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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.

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[โ€“] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I switched to Debian (with KDE) from Windows 10 (me upgrading my pc screwed something up somehow and was unable to actually get 11) and it seems like 90% of the things preventing me from committing to switching to Linux are now fixed.

Plus it looks great. Windows on my PC has its days numbered, until I finish transferring all my stuff from one drive to the other.

[โ€“] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 4 points 1 hour ago

It's pretty good, huh?

Soon enough you'll be getting the distrohopping bug... Just remember, most of the time, you don't want or need a new distro, you just want a new DE (and you don't need it, you just want it). I've had to remind myself of that a few times.