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I hate Windows. I hate Microslop. I've hated them forever. Not using Windows helps, but I still have to deal with the consequences of everyone else using it!

What I hate most is people absolutely terrified of a *nix terminal, while willing to work around Windows problems via command prompt or messing with the goddamn fucking registry, which is just bloody ridiculous, why not just use fucking config files... but that's a rant for another time - and people looking at this kind of chatbot interface like cutting edge modern technology when it's actually just a CLI that doesn't fucking work. We had these at the dawn of personal computing, except that those ones worked and gave the same response to the same command every time! Look, I don't like using a terminal either, but at least be honest and consistent about it, people.

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[–] SwagliacciTheBadClown@hexbear.net 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Eventually people who have no clue about computers will hear about and try Linux, if Windows keeps becoming more and more unusable and unstable.

crush it me. I’ve been too busy to get it started - but have been setting up an older enterprise computer as a “sandbox” to learn how to use a different OS. Shouldn’t be too hard though- I once figured out how to print “Hello World”. Fr though I wish I was better with coding- I’ve done a decent amount of work with SQL, various Python applications, R, matlab, Arcade, Visual Basic, etc but somehow have managed to glean few useable skills from those experiences sans-shrug

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, that's me too. I'm definitely not your stereotypical Linux nerd, but I, essentially, tried it out in anger and just kinda realised how much I truly hate Windows and that I don't have to put up with it and that feels great.

[–] SwagliacciTheBadClown@hexbear.net 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I assumed everyone else was born with the knowledge but me lol. I’ve been steadily switching to all FOSS programs which is already a nice change from MS office. And like I said, with my limited experience I at least somewhat understand how computers work. So, agreed, it’s a matter of applying that annoyance in a productive way!

I don’t own thigh high socks - but maybe if I pull on a pair of soccer socks extra high it’ll buff my programming skills

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I don't own any programming socks either... or the matching cat ears.

I do have a set of Tigger ears, though!

But I don't know if they buff my computer skills or if they just make me feel more like a little kid again and thus less scared of breaking something.