• drcouzelis@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    This article is strange… The author uses “being able to open Microsoft Office documents” as a common example of what an OS that claims to be easy to use should be able to do. Then says…

    When people download Ubuntu 23.04 they get an OS that can do everything Windows 95 did - with 23.10 they don’t

    No default installation of Microsoft Windows EVER opened Microsoft Office documents. If this was a simple oversight in the write-up it’d be fine, but the point is hammered over and over again.

    I don’t have an opinion about Ubuntu including or not including more software in the default installation (my guess is it became too big to fit on a DVD?) but this article failed to make it’s point to me by making a comparison to Windows that isn’t true.

    Also…

    the world’s most popular desktop Linux operating system (that’s Ubuntu, for those of you playing dumb)

    Is this supposed to be a cocky joke? I can’t tell. What metric of “most popular” is the author using?

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        1 year ago

        whatever the Windows App Store is called.

        Officially it’s called the “Microsoft Store” but I don’t think anyone really calls it that (Same with the “Windows Explorer” until they renamed it to “File Explorer” as everyone has been calling it)

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      1 year ago

      Is this supposed to be a cocky joke? I can’t tell. What metric of “most popular” is the author usiing?

      Number of active users.

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        1 year ago

        those numbers are nonexistent for most distribution, since forcing telemetry isn’t really a cool move in the free software world

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            1 year ago

            There’s also the check connectivity to Internet ping that network manager does. Arch Linux defaults to Arch’s servers, etc.

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      1 year ago

      I reckon a nifty idea instead of preinstalling software is to have a file extension finder that suggests software based on the file extension. Sure, there are some file types that have multiple uses, but many proprietary solutions use distinct extensions, making it quite straightforward to organize the recommendations.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah that’s a pretty funny error, seems to forget that MS office is a very expensive bit of software and doesn’t come included with windows.

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        It does in recent times. My laptop came pre installed with win 11 and office home 2021(i think).

        All i had to do was click activate to link the key to my email account. It showed up as a notification on first login.

        Even if not activated it still would open files with that warning.

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      1 year ago

      What metric of “most popular” is the author using?

      Ubuntu claimed be the most popular Linux distro on their website, backed by hot air. People who didn’t know any better took that at face value, including the author of this shoddy article, perhaps.

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        1 year ago

        They do have statistics about how many systems send upgrade pings. There are some caveats to that, but I believe the difference with other distros is significant enough for that not to matter.

        What other desktop Linux would be more popular? Fedora? Arch?