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Screw it, I’m installing Linux (www.theverge.com)
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[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (13 children)

In general:

W11: fire up office, oops wait, it wants to set itself as default and for some reason needs you to buy a one drive subscription for that. How about some copilot? Are you sure? How about we wrap it in edge? Oh, but you can install Libreoffice by all means, but it’s not going to be the default app right? RIGHT?!!!

Oh you want to save the file to your harddrive? Look, how do I put this,… there is no more harddrive.

Linux: type one line in the terminal and there you go. Write a novel if you want.

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 11 points 1 day ago

Ironic that now Linux is the more "just works" os.

[–] azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

It’s bad Windows gets so much bad press these days, the longer they stay in denial the better

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[–] nuko147@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Me after using the KDE: how the fuck Linux is better Windows than Windows?

They were supposed to focus on window managing, ITS IN THEIR FUCKING NAME. Instead you need extra things like Powertoys for basic functions that KDE has integrated.

[–] AldinTheMage@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 day ago

And then power toys shortcuts conflict with the standard shortcuts and requires a ton of fiddling and customizing configs. You know, the thing windows users always say is a reason they don't want to use linux.

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yus!

That was so my take too, in 2003.

I switched because of WinXP, that insane bloater chewing up resources I could have been using for my art tools if not for their squander on pointless shiny.

So then, in SuSe, with KDE, it had even better shiny, useful shiny, not pointless, and it didnt run 10x slower than 95/98/NT/2000, like XP did, but instead ran 10x faster!

There was no going back to being abused by M$ after seeing that.

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If we had fast windowing systems back then, why is modern KDE slower than XP?

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 day ago

KDE4. Plasma. The fattiest FOSS has to offer.

Worth looking at Trinity (KDE3 fork/continuation).

XFCE looks like it's trying to go from lightweight to fattiest some upgrades too. Still, very elegant, and you wont notice that on new beefy hardware. But on ancientware, ... best stick to LXDE, or even just openbox, or any other window manager, pretty much.

IceWM, calls itself a window manager, but it seems to cover all the main basics for a desktop environment feel.

There still be places to go to get the light, fast and shiny in FOSS, even if KDE went nuts around 15 years ago (whenever KDE4 was).

[–] LucidNightmare@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

KDE is the best desktop environment I've ever had the pleasure of using. So much better than Windows at everything I want out of my desktop!

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I still like Cinnamon better. To quote Jeremy Clarkson, "This is brilliant, but I like this."

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

“It came out of the box this way. I hate it but I paid good money for the device I own to tell me what to do!”

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 291 points 3 days ago (17 children)

BREAKING: Man decides to install Linux.

More details to come.

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[–] gergolippai@lemmy.world 59 points 2 days ago (3 children)

"Tech journalists" installing linux in 2025 like it's this hot new tech is not exactly the early adoptership I'd expect from them :)

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (6 children)

For ~97% of the computer using population it is a hot new tech.

Compared to the state of consumer-grade Linux 5 years ago to today, it's absolutely a hot new tech.

One cannot understate the impact that the Steam Deck and Proton had on driving consumer-friendly features to Linux simply from the demand of an exploding user base.

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[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 59 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Every time anyone rejects Microsoft's shitty bloatware/spyware it's a win. I just converted a few months ago. Win11 is going to push more and more people away.

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[–] Integrate777@discuss.online 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah, really do it ok? Not only are you helping yourself, you're helping everyone by shoving it up the clueless execs at microsoft who still have no idea why people dislike their stupid spy AI thingy.

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