dissolve together
Jan. 13th, 2019 01:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tstske open source software has been an interest of mine since i first heard of it as a teen. the idea of it, that information should be free and we shouldn't be shackled by corporations that hold data hostage is very important to me. i've used linux off and on for a few years and in 2018 have switched to it as my daily driver due to faulty windows 10 updates messing up my lower end laptop.
i'm sure we are all well aware of microsoft making windows into even more of a walled garden. it feels like every update is bloating the os even more, bogged down with useless background apps and tracking. they are aiming to have a subscription based windows in due time. adobe is used by just about everyone in every industry and they have upped the price of their subscription. corporations are making it even more difficult to use your machines the way you want to.
so as someone who loves linux i want everyone to switch! there's a distro for just about every person and every machine. but therein lies the catch - just because someone can fork a particular distro, should they?
i feel like the great amount of linux distributions is intimidating to people who would otherwise switch. which should you pick? everyone has their favorites, and everyone will tell you different things. it's a big problem in the open source community at large. everyone can make whatever they want, whenever they want.
and on the surface it's fine! we should have decentralization. but to someone who knows nothing about tech beyond "i click chrome and browse the web" it can be scary. the same goes for applications - theres a dozen apps that do the same thing.
this is just a ramble, not meant to be anything important lol
as a sidenote, i've switched to lubuntu since my laptop doesn't have much ram and working on my novel was making xubuntu chug. i'm amazed at how fast it is! if you're reading this and you're a newbie i'd check out lubuntu it's very easy to use.
i'm sure we are all well aware of microsoft making windows into even more of a walled garden. it feels like every update is bloating the os even more, bogged down with useless background apps and tracking. they are aiming to have a subscription based windows in due time. adobe is used by just about everyone in every industry and they have upped the price of their subscription. corporations are making it even more difficult to use your machines the way you want to.
so as someone who loves linux i want everyone to switch! there's a distro for just about every person and every machine. but therein lies the catch - just because someone can fork a particular distro, should they?
i feel like the great amount of linux distributions is intimidating to people who would otherwise switch. which should you pick? everyone has their favorites, and everyone will tell you different things. it's a big problem in the open source community at large. everyone can make whatever they want, whenever they want.
and on the surface it's fine! we should have decentralization. but to someone who knows nothing about tech beyond "i click chrome and browse the web" it can be scary. the same goes for applications - theres a dozen apps that do the same thing.
this is just a ramble, not meant to be anything important lol
as a sidenote, i've switched to lubuntu since my laptop doesn't have much ram and working on my novel was making xubuntu chug. i'm amazed at how fast it is! if you're reading this and you're a newbie i'd check out lubuntu it's very easy to use.
