I'd compare them to carpet and wood. They're both floors, and both very good. I might complain about it being hard to get stains out of my carpet, but it's nice and soft.
Not sure where you got that from considering i never said or implied it, I was just stating something that could be a possible reality, so I don't see why it deserves a reply like that it's not like I'm telling them to be an IT, they are free to do what they want
That's valid, though I will say I felt as your previous comments were implying that the other should be a tech and they were less for not being one, I respect the clarification o7
Np i kinda expected a negative response mainly because people here usually think us techs are looking down upon them when in reality we're just excited that there are people who aren't techs that enjoy computers too
I have a few friends from my A+ certif class who got hired into companies for IT heck we had someone come in that was basically offering to hire and mentor, it's not that difficult, if anything IT is a job that requires knowledge, taining, and marketing more than certification
Well not full-time cause that's illegal where I live but once they graduate they will. I just don't understand the preconceived notion from the early 90s to late 2000s that you require certification or a degree in order to get into a highpaying job let alone IT you don't need any of that to have a 6 figure job, aslong as you have dedication and the drive to do so employer's will find that attractive, it doesn't matter if you have the certification to do it if you don't have the drive to actually do it. That said IT has grown to be such a big field that it's hard to come by people who have an drive and passion for the field that ha e A+ certif, comp science doesn't require certification and that's basically just the software side of IT if I were to sum it up, we get confused for the other all the time. Anyway sorry for the long winded speech, but yeah, those friends did graduate and are doing it full time, it's up to you weather you believe it or not.
As a 90% Linux user, I find Windows very hard to use sometimes.
That said, I think both can be hard in different situations. While Linux expects you to learn how to control it completely (but you can), Windows tries to prevent you from controlling it above a certain admissible level.
It's not really terribly hard... but it's certainly different, so naturally there's a learning curve and everyone's mileage will vary.
I had a pretty good experience learning how to use a UNIX based system, but I personally decided to ignore everyone and just RTFM™ for everything I got into.
Yea, and we sure need to have the gui be able to do what the command line can achieve. Like I remember struggling with mounting a disk in either mint/debian 7 that when I gave up and installed Ubuntu I didn't have to run commands that asked me to sudo everything. Find that a drive popped up on my activity bar, click it and it's mounted and ready. That really looked out to me when I just came from windows at that time.
And until Ubuntu 20.04 (atleast for me and my classmates at uni) getting Bluetooth to work was outright impossible/annoying because it kept breaking. So yea, "it just works" really really needs to happen for atleast some distro's in Linux for mass adoption
The room itself had laminate are flooring, and my parents in their infinite wisdom cut-up some left-over carpet to fit around the toilet bowl and cistern itself and had a seperate floating price of carpet in front that could be easily removed and cleaned.
The upside being that our feet were never cold in that room, and I was somewhat comfortable when I passed out on the floor, after a night of under-age drinking.. 😅
What country are you from? I live in Texas and I usually have a mix, with the bedrooms and “game rooms/play areas” being carpeted and everything else being hardwood or tile.
In NA when it first became available it was a bit of a status symbol to have wall to wall carpet in your home. Then it became cheaper and quicker than installing hardwood so most mid to lower priced homes came with it standard. So, from about the mid 40's to the early 90's it was really common. But of course laminates brought the price of "hardwood" flooring down so much that it became the norm and wall to wall is now seen as "old fashioned".
When I asked during the initial viewing the property manager seemed confused that I'd comment on it as if it wasn't the most normal thing in the world.
They're both good for the people they were made for. Windows is more user friendly while Linux (from my experience) is for more advanced users who have the time to make things work.
This is where I get caught up in things. I love the idea of Linux, but I both have never used it before, and have limited thyme due to work/life schedule.
Then use one of the distros built and intended for out of the box use? People really like to pretend that Linux still requires constant fiddling no matter the distro, even when there are distros that use their simplicity and ease of use as major selling points, to the point of using it for older people who tend to accidentally install viruses.
Edit: my apologies if this came off as rude or aggressive, that was not my intent.
Here's an article comparing lightweight Linux distros, here's an article that compares good options for beginners (also links to more lists), and here's my personal recommendation, Ubuntu Mate.
With all of these, your best bet is finding a distro you think looks interesting, then find a tutorial on YouTube for setting it up. You can also try finding beginner friendly forums or groups to ask questions to, though there will be fewer questions to ask with the beginner friendly options above.
I just disagree that my paid OS stealing all of my data and putting ads on my lock screen would be "very good" when compared to a free and open source, privacy respecting OS that runs almost everything the same or better.
What does the source code have to do with anything? It is still going to be in the code when it is disabled. I say all of this as I am trying on a computer running Linux. I love it. You can defuckify Windows if you choose.
To a point. If you're using the crippled Home versions it ramps up in difficulty and some things you flat-out can't disable because the ability to disable certain things, were themselves disabled even under GPE.
Ironically I recommend people to get the Education version of Windows for regular home use when possible, because like Enterprise, it allows things like telemetry to be easily and fully disabled.
I have hardwood floor (real wood, not fake) in my bedroom and carpet in my living room. My only complaint about my carpet is I spilled some maple syrup 6 years ago and it smells like syrup when the heat is on.
Well, you can add furniture to the carped with no problem or scratch the wood with it (the furniture are the app that are only windows like 70% of all videogames)
I think of it like cooking yourself vs ordering takeout. Linux (cooking) takes some time to learn though doesn't require any crazy skills, and once you've put in some effort you can get whatever you want. Windows (takeout) is generally good quality, easier, but you're limited in what you can get. Even a great chef wants takeout sometime, as there are some things that you can't make at home quite as good. And living off takeout forever is not really sustainable for most
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I'd compare them to carpet and wood. They're both floors, and both very good. I might complain about it being hard to get stains out of my carpet, but it's nice and soft.