I know people prefer to complain instead of act, but what is something people don’t like but has an alternative?

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    iPhones. Love my Pixel and I don’t care how much my co-workers bitch about bubble colors.

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    Amazon, sort of. It absolutely cannot be beat for convenience. Ordering something in 15 seconds, then having it shipped within 48 hours is unmatchable.

    But if you plan ahead, and aren’t an impulse buyer, you can find alternatives with better products and similar prices. Most stuff on Amazon is absolute junk with clickfarm reviews.

    Ironically Reddit was really good for finding niche websites for whichever product you were looking for. Hopefully Lemmy will reach that point eventually.

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      Ordering something in 15 seconds, then having it shipped within 48 hours is unmatchable

      you mean like online shopping in general?

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      AliExpress is the alternate for Amazon if you can wait a month to get your crap. All the products are exactly the same except £2 instead of £20.

      I wouldn’t buy any electronics from AliExpress though.

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        Every order I’ve ever made on Ali:

        1. Me: Place order
        2. Ali: it will be there in a month
        3. A few weeks later, Ali: Your order was cancelled.
        4. Back to Amazon

        But if someone makes a version of Ali that works in the states, Amazon’s online store is already a dinosaur and can easily be dominated.

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          really?

          Ive ordered probobly 100 things from Ali. Takes a while to arrive, but only had a couple items disappear in shipping, and never had them not at least ship.

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    Windows -> GNU/Linux

    KDE/Gnome -> JWM

    TV -> Reading books

    Twitter -> Fediverse

    Coke/Cola -> Tea/infusion

    Amazon -> Local bookshop

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        They’re using a window manager over a full DE, so it’s likely the usual case of preferring minimalism to the very complete desktop environment (which many consider bloated). I’m a window manager person myself, but I’ve been giving KDE a good honest try for the past couple of weeks. It’s definitely very nice if you want the full DE experience.

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          I went the WM route for a while. At a certain point, it was too much bother getting everything set up Just So. I wanted something that would work and had undergone thorough testing with minimal effort on my part. If I want to tinker with something, I want it to be more interesting than a WM config file.

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        Both KDE and Gnome can be seen as pretty bloated. They come pre-packaged with a lot of programs and tools that sit around unused, possibly even having corresponding daemons running for no reason.

        For someone who doesn’t want to think about their computer, and just want to know it’s prepared for anything, they may want that. But if they left windows/mac to have a smaller, simpler OS that isn’t wasting CPU cycles or disk space on superfluous stuff, then KDE/Gnome might not suit them.

        Edit: that said, I’ve heard of a lot of alternative DEs/WMs, but I’ve never heard of JWM. I’ve heard good things about Budgie, might also check that out.

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          I always love the Linux communities obsession with bloat.

          The definition for it is so fluid its almost useless anymore. “Neovim is bloated!” “systemd is bloated and slow”

          (This isn’t a jab at you btw. It’s a commentary on silly Linuxisms)

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    People complain about Banks screwing them over with fees and caring more about investor profits all the time. But few people move their money to credit unions or other co-operatively owned financial institutions. Usually it’s because of some minor inconvenience.