• Sagrotan@lemmy.world
    813·
    2 years ago

    Yep. It’s me. Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and savior, GNU/Linux?

  • onlooker@lemmy.ml
    614·
    2 years ago

    Try to understand, not everyone likes windows. They require quite a bit of maintenance, are usually insecure and speaking personally, some setups just don’t look good. It’s why some people opt for skylights instead.

    • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
      142·
      2 years ago

      Honestly windows is so slow at this point, we just use door. Why waste all that energy and power just to get the thing off the ground when alternatives exist?

    • Sagrotan@lemmy.world
      136·
      2 years ago

      Windows is an anachronism. Since I even got my wife and her gaming PC on the light side with Garuda Linux, works like a charm. After that she wanted me to install that “cool blank desktop” I have on my work laptop on her business machine in the shop. Now she loves bspwm. Learning doesn’t make life harder per se, it’s fun.

  • rbesfe@lemmy.ca
    531·
    2 years ago

    Those bricks are laid incredibly poorly, look at all those gaps

  • CreateProblems@corndog.socialEnglish
    463·
    2 years ago

    This is hilarious.

    My husband runs our Lemmy instance, and he’s subscribed to the Linux community, which is one of the most active on Lemmy (I probably don’t need to tell you that.) I’m basically just here for memes and I ultimately blocked the Linux community because it was all over my feed. I’m a normie and I just don’t care about Linux whatsoever, not enough for every other post to be about it anyway.

      • CreateProblems@corndog.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Sorry to be clear, I am not saying Linux sucks. I just don’t have an opinion on desktop operating systems. And I was tired of every other post on my feed being about operating systems instead of the dumb internet pictures that I love and crave.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
      131·
      2 years ago

      I enjoy Linux memes.

      But not when the only joke they can muster being “Other OS bad for [insert dumb false argument here]”

  • spudwart@spudwart.comEnglish
    336·
    2 years ago

    Okay, but windows has become alarmingly invasive and dumbed down.

    I don’t hate windows as much as I hate Microsoft.

    ReactOS is a cool project and I hope it goes somewhere.

    • rastilin@kbin.social
      9·
      2 years ago

      ReactOS is dead and will go nowhere.

      The reason I say this is that I’ve been following them for something like 15+ years by this point, and they haven’t made any perceptible progress in that time. They’re at exactly the same point now where they were 15 years ago.

      • nighty@lemmy.ml
        3·
        2 years ago

        I completely forgot about this little gem. I used to follow it too, but just dropped it along the way.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
      115·
      2 years ago

      Yes, Windows has become alarmingly invasive and dumbed down.

      But how difficult is it to use actual arguments to prove they did instead of pulling completely false ones out of your ass?

      I make fun of Windows search all the time because it deserves it.

      But I’m not going to make fun of Windows update because it doesn’t directly tell you what they changed. Since a single google search can give you the answer.

      Anyway, Linux memes should be about Linux, not Windows. It is almost like those Linuxians are jealous Windows has a ginormous market share while their respective distro does not.

  • cooopsspace@infosec.pubEnglish
    216·
    2 years ago

    I mean I know people who are still trying to find bypasses to get around Microsoft and their online only strategy.

    If you’re still doing this, you.need to try Linux.

    • rastilin@kbin.social
      71·
      2 years ago

      Agreed. I’ve been slowly moving the machines onto nixOS, and I’m reformatting an older Mac for a neighbor on nixOS as well. On the livecd it runs impressively fast, but on OSX it’s so slow as to be unusable. Windows is now so actively hostile that it’s time to make the jump.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
      82·
      2 years ago

      I know people who are still trying to find bypasses so they can use their audio in Linux.

      Time for them to switch to Windows.

      • cooopsspace@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Time to switch to a Linux distro that works. There’s plenty good ones out there, your people must be picking the shit ones… Or compiling their own and badly.

    • 🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      211·
      2 years ago

      Didn’t check that far but it was a lot of generic posts from 2 users with similar names which could be summarised as “Windows bad” and “Linux good”, with some variations including windows programs. Checked their accounts and they appear utterly obsessed with whining about Windows.

      Like I get it. Windows sucks. Doesn’t mean I want my entire feed full of a kid spamming their vitriol for it.

      • sunnie@sopuli.xyz
        171·
        2 years ago

        if hating something is your entire personality i am not talking to you regardless of what that thing is

            • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
              32·
              2 years ago

              From what I read, nothing’s wrong with the game. There is some queer things going on with a character and so the culture war queerphobic right wingers got on to it.

            • 🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              32·
              2 years ago

              It’s a pretty good game. Presentation of the story is just a bit of a mess because a member of the team that was previously responsible for writing, left.

              Neil Druckman certainly had challenges solo continuing a story that previously had a cowriter

              • AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca
                3·
                2 years ago

                Yeah, I don’t particularly enjoy the story of the game, both content wise or structurally, but I will still sing it’s praises if someone starts hating on it for LGBT reasons

  • Beowulf@unilem.org
    101·
    2 years ago

    I like the memes, but that’s it. I use Linux, sure, but I also have to use Windows for a few programs because WINE doesn’t work with said programs, and the alternatives aren’t the best

    With that being said, would I prefer Linux to be mainstream? Yes. Will it ever be? Probably not. Too many people just want something that works out of the box and don’t want to spend hours fixing some obscure bug.

    I am a nerd. Therefore, I am okay spending time working on my machine and making sure everything runs well. I have previously looked at an OS that doesn’t seem to work or is starting to have issues and completely swap to a different distro using a base I have used and know will work 100% of the time

    • SaintNewts@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 years ago

      Will it ever be? Probably not.

      [Android has entered the chat.]

      Yes. I know that’s not what you meant. You meant desktop. But then desktop is slightly less relevant than it was maybe 10 or 15 years ago

    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      My experience with Linux is following a guide and sudo apt-get update failing. Like step goddamn 2.

      Also some fucking around with machines at work trying to mount flash drives and the guide they gave us saying use sda1 but actually it’s sdb0 that works or some such bullshit.

      Oh and having to root chmod everything to even be able to touch it with SCP.

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
    4·
    2 years ago

    I don’t have a problem with Edge itself. We use it at work and it’s fine. I have a problem with microsoft constantly trying to trick me into using it among all their other shitty practices.

    • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
      02·
      2 years ago

      My dad came to me in a panic “All of my passwords are gone!!!” turns out macroshaft kicked chrome off default he was using edge without knowing. It actually took me awhile to realize it was edge too because the UI is so similar. Edge does have a really big unmovable spam toolbar along the side so that was pretty much my only major tell.