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[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 67 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Every time I'm forced to use Windows it feels like I'm being punished.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It sounds so dramatic and I know people roll their eyes when I say things like that, but it's absolutely true.

The deeper I've gone with Linux over the years the more Windows seems (aside from the obvious privacy concerns and generally being trash corporate citizens) like an intentionally convoluted and overcomplicated mess.

[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Win11 is like 30% ai code iirc

[–] NotProLemmy@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Just put it in a VM. Keep it contained.

[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

Windows 10 requiring sign in only made me start using Tiny10 but even then I figured if end of life was happening, I may as well settle into using my favourite distribution. I love the feeling of Fedora but I have to use Arch for its incorporation of Deepin stuff.

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

More like being molested.

[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago (3 children)

After a day at work, forced to use mac, I just have to start my linux machine, even if I do not have anything to do on it, just to feel sane again.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

First thing I noticed about this photo is that she's holding her hair away from the ground while putting her mouth right on it. I'm not sure why but that seems funny to me.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

"I don't care if I get dirt in my mouth, but I better not get it in my hair."

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I use windows at work. even WSL doesn't make it great....

Half the time, we dont even deploy to windows boxes. They are too expensive haha. Its all Linux cause they are much cheaper and just as powerful. But mostly the cheaper angle. Still wont let us use Linux for development work though...

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

That's so weird, tons of people use Linux for dev. Do they say why you can't?

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

According to one of our adjuncts: "Windows just works for dev, why are we teaching Linux at all?"

He didn't last.

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[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Genuinely, the more I use Linux the more slow and clunky windows feels. Also I'm a power user, when you install custom apps on windows it FEELS bloated, it's like "you didn't do this the WINDOWS way, so it's clunky" meanwhile on Linux it's like "yeah man it's open just plug in whatever" and it JUST WORKS

[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't matter if you did do it the windows way, honestly. Anything of any scale programmed in .NET has runtime reflection scattered everywhere, and that shit adds up.

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[–] bskm@feddit.nu 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Windows has it's upsides imo. My personal problem is that I'm so bad at using it.... Set static IP? Traverse down four different GUI applications all the way back to Windows NT -_-

[–] Pirate@feddit.org 16 points 2 months ago

No! Don't take the fall for what Windows forces you to do. Creating a billion GUI menus for users to get through before reaching what they really want to reach was Microsoft's choice, not yours.

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[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had to click 4 times over 90 seconds on "sleep" on my work laptop windows 11 machine today before it actually did anything.

A meme can't be more right.

[–] Pirate@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago

That's the AI code at work there.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

bought one of the new snapdragon x elite laptops recently. obviously it came with windows 11 and i had to briefly use it to shrink the boot partition and disable bitlocker so i could install the ubuntu concept image on it.

The amount of advertising i was subjected to in that time was infuriating. not to mention the frankly arduous setup wizard.

Even with the slight bugginess of a "concept image" OS, the user experience is SOOOO much better than shitty horrible windows.

Sent from my HP OmniBook running NOT windows

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[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can't deal with that picture of Katty Perry kissing dirt.

[–] arthur@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 months ago

"I kissed some dirt and I like it..." xD

[–] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

10 years ago I wouldn't have imagined this, but this is me every time I have to use Windows (e.g., occasionally for work) or help someone else with it.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

Same. I just switched a few months back. My laptop runs cool and quiet on Linux. When I need to boot to Windows, I hear that poor cooling fan laboring even when Windows is idle, plus everything is much slower and poorly organized. Why does my context menu have 14 selections?! Going back to Linux feels like coming home.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Performative and dirt-on-lips pilled.

I use arch btw.

[–] atlien51@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

BRO is that Katy Perry after her space trip, I haven’t heard anything about that in a hot minute

[–] plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 months ago

Yeah that seems about right. Bunch of things that I wish were better but I am not going back. When I absolutely must there's a VM for that.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

>Be me
>Build new PC
>"Maybe I'll try out Linux. "
>Fairly popular 2 year old Motherboard
>Integrated WiFi Module no drivers available
>Integrated Bluetooth Module no drivers available
>No support for $170 Sound Card
>4 hours of troubleshooting later
>Linux more bloated with dependencies and packages from troubleshooting than your grandmas browser extensions
>"Fuck this"
>Nuke Partition
>Install Windows
>Shit instantly just works
>Use Linux partition drive for backups

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

did you try and use Arch?

i've only ever had to fuck around with wifi drivers when installing Arch

Everytime i've installed ubuntu on a laptop it's worked fine out of the box, including on the same laptop i had to fuck around with drivers on for Arch

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I love Arch, but it is not for beginners. WiFi and Bluetooth are both sketchy. Or, at least, they used to be.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago

i settled on Manjaro in the end for my desktop PCs. it has the flexibility of Arch including use of the AUR but i don't have to put much effort into setting it up

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[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Could a similar meme be made between distributions?

[–] vort3@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Arch users switching back to Arch after 10 minutes of using Ubuntu:

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Alternatively:

Ubuntu users switching back to Ubuntu after using Arch for ten minutes

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Me when coming back to a system without NetworkManager

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[–] ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Anyone after trying Ubuntu. Anyone after trying a tiling manager.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

For me, it's after trying a non tiling WM. I'm too deep into i3 (now Sway) + tmux.

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[–] CodeBlooded@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

Just came back to Debian on my gaming rig after a 4 year hiatus, I’ve missed it.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I find it hard to understand how people are able to kiss the ground without the thought getting in their mind that - someone probably spat/pissed in that place not too long ago.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 5 points 2 months ago

This was in the desert in texas wasn't it?

good chance nobody has been in that particular spot for a long time

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

If they aren't worried about dirt, I doubt that they're gonna be worried about spit or piss.

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