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Honestly, I agree with @StillNoLeftLeft@hexbear.net

Ok fair enough, but I wouldn't have installed Linux if I had not seen it recommended.

I'm not a computer toucher, but I can follow written advice.

These sorts of posts always scold anyone giving out actual solutions just so being miserable can continue. This cultural thing almost has an end of history type vibe to it. It's also pretty hostile to divergent and often solution focused neurotypes.

Linux evangelism kinda makes sense, no one is spending billions on marketing and ads for it. I think Linux evangelists should ask about use cases first, instead of just posting a generic "use Linux".

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[–] Soot@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Did they say the comic countered every single example? There were many that the comic is applicable to. And to be honest, even in many work contexts, there's room to "push" for Linux as a solution.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

No, but if you have to use Windows for work, you should be able to complain about it.

[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I can’t, that’s the point.

[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

There's always a solution gui

[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if you commented that without reading

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not fair to change the OP angry-hex

[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

I didn't get this far as a poster by playing fair

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bug your IT dept to let you remote into your Wondows box from your Linux machine?

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

I did that, they wanted me to get a writeup for them since they couldn't figure out how to get strongswan configured and a decent RDP connection established on Linux.

freerdp and some nmcli bash scripts saved me lol. Now I run one command to connect to a work PC with all my monitors then kill the connection to jump back into Linux. Even got drive bindings with USB and printer passthrough working

[–] Soot@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The comic did not say people shouldn't be allowed to complain about stuff. In fact, I've seen nobody here say that.