I hate Windows. I hate Microslop. I've hated them forever. Not using Windows helps, but I still have to deal with the consequences of everyone else using it!
What I hate most is people absolutely terrified of a *nix terminal, while willing to work around Windows problems via command prompt or messing with the goddamn fucking registry, which is just bloody ridiculous, why not just use fucking config files... but that's a rant for another time - and people looking at this kind of chatbot interface like cutting edge modern technology when it's actually just a CLI that doesn't fucking work. We had these at the dawn of personal computing, except that those ones worked and gave the same response to the same command every time! Look, I don't like using a terminal either, but at least be honest and consistent about it, people.
Honestly so excited about this for a corporate drone perspective as we play cat and mouse to lock people out of copilot and others. New vibe coded updates seem to have some spectacular failure every patch Tuesday. The computer has suddenly started lieing and it's microsoft's fault.
Why am I excited? because this system is becoming untenable and doing the fuckers unbelievable reputational damage. The best is part how Microsoft will never backdown from this madness. I don't think it's the terminals that scare people but change does. Microsoft is forcing that change relentlessly on something their livlihood relies on. The selling point there is that you can run the same version of rocky linux for 10 years.
Let's be real too. Your relatives aren't going to be buying new hardware. Very few of us are going to afford it now. They are going to be amazed how fast and efficient even a KDE desktop is and it's going to give them fuzzy memories of Windows 7.
KDE's neat, but I like Cinnamon myself. Good warm fuzzy Windows XP memories. Especially with an actual Windows XP theme. ; ) (The secret's in changing the system sounds out for some of the default Windows XP ones. That's what really makes the warm fuzzy nostalgia hit, more than the right shades of blue and green and visual bits being just right.)
Yeah, that's about what I've been thinking. Eventually people who have no clue about computers will hear about and try Linux, if Windows keeps becoming more and more unusable and unstable. Because Linux might be a little weird, but good old Debian is unbeatable for stability. And at a certain point, all people want is an Internet and office software machine that doesn't crash daily and doesn't get a new wheel-of-slop-and-broken-features update every week.
I mean, that's me too. I'm definitely not your stereotypical Linux nerd, but I, essentially, tried it out in anger and just kinda realised how much I truly hate Windows and that I don't have to put up with it and that feels great.
I assumed everyone else was born with the knowledge but me lol. I’ve been steadily switching to all FOSS programs which is already a nice change from MS office. And like I said, with my limited experience I at least somewhat understand how computers work. So, agreed, it’s a matter of applying that annoyance in a productive way!
I don’t own thigh high socks - but maybe if I pull on a pair of soccer socks extra high it’ll buff my programming skills
I don't own any programming socks either... or the matching cat ears.
I do have a set of Tigger ears, though!
But I don't know if they buff my computer skills or if they just make me feel more like a little kid again and thus less scared of breaking something.