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Comment by Markoff | Hacker News Reader

yeah, so it's not like Linux is better, but you have now personal assistant to help you, not sure if that's benefit of Linux

I remember trying to remap keys in Linux Mint and install Chinese language keyboard were both major PITA requiring Claude/ChatGPT, while on Windows I could do it without any help in few minutes (the keyboard in seconds)

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Remember when we were told only an expert should install Linux, and everyone else should just ask an enthusiast for help? Well, now we all have an expert at hand. Might not be a world expert, up to date in the very latest changes, but more than enough to make a lot of things that seemed impossible doable.

"World expert" might not even be that bad of a characterization. It's familiar with the ins-and-outs and every major distribution, every DE, is fluent in debugging at any level (knows every network utility, container technology, systemd option, sysctl, how various subsystems plug together and how to use them in practice, etc.), knows how to look up what it doesn't know if it's not up to date to within the literal last month or two, and if it came down to it, could patch/fix things, including reverse engineering hardware drivers.

I wouldn't be surprised if it could better deal with Linux issues than Linus.

It's the same as it ever was. You go for Windows and macOS for cohesive defaults. You go for Linux for agility. Agility comes at a cost, but it's now lower than ever before, as NixOS + the agents are the closest you can come to `import antigravity`[0].

[0] https://xkcd.com/353/

installing chinese keyboard in English Windows and remapping default keys doesn't strike ma as cohesive defaults

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