If Linux is so great, then why does Windows have better software?

>>105985509 (OP)
How much of that software that is better on Windows was made on GNU+Linux?

>>105985514
microsoft uses gnu/linux on their backend, azureware is gnu+linux.
microjew is literally trying to sell a product that they themselves know is inferior, but retards like OP fall for it.
gnuPlusLinux is objectively superior than windowsPlusNt

>>105985509 (OP)
What are these ?

>>105985672
You can't be serious. Are you new to the internet or something?

>>105985688
I mean the two logos I marked red
And yes, imagine. I don't have an idea.

Why do people use VSCode when it's shit?

>>105985688
The top one is foobar2000, which is a very customizable music player that only has native window support. Clementine, cmus and mpd are all kinda the shit tho

>>105985688
Not recognizing Foobar isn't that weird, most people just use Winamp. I don't know the middle one either, it looks very generic. Maybe it's a type of software I rarely use.

>>105985672
Foobar 2000, which is trash, use VLC instead. SysInternals Suite, which is a plethora of tools made by Microsoft developers that is infinitely userful. It is up there with the coreutils from GNU+Linux. Great stuff.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/
>>105985693
>>105985741

The only thing out of those I care about using is foobar2000. I use it for lossless->lossy encodes and it works in wine. Winamp works in wine too but I replaced it with qmmp.

>>105985509 (OP)
meh, one turd of those are worth a shit.

>>105985741
Yeah, I just reversed searched it. Apparently it's Windows sys internals.

>>105985722
That's not even VSCode it's Visual Studio, which is infinitely worse.

>>105985884
Completely unmatched IDE when developing C++
You thinking it is "worse" than VSCode when VSCode is basically just using VS and using "Open file" shows what a clueless retard you are

>>105985509 (OP)
Ai logos way bettah
Ai viöl replace humans

>>105985509 (OP)
In what world is BitLocker better than LUKS or ZFS encryption?

>written in pure c
>the entire app is a single binary that is 3mb
>extremely fast
>windows only

https://filepilot.tech/

>>105985509 (OP)
There are many more users on desktop Windows, as such there is much greater interest in desktop software on Windows.

>>105985565
This kind of mouthbreather behavior is the exact reason desktop Linux is always up-and-coming and never actually here. They think an OS that's appropriate for hosting cloud servers is the exact same thing as an OS that's appropriate for desktop use. This is exactly why the desktop market is divided between Windows and Mac.

If Valve weren't putting in the work into Linux to get video games running on the thing and to make it somewhat more appropriate as an OS people actually interact with directly on GUI devices, there would be no hope whatsoever.

>>105985509 (OP)
Visual Studio is mind-boggingly bloated trash.

>>105985509 (OP)
>paint.net
gimp mogs it
>notepad++
ut gets mogged by most linux editors
>bitlocker
mogged by LUKS
>visual studio
fair
>windows defender
spyware that also slows down your computer

>>105986284
this. Linux for desktop use is a mess and troubleshooting is hell. Not sure why multi millionaire YT creators are so hell bent on pushing the masses away from windows. Windows simply gets the job done. I have never had to visit a stupid forum and deal with dumb answers such as "works on my Maschine" or copy random stuff with elevated privileges into the terminal. Windows just werks and the license is dirt cheap (2.99 W10, upgradeable to w11 for free) and it saves you alot of headache down the line. Telemetry and other unwanted shit can also be removed with third party tools on github. I srsly don't see reason to use Linux on desktop other than mental illness, extreme masochism, or just being broke as fuck.

>>105986266
Filtered

>>105985509 (OP)
>antivirus
peak bait

>>105985777

foobar is for music organizing nigger, vlc cant even display album covers in a grid. wacup is better anyway

>>105985509 (OP)
>pain.net
Inferior to GIMP 3 and Krita
>foobar
proprietary, nuff said
>notepad++
(N)Vim/Emacs
>nu-winamp
lmao
>...
I don't wtf is this shit
>Visual Studio
Proprietary garbage
>Bitlocker
Proprietary + LUKS can do TPM2
>PowerToys
Poor man's copy of KRunner
>Windows Defender
Lmao, should've placed it in the beginning, so I would know you were baiting.

>>105986462
>vlc cant even display album covers in a grid
>needing pictures for audio like a toddler
The cow goes mooooo

>>105985884
How to tell you have never written in a compiled programming language like C/C++. Visual Studio triggers the JeetScripter.

>>105986367
Everything works as expected with little tinkering on my machine. If you're not trying to hack the fucking gibson this is the case with modern Linux. The exception is when you have hardware too new to be supported, or you're trying to do something weird. You fags always insist on the existence of schrodinger's user. Simultaneously a total normie yet trying to compile and install drivers for niche hardware. You are completely and utterly full of shit.

>>105985777
>Foobar 2000, which is trash, use VLC instead
have you ever listened to music, zoomer ?

>>105986562
Both foobar2000 and VLC are shit for listening to music. Two ugly ass eyesore UIs. At least foobar is good for transcoding.

>>105985509 (OP)
With windows you have all documentation/references needed in one place, there are multiple levels of graphics/ UI APIs which if used work on very majority of windows machines, although if aiming for <10, then need to use older APIs as <10 cant deal with for example HDR and other stuff latest APIs have mandatory support with. Combined with VS & msbuild pipeline, it offers piss easy platform to make software on.

>>105986554
nta. Wayland throws your entire opinion out of the window. Everyone uses an nvidia card and you know it. It simply doesn't work without graphical glitches.

>>105986499
>LUKS
Can it be resized? What's the user experience around that?

>>105986609
>Can it be resized?
picrel
>What's the user experience around that?
What kind of question is that?

>>105986593
Well then we're going to need to wait for nvidia to fix it, right? It doesn't bother me because I'm not into PC gaming. The only experience I have with nvidia on Linux is for video encoding at work. I use patched drivers to get around the session limits.

>>105986614
stop asking a word shuffler about real world stuff

>>105985509 (OP)
>NPP
Bleh, I'm fine with Nano.
>Visual Studio
Takes around 20GB of space, while Geany takes 20MB.
>Windows Defender
Common Sense is better.
>paint.net
Never used it and I'm fine with Krita and Photopea.

>>105986636
stop asking retarded questions that take 1 minute in google if you don't want to get answers from word shuffler. Did you really expect me to spoonfeed you?

>>105986509

>shows a glorified file explorer

those aren't albums those are your folders. once you have more music you'll figure it out

>>105986649
Ah shucks, it's okay to be ignorant; it's when you choose to refuse being wrong in your ignorance you become an idiot.

>>105986614
That's what I was getting to. There's no safety net. The filesystem inside the LUKS container must be shrunk first, with precise alignment, and then cryptsetup-reencrypt has to (as you'd guess) encrypt everything again in-place. Can't be done online, either.

Deepseek's answer is incomplete.

>>105985741
only the biggest retards used winamp.

>>105986677
Winamp didn't have an ugly ass UI. It was simple. It was perfect. Thankfully there are multiple FOSS programs that cloned it.

I moved over to Linux a year ago and I still hate everything about gimp. I can get the basics done, but it's infuriating. Why is move and scale and select a separate tool?
Why do I need to add an alpha channel to erase shit?
Why does escape not clear your selection?
I tried pinta but it crashes all the time.

>>105986674
It is complete, I just cropped it. Anyway, you can shrink everything you want with livecd so itsn't not a big deal. It's not like you shrink your encrypted partitions every day.

>>105986707
>It's not like you shrink your encrypted partitions every day.
Most people have to reinstall Linux because they can't figure out how to shift their encrypted installations around.
The thread is about software wars. In this context, Bitlocker has an edge.

>/boot/efi is running out of space
Thanks? Fix it for me then.

>>105986764
>Most people have to reinstall Linux because they can't figure out how to shift their encrypted installations around.
This is the first time I hear about this. Anyway, tools are there, and they're well documented, if someone is a retard it's his problems. Retards on Windows are also ending up with their bitlocker partition asking for recovery key.

>>105985777
>Foobar 2000, which is trash, use VLC instead
I waited for 120 seconds just to call you a nigger.
Good luck using VLC for something more complex than playing the same few anime openings on repeat.

>>105986646
I didn't ask you anything retard.

>>105986778
>Retards on Windows are also ending up with their bitlocker partition asking for recovery key.
It's more fool-proof there because the key is generally uploaded to your M$ account. And it no longer requires a password for the vast majority of people (W11 = TPM and Secure Boot = passwordless Bitlocker).

>>105986803
>It's more fool-proof there because the key is generally uploaded to your M$ account.
Oh yeah, can't wait for making an M$ account and upload a fucking encryption key for my drive to their servers!
>And it no longer requires a password for the vast majority of people (W11 = TPM and Secure Boot = passwordless Bitlocker).
LUKS with TPM doesn't do it either (unless you manually configured pin)

>>105986367
Windows 11 has been a nightmare for me

>>105986967
lets bite, how so?

Linux is no so great. Good for some things but windows is better for the average person. G shills Linux because most users are autists and potential trannys who don't like using anything they consider mainstream.

>>105987008
too many to count, right now it's several games clicking through to desktop randomly and looking into it, there's about 15 different potential causes which I will now have to trouble shoot 1 by 1. I'm just using my windows 10 install at this point because I've had enough and there's no actual reason I need to be on 11

>>105986266
Beta for proprietary thunar which costs 40-8k$. retarded гyзичap.
>>105986649
You can use something like quodlibet + exfalso for that on linux.

>>105987060
>too many to count, right now it's several games clicking through to desktop randomly and looking into it
that sounds like some shitty overlay issue, not windows issue, except if you are using unlicensed windows, then there are couple fun theme bugs that can cause problems.

>>105985509 (OP)
>If Linux is so great
Wrong assumption to start with.

>>105985509 (OP)
You could've just said "I'm new to Linux and I'm looking for alternatives to these" in /fglt/. No need to start a flame war.

>>105987163
That would mean less (you)s

>>105985509 (OP)
>PowerToys
You do realize Linux natively supports 99% of PowerToys features out of the box? And you do realize this has been the case for over a decade now?

>>105986377
it is literally written in pure c the creator just gave a talk about it

>>105986569
>ugly UI
You can make it look like whatever the fuck you want
>ahh work do it for me mummy
Faggot

>>105987146
>sounds like
Yeah it sounds like it could be dozens of different things since there's reports of it all over the internet with all kinds of varying causes, even worse it's selectively happening only in certain games. I don't care anymore it's the final straw I'm out

>>105985777
>use VLC instead
waste of trips

>>105986266
totalcmd is like 10MB and is superior in almost every way.

>>105987259
by the way it's happening in MICROSOFT games as well. Icing on the cake

>>105986649
>>105986782
>trying to flex by showing their locally stored collection of <320kbps mp3s
Don't ask why I think it is trash, just post butthurt drivel.
>more complex than playing audio
hurr I need to see the music in spectrum/waveform
durr I need to see the album cover and lyrics to enjoy the music I meticulously curated from the world wide web

>>105987259
then, have you disabled all shitty overlays and seen if it is still fucked?, meaning, shitcord, steam, xbox game bar, nvidia, everything.

Linux already won.

>Your car runs Linux
>Your phone runs Linux (or iDevices use the XNU kernel which Steve Jobs said in a keynote is "the same as Linux")
>Your kid's Chromebook runs Linux
>Your router runs Linux
>Your Smart TV runs Linux
>Many game consoles now run Linux (SteamOS/Bazzite plus Emulator Handhelds)
>Billions of IoT devices use Linux.
>Don't forget FreeBSD as well which runs millions of Playstations and Switches plus delivers you netflix.
>Windows has WSL and Rust and of 97.5% of browsers use KDE tech for rendering.
>Microsoft's GitHub used tech invented by Linus Torvalds Himself

Windows may have an app niche and gets more hits on Statcounter (a spyware that parses "Windows" or "Linux" in your user agent), but it has penguin tentacles all over it.

>>105987256
Or I could just keep using things that look like Winamp like I have been doing since the year 2000.

>>105987345
Penguins don't have tentacles. >>>/an/
Also,
>my car runs non-ethanol unleaded
>muh phone
>procreation, ishygddt
>muh BSD router
>Smart TVs are stupid - McDonald's!!!1
>game consoles use BSD because cuck license
>Windows 10 IoT LTSC ;^)
>netflix is fake & gay
>Torvalds is a dirty commie faggot

>>105987270
Based TOTALCMD chad, Double Commander doesn't hold a candle to Christian Ghisler's work. TC is one of the few pieces of software that I've paid for it's so good.

>>105987345
Botnet OS

>>105986284
bullshit redhat have been putting loads of effort into linux userspace many companies have a vested interest in linux as a developer platform and that requires it being usable as a desktop os, wayland doesnt exist because of valve, gnome doesnt exist because of valve

all valve did was make games work automatically through dxvk, something entirely irrelevant to most people who need a desktop OS

>>105986593
Absolute and total BULLSHIT, Nvidia+Wayland is completely fine on modern GPUs. Gnome and Hyprland are prime examples. I game on hyprland with a 3080 and have been doing so for a year.

>>105988437
Linux on desktop is not usable because of red hat, but despite them.

>>105985509 (OP)
>Windows defender
>Better software
....

>>105988437
Red Hat is putting "effort" in having their fist around the FOSS community's throat
Wayland is an unholy mess of extremely retarded design and GNOME is the worst DE by far, that looks like it was designed by idiots who thought Windows 8 was a good idea.

Valve is paying people to work on KDE and is at least making an attempt to unfuck Wayland and to actually get something done.

>>105988618
to be fair, I genuinely thing gnome is the best distro for popularizing linux amongst the normies. It's very similar to smsrtphones and smart tablet design.
Not for me, but I'm glad it exists because it's one more important ingredient for creating a retard proof OS that the average human can use.

>>105985565
Yep

>>105985509 (OP)
>if linux targets servers
>why does an OS that targets absolute normgroids have more normgroid software
geeee idk!

>>105986266
no source code, no buy
>>105986296
this

well, the difference is people actually use windows on desktop
lunix users have to cope by invoking the fact that it's a router OS like here >>105987345

/g/ is a zoo and freetards are the exhibits

>kolor paint
>strawberry or clementine
>Kate/kwrite/notepadqq
Last one is a drop in replacement
>don't use the other two
>VSCodium
>keypassxc/LUKs
>using a non shit DE with that functionality built in like KDE power toys is just aping linux DE
>SElinux

>>105986703
just run an old edition of photoshop using wine. photoshop 2015 covers all my necessities and works quite well. it may crash every once in a while (not that often tho) but I remember it crashing even when I used Windows lmao

>>105985509 (OP)
rather, ask yourself: why don't more software companies develop for linux systems?

the answer is: money. most people use a windows PC or Mac and that's where the money is. Say about Valve what you want, but they are making Linux a viable system for a lot of people who just want to watch youtube and play vidya aka a large group of PC users

it's just that Microsoft got in it's foot into companies pretty early. people that have to use Windows at work would rather get a windows PC, because that's what's familiar to them.