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Good ol' CS flashbang PTSD.
Good old Flash of Unstyled Content.
That’s some software gore.
How does that even get shipped?
Written by Copilot and passes the tests also written by Copilot.
Guess Explorer is now a webapp too?
I hate the little animations everywhere. Luckily I no longer need to use windows.
Just tried. Yep it does do that...
The corrupt oligopolists have completely given up on QA; why would they bother when they don't feel any real competitive pressure.
AFAIK, this has been happening as far back as Windows 8. I believe they had a giant pool of physical PCs (laptops, pre-builts and various popular component combinations for desktop) that they physically tested updates on, but they scrapped all of it because they know they don't need to worry about competition.
The corrupt oligopolists have completely given up on QA
They put “make sure there are no bugs” into their copilot prompt, what else do you want from them?! /s
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Good riddance Windows die in a fire. I'm glad they're owning up to having an unmainatable 20 year old pile of spaghetti code and are giving up. Makes it die faster.
i used to be a windows guy. discovered arch linux and it's not enough. i wanna do hardcore shit so i'm going kali
Kali is not for actual every day use.
You can install all of its included tools on whatever distro you want.
gotcha! thank u, sir/ma'am/nb. which distro would you recommend?
distro barely matters beyond how you get the packages.
there's a reason arch is popular, it can be whatever you want it to be.
tbh, it sounds like you don't have a great understanding of Linux (not an attack!) so I would definitely stay away from Kali, and other distros like that.
stick with Arch if you're confident you can maintain it, or if you want to have a system which you don't have to poke at Fedora is a great option
Is it possible to create a shim to make keyboard shortcuts act like macOS? I don’t think I can live with ctrl+shift+c when command/super is right there.
Actually I kinda want to throw almost all the desktop/gui conventions for Linux out and do my own thing.
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Arch is a pretty good one if you want to control and tinker. I have personally found it to be very reliable over the years, and the AUR is exceptionally powerful (although you NEED to review your PKGBUILDs, there's nothing stopping someone from putting malware on the AUR again). The packaging format is so simple and easy that I actually build a few performance-critical packages locally so I can tweak compiler flags (gimmie that -march native).
Nix is cool and kinda crazy, but honestly? I'd hold off until you're comfortable with Arch. Same with Gentoo.
Like those Google Chrome ones back then
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Other hardcore options include Gentoo or just going Linux from scratch.
I thought the "hardcorer" alternative to Arch was LFS
Not if you are a 1337 H4x0r like the badass you're answering to.
i'm new to this shit (started arch yesterday) so i dunno
i use my macOS terminal all fucking day so i know my way around a linux interface, it's more or less the same shit (macOS uses zsh and linux uses bash...the syntaxes are almost identical, if you know one, you know the other)
Nice to know you're enjoying Linux :P
I think that later on in your adventure, you'll notice that you don't actually need a distro that's hard to maintain in order to do the hardcore stuff.
Going back to more tame distros (Mint, Debian, Fedora, Solus) may actually suit you better, even for said tasks.
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What kind of "hardcore shit" are you planning to do with your computer? 😅
it was a comedic exaggeration. i'm interested in cybersecurity
I understood the exaggeration part, just not the specifics 😁 Alright, cool
Win 11 is one of the 'bad' releases for sure (cf ME, Vista, 8 vs XP, 7, possibly 10)
Beyond the title, Louis eloquently talks about this dynamic here:
i could make a mean comment, but i recently switched from mint to ultramarine kde and i could swear it's buggier than w11. literally every time i look at it wrong i need to reboot.
I have experience in KDE being a bit buggy too. It's kinda crazy how powerful it is, but I guess more "moving parts" means more breakage.
After a while, I moved away from KDE.
In fairness, it's been more stable for me than Windows.
I haven't used KDE Plasma since Plasma 6 came out, though. I've heard people say it's a lot less janky, so maybe my experience is no longer the case. Nowadays the only interaction I have with KDE is the 0.1% of the time my steam deck spends in desktop mode while I'm updating stardew valley mods.
I've had very few problems with KDE Plasma (on Fedora) since I swapped to it like a year ago. Discover is being weird every now and then, but I mostly use dnf directly anyways.
every time i open my computer i have the tray filled with sad face emojis because discover crashed. then it will not open anymore but the sad emojis still reappear
Have you tried launching Discover through the terminal? You might get some helpful logs (especially if it's immediately segfaulting, that means it's a known bug with a fix!)
yes i have launched it from terminal. it only launches with sudo, it works completely normally then. funny that it nags that it's unnecessary to run it with sudo. without sudo it's just silent, nothing appears in terminal.
there's also 4 updates always available, but they keep coming back after restarting discover. sometimes it gives an error complaining about color schemes, wallpapers, cursors etc. even if I remove everything i downloaded...
Huh, strange…
I also find KDE to be a real mixed bag. Every time I have tried it, thinking "maybe it got better", it has ranged from being a bit buggy to "holy shit this is well broken". I may just have been really unlucky but I have been burned too many times and now avoid it altogether.
I'd love to recommend the file pilot the file explorer. It isn't the most feature complete (it's still on beta) but just the sheer amount of time you gain by it's search tooling is just astonishing.
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