Linux remains reliable and safe, offering strong stability and protection.
Linux remains reliable and safe, offering strong stability and protection.
Sometimes I notice he’s using a different distribution in just a couple of posts. It seems like he’s creating a new package manager or just not happy with anything, lmao. The way he switches distros and his strict preferences are really funny. Comparing Windows to Linux is like saying...
I would actually disagree. The way Linux ships packages and handles deps/libs is heavily flawed, its one of the reasons we are seeing a push towards flatpak/snap and docker/podman. In the Linux world everything has to be compatible with each other to some degree if you want it shipped in a distro's repo, when it isn't we tend to forcefully make it work even if it breaks functionality or causes instability. This essentially falls into the same versioning problem that Linux suffers from where 1 native package in say debian will be a different version in say Fedora, maybe even different build flags or additional patches. In the world of Windows you have 1 target and any deps/libs are typically part of the singular OS or shipped as part of the software package, when you ship something everyone gets what you actually intended to ship. A better example what Linux package management should be is something like Winget , Scoop , or Chocolatey . However the container options work just as well. I don't really find it anymore difficult on Windows, and I barely know anything about Windows. Spoiler From the website and PECL? It's not any more difficult than Linux. And Speaking of flawed I will also point out that under Windows I can take ownership and nuke your entire root and the most you may see is a yes or no dialog saying that an app needs permissions, at least out of the box, on Linux ootb you will have to verify your account by logging in. And UAC is more comparable to polkit, while not everything supports it, it does provide similar functionality. However as already mentioned most users shouldn't need sudo/root access and those who do can be restricted, for everything else you have Unix/ACL (Also Similiar to Windows) Permissions. I'm not Pro/Anti Windows/Linux, but I find these examples extremely flawed.
I can simply search for xyz library on Ubuntu and it quickly retrieves the apt install name whenever I need a package. Examples include libssl-dev and php7.0-gd. Once you locate the package name, it feels as straightforward as using npm in Node.js. On Windows, however, finding the right installation can be quite challenging—searching for libssl requires navigating through many documents.
In October 2018, Microsoft experienced an incident wiping roughly one million users' computers. My partner used Windows one day, Linux on the backup drive the next morning, and faced no issues afterward. Current searches reveal similar events happening repeatedly. Regarding app problems, what applications are affected? Sounds crackling? What’s causing trouble? None of the ones I’ve worked on have crashed. Alright, we don’t play games (except Freecell) and rely on our computers for work tasks—managing farm finances, writing books, proofreading for others, building websites, handling data, organizing music, learning the violin, downloading performances, printing materials, and much more. Our machines are tools for productivity, not for casual system experimentation.