Programmer Humor

It takes generations for the majority of people to adapt to new systems. Real world economics play a huge role in how, why and where technology is developed. This applies to all operating systems, because, they are in a certain particular way, the sum total of human knowledge in the field of computer science.

TL;DR No, it's capitalism.

Your milage will vary, depending on the distro. Many of them do really "just work" in most of the cases.

Picking Gentoo for that pic is a dirty trick. Gentoo users wanted it to be that way, on purpose.

(Source: I was one of them back in the early 2000s.)

Yes but what the hell is going on in that linux install window

That's the worst part!

There can be depending on distro, which is a whole other really awesome thing about Linux is that you're not locked into one flavour.

Everytime I have installed Ubuntu recently though it's always worked almost flawlessly with no need to adjust drivers. Using both Dell, hp and lenovo devices. It's definitely so much more consumer friendly these days that there is little reason for people to stay with Windows

Aren't there cleanup scripts for Windows?

I have an OG release of Win 10 Pro on USB - and when I install it, I keep my computer offline and run it for a while on that first build. (Usually I faff around with the desktop and play with the UI for a bit) With that early Win 10 version, it can be installed with no internet and you don't need to set up an online account. Then you go online and update it but by that point, your account is set locally to your machine, not online. Now, it crabs all the time at me to get a cloud account for backups and an Outlook for email (I use hotmail, actually) but I just ignore that.

You can just uninstall Edge. I recently set up my brother's new laptop and it was just a programming that could be deleted. And I'm from the EU as well.

Can you dig into the application itself and prise out the executable, leaving the rest of the support files in place?

I go at the binaries in troublesome programs (am looking at you, google keystoneagent, bane of my old computer systems..) that are for macOS, and it works a treat, since the daemons that launch updates will read the path and look for the enclosing folders and miss that the actual binary is gone. I had that fucker silenced UNTIL I made the mistake of grabbing a copy of Google Earth Pro and WHOMP! There it is again.. but I've been too lazy to go haul it out again.

Thanks and fuck you too, google.

NGL, best habit I've picked up over the years was to generally avoid Chrome.

You can someone swap those out.

It's not that it needs to be online. It's that it's chatting with Microsoft about you while it's doing it. They're going to know everything you install, every webpage you go to, everything you do.