• 🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      223·
      1 year ago

      Didn’t check that far but it was a lot of generic posts from 2 users with similar names which could be summarised as “Windows bad” and “Linux good”, with some variations including windows programs. Checked their accounts and they appear utterly obsessed with whining about Windows.

      Like I get it. Windows sucks. Doesn’t mean I want my entire feed full of a kid spamming their vitriol for it.

      • sunnie@sopuli.xyz
        182·
        1 year ago

        if hating something is your entire personality i am not talking to you regardless of what that thing is

            • 🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              43·
              1 year ago

              It’s a pretty good game. Presentation of the story is just a bit of a mess because a member of the team that was previously responsible for writing, left.

              Neil Druckman certainly had challenges solo continuing a story that previously had a cowriter

              • AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca
                4·
                1 year ago

                Yeah, I don’t particularly enjoy the story of the game, both content wise or structurally, but I will still sing it’s praises if someone starts hating on it for LGBT reasons

            • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
              43·
              1 year ago

              From what I read, nothing’s wrong with the game. There is some queer things going on with a character and so the culture war queerphobic right wingers got on to it.

  • cooopsspace@infosec.pubEnglish
    297·
    1 year ago

    I mean I know people who are still trying to find bypasses to get around Microsoft and their online only strategy.

    If you’re still doing this, you.need to try Linux.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
      95·
      1 year ago

      I know people who are still trying to find bypasses so they can use their audio in Linux.

      Time for them to switch to Windows.

      • CeeBee@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Any distro that uses Pipewire (most at this point) is incredibly stable with the audio setup.

        PulseAudio was a bit rough at the beginning, but it got much better. But Pipewire at this point is hands down amazing.

      • gentooer@programming.dev
        4·
        1 year ago

        In the 10-ish years I use Linux, I’ve never had any sound issues. I really don’t get how people think this is still an issue.

      • cooopsspace@infosec.pubEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        Time to switch to a Linux distro that works. There’s plenty good ones out there, your people must be picking the shit ones… Or compiling their own and badly.

    • rastilin@kbin.social
      92·
      1 year ago

      Agreed. I’ve been slowly moving the machines onto nixOS, and I’m reformatting an older Mac for a neighbor on nixOS as well. On the livecd it runs impressively fast, but on OSX it’s so slow as to be unusable. Windows is now so actively hostile that it’s time to make the jump.

  • onlooker@lemmy.ml
    717·
    1 year ago

    Try to understand, not everyone likes windows. They require quite a bit of maintenance, are usually insecure and speaking personally, some setups just don’t look good. It’s why some people opt for skylights instead.

    • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
      223·
      1 year ago

      Honestly windows is so slow at this point, we just use door. Why waste all that energy and power just to get the thing off the ground when alternatives exist?

    • Sagrotan@lemmy.world
      166·
      1 year ago

      Windows is an anachronism. Since I even got my wife and her gaming PC on the light side with Garuda Linux, works like a charm. After that she wanted me to install that “cool blank desktop” I have on my work laptop on her business machine in the shop. Now she loves bspwm. Learning doesn’t make life harder per se, it’s fun.

  • Sagrotan@lemmy.world
    964·
    1 year ago

    Yep. It’s me. Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and savior, GNU/Linux?

  • rbesfe@lemmy.ca
    851·
    1 year ago

    Those bricks are laid incredibly poorly, look at all those gaps

  • CreateProblems@corndog.socialEnglish
    563·
    1 year ago

    This is hilarious.

    My husband runs our Lemmy instance, and he’s subscribed to the Linux community, which is one of the most active on Lemmy (I probably don’t need to tell you that.) I’m basically just here for memes and I ultimately blocked the Linux community because it was all over my feed. I’m a normie and I just don’t care about Linux whatsoever, not enough for every other post to be about it anyway.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
      251·
      1 year ago

      I enjoy Linux memes.

      But not when the only joke they can muster being “Other OS bad for [insert dumb false argument here]”

        • Neshura@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          See the problem is, and I’ve experienced this myself, you leave Windows when it has a set of issues that have been long running. Then years later you get into an argument or make a meme and Windows now actually fixed that issue without you noticing because, well you’re not using it anymore.

          Still would like some memes other than “hurr durr, Windows bad”, there’s plenty of memeable content within the Linux ecosystem (like every second app for a small niche ignoring XDG_HOME and just shitting the config files all over your home directory)

          • Kayn@dormi.zoneEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            I think the issue is that most Linux users aren’t technically proficient enough to understand and make actual Linux memes about things like XDG_HOME, so the best they can think of is “Windows bad”.

    • Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah it’s like a person who likes squid pizza and attempts to insert their love for the pizza every sentence they utter.

      Some of us just like a simple pineapple pizza. And we’re too deep into it you cannot change us without changing the very atoms that comprise our earthly bodies.

      • CreateProblems@corndog.socialEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Sorry to be clear, I am not saying Linux sucks. I just don’t have an opinion on desktop operating systems. And I was tired of every other post on my feed being about operating systems instead of the dumb internet pictures that I love and crave.

  • spudwart@spudwart.comEnglish
    447·
    1 year ago

    Okay, but windows has become alarmingly invasive and dumbed down.

    I don’t hate windows as much as I hate Microsoft.

    ReactOS is a cool project and I hope it goes somewhere.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
      1212·
      1 year ago

      Yes, Windows has become alarmingly invasive and dumbed down.

      But how difficult is it to use actual arguments to prove they did instead of pulling completely false ones out of your ass?

      I make fun of Windows search all the time because it deserves it.

      But I’m not going to make fun of Windows update because it doesn’t directly tell you what they changed. Since a single google search can give you the answer.

      Anyway, Linux memes should be about Linux, not Windows. It is almost like those Linuxians are jealous Windows has a ginormous market share while their respective distro does not.

      • ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
        1610·
        1 year ago

        What market share are you talking about?

        Overall Linux runs the world. So I am generally confused.

          • png@discuss.tchncs.de
            2010·
            1 year ago

            Then go and use any of the things you are using without linux.

            Lemmy? Hosted on a Linux server

            Almost any major website? Linux server

            Any other web service? Linux Server

            The Server infrastructure that surrounds your favourite Operating System? Guess what, Linux server

            • Nobsi@feddit.de
              12·
              1 year ago

              So you agree that it’s jealousy that the entire world uses windows and not linux? It’s the 23rd Year of the linux desktop in a row. “Uhhhhhh but my servers…” Nobody cares. Nobody wants to get rid of Debian and RHEL. Nobody wants to use them as a Desktop.

              • CeeBee@lemmy.world
                1·
                1 year ago

                Nobody wants to use them as a Desktop.

                Except for millions upon millions of users, right? Screw those guys because they aren’t the majority.

                • Nobsi@feddit.de
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  I dunno dude. 4 Billion People use computers and millions of users spread over several distributions is not a lot.
                  And with the amount of gatekeeping and arguing over what is and isnt the best i would also stay far away if i didnt administer servers. Even then i use windows most of the time.

          • ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
            71·
            1 year ago

            Did I stutter?

            Without Linux the whole world would litetally not run. I don’t fucking care what some consumers jack of on which OS. I care what runs literally our complete infrastructure.

            Which car does use Windows or Mac? Which super Computer does that? Which Important Server does that? None, literally.

            • Kayn@dormi.zoneEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Mentioning Windows’ market share really hit a nerve with you, didn’t it?

              I use Linux without worrying about whatever market shares anyone has, and I feel much happier that way.

              • ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
                11·
                1 year ago

                Yes, I wanted to go against his “we as Linux users are jealous about Windows because of marketshare” which I tried to defeat because I literally am not jealous for given reasons.

          • Neshura@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
            7·
            1 year ago

            The 30% of all operation systems, which only gets beaten by Android.

            funny you mention that, wanna know what you get if you look at the Kernel running underneath Android? Oh would you look at that, it’s actually Linux…

            I do agree on the weird obsession with hating windows but lack of market share is not the reason it happens, it’s probably more due to people leaving Windows in the first place because they were immensely unsatisfied with it (Unlike Windows or Mac there are very few Linux Pre-Built PCs out there so chances are any given Linux Desktop User actively decided on that choice) and are now just hung up and bashing on it.

    • rastilin@kbin.social
      14·
      1 year ago

      ReactOS is dead and will go nowhere.

      The reason I say this is that I’ve been following them for something like 15+ years by this point, and they haven’t made any perceptible progress in that time. They’re at exactly the same point now where they were 15 years ago.

  • N00b22@lemmy.mlEnglish
    89·
    1 year ago

    that’s why I have Linux into my list of blocked communities

  • Spliffman1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    610·
    1 year ago

    Most people I deal with don’t give a fuck about Linux lol I would guess most of them don’t even know what it is hahaha. People thinking about making a living, getting laid, paying rent, planning a vacation, worrying about a sick mom… Like regular life stuff… Poor bastards I guess if they don’t know about Linux 😂

  • Beowulf@unilem.org
    182·
    1 year ago

    I like the memes, but that’s it. I use Linux, sure, but I also have to use Windows for a few programs because WINE doesn’t work with said programs, and the alternatives aren’t the best

    With that being said, would I prefer Linux to be mainstream? Yes. Will it ever be? Probably not. Too many people just want something that works out of the box and don’t want to spend hours fixing some obscure bug.

    I am a nerd. Therefore, I am okay spending time working on my machine and making sure everything runs well. I have previously looked at an OS that doesn’t seem to work or is starting to have issues and completely swap to a different distro using a base I have used and know will work 100% of the time

    • SaintNewts@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      1 year ago

      Will it ever be? Probably not.

      [Android has entered the chat.]

      Yes. I know that’s not what you meant. You meant desktop. But then desktop is slightly less relevant than it was maybe 10 or 15 years ago

    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
      37·
      1 year ago

      My experience with Linux is following a guide and sudo apt-get update failing. Like step goddamn 2.

      Also some fucking around with machines at work trying to mount flash drives and the guide they gave us saying use sda1 but actually it’s sdb0 that works or some such bullshit.

      Oh and having to root chmod everything to even be able to touch it with SCP.

      • BCsven@lemmy.ca
        61·
        1 year ago

        Sda1 is always juat an example. if you already have sda hard drive then your flash drive becomes sdb, etc. But on some syatems it could even read hd0 1.2.etc But why isn’t your DE just automounting the media?

        • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
          21·
          1 year ago

          The main purpose is to run some proprietary bullshit so the Linux installs are pretty minimal. They gave us step by step guides to do things but it always ends up with me and Google.

          • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            Just struggled with this a few minutes ago actually. New instructions say mount /dev/sdb1/ /mnt should work.

            System yells at me for not specifying filetype. Google says -t auto should work. Also doesn’t. Tried typing in every filetype and nothing worked.

            • BCsven@lemmy.ca
              3·
              1 year ago

              Thats ome problem with “Linux”, there are many, and they can be slightly different base or not have certain packages installed

    • my_blackest_day@lemmy.world
      212·
      1 year ago

      I’m a dev and I already have a headache at my work. If I have to spend time to install a hundreds of dependencies on my personal computer if I want to do something I rather would kill myself. That’s why macOS is just a superior of all OS.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        MacOS is just a whole different set of problems. The coefficient of problems always tends toward 1.0

      • Beowulf@unilem.org
        2·
        1 year ago

        Just because a garden is walled doesn’t mean it’s better. It just means that you need specialty solutions instead of pre-baked solutions that are on the open market

        I agree that the UX is better on MacOS, but it’s because of the immense amount of hand-holdong