Q: Why is windows better than linux?

A: Cos when you download zoom on windows, you can be pretty darn sure that it will work without you having to debug stupid permission issues. Linux would be dead if web browsers weren't a thing.

Except for 80%+ of the internet running on Linux servers that is

Yes, also pretty darn sure that Spyware you downloaded is currently watching your crotch

Because that's totally not zoom's problem with how they release their crap

I won't use Linux as an DE, but I'm sick and tired of Windows.

We need something in between (No Mac isn't an option) that can have mass driver support like windows, but actually fucking works like a stable Linux distro.

Unfortunately the world has been monopolised and that ain't going to happen.

Also, I think you'll find Zoom not doing their fucking job and shipping a shit product is more likely the case.

@alexbrooklyn servers aren't desktop.

@petergriffin I haven't installed any spyware. Unless you're talking about windows kek, which isn't very far from truth. At least it works.

@destroyerofcode Linux is my primary desktop for decades

Permission issues sound like you installed zoom by yourself, instead of using the distributions way.

Own fault. Nothing to do with Linux specifically.

@IntrusionCM `sudo snap install zoom-client`

Sorry, I'm not a linux heker. Guess I should go back to an operating system made for stupid people like me.

@destroyerofcode

:) Snap can make permissions very funky as it is a sandboxed thing.

Though I find Linux permission system easier.

I had a few times the dreaded Windows icacls fun... That was in my opinion more of a nightmare than everything else.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/...

@IntrusionCM

I don't understand all this programmer lingo. As far as I know the computer just shit itself when I needed it to work.

@destroyerofcode

Might sound like being nitpicky smarty pants, but most programmers won't touch this _ever_. That's system administrator area...

Programmers just give permission to everything for everyone and hope that it solves the problem (ignoring the massive security risks).

@IntrusionCM Don't see how it relates to the topic of this thread. i.e. Software not working on linux. zoom is one out of a billion other tiny issues. You just can't trust this operating system to work.

That's an unofficial package, not made by zoom

@destroyerofcode

You can trust it. If you are diligent and want to learn stuff from ground up, yes.

If you want an intransparent OS with non-existing / questionable data privacy and vendor-lockin, which - either due to an closed ecosystem or a compatibility stack dating back 30 years plus - has a better hardware support and seemingly better user support, take Windows or Apple.

But if you are using zoom, I guess privacy and data protection is your least concern given the way Zoom operates.

@electrineer The last linux hacker I met told me to always use snap for installing apps. Guess he was wrong.

@IntrusionCM

> If you are diligent and want to learn stuff from ground up, yes.

That's feel good propaganda. I don't get paid to learn stuff.

First, it's more about Zoom that is total crap
Second, permissions are just a basic for safety but if you want you can change the defaults of your Linux. Just don't say it's me who advised that please

This is just troll bait at this point

@C0D4
If you want to use something else than Windows or MacOS on the desktop, some Linux distribution is the only viable choice today.
It does not have to be Ubuntu. But it seem to be most easy to use for people coming from monopoly OSes and has the biggest community - so if there is a problem, you don't have to translate the solution.