You missed my point. It was not that lm-sensors is hard to install. It's that you have to know to install it, and you have to know how.
A quick online search is all it takes. For example:
and lm-sensors is the first mentioned application, and with a link to a install howto, albeit for Ubuntu.
but it still requires you to learn a good bit to be comfortable
True.
But as someone who had to learn enough Linux to be bi-OS and who had to get a bunch of team members through it, I still remember the learning curve.
I still remember the learning curve. I haven't really used Linux since mid 2007, so I'm going to be going back to it having to learn systemd and weyland, both of which are very different from a sys V init and x.org. I've done enough research to know that systemd is shady in Microsoft style but every distro bar a few are pushing it and forcing it on users.
And IMHO, for serious photographers, there are really only two choices. Yes, one can get by with open source stuff under Linux, but that's a real sacrifice relative to the power of PC and Mac applications, and not everything can be replicated.
Wholly agreed. I intend to dual boot Linux (Debian) and Windows so I can boot into the Windows install to play games and do all of my photography editing etc. The open source stuff is fine in these specialist genres for basic stuff, but yes, it is lacking vs the paid applications. Not gonna lie there. But, that isn't Linux' fault. That's on the plate of these big tech companies. A bit of government mandating that they must port to Linux for or face massive anti-competition and monopoly fines that would bankrupt them would be a very, very good thing.
I don't want to deal with Apple's closed ecosystem. I am Unix guy from grad school and I enjoy using Linux but the reality is that for photography (which is primarily what I use my computer for), the tools are simply not competitive for my use case.
Apple is nowhere near as bad as Microsoft. Not even close. Google yes. Apple, no. Sure, Apple does things that infuriate me, don't get me wrong, but not on the same level as Microsoft and/or Google.
The constant gaslighting from big tech is what gets really old. They do stuff that is blatantly self-serving and anti-consumer and try to tell us how they did it for us, the valued customer.
100000%
Microsoft is getting more and more like Apple in all of the worst ways.
Has long since been much, much worse than Apple imho. Let's look at Microsoft Edge. In Windows 11, if I replace Edge with say, Chrome, I have to not only set Chrome as my default browser when launching Chrome, but now go into Windows settings and change like a dozen things from Edge to Chrome, instead of a 1 click solution. A deliberate ploy to discourage people from switching to another browser. And yet no government has punished Microsoft for this, not even the EU.
Thankfully there's an army of enthusiasts who find and publish workarounds to Microsoft's BS most of the time.
And Microsoft removes those workarounds. Witness Microsoft removing using a local account during the Windows 11 installation process. Every workaround has been removed. Should be bloody illegal.
As to Google, Chrome is shameful. 5 tabs open, 2GB of RAM used...must be all the spyware bundled with it that's forced upon users without our consent.
