• Wataba@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    I keep my dislike of Linux to myself.

    Its Linux bros who are constantly flooding any and all legit questions about Windows with ‘just use Linux 4head’.

    Go away.

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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      2 months ago

      When I complain about Linux it’s in the hopes that some nerd will come along and provide actual solutions to the problems I’m having with it in an effort to prove me wrong. Unfortunately mostly I just get the “That’s normal you just have to deal with it” kind of answers.

      • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 months ago

        Windows has an issue or flaw: Just switch to Linux bro! It’s so customisable!

        Linux has an issue or flaw (like middle click copy/paste being forced): just live with it, it was a decision made in 1965 because one dude wanted it that way and it’s so baked in we can’t fix it.

        • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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          2 months ago

          Yeah it’s always shit like that. Or “just do this thing you already said didn’t work, but I didn’t read”

      • Nugscree@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Or just fix it with this easy but entirely unreadable command in the terminal. Oh it did not do what I expected, welp you’re on your own now. I want a complete UI so I can move my non technical family members over to it, but the Linux bro’s think it’s fine to have a half functioning UI and just do the rest in the terminal. And yes I know the terminal fix is faster and usually simpler to run, but I can’t explain that to my non technical family members, nor do I want to cosplay as a sysadmin for them.

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’ve been having trouble turning light bulbs into meth pipes; they keep breaking! Is there some trick to it?

  • nyctre@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Fastest save of my life. Applies to so many things too. I never understood the appeal of showing up just to say negative things. I’m guessing it’s some need to drag people down to your sad level or something but it’s not something I can understand.

    • Sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      You ever see one of those videos of a guy sitting alone in his truck, filming himself talking about something that’s bothering him even though nobody asked (or cares)? Same thing. They feel like nobody is listening to them and it just burns them up inside, and it fuels their bottomless sense of resentment.

      • nyctre@piefed.socialEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Huh… I never thought of it that way. And I can see how they’re similar but I feel they’re different still mostly because these are usually trolls or just idiots that come to complain, whereas those people usually post on fb/utube/etc. where they’re easier to ignore. Feels less targeted.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    At this point, it’s just insecurity about stuff not working right on Windows now.

    To that point:

    At the moment, on my dual boot desktop, hardware acceleration and video playback are busted in Chromium browsers on Windows. But it works perfectly fine in Wayland linux. And I don’t really know why.

    This is fascinating to me, as the situation was reversed about a year ago.

    And if I were Windows only, without years of experience under the belt to make Linux seem less daunting, I’d be feeling anxious about that.

    Not that I’m a Linux fanboy: Windows is just better for some specific things. But still, I’m not going to either OS booth to complain.

  • [object Object]@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Linux is pretty nice.

    I have my issues with it, but they’re more on the UI side of things.

    I love nixos, I really like before silver blue, and I’m a huge fan of podman — it feels like all the right compromises.

  • Ricky Rigatoni@piefed.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    My favorite thing is going onto the community for a game that explicitly supports linux with a problem just to have a bunch of replies to install windows from random chuds.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    My only remaining real problems are:

    • The community often pushing more “elitist” solutions over easier ones, see all the Vim fanboys.
    • Coming from the aforementioned issue, your only viable debugger is either GDB with its obtuse TUI or some GUI hackjob on top of that.
    • la508@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I find that I just don’t really know what I’m doing half the time, and find it difficult to find help at a genuinely practical level. It’s either total beginner “This is called the terminal” or assumes you already know exactly what you’re doing. Like the installation instructions for something I was looking at was literally “usual cmake build” with absolutely zero elaboration what that means. The other thing I don’t like is when you look up how to do something and the answers are always “copy and paste this code” without explaining what any of it is or what it does.

      Something else I’m still not at all sure about is where you’re supposed to install things. Like at least on Windows I know you just bang everything in “Program files”, but now there’s bin, etc, home, usr, and whatever else and don’t know where you’re supposed to actually put things.

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The last week or thereabouts, I have been trying my 2nd migration to Linux. Went with ZorinOS, but ultimately the project failed. This is because there is a lot that isn’t hand-holdy enough, or AppImages just not working consistency. If nothing else, I at least a get a fresh start: Windows Enterprise 25h2 GAC via RUFUS + Massgrave, with Shutup10 Premium to set and forget my privacy. Good enough for now.

    It isn’t ideal, as I suspect an 2nd American Civil War down the line - and MS is likely to side with Dogey America. Hopefully Linux would be more friendly and refined by the time things kick off.

    • Allero@lemmy.today
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      2 months ago

      To be completely honest, any OS change does come with some friction, and Linux is certainly no exception. Should you ever try this again. give it two weeks, and you’ll learn the best practices.

      Until then, good luck with your existing setup!

    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Honestly thats just cause zorinOS is a dumbsterfire. Sure theres 100s of distros to choose from and a fuck load of them are “professional” projects. But they arn’t actually user friendly professional projects. Theres little to no effort or care put into the real world aspects that need to be accounted for to onboard new users.

      ZorinOS is great and professional for an already existing user.

      Its why valve has had to put so much fucking effort in to get something thats actually viable to market to your avg joe.

      Frankly outside of a steamOS, bazzite, and cachyOS. Basically no distro goes to any real length to actually make things new user friendly.

      Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, and many other of the most popular distros are “good enough”. They are perfectly functional out of the box as nothing more or less then a useable desktop and web browser. Anything beyond that quickly falls to hit or miss bullshit.

      As dumb as it is. The only distros that have actually put the work in to onboard new windows users properly have been the ones with a version targeting the steam deck and gamers.

      People who ONLY need a email client are already accounted for after all with stuff like mint. You don’t need your computer for anything so anything beyond the basics being VERY polished is pointless.

    • Bonje@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Yes. Because we want native support from apps. Windows has the market share to not care. Linux is getting there but is nowhere near to even macOS.

    • yesman@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      That’s not true. Linux users do this waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than Microslop users. Microslop has billions of users, but fewer than 20 fanboys, worldwide.

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Used and supported Windows for over 30 years at this point. I’ve NEVER been a fan, and started looking into Linux back in '99. It wasn’t ready back then, but two decades later and it seems like Linux does everything except anti-cheat, which I have no use for, better than Windows ever did.

        • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          2 months ago

          … I worked for Microsoft.

          … during the time they rolled out Win8, by dogfooding it through every employee and contractor.

          I don’t know anyone that hates Microsoft and Windows more than I do.

            • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Agreed, peaked at 7.

              And its been literally all downhill from there.

              I actually could not believe what was happening, when they rolled out 8 on us.

              “We’ve removed… the windows… from Windows.”

              Saying that outloud made my boss very angry.

              We spent a month pleading to let us go back to 7, to use some kind of standard, non tablet UI.

              For a month they told is that didn’t exist in 8, the UI was all totally new and redesigned from the ground up, and no we can’t go back to 7.

              But, they were lying, of course. There was a sequence you could do to override the new UI that had indeed been slapdashed over 7’s UI, to go back to 7’s UI.

              (Where 7’s UI is modified XP UI, which is modified 98 UI… etc)

              We figured it out, they’d patch it to not work, some other email chain would figure out some other override, they’d patch that out.

              After about a month of that they actually admitted that the 7 UI was indeed still there and was not just some kind of emergency fall back mode.

              Some months later, 8.1 is basically just them making the 7 UI mode fully work.

              Again, I literally could not believe how stupid this all was, to the point of sometimes literally dissociating.

          • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I used to be sysadmin for a uni with a citrix farm. I may have a good shot at taking that crown.

          • adarza@piefed.caEnglish
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            2 months ago

            i’ve run across some people around here who i would never have guessed knew about linux… and not only did they know–they ran it. and yea, more than one was ‘i use arch btw’.

    • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It happens when MS does something that annoys their userbase. Then Linux nerds jump in and tell how much Linux is better.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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      2 months ago

      That’s okay because unlike Windows, Linux isn’t guilty of market capture, adware, spyware, bloat, and any number of other things that are wrong with windows.

  • Godric@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The lack of awareness from Linux nerds who think this is perfectly on-brand, I’m dying XD