Transcoding an HDR blueray to h265 filled it up pretty quick and I'm about to start dabbling with game development/3d modeling.
I've also filled it up pretty quick learning how fast various data structures are in which situations. You don't really see a difference in speed until you get into the billions of items at least for python.
Well I had this one time I had issues with commands being sent to the shell. Super - arrow keys changed ttys instead of desktops and in the middle of updates I hit Ctrl c to kill a terminal app and it killed gnome desktop which killed the update process which bricked my system. Also XWayland apps are just buggy in ways I've never seen anywhere else.
It was real frustrating to set up with those bugs. My mother uses gnome but I refuse to install extensions because they break literally every single version of gnome. I probably should have put kde on her desktop tbh.
I'd say all they had to do is remove mandatory Microsoft accounts but the road windows is going down just makes me think it was just a matter of time.
My mother is very happy now. Bonus points she doesn't call me up and have me dismiss the Microsoft upsell every other update.
She says she doesn't want to break anything but I think she wants me to do it so she doesn't have to give it a nanosecond of a thought. Also she doesn't throw a fit every time she has to wait for updates to finish anymore!
The only reason that WSL exists is because Windows sucks for software development. I had more fun developing software on macOS and that has its own problems.
I don't mean any offense, it's so much more work to get that stuff set up on Windows if you don't use Visual Studio or any of the other IDE that automated setup. On Linux or Macos it either comes with it or you install it with one command or file, no fuss no install wizard that takes forever no weird setup process.
Let me install it on my main PC, the one I do work on.
I was just having fun with it. It really took a lot to make me switch to Linux in reality. For me anyway it was more the better polish from wayland and the ability to play games that made me finally switch. All my tools were already there which I understand most people can't say.
I never liked windows much after 7. Mostly used it like a flathead screwdriver, I curse when I have to use it over a Philips (slippery lil fuckers) but it's the first tool I grab when I need a pry tool because it's always there. I have like five of those damn things in my drawer and a few more in my toolbox.
To be fair I never downloaded 20 sketchy looking zip files from some ODM manufacture website just to get my hardware working. I also didn't need to reboot my computer 40 times while installing drivers, software, and updates.
I didn't have my motherboard, mouse, and fan controller auto install junky apps that never works and advertised new products constantly. I didn't have to try to uninstall adware just to find out you can't uninstall half of it. I didn't have to Google some esoteric regedit voodo just to add features back or disable anti-features.
I don't get full screen ads for OneDrive and office 365 begging me to switch to a Microsoft account every other update. I don't have to go to each and every manufacturers website to search for updates. Or create an account, login to it, and have it run in the background 247 just to not work when an update needs to be applied.
Have windows install updates in the background while playing games, or doing CPU intensive tasks like transcoding / video editing(often crashing the application).
Having to use the terminal on my Linux install every once in a blue moon crosses the line though. I might switch to windows and deal with all that instead.😂
I don't think you even need idiot, it's kinda redundant.
The Macos of the Linux ecosystem.
I can't wait to throw it on my laptop. I hope the tiling is highly customizable because I need something I can throw on a laptop, not update in a while and still have it not break when I finally do.
I like Hyperland but it does break the config every once and a while.
For automations and small apps it's fast enough. It's a fair traidoff for the fast turnaround time.
I'm thinking of learning go or c though because i don't care much for the runtime errors. It's no fun using an application for a while just for a typo in a rarely used function to tank the entire app.