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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Recently I installed Linux mint on my laptop, and then my main PC died so I replaced it with windows 11. I've had the unique experience of setting them both up from scratch alongside each other.

Windows 11 took longer to set up (4 days), but was 80% via GUI, and the 20% I did in PowerShell was mostly using winget with very few failures. I used ChatGPT for some planning and checklist and also used it to craft a PowerShell script that would silently install about 35 applications that I was too lazy to do manually by downloading the exe's, but I could have gotten there without it.

Mint took 2 days to set up but was 80% terminal, and I would not have been able to install half the things I wanted without the help of ChatGPT crafting baffling workarounds for me that I would not have found on my own.

In the end, both systems are 95% how I want them, with 5% unattainable due to their own unique issues.

I'll continue to use both for now, and see how I go in a year or so.

Edit: I must add that I am extraordinarily fussy about my OS configuration, it needs to look, act, and respond exactly how I want it to or I'm dissatisfied

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[–] sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago

Anon's on 4chan. He literally just has to go from v to g to have a treasure trove of information on how to not deal with this exact problem.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Got a new rog recently. The included bloatware, I think it was antivirus but I don't remember, made games (the thing it was designed for) basically unplayable. There would be random MASSIVE keyboard lag, like I would stop holding W and my character would keep running for several seconds. The mouse had no such issue so I could turn to mitigate, but fuck me it took a while to find the answer. And they're SHIPPING that shit.

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