This.

I work in the web-hosting industry, and there are a handful of common and popular proprietary software used that used to require CentOS / RHEL as the base OS. Then most of them now support AlmaLinux, which I've got on a handful of servers as a requirement. Haven't really used Rocky Linux, but have used AlmaLinux a lot now, and I run CloudLinuxOS which is/was RHEL based but it's a commercial Linux OS geared towards this industry.

Anyway, FINALLY some of these companies are producing statements that they're releasing Debian/Ubuntu betas or have it on their roadmap for making their software work on these OSes. Which is great.

There are so many quality alternatives now that this decision will only lower their market share. They are trying hard to be the new Microsoft.

I knew it! Digital masochists are embedded in this network. I was Fed-up for a decade and when the typewriter shills took over, I knew they will backdoor the crap out of Red Hat. Silver Blue rawhide was my last use around 2018 before I considered Red Hat used toilet paper.

Sad to see it happen but it was pretty clear that they were getting worse at ATO in Raleigh, which was basically a FAANG convention. Bunch of depressed Google employees actively trying to get people to steal merch. Shit was weird.

Red Hat was only ever my choice when I was young and didn't know any better. Best to avoid them entirely.

It's been a long time since I used anything Redhat maybe around 5.2. Alma I was using on a server, but I vaguely remember it had some issue detecting the RAID so I switched over to Mageia linux and it did quite well. I am trying to get myself more comfortable with Nix as I think that is the direction things ought to go, but I really haven't had much time to fool around with it lately.

I'm using Alma 8.x on about a dozen production servers now, where a RHEL based OS was required or because the software or stack doesn't play well or isn't supported with recent Debian or Ubuntu flavors. I like Alma, though. Seems to have a great community behind it. The only other RHEL based distro I use would be CloudLinux, but it's a commercial OS and sort of niche.

I've used alma in the past, and rocky went out on a limb the other day and said what happened to centOS won't happen to us. Usually, when someone says that, it is because the same shit is LIKELY to happen, so I haven't used it yet.

I've just been using Debian for day to day tasks. There are too many flavors of linux out there for me to try anything new.

No. Should I?

Or a perfect time to not give a fuck and keep using winxp.

debian.org

devuan.org

https://kde.org

Win98 converted me to Linux.

B-BASED, instal KDE

just use debian you fucking retarded apes.

Reading this now on my 9~ year old laptop with Debian 11.

Good for him. Yay!

Weird, I don't think I said anything funny.

This made me laugh. Thank you. And thank you for not biting my head off, like everyone else has.

Welcome to the club. I have my entire family on linux since at least 2003. It has never been "difficult to use" or anything like that. And support is trivial through ssh sessions.

I didn't give them a choice in the matter, though.
Just like they don't have a choice in browsers. I mean, in theory they can install whatever they want, but in practice they use what I put there.

I admire your persistence, but what a completely pointless exercise.

Like with most things, it's friends, relatives and professional requirements.

When you need to do work for school or the Office from home, you more or less need to have the same programs. And even if there are alternatives, you most likely don't feel like learning how to use a different program for the same purpose all over again.

Also people still like to ask friends or relatives about their problems. When you don't already have a sophisticated Linux user in your circle, you are unlikely to even get the idea of using linux.

Also nowdays for the youth, more and more activites are online, also like gaming. It's not just about the gaming, but also about doing something with your friends(online). The proprietary Software used here is a stronger limiting factor here.

I would recommend an easy Linux Distro to my mother, since she doesn't use her computer much unless to browse, edit and print documents(which will be shared in printed form)

My father, while more techsavy, couldn't use Linux, due to all the proprietary software he is using professionally. Also since he allready knows his way around Windows, the differences would upset him. He wouldn't have enough patience to learn the different environment.

In conclusion, it's much easier to recommend (and get the person to learn it) Linux to an unsophisticated Computer user, rather than someone who already is used to handling his current OS. So at the root modern Schools, who often provide Windows and only Windows for free, are to blame for noone really using Linux.

Funnily enough many seem to just accept Windows has some shortcomings too, but if Linux is not 105% then it can't be used.

For example, Windows has some serious printing system security flaws right now, and my wife has given up printing on her Windows 10 machine to my HP printer on the LAN. Yes I've had some printing issues too when the drivers on Linux update, but the fact that she sends stuff to me to print, suggests that my Linux printing is actually still more reliable ;-)

It's true that many people just stick through thick and thin with what they know even if it is not working for them (no I didn't mean politics, but that is coming to mind for some reason now). Others love beta updates and trying something different. It is pretty well much the same with social media - those that feel trapped and moan about Facebook, and those that end up on Rambler and all sorts of other stuff (so how many Rambler users are in Windows and Facebook?).

So today it's really not the OS, it is human nature I suppose. I can keep a Linux machine running, but I can't paint a picture ;-)

It's at a lower level. Re-logging in also doesn't fix sound, though it does show missing batteries and sensors. The script that parses function key presses seems to get confused, and I think that's related to the machine's general ACPI spam. That might be fixable, if I can identify sequences to ignore instead of letting it build errors over time.

Thanks for the suggestion, though.

If you run Linux and have audio trouble, chances are you run pulseaudio, whose troubles can be fixed by running "puleaudio -k", which restarts it. For me, for some reason pulseaudio decided to select the wrong devices upon each restart, so I wrote a script that selects the correct ones which runs at startup.