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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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[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 3 points 44 minutes 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.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 1 points 9 minutes 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.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 3 points 48 minutes ago (1 children)

Just because of your rant windows will add a fourth settings menu, also with different design, it will blend award winning design of modern tile settings menu and registry editor power via ai commands changing registry keys from futuristic copilot enabled design

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 2 points 12 minutes ago

That sounds like an utterly broken nightmare.

Please do not give them any more bad ideas.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 4 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

People who crap their dacks when they see *nix are probably not using the command prompt tbf. That said I would love to see a greater uptake of Linux, I'm half considering switching over with my laptop but I mostly use it for gaming and I (1) don't know just how many of my games work with WINE/proton (never used either) and (2) don't know how I would go about restoring my windows install if it goes south. Not really a show stopper. I have a legit license so obviously it's doable, plus my closest friend works as a sysadmin and is in the final year of his degree in computer science. But it has no removable drive which would be a first for me to install a new os on, and I don't want to have to sort it out, y'know? I'm confident installing Linux from USB but I don't know how it works with windows.

Once I'm back in the workforce I may put together a cheap, small form factor PC to run Linux on and get my confidence back with it - it must've been over a decade since I last used it in anger...

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 1 points 33 minutes ago

I switched to Linux mint last year and haven't had much problems when gaming. Every game I've tried is compatible with proton or wine, the only complication I've had is modding Fallout 4 being a bit more complicated, but that works as well. I highly recommend switching, especially since Linux doesn't carry bloatware and spyware owned by Microsoft

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago

Eh, you'd be surprised who you'll meet in certain "tech nerd" circles. Not a lot of people who are comfortable with Windows command prompt and other advanced tools, but shit a brick when they see *nix or just don't like it for reasons even they can't really articulate, but they do exist.

[–] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Your laptop's storage isn't removable??

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 5 points 2 hours ago

There are laptops with soldered storage, not as common as soldered RAM but they're out there.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 4 points 3 hours ago

Well... No, not really. It's an SSD. I'm not replacing it if I can help it. No optical drive or equivalent.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 20 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

One of the things that I've slowly gotten more and more irritated about to the point that now it absolutely pisses me off is the way these apps make their advanced markov chains have a persona and pretend to be a person.

The way they use pronouns "I" and "my" "me" drives me mad. It is an APP. It should not be pretending to be a person at all. This gimmick angers me, I tell the stupid thing not to do it every time I feel like torturing myself by using one.

I feel considerably better when it behaves like an app should behave and doesn't pretend it is a person or individual.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

This, so much. I do not need software that pretends to be a human! Even if it wasn't worse than useless, I'd still hate that part. I do not talk to computers and I do not want the computers to talk to me. It's creepy.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Microsoft Fans

I'm surprised they exist

[–] SwagliacciTheBadClown@hexbear.net 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I know my brother had at least bought into the prestige at one point when he joined as an engineer team there; and believe it or not that all evaporated fairly quickly after starting lol. And that was before they started forcing engineers to use “AI” for coding - can’t imagine that’s made things better

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Probably just middle managers of large companies that are entirely dependent on Microsoft products, I can't imagine any end user being at all enthusiastic about a Microsoft product.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 4 points 3 hours ago

I think you should meet my dad. At least, he used to be really enthusiastic about most stuff Microslop made. I think he's less extreme about it now, but he definitely doesn't hate them with a burning passion or have the other typical end user attitude of apathy.

[–] EatPotatoes@hexbear.net 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] SwagliacciTheBadClown@hexbear.net 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Eventually people who have no clue about computers will hear about and try Linux, if Windows keeps becoming more and more unusable and unstable.

crush it me. I’ve been too busy to get it started - but have been setting up an older enterprise computer as a “sandbox” to learn how to use a different OS. Shouldn’t be too hard though- I once figured out how to print “Hello World”. Fr though I wish I was better with coding- I’ve done a decent amount of work with SQL, various Python applications, R, matlab, Arcade, Visual Basic, etc but somehow have managed to glean few useable skills from those experiences sans-shrug

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SwagliacciTheBadClown@hexbear.net 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 2 points 14 minutes ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago)

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.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Terminals are how you look like a 1337 h4xx0r in front of friends and family.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 4 points 5 hours ago

I love 'em in theory!

In practice, they're kind of scary, I have no idea how to find out how to use it, and of the things I do have some idea how to do, I can do faster with a graphical tool I'm more familiar with.

[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 13 points 9 hours ago

Windows 14 is just an injection

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 21 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

If I ever see any copilot bullshit in my operating system, I'm literally going on a killing spree

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 13 points 8 hours ago

Copilot would probably egg you on too

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 10 points 9 hours ago

Well, there's one surefire way to avoid it. Don't use any Microslop products.

But yeah, it'd be nice if they'd just make a functional and uncluttered OS and actually try to compete in that market instead of shooting themselves in the foot and coasting on enterprise and "it came with my prebuilt computer".

[–] regul@hexbear.net 16 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Number of people who are terrified of a *nix terminal but who are willing and able to use the windows command line and edit their registry is 0.

You have invented a person to get mad at, I'm pretty sure.

[–] ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 8 hours ago

A friend of mine who is new to pc gaming was afraid to download a mod from nexus... So I think it's plausible there are people like that out there

[–] Hermes@hexbear.net 28 points 10 hours ago (7 children)

You have invented a person to get mad at, I'm pretty sure.

did-i-miss-a-page

Have you never interacted with people who use microsoft or apple products?

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[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 9 points 9 hours ago

These people do exist. I have met them. I have argued with them. I know someone well who is probably that person, but to find out would reveal to them that I know anything at all about computers and would lead to them attempting to bait me into having arguments that are counterproductive and wasteful and therefore I don't wish to start them.

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