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Anonymous Coward · 6y

Give me the run down on Linux and Ubuntu

Linux is a world where programs that use insecure libraries in secure ways get booted out of official distribution channels because there's no way to keep track of things at that fine grained a level, all the people who maintain the individual programs you depend on to go about your daily routine get bored after a few months and stop doing anything, basic programs like the file manager are missing basic functionality because nobody decided to add it yet, and the HID USB drivers stop accepting new devices until you reboot if you reinsert them too many times.

On the other hand there are a million minor usability improvements when someone like me switches from Windows to Linux so it evens out. The only real reason I switched back to Windows is because of that USB problem making me scrap a modded mouse I was using to learn microcontroller programming.

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