godawful, so many things don’t work in Safari and it’s because Apple can’t stand other people coming up with “standards”. :)

            • zqps@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              6 hours ago

              M4 Mac user here happy to shed some light onto this. It’s actually super intuitive: “Full screen” on Mac means the current App window becomes a new temporary virtual desktop, which is placed after your normal virtual desktops. It also turns off the status bar / app menu, although you don’t get that screen space back because of the camera notch, it’s just blacked out.

              Note that how many virtual desktops you have and which one is selected is specific to each display. So if you like multitasking, it really helps if you’re good at remembering all of them in the correct order including any fullscreen apps and the display they’re on. And I hope you don’t mind performing the same swiping gesture multiple times to get back to your fullscreen app. Also you can’t move it between displays.

              You might just want to maximize your app window instead. Though you do need third-party software to do that.

              I wish I was kidding about any of this.

              • Darren@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                1·
                2 hours ago

                I’ve used apps in fullscreen for as long as it’s been possible, and I’ve honestly never found it confusing at all.

                You can move them across displays. Just open Mission Control then drag it from one screen to another. Or drag it to a desktop if you want.

                As for maximising; just double click the bar at the top of the window. No extra software needed.

                Now that macOS supports window tiling there’s a number of ways to lay out app windows. Fuck Stage Manager though. I’ve never been able to work out the point of it.

            • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
              11·
              14 hours ago

              I don’t even know whether I understand I just hear MacOS users griping about fullscreen, and a quick google gave quite recent results. Especially with fullscreen being incompatible with other windows on top (each fullscreen window necessary is on its own workspace) which would be highly annoying in Blender. You can configure blender to have file open dialogues, render results etc. in its main window, but certain stuff like preferences always open a second one.