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And you just know that there will be those few idiots that actually take this serious
Oh shit! Which windows distribution do I switch to? Any recommendations?
11 is the GOAT, it even has FOX NEWS on the TOOLBAR and a LINKEDIN keyboard shortcut!!!
Remember to choose Enterprise or Ultimate to unlock all features!
Meh I prefer Windows 9
I get it, the debate around 9/11 is pretty heated!
And AI built in to EVERYTHING. You don't even have to think.
(Looks at my life) Are you sure thats actually a bad thing?
If you installed Win11, odds are you weren't already…
I've been doing some research, apparently all of them are rolling releases and tend to break often.
Rolling releases on unstable branches
ME
98plus
xp, 2000, or nt obviously.
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What a disaster! /s
Who do I contact to get a refund on my compromised Linux?
Yea, we would like to talk to the manager of Linux
Transparency helps us recover faster.
wait, did they say there's billions of lines to do?
Anyone else noticed that it says paid partnership?
Keep in mind if you transition to Windows you will need to relearn a few things! Lots of your software might have issues and I sure hope you have Nvidia because AMD is straight to broken with all their open source code. Yuck!
Windows is just better (I use Windows 11 PRO BTW) because you get lots of background processes and there's even a copilot that's right about stuff sometimes. Microsoft even keeps a backup of lots of your data up in something called a Cloud, which I assume is good because clouds are up there in the sky like heaven!
I sure hope 2026 is the year of the Windows PC!
(/s cause writing this joke hurt my soul)
I've been looking at switching to Windows, but it's always the horrible gaming experience that holds me back.
For starters, compatibility is complete ass. Windows doesn't let you choose the compatibility tools and forces you to run every game (every application for that matter) in the systemwide environment. It also only has a single wineprefix-equivalent that just dumps everything in your home ~~directory~~ folder (please don't crucify me). If a game requires a different Wine version, you can try to set that half-assed compatibility mode thing on the executable, but I'm convinced it's only there as decoration. If it doesn't work, you're kinda fucked.
Windows also lacks the minimal set of utilities that I expect from a system that can run games. There is no Bubblewrap and you can't sandbox your games without using a VM. There is no gamescope, nor any way to run an application inside a nested graphical session. If an older game can only do exclusive fullscreen, you can't switch to a less intrusive (windowed/borderless) mode. If a game does have borderless or windowed mode, but doesn't support your native resolution, you're playing in a tiny window or not at all.
Windows 11 seems really neat, but it's not ready for general adoption. There are just too many missing features.
From a programmers and workflow perspective windows is complete garbage. It does not allow me to change my WM. Im stuck with the default behaviour without the ability for full customisation like Hyprland or Sway have. Installing Programms is deeply unintuitive. Have to search for a Programm, download it from a sketchy looking button and run an installer. Software providers often enough don't even provide sha256 sums. How can I be sure, that I downloaded the correct executable? Even if a hash is provided, most people won't bother to check it. These are elementary flaws that hinder widespread windows adoption.
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Oh fuck. The linux stock is going down!!
They'll have to fire the Linux CEO over this just like they fired the Antifa CEO
It would genuinely cause worldwide panic if the Windows source code leaked, and that brings joy to me
... until I realize I still have Windows because I still haven't moved to linux
Do it now. We love you and want you to join with us.
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If it’s because you’re worried and not because you have proprietary software you need that’s keeping you tied to it, Mint was super duper easy for me to install (I’ve never installed Linux before) and it’s been essentially out of the box compatible with the games I play since most are already optimized for the Steam Deck.
If it’s the software thing, sorry man, my spouse is in the same boat.
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A little off on the lines of code... it's only around 20 million. I'd be a little worried if there was billions of lines of code, it would be unmaintainable slop.
This is how you know Microsoft windows is better. More lines of code = better software.
LOC doesn’t inherently make things unmaintainable slop, as long as you have strong abstractions (which Linux certainly does)
one could argue that most Linux distros have billions to trillions of LOC and their abstraction is packages, which are kinda a level of abstraction higher than libraries, which are just a level of abstraction higher than a folder of util functions
things being “not my code” doesn’t mean it’s not part of your system
While you're correct in a general sense, the linux kernel is what I was referring to, not the whole ecosystem of linux programs and repositories.
If Hello World can be written in 1 line and someone comes along and presents a version written in 100-1000s of lines without any new features, I'm going to argue it's unmaintainable slop.
and if a display driver can’t be written in 1 line that doesn’t make the thousands of lines unmaintainable slop
some things just require more code
i’d argue if the linux kernel were billions of LOC, then that’s just what’s necessary
and necessity is probably relative at that point; many of your LOC are likely technically unnecessary abstractions to help with human understanding
and if a display driver can’t be written in 1 line that doesn’t make the thousands of lines unmaintainable slop
That's not what I'm saying.
I'm saying if there's 1000x more lines of code than necessary, it's unmaintainable slop. I could understand 2x or even 10x the lines of code just being a difference in architecture, but even 100x is getting crazy.
I think only EnterpriseFizzBuzz surpasses the 1000x inefficiency metric that this meme is implying.
I'm saying if there's 1000x more lines of code than necessary, it's unmaintainable slop. I could understand 2x or even 10x the lines of code just being a difference in architecture, but even 100x is getting crazy.
and i’m saying who’s to say what’s necessary with the linux kernel? it’s a one of a kind project: the largest software undertaking by humanity, ever
there probably are 100x more LOC than technically necessary… heck there are… how many LOC in the linux kernel? millions? there’s n-1 more LOC than necessary because it’s C and can be a one-liner (hell even python can be a one liner if you turn it into something resembling brainfuck more than python)
what are you comparing 2x, 10x, 100x to? bsd? windows? neither are particularly good comparisons because linux is so much more capable (in many respects) than either, and solves different problems of scale that either too
linux has no point of comparison for a simple LOC metric… the only thing we can judge is the output itself: its efficient to run, velocity of new features is great, bug count is low for a project of its size, and tech debt gets paid down
again, i think given those factors it wouldn’t matter if linux were 100x the LOC that it actually is: it is the benchmark that other things are measured against
LOC has always been, and will remain a terrible metric for anything except number of newline characters in a source repo
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I bet someone from /linuxsucks (banned me, yay) genuinely believes every word
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