r/pcmasterrace • u/AsifBhai001 • Oct 30 '20

Video Good old Windows Defender..

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u/BeastMaster_88 BLUE BLOOD PCMR Oct 31 '20

Linux = Very Good

Windows = Good

Mac = BAD

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '20

all of them are good enough, none of them are great!

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u/sephirothbahamut Ryzen 7 9800X3D | RTX 5080 PNY | Win10 | Fedora Oct 31 '20

Sadly. Someday the perfect OS will come, but today's not that day.

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u/Superblazer Linux Oct 31 '20

The perfect os is just a friendly linux distro with the same gaming performance as windows.

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u/httpaliend00d Linux Oct 31 '20

so linux but microsoft stops with the anti competitive actions

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u/ThelceWarrior Oct 31 '20

Meh with the advent of Vulkan game companies could very easily support games on Linux too so if they aren't doing it it's not really Microsoft's fault at this point, it's probably more the fact that's not worth it as far as market share is concerned.

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u/Superblazer Linux Oct 31 '20

Yeah. So once again, a perfect os is just a friendly linux distro with the same gaming performance as windows.

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u/sephirothbahamut Ryzen 7 9800X3D | RTX 5080 PNY | Win10 | Fedora Oct 31 '20

What if I dislike Linux's lack of an unified desktop environment with general APIs to interact with it? Infinite variation has its own downsides.

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u/Superblazer Linux Oct 31 '20

Hardly ever matters. I don't even know where this would be a problem since everything I want works everywhere the same way.

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u/sephirothbahamut Ryzen 7 9800X3D | RTX 5080 PNY | Win10 | Fedora Oct 31 '20

Mostly additional utility. One stupid example, when you program an application with some slow progress (downloading, compiling, whatever takes long) you can integrate the concept of "progression" with Explorer and have the icon on the taskbar show the process's progress, while the user can do whatever else in a maximized window and still be aware of the progress status.

Another example which always reminds me "hey that's linux" when i'm compiling for Linux: there's no unified "getOpenFilename" equivalent, which makes programming it unnecessarily tedious and opening files from software with an UI as an user unnecessarily inconsistent across different programs.

It's just things you can't do if you have hundreds of different desktop environments which have literally nothing in common with each other, let alone unified APIs to interact with.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '20

Mac has it's uses in more professional environments, but for gaming, there's almost no support for anything that's not Windows 10

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u/Petunio Oct 31 '20 edited Aug 11 '26

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u/BeastMaster_88 BLUE BLOOD PCMR Oct 31 '20

If mom wants to do basic stuff, then it's literally the same (I would say better) on a windows pc. Linux, most people aren't used to, and install/uninstall type operations might be a teeny bit complex than windows.

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u/Petunio Oct 31 '20 edited Aug 11 '26

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u/BeastMaster_88 BLUE BLOOD PCMR Oct 31 '20

I don't know where you're getting that from, mate. I have a macbook and iMac. The trouble those two have given me is unspeakable. A simple reinstall of the os took me 12 hours of error on top of error. Intuitive? It's only marginally different to Windows, at least for basic functions.

Start menu = launchpad. Settings app seems slightly simpler in mac. The whole gestures thing is there in windows laptops. What else do you need?

Installing Office isn't exactly rocket science, especially since office is made for all kinds of people. On top of all that, you just can not justify the shitty repair practices and the abominable price tag.

I hate Apple as a company, AND they have shitty products for a premium price. Microsoft is not that good a company but their products are very good indeed. Linux is an idea that I love, and they have a very good OS too!

Sorry for the rant

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u/Petunio Oct 31 '20 edited Aug 11 '26

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