The man’s not wrong is he?
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On the face of it, it looks like his issue is that many folk in the US who would have voted Dem in the past will vote Rep in this election.
He is in a financial position to vote for his ideals, the vast majority of voters are thinking about surviving and we all know money is by far one of the most powerful incentives that exists.
The current administration got themselves into this position where folk will switch based purely on the botched handling of crypto.
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Most people aren’t into crypto because of the cypherpunk ideals ,but as a hedge against the raging inflation.
If you are into crypto to hedge against inflation and maintain a somewhat decent standard of living, it makes no sense at all to vote for the anti-crypto candidate (that also caused said raging inflation).
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Ouch Microsoft & Crowdstrike, ouch!
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I don’t know why people are still using windows in this day and age. Why pay for an OS when free and open source Linux is available!? It’s crazy IMO.
This crowdstrike problem also shows how horribly centralized windows is. The whole world is suffering outages because of a single point of failure.
Resilience !! 
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Maybe people would rather pay than spend hours struggling with even basic Linux settings? It’s hard to believe but even to stop the laptop from sleeping I have to run commands in a terminal because the GUI doesn’t work. Linux is still for masochists…
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Yes, and it doesn’t work for my laptop, I have no problem with windows. And yes after a few hours of searching I found which config files I needed to edit to make it work, but I wouldn’t do it to myself again…
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I don’t know the last time you tried it, but suspect you were using a kernel that wasn’t compatico with your laptop. Linux has come a long way in the last decade in terms of stability and compatibility. Give it another go. It’s not for masochists at all really. I wouldn’t even know where to begin with windows - dealing with it’s incessant demands, waiting for it to update, trying to customize the interface … it’s a nightmare in my experience and requires a genuine masochist to enjoy it’s incessant issues.
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opensuse has a control panel akin to windows control panel where you control all the settings.
Linux is getting there, it is 1000% improved over what it was 10 years ago, but its not quite there and needs the application developers to support linux builds before breaking Microsoft’s stranglehold on the workstation market place
Sleep control in linux, like windows, has one diving into the power management area of configuration settings. I had great troubles turning off sleep on my windows laptop back 4 years until I searched out power management and how to find the settings.
Linux and windows have multiple settings in order to make sure the laptop doesn’t sleep on you. Or hibernate for that matter.
But @dimitar is right, windows at this time is easier for two reasons, one is that a lot of money is spent by microsoft to ensure its at least usable and secondly the decades of crowd sourced experience with windows totally overwhelms the amount of crowd experience with linux.
But its changing, linux is becoming more acceptable, and with steam using linux as its OS in the steam deck will only bring about the shift to linux.
Even microsoft sees the writing on the wall and has been incorporating linux components.
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[cough] Twitter
[cough] Bluesky
[cough] Threads
[cough] Facebook
[cough] Discord
[cough] 
See:
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I think it is pretty much free now, you can download it directly from Microsoft and it “works” 
just fine without activation.
Free used very loosely.
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the biggest reason why windows is still the preferred os for enterprise desktops: really good identityanagement integration.
Trying to mimic AD with ldap and all kinds of weird hacks and patches is for the real masochists.
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Well, I didn’t say that I’m not a masochist But it’s a fact that I installed Linux on 20 machines in the last 2 months and lost dozens of hours trying to set up things that work under Windows without a problem - from working with multiple monitors to PPPoE settings, normal people do not tolerate such things.
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your big fault is trying to get that working on ubuntu, which is an unmanageable PoS operating system. You’d be better off with opensuse.
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You’re speaking about your ‘Linux on the Desktop’ experience. There are other use cases (servers, cloud, etc) where it is clearer that Windows is the more ‘masochistic’ choice.
Edit, one of the backup solutions today at an airport:
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I tried a couple of other distros before settling on Ubuntu and most things just work so I’m a happy bunny.
So I think everyone has their own experience depending on their needs and expectations.
Every time I touch Windows it feels like I’ve been violated. Eew.
If I could press a button and crash every Windows system on the planet I’d… 
brb
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sure I believe any org controlled by the Dutch royal family. lol
Same, spent 3 days and many hours trying to turn off sleep or it loggning out when turning off the display, settings, cli commands, privacy settings - screenlock. Still don’t know if it works, don’t dare to turn off the screen right now.
It is sad that the most basic things in Linux is such a nightmare, that is probably why many people don’t switch to Linux, even if it is free.
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#STOPS SLEEP
sudo systemctl mask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target
systemctl status sleep.target
#STOPS LID SWITCH
sudo gedit /etc/systemd/logind.conf
remove # and add ignore
HandleLidSwitch=ignore
Restart
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