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Switching to Linux was so much less effort than I expected, and so much easier than trying to unfuck a new Windows install (which essentially requires pirating an enterprise version to have a chance), and then still have all of your data stolen despite best efforts. So, yeah, thanks Windows 11.
(which essentially requires pirating an enterprise version to have a chance)
So true! I owe some of my Linux journey to the discomfort from the downgrade from Windows Enterprise at work to the (kind of shit) Windows Home, at home.
I was given a macbook at programming work and honestly, the battery life sold me on it.
And with that Steam Cube thing, I can't imagine anything Microsoft in my house.
Steam Cube thing
I saw someone call it the Valve GabeCube and I can't unsee it now, lol
GabeCube is what I'm calling it forever, now. That's great.
I don't think I'll get one (I have 2 Decks, a dock, and a gaming ex-Windows now CachyOS PC) but I'm excited for the controller. Couch play sucks without touchpads on so many games. Steam Input even makes games with massive numbers of keybinds work great; with nested radial menus, you can have hundreds of commands on 'em.
I love how these fuckers talk about the ability to "work anywhere" as if it were some kind of freedom. To me, freedom is shutting my work computer down at 4pm, leaving it on my desk at work, and going home - whether it is for the night, the weekend, or my vacation. I work at work and nowhere else; the only thing freer than that is not working at all.
I get it, but hear me out: My company offers to take "workation". For one week this year I worked from another country. I worked for around six hours a day (shorter than usual, because I used some overtime) and enjoyed my freetime in a warm and nice city. I went to museums and good restaurants after work. I did not use one day of my (more than average) holidays for that, but took another week off for only holiday directly after the workation. It was great only possible because I had the possibilty to work from anywhere outside the office.
But here comes the thing. I didn't need AI and didn't need Windows for that. It's possible for years already. Microsoft is - as everybody knows of course - trying to sell shit to people that they don't need and don't want.
Why not just do that every week? That's just called working remotely.
Sounds good to me, and i agree that AI adds no value to telework.
Do you ever feel pressured to be more available? That was my problem with telework. I’m salaried, so no overtime. I found my days kept getting longer and longer.
If you're stuck on windows, you should know, the new version of O&O ShutUp will help you delete copilot off your system.
Cheers.
Blue checkmarks fund Nazis. It’s these fuckheads pushing Ai slop onto us.
I'm one decent hard drive away from a full-blown Linux switch, but $60-$100 is $60-$100 since dual-boot is apparently suboptimal, which I can't abide.
reads just like the old web3 grifters
Agentic, I fucking hate this word.
It’s only meaning is to management, and is some kind of horseshit way of saying “less employees to pay”
Words for it already exist. Its whole purpose is marketing and AI fart huffing.
Agentic, I fucking hate this word.
It joins 'the ask' and 'the spend' and 'action this' as words people use to sound trendy and smart. It's the surest sign someone went from Used Cars to I.T sales in their career, and should be heard with similar mistrust.
If your peers use these - heck, if they use 'emails', pluralizing the mass noun - just laugh at them like you got their absurdist attempt to lampoon one of these people so they can learn how ridiculous they sound. Help your friends.
Since you’re ignoring me, here’s some bait: what’s your specific citation for your prescriptivist rule that “email” is a singular and plural noun by divine definition?
You really, unironically, say “I received 10 email today” and think it’s other people who sound stupid?
Exactly this. Used to work in for profit corporate offices and this was my experience for nearly two decades. The imbeciles trying to sound important used trendy corpo speak and got nothing else done timely or well.
Some other tech website did an article recently about how to unfuck windows as much as possible. Like four pages of tricks, registry edits, third party tools.
People in the comments were like "you know, Linux is free and is getting very user friendly."
People were mad. People really want to stick to windows.
No idea why. I'm running basic pop!_os and have no real complaints.
I mean, I'm pretty mad. Linux has been user friendly since Ubuntu
Switching to Linux requires a certain level of technical skill and patience that the majority of people don't have.
It's the same as the build-your-own-PC people. That's their hobby, so they don't count the years of experience, research, and knowledge that they've built up.
See also: recipe writers who don't include prep time in their time estimates.
Switching to Linux requires a certain level of technical skill and patience that the majority of people don’t have.
It does. However, it was a technical news website so I assumed the audience had a higher than average technical affinity. This seems to have been a bad assumption
That said, installing Linux is easier than people imagine. Most of the time you download the image and follow some short instructions.
Admittedly, the minority of the time you might have to troubleshoot.
It's just old people stuck to their old ways, kinda like gas car users. EVs are faster quicker and more powerful, less noisy and no combustion stink(especially when parking in ur home garage) as a bonus!
Almost all actual users hate this. Unfortunately, it is corporate customers that buy the majority of Windows licenses, and those C-levels gobble up that shit like there was no tomorrow…
i for one am very excited about this new "AI" pc idea. it will really help to streamline my job, where i spend 8 hours a day talking to Cortana™ and browsing LinkedIn™
Nice. That sounds like hell.
It also sounds like the worst cutscenes in Halo III, haha.
It’s beyond “nobody asked for this.” People are actively saying “this is bad, I want not this.”
it’s like Nigerian prince scam email – they don’t want you as a customer if you’re smart enough to recognize you’re the resource being extracted.
These days I only ever log into windows to play one game. And I put that game as the windows wallpaper so it sits as a reminder as the only one thing windows is required for.
If that game ever becomes Linux playable or I grow tired of it or it becomes obsolete I’m ridding myself of Microsoft for good. I will never even consider playing another game that will not play on Linux. Any game in my wish list that I found cannot be played on Linux is immediately tossed so I never have to touch windows again.
Everything else: work, all other games, dealing with my life stuff, projects: all fedora. FOSS rules. The transition was easier than I thought it was going to be. No one drive or any of that $hit for me. And I also get to keep my old server. <3
Same. Mine's League of Legends. The guilty pleasure, my huge red flag.
What's the game?
And pay for the privilege.
Leave Micro-Star International out of gnite