Opinion: Wasn't 2025 the year it happened? Yes. No. Answers on a Christmas card

As Torvalds pointed out in 2019, is that while some major hardware vendors do sell Linux PCs – Dell, for example, with Ubuntu – none of them make it easy. There are also great specialist Linux PC vendors, such as System76, Germany’s TUXEDO Computers, and the UK-based Star Labs, but they tend to market to people who are already into Linux, not disgruntled Windows users. No, one big reason why Linux hasn’t taken off is that there are no major PC OEMs strongly backing it. To Torvalds, Chromebooks “are the path toward the desktop.”

  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    9 hours ago

    No clipboard is just unusable.

    there’s no “no clipboard”, what are you talking about? there’s been a clipboard in any OS since XP that I have used

    security was never important apparently until windows 10 anyway

    what? have you heard about 7?

    As for the clipboard, kde applications can have a setting to say “this is a secret” and you can set to won’t clip.

    I doubt that’s a setting, it’s just how it works. It’s not like it’s KDE specific behavior,even windows 10 is doing that.

    I won’t even comment on the rest, but it’s bullshit

    • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipEnglish
      21·
      9 hours ago

      Windows did not have a functional clipboard. Go look at all the complaints over the years.

      Windows historically had only a single-item clipboard and no built-in UI/history.

      A separate one shipped with MS Office that let you store something like 12 to 20 items. Why? Because windows sucked and DID NOT HAVE ONE.

      Windows itself did not get a built in Win+V searchable/historical clipboard until windows 10.

      what? have you heard about 7?

      Yes, better than XP, still not good. I am not going to do your homework, but Windows 10 was the first release that really focused on isolation, secrets management, and virtualization of applications for system wide and user protection.

      I won’t even comment on the rest, but it’s bullshit

      Just as well, you don’t know what you are talking about anyways.