So, I’ve now had a 9 year account and a 13 year account both permabanned.
They’ve linked them as the same user and banned me for a benign post on r/pics.
I lost all faith in reddit when they changed the api then Relay for reddit stopped working.
Base model app is shit.
Comments constantly erase and empty endpoint error.
Can’t even say ‘I like that player two energy on super Mario bros’, because that’s ‘violent’.
I’ve posted tens of thousands of comments and only recently had issues.
Got banned for saying ‘Elon simps in our midst’ referring to mods…who proved my point.
And finally now, they are paywalling shit soon.
Adios.
Anyway, I left digg in the great exodus for reddit, now this looks like my new home.
Rant over lol.
I mean if you go into it wanting it to fail, it’ll fail. There’s a learning curve, as there always is with a new user experience. It isn’t a carbon copy of windows, but for the average user, it’s a perfectly fine drop-in replacement.
Look son, I’ve been an IT professional for 3+ decades and I have stood up and admin’ed literally hundreds of linux servers and even I struggled every time I tried to transition my daily driver.
For servers? Nothing better than your favorite linux flavor provided you don’t have any unusual peripherals. I much prefer supporting linux over windows servers any day.
For desktops? Not a chance unless its part of a corporate supported package where I get direct dev access 24/7 b/c when it breaks, it breaks in fucktastically stupid ways especially in large user environments
Do you know the blistering scaburous hell of inheriting a userbase of 300+ workstations running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS in the 2020’s? BECAUSE I DO!
I spent eight months trying to build an update path to modern Ubuntu or Mint that didn’t absolutely nukefuck all of their piles of in-house legacy code THAT LITERALLY HAS NO LIVING ORIGINAL DEVS and I fail it so bad I didn’t even charge them for my last 2 months of work
So, please understand I say this as someone with full eyes open and significant industry knowledge: Fuck linux (desktop)
Your anecdote has the same weight as mine, which is - I’ve run one distro or another on-and-off since the '90s. Daily-drivers since about 2009 I think; I can remember having to reinstall Arch once, my fault because I fucked it up with a partial upgrade and didn’t realise what I was doing.
One or two of the jobs I had had infrastructure for Linux, but mostly I’m talking about my own personal computers rather than supporting “a userbase of 300+ workstations” (where you’d probably use AD anyway).
All I was saying was that as far as I’m concerned, Mint is plenty good enough to replace windows on my home computers. If there are some particular technical aspects that interfere with your workflow, then I can see why you would avoid it.