Cash is only “less convenient” for the banks and businesses that would prefer to track you. A cashless society is a society fully stripped of privacy, a society where poor people are guaranteed to stay poor, and where only the rich can afford privacy and security.
Oh weird, it didn’t do that to me before but trying it again now it does the same thing to me. Apologies for the snark.
It does you just have to click through to the source cited by Thom. Click the link halfway down the OSnews article, “Michael Tsai, quoting Mysk”, then in the resulting article click the link that says “Mysk”. That takes you to the Xitter post by Mysk with the screenshot and description (I ran it through Xcancel so as not to endure Xitter’s shitty site).
“three downvotes…better delete my own piss” ~ Bear Grylls
Ha, thanks! Yeah I didn’t really want to deep dive into some of those points given the obvious attempt at trolling by the OP.
I feel you on the “Linux has better Windows backward compatibility than Windows itself”. I have a few music instrument related devices that Windows dropped support for after Win7, but Linux just works fine with them as if they were released this year. Same with printers; on most Linux distros thanks to CUPS driverless printing, the printer is automatically configured before you ever launch the settings app. On Windows sometimes it works but more often it just pretends to work and you have to track down the actual printer driver and application bundle from the manufacturer’s website. And especially with HP printers, make sure you get (for example) driver 123x and not 123y, they are completely different and the wrong one might soft-brick your printer.
it was made way before Windows began to even exist
This is only true if you’re speaking of UNIX and UNIX-like OSes in general. Linux itself didn’t exist until 1991; it was inspired by Minix, a UNIX-like OS made for research purposes. Windows has been with us since the 80s, though “modern” Windows didn’t arrive until Windows NT in the 90s.
Thanks, but now looking at OP’s post and comment history I wish I hadn’t wasted the five minutes typing all of that out. Still, fighting disinformation whether troll-based or actual ignorance is sometimes worth the effort.
And oh yeah, don’t tell OP that Microsoft supports and encourages the use of Linux both on the desktop via WSL and in the cloud with Azure. OP might blow a gasket!
This post is clearly low effort flamebait, but I’m bored so let’s go point by point, shall we?
windows is easier to use
Only if you grew up using Windows. People who came up on Macs have a hard time adjusting to Windows but generally find Linux (especially with GNOME) easier. This point is purely relative to one’s previous experiences.
(Windows is) harder to break
You’ll need to define “break”. Intentional or accidental? On the desktop, or deeper levels of the OS? This is so intentionally vague of a comment that it’s clearly designed to be flamebait.
all apps and games support (Window) natively
All Windows apps and games support Windows natively. Linux can run most Windows apps and games via Wine, in addition to all Linux-targeted apps.
hardware acceleration works on browsers on (Window) unlike linux
Hardware acceleration in browsers also works fine on Linux on all three major GPU platforms. Was this an intentionally false statement or just ignorance?
nvidia drivers are perfect.
No driver is perfect. NVIDIA drivers on both Windows and Linux can be buggy. Not every application on either platform works perfectly on NVIDIA drivers. With that said, NVIDIA drivers have come a long way on Linux especially lately since Linux is the desired platform for “AI” companies to run their models.
all hardware ever made for computers works on (Windows)
Let’s assume you’re talking about Windows 3.x from the 90s all the way to current Windows 11. With that assumption, this is demonstrably false. There are devices from the 90s and early to mid 2000s that don’t have drivers for Windows 8 and up. While Windows does have better backwards compatibility than Linux overall, your absolute statement is false.
everyone knows (Windows).
A near monopoly is not the positive selling point you pretend to think it is. Just because nearly everyone is forced to interact with Windows due to work and school does not automatically make it better.
(Windows) has real excutable forum. the .exe and is easy to give apps in it.
This sentence is grammatical garbage and makes absolutely no sense. I think you’re trying to say that the Windows Executable format is “real” and Linux executable files aren’t? That is literal nonsense. “Easy to give apps in it?” Okay, I’ll grant you one can email a .exe file to someone and they can run it on their PC. That just means .exe files are the number one vector for viruses. Congratulations, you’re infected!
(Windows is) very fast with modern ssds.
All operating systems are faster with faster storage. What point is this statement trying to make?
laptops and pcs dont get sold without an ssd anymore so thats not a problem.
This statement means fuck all to your point, but anyway tell that to HP, who in 2026 are still shipping base model computers with spinning hard drives.
adobe apps work ,ms office works (in Windows).
Absolutely true. If you need those exact applications, run Windows.
kernel anti cheat apps work (in Windows)
I don’t know about you but I’d rather not be forced to install a kernel level root kit in my PC where it can open up a wide vector for malware to take over and bad actors to take control of my computer. But you do you.
and you can use it without ever touching the terminal
Tell that to any sysadmin who manages Windows installations for a corporation or organization and they will laugh you out of the room. PowerShell and Windows Terminal are integral parts of the OS. They aren’t used that often by regular users, but install certain software and watch as the installer opens several terminal windows to run commands in the background.
it has many sources to troubleshoot online
Arch Linux Wiki. LinuxQuestions. The Ubuntu Wiki. StackOverflow. Fucking Reddit. Shall I go on?
and even ai is better at windows than linux (bec linux always changes)
Again, so broad a statement there’s no way to know what exactly you’re talking about here. Using “AI” to hallucinate answers to your questions like “what is a .exe file” and “oh shit how do I fix my broken NVIDIA driver”? Or running local “AI” models? For that latter task, all of the local LLMs are Linux-first and designed to run on Linux OSes. Go ahead, ask your favorite chatbot, it will confirm that. Or it will tell you that Linux doesn’t exist and Bill Gates is the president of the US. They tend to hallucinate like that.
and you generally dont need to troubleshoot stuff just works.
Wait, I thought you were so proud of all of the Windows troubleshooting resources? Do you need to troubleshoot it or not?
Clicking links is difficult, I get it. Here, I did that for you:
Considering they are sending all of your iOS activity back to themselves without encryption, to track you for ad serving, yep.
Your verbs are present tense and not past tense
I was clear in other comments that I was speaking of what I knew to be true at the time, therefore the tense was correct from my perspective. I was told that the situation changed about seven years ago, I acknowledged this and expressed happiness for current Plex users, and then came several different people piling on telling me I’m lying, I’m wrong, I’m misleading, even after I stated that my experience was ten years ago and I acknowledged that things had changed since then.
To be abundantly clear, from my point of view before I was corrected, the present tense was correct based on my experience. I acknowledged the corrections and was still accused of lying and misrepresenting. I just don’t get that. I don’t understand why immediately acknowledging and accepting and even expressing genuine happiness that the situation has changed leads to attacks from all sides. I don’t understand why any of you refuse to acknowledge that I was speaking of an experience a decade ago, you all insist that I’m trying to say that is how it is now, and I’m not fucking doing that at all.
This place takes itself way, way too seriously, in my opinion. I’m sorry for any toes I stepped on without even meaning to, and I won’t comment on the matter further.
I never misrepresented anything. I spoke of my experience, and when I was told the situation had changed I was clear in several comments that I was happy it is now better for current users. You are talking as if I am intentionally misleading people when it’s clear that I am not. Why are you doing that?
I’ll say it again: it was my experience at the time, ten years ago. There is no misinformation. Apparently the situation has changed for the better for Plex users and that’s great. But I’m not going to change what I said, because it was what I experienced; to do so would be misinformation.
And my experience was nearly ten years ago. I’m glad they updated the documentation. Thanks for the link!
Why would I lie? It was my experience at the time, if it has changed for the better since then, that’s great for Plex users.
Good to know, and it would have been nice if that support rep had just told me that ten years ago instead of inadvertently talking me into dropping the service altogether. Hell, it would have been nice if that was in the documentation, but obviously they have a vested interest in mining your data.
Still, for all of the reasons above and more, I’ll never use Plex again. I occasionally help a friend keep his Plex installation maintained and it’s just a shitty service compared to the more open options in my experience. I’ve told him about the better options but his sunk cost mindset (he paid the current lifetime fee) won’t let him migrate.
Plex requires a Plex Pass subscription to share outside of your local network. Plex doesn’t allow you to watch media on your local network if your internet service is down, even if you have the Pass, because the service requires a constant connection to the Plex service itself. You can’t use apps on most streaming boxes and sticks without a Pass subscription. Plex records telemetry on all of your viewing habits and shares it with any of your associates who also use the service.
I switched from Plex to Emby a decade ago because of the restriction on local network streaming without an internet connection. My internet service went down and I said to myself “well I can at least watch my locally hosted files on my tv sitting next to the server”. Nope, not allowed. I emailed Plex support about it once my internet was back and they said that wasn’t a bug, it was by design. I dropped it then and there even though I had a lifetime Pass subscription.
“B-4”? Data could see the future!
Agreed, and until the Moto Graphene phone drops one can just buy a used Pixel from a trusted marketplace like Swappa, and no money goes to Google from that used device sale. Save money and keep a perfectly good used phone out of a landfill at the same time.
I wasn’t contradicting you, I was agreeing with you.