Let 'em vent. And then ignore or educate them, if they're open.
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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.
This is the most hypocritical post in the history of the Internet.
The lack of awareness from Linux nerds who think this is perfectly on-brand, I'm dying XD
Nah, as a Windows user on the topic of Linux here in the fediverse I'll be totally honest: I mostly just feel like I'm looking at and a bit wishing I was smart and savvy and motivated enough to be one of the cool kids, but after my last disastrous attempt at switching (because apparently my video card just isn't supported I guess? whatever, I'm not looking for tech support here) I'm just happy enough to be at the cool punk party instead of predatory frat party (reddit, twitter, take your pick of corporate shithole) where I'm likely to get roofied.
I put off the switch for ages due to similar reasons, tried once that failed horribly. Later had a motherboard failure and Microsoft showed their whole arse. Reactivated the dual boot, channeled my inner old woman energy, solved the video issue and have been happily tinkering with the smaller issues as they come up. Still playing whack a mole, but now I'm getting things the way I want them, instead of disabling things I'm being told I want by some corporate nutcase.
And hilariously, I am spending less time maintaining Linux than I did for Windows.
PC or laptop? And what video card?
I was prepared to go through hell when I switched recently, since Windows was making me so mad. Everyone told me my graphics card wouldn’t work, gaming would be hard, etc. Then Mint just worked. 🤷
I did have to troubleshoot why my speakers were muted on startup, but it was worth it. Oh, and volume up defaults to 5% instead of the standard 2%, that took some fixing. Games just work, though.
Mint gets tossed around because it's pretty forgiving. It just shits me i have to rewrite udev for usb key removal. Its the 21st fucking century, no one "dismounts" usb any more
Kubuntu is another one that just works. Hubs hasn't has problems and he's definitely not hardware wired
+1 for Kubuntu just working. I put my grandpa on it and I actually had someone I support for IT install it on their personal computer because they were getting sick and tired of windows.
There is some fuckery I'm not a fan of, but the user will probably just be oblivious+happy it just works.
When I muster up the courage again, Mint is probably the distro I'll try. I'd tried Pop!_OS because I'd read that it's very superficially Windows-like as an easing in method, but I think the larger install base of Mint (and thus docs, support, etc) makes it the more appealing choice next go round, if ever that day comes.
I got thrown in the deep end professionally with slackware years ago and i personally think pop is satans taint, so don't feel bad.
Been playing with mint on media server builds, works pretty well (apart from aforementioned usb caching), just adjusting to the flatpak sandboxing. Also works well with retroarch and my 8bitdos but i haven't fired up the n64 emu yet.
Daily driver is kubuntu, the biggest issue with both is if you have a mixed os system - the ol "won't network browse or auth as guest on a win machine share" unless you use cifs.
This feels like a very friendly and supporting comment, so I appreciate it, but I'm not gonna lie, about half of what you said may as well be Korean to me it's so unfamiliar.
All G :)
Flatpaks is a software control architecture. So instead of having files and executables able to talk to each other across the OS all willy nilly they're kept in little pens. This means the file locations change from what you automatically go to look for
8bitdos are retro feel wireless controllers, retroarch is an emulation software package for playing old console games on a pc. I haven't tested how the nintendo 64 emulator (notoriously hardcore) runs on mint yet.
Daily driver is my default go to pc to use. I run kubuntu on that. If you have windows-based servers or pcs that you're gonna mix with linux, kubuntu and mint have issues browsing to windows file shares with their default network browsers. You need to use what's called "cifs" instead, plenty of documentation if you need to poke about.
8bitdos are retro feel wireless controllers, retroarch is an emulation software package for playing old console games on a pc. I haven’t tested how the nintendo 64 emulator (notoriously hardcore) runs on mint yet.
This was the part I knew 😜 On my 3rd 8bitdo controller I think and been emulating games forever. The rest was legitimately foreign to me though, thank you
Don't despair, Vespair,
I like your vibe btw;
Being on the penguin side,
having a sharper mind,
does not garantee.
Let me assure thee,
for plenty of us,
are plenty dumb.
I genuinely have never seen this take. Sometimes someone shares something like "I tried it out and it wasn't quite for me", and that's about as vitriolic as it get. And even that's rare.
I see you have not been graced by madthumbs and the linuxsucks community. It's so hilariously stupid I've got it blocked so I can't link, but that should be enough to find it if you like.
Ha, I called out a few mistruths they were spreading, in a constructive way and got blocked too. Almost all comments there are removed, and the user was griping about downvotes. Somebody suggested his ex left him for a Linux dev and so now he hates Linux with a passion out of spite.
Yeah, it's Windows users going out and proudly exclaiming their love. Definitely never heard a Linux user bitch about another OS.👌👍
This has to be intentionally dense shit to trigger ACHKTUALLY type engagement right?
Windows users don't think about or even realize that other operating systems exist
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You've never been to a LAN party when those where bigger. Completely unprompted, windows users will shit on mac and linux users.
You are barking up the wrong tree. mohaa, dota (the mod) big game hunters, ns, cs (again before the stand alone or steam).
You're friends were correct back then. Linux was mostly worthless unless it was your job. Triple so for gaming.
I was playing UT2k4. Epic was linux friendly back then and I wasn't interested in the other stuff.
Also, I didn't say I was a linux user back then. I just said that mac and linux lived rent free in their heads. It was the same as the console war bs back then.
This comic is about LGBTQI+
Linux/GNU BTQI+
C'mon, us linux users do the inverse all the time...
(Also applies to "Lemmy users" on the top and "Reddit users" on the bottom)
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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.
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.
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