Windows 11 has given me no issues whatsoever. I’m not apologizing for having a great experience.
Different strokes for different folks - windows 11 does have it’s uses.
Ever since our office laptops “upgraded” they’ve made excellent space heaters during the winter. Open up Teams, a PowerPoint, and a YouTube video and you’ve got a nice toasty office!
hi Microsoft employee! 👋
It’s hilarious that you people can’t even conceive of someone actually enjoying Win11. Like some kind of mental block for you or something.
People with trash taste generally don’t like being told their taste is trash. But if you like using garbage, by all means, feel free to keep having a subpar experience. And I’m not even a Linux evangelist, I just support windows systems for a living.
Win11 is a trash OS made to spy on you, make your data easier for criminals to steal, and serve you ads. If that’s your thing, keep using it and enjoy I guess. I’d rather stay on actually good versions of windows, but security patches are important.
you people can’t even conceive of someone actually enjoying Win11
True.
I can’t conceive of people wanting to glue fake plastic eyelashes on their eyelids and not think it makes them look like a circus clown.
Yet people do that all the time.
People are generally pretty stupid.
I use Linux because I’m lazy. I don’t have the time or energy to play whackamole with Windows settings.
Don’t think it’ll stop if you do switch to Linux.
After that they’ll just try to get you to switch distributions, because the grass is always greener at Arch.
Yeah, and even if you’re using Arch BTW, you’re not using it correctly! Why would you install a fully featured DE? Don’t you know how many dependencies that introduces to your custom built super slick OS? Come on, just use I3! Writing basic functionallity like a shutdown menu yourself isn’t that bad!
You won’t be free until you’re running a libre booted thinkpad and can do nothing but edit text from the TTY
You don’t have to use Linux, you can use BSD too
Let’s be honest, the only begging from any group to join them is from the people using BSD.
I thought this was the shitpost community
I don’t use arch btw
It is more of a shit post than a shit post.
I do use arch BTW
Arch promoters are the worst. I believe anyone suggesting Arch to convert people are Windows/Mac marketing. If you already use Linux, then Arch could be useful for you. But anyone even remotely new or experienced but more interested in using their computer rather than configuring an OS shouldn’t get an Arch recommendation.
If you don’t want to recompile your kernel every day, you may as well buy a Mac.
I use Mint, by the way.
I use debian btw
It’s fine and not exciting in any way
What I like most about Mint is that it doesn’t get in the way.
I don’t really ever see anyone promote Arch. People have this hard on for hating on Arch users that’s based on decade-old preconceptions, and they somehow perpetrate them without substance.
I’m actually the opposite on this because I agree. I use Arch (btw) but I’m also aware this is not the OS for the uninitiated. Arch users who suggest it for the jumping off point from Windows are: a) dicks, and b) delusional in thinking this is a reasonable UX, and c) they are actually giving Arch a bad name by suggesting it inappropriately.
I use Arch (still, btw) because I want the bleeding edge on many things, I actually prefer the shell for most admin tasks, and it lets me fully customize my install, not installing any bloat I don’t want. But I’m also very comfortable with Linux and have used various other distros before this one for decades.
When a friend asks me which Linux flavor, I try to take into account their use case. Gaming only? Bazzite, SteamOS, or maybe Mint. Productivity? Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Mint. Power user ready for Arch? They probably already know and I don’t need to tell them.
I don’t ever see people promoting Arch to convert users from Windows. Plenty of Arch-based distros though, like Garuda, CachyOS, Bezzite, or (not really recommended, but an example) SteamOS. There are lots of great distros based on Arch that come bundled with all the packages most users will need. Arch is just for the users that want to remove every last bit of stuff they don’t need and handle it all themselves so they have exactly the minimum they want, which only has minor utility and is not good for new users who don’t even know what exists.
Plenty of Arch-based distros though, like …, Bezzite,
Bazzite (assuming typo, Bezzite doesn’t look to be an os based on a cursory search) is fedora blue based, not arch based. There looks to be a Bazzite flavor based on arch, but the main OS is not to my knowledge.
Steam OS which is based on Arch doesn’t need much first time configuration. It’s the greatest invention since bread slicer
It’s great and so is Bazzite!
Have you heard the good word? Linus is our Lord and Savior. I use arch BTW.
Gaben is the fourth Messiah given us by God himself. I use Steam OS which is based on Arch btw.
i have prayed to gaben to allow steam to close when i close it for many years, but it is still not yet possible. when will you answer my prayers, oh mighty gaben?
He does act like he is from time to time. And he’s even been doing to pull off the occasional miracle.
I swapped to linux a while back. The compatibility just isnt there yet unfortunately. Theres too many annoying roadblocks
My problem with Linux, that is getting better, is that it has largely catered to power users. Simply put most users either aren’t, or don’t care to be, tech savvy. And that is fine actually, because that means they have other things they are interested in and care more for.
Things like SteamOS are catering more towards casual users with a bunch of built in compatibility features that means games work like they do on windows. Making it easier for casual users to make the jump. Now rather than having to know you need 57 compatibility layers (This is exaggeration for effect, yes I have to point this out because I have had some people get pissy at me for doing this) to get things to work like they should they are all neatly bundled together and you have Valve’s promise that they will work here.
Because of the SteamDeck many people were introduced into the world of Linux. Without many of them even realizing that they were using it at first. Add on the fact that it just works for the games people actually want to play and you have a good shot at tackling Windows.
I’m sorry to power users but you just don’t decide what the market cares about really. It’s the casual users, there is just so many more of them that they get to decide what operating systems are supported.
Linux has massively been dumbed down to allow people like you to use it. Which was a mistake. It was never meant for gamers or people eating their crayons. The fact that some toy vendor decided to build their vending machines on it has nothing to with Linux or its prinary user base. So stop complaining that not everybody is as lazy and as willfully ignorant as you. You’re tolerated but not welcome. I hope this is an adequate reply to this thread’s title and OP.
Right? I understand Windows is mass surveillance spyware, but holy shit the Linux proselytizing on this site is worse than any Christian mission, it’s straight up ridiculous. If anything, all the constant nagging will further entrench some users into Windows out of spite.
Lol
“I know this shit is poison, but damn all the people telling me not do drink poison just make me want to drink poison harder”
You use a site populated by tech savvy nerds (I mean that in a good way), what did you expect? Weird thing to complain about. It comes with the territory.
Yeah, you should switch to Windows but ethical instead, so ReactOS
Username checks out
Don’t feed the trolls
“If you don’t like Linux you’re just a troll” is the EXACT energy OP is talking about. Y’all are insufferable. Linus Torvalds is incredibly well known for being a dick because “what I think is right is most important” and that toxic attitude is what keeps most people from giving Linux a second look.
But totally, people hating on Linux are just trolls. Let me guess, you use Arch? You’re always the most obnoxious.
You know Linus acts like an ass, but Balmer is an ass, and Jobs was a horrible person?
And google is amoral in general.
I’d rather side with the rude for a reason crowd, then the polite to take advantage of you crowd.
That said I use linux for a long time now, and only recently would I recommend it to others. And even that not always.
You absolutely are trolls and I use Debian btw
“How do you know a Linux user?”
“Don’t worry, they’ll tell you”
You’re literally the meme 😂
Oh, you can tell who uses Windows just by looking at them.
Says the person using the neckbeard OS 🤣
Oh wait, that’s right, it’s thigh high socks and a Ikea shark while you tuck it back 😂
You literally have entire communities dedicated to your degeneracy
No, you braindead shitwit, people named “Evil EdgeLord” who post baiting memes are trolls. Now get off your fucking high horse, you wad of half-chewed horse semen.
Lmao why so mad? You’re literally proving them right about your emotional immaturity 🤣
They didn’t mention me, and I don’t recall asking for your goddamn opinion anyway.
That’s fine, my opinion of you being a moron is completely free 😊
Oh wait, that’s right, it’s thigh high socks and a Ikea shark while you tuck it back 😂
You literally have entire communities dedicated to your degeneracy
whatever my “emotional immaturity”, at least I’m not a fucking transphobe,
I’m a firm believer in every man is entitled to his own personal hell. And if Windows 11 is your choice, then go with my blessing.
Just don’t expect me to help put out the flames.
Use whatever Os works for you, no-one should be forced to change what they use.
That’s the thing, many people don’t know there is anything else and don’t realize “their” machines have slowly slid out of order to the point of not “working” anymore.
When I don’t tell someone I know that using a computer does not have to be painful, it feels like an act of cruelty. That only applies to people I know IRL, I feel like most of Lemmy at least knows about Linux. In any case, if anything I’d say the tendency to mention Linux comes from a genuine intention of helpingSure, if you’re in a space where people aren’t technologically proficient that’s fair. But this behavior is most prevalent here on lemmy, and i seriously doubt anyone who has managed to find their way to this platform doesn’t know that linux exists. It just becomes real insufferable real fast.
UGH
apicall create <stuff>
And then just insert the stuff, what don’t you get?? 😩
