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15 Signs Linux Is Not For You (itsfoss.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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  1. You love giving your data away
  2. You enjoy being tracked by your operating system
  3. You’re happy when your computer tells you “no”
  4. You prefer someone else deciding what you can run
  5. You feel uncomfortable if you get to have options
  6. You’d rather battle corporate tech support
  7. You’d rather rent your software than own it
  8. You think ads belong on your desktop
  9. You love being lied to about what’s “industry standard”
  10. You like rebooting for every little update
  11. You’re uncomfortable when software is transparent
  12. You think community-made tools can’t be “professional”
  13. You want intrusive AI everywhere, whether it helps or not
  14. You think the command line is only for hackers
  15. You never really wanted your computer to be yours anyway
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[–] petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

10: But honestly, with an immutable distro you are not that far off 😀

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Its nice that it doesnt pester you at all to reboot or threaten to do it for you though. I reboot maybe once a month to apply whatever updates came through since most of my stuff are flatpaks that get updated live anyway.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've been running Fedora for a few weeks and if I update it every time there's updates available, I'd be rebooting nearly daily, because it insists on rebooting for "system packages", where debian and even Arch based distros did not require restarts for most things.. I'm not even using an immutable version of Fedora

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can change that setting in your App Store (eg. Discover for Plasma)

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Good to know, I'll check that out tonight, thanks!