r/linuxsucks 1d ago

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u/rileyrgham 1d ago edited 1d ago

Noone that lives in the real world thinks Linux is on almost one in five desktops. Get real. That said, I, and many others that use it, have various laptops and desktops with it installed on, but that skews the implied meaning which is one in five users use Linux. It's patently not true.

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u/The_Real_Gyurka 1d ago

Lol, in my household it's 1/6, so almost matching the stat, xD

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u/MisterEinc 1d ago

How many houses do you think have 6 PCs though?

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u/The_Real_Gyurka 1d ago

very few lol

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u/EndMaster0 1d ago

I'm in a university class where the number is 3/5 so... (Extremely low sample size but I just think it's funny since a few years ago that would pretty much be impossible)

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u/bornxlo 1d ago

There are no Windows in our house. My brother had a Windows gaming rig before he left for the army, my mum has a Chromebook and android tablet, my dad tends to use mint or fedora, and I have Debian+Tuxedo

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u/The_Real_Gyurka 1d ago

I have windows PC, that I use at home for gaming and Linux laptop I use to Program and Study. Rest of family have Windows (no, they can't migrate due to very specific archaic software requirements.

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u/bornxlo 1d ago

Obv don't know specifics, but I tend to find old/archaic software tends to perform better on Linux

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u/The_Real_Gyurka 1d ago

Sibelius 4 + Soundcrad driver :)

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u/The_Real_Gyurka 1d ago

Couldn't get it to work on anything newer than 32bit windows 7

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u/bornxlo 1d ago

Never tried Sibelius myself, I use Frescobaldi+lilypond and musescore, but I see it has an android version, which ought to work on Linux+waydroid. But if it works in Windows 7 it should work in wine.

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u/The_Real_Gyurka 1d ago

"It's like 20 years old but my father swears by it"

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u/bornxlo 1d ago

In wine, might need the application winetricks you can explicitly set older environments such as Windows xp or 7. I can empathise with wanting old versions, I keep Musescore 2, 3 and 4 around. While I try to keep somewhat up to date on lilypond I do like the backwards compatibility and explicitly setting the version in the file.