It’s a genuine shame because Edge could very easily become the best browser on Windows if only MS played their cards right. Resource optimization of this browser is terrific and it leaves both Chrome and Firefox behind in terms of speed and snappiness. All MS needs to do is make it FOSS, strip down the unnecessary bloat and ensure firsthand content blocking support, and it will be straight-up unbeatable.

Microsoft Office and Adobe software are the main anchors to Windows currently. Anyone using them (as is professionally required) is stuck with Windows or MacOS.

Microsoft plays just like it has always played - with OEM contracts and being the default OS choice. Linux remains niche as long as Microsoft has this, unless they decide to roll out a mainstream distro themselves.

It’s not just to start an argument. I have tried so, so hard to shift to Linux. Nuked perfectly working setups just to take the jump to the “free” side (including Arch, btw).

It all only ended in frustration and disappointment. So everytime people toot “year of the Linux desktop” it only makes me laugh.

Some apps? “Very few” apps? Buddy, you either aren’t running much software at all or are delusional. Entire Desktop Environments to this day have ass fractional scaling that can’t render things correctly without eating up resources and making them look horribly blurry. Fonts look terrible and have bad kerning even with all anti-aliasing settings correctly set. Even colors are dull across the board by default. Not to mention there will always be random glitches and your graphics card fan will always be on full power unless you turn it off because of shit throttling even with official Nvidia drivers.

Just try using browsers and file managers between Linux distros and Windows on default settings on medium-tier, 5-year-old machines side-by-side, the difference will be starkly visible - from responsiveness and animations to general look quality.

Have you guys fixed your graphics stack to keep up with current High-DPI and HDR displays yet? No? LOL happy new year of the eyesore desktop to you too

I think it’s not that the significant amount of the population supports them, it’s rather that they detest the left and would side with anyone except the Dems.

You at least have to appreciate the effort that went into writing this

Really? A bus you were on didn’t stop once in a 5-hour drive in your experience?

My reason to think so is Occam’s Razor. Asshole passengers are much, much more probable than an official abruptly deciding to fire a bus conductor just because he stopped the bus for a Muslim’s prayers. It’s idiotic and only people who have never truly lived in India can make such assertions.

I have, unironically, never seen anyone using three monitors together on a PC in my life.

There are designated rest breaks in those long drives. They could have completed their Namaz during those if they wanted, like everyone else. Muslims have leeway of time during situations like these, those two were very likely just entitled. Stopping an entire bus is not justified.

“Bus conductor fired after disrupting services by halting off designated stops” should be the headline.

Are they really supposed to allow abruptly halting public services for the whims of two passengers now? What the fuck is the department supposed to do, delay the buses and just ask the working passengers with time commitments to fuck off every time someone in the bus wants to pray?

This story is shite and the editors should be ashamed of making it a religion issue.

The bus department’s decision was correct and not even remotely related to religion.

I mean, should abruptly halting public services for the whims of two passengers be tolerated really? What the fuck is the department supposed to do, delay the buses and just ask the working passengers with time commitments to fuck off every time someone in the bus wants to pray?

Literally all of them have shite color management and fractional scaling that blurs everything. It’s an eyesore.

I really, really want to use Linux for multimedia consumption but I can’t.

Religion in reality is defined by the action of its adherents. The books are just pieces of paper, that the holy book doesn’t condone this cruelty is immaterial when the adherents are overwhelmingly indulged in it. There are definitely Islamic sects around the globe that are socially good, but Talibani Islam is filth that needs to be eradicated.

The relation is that if a girl in Afghanistan now dares to seek out higher education, she will be denounced by the Talibanis as an infidel trying to defy Islam.

Islam is the base they use to enforce this cruelty. The fact that the religion originally didn’t intend this is immaterial.

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Brother, that’s literally the point of all religion. Religion is by definition a social institution intended as a tool for public influence.

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Build once, run natively on literally any PC OS including Windows and MacOS!

You mean “couldn’t care less”. The way you’ve written it means that you do care a bit since you “could care less”.