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      • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        7 hours ago

        lmao, what in the world?

        They really made a whole community about hating Linux, and no Linux users are allowed there either.

        They talk about how “we do this and that,” but it’s just a single person posting and that same single person moderating.

        Almost every post has the single up vote and many down votes, I guess from people dropping by when the investigate who they’ve been talking to.

        And the rules… 🤦‍♂️

      • Scott@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        171·
        14 hours ago

        Wow they made their ENTIRE identity on the fediverse just hating Linux, what a degenerate

  • throwaway403@programming.devEnglish
    323·
    16 hours ago

    Can’t we focus on why/how Linux rocks instead?

    I’m not at all interested to be regarded as a Linux user just because “Windows is bad”. It reminds me of all the ex-<insert religion/ideology>-crowd that somehow continues to identify themselves by their past affiliations. I don’t think that’s a healthy place to be in.

    • irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      4·
      13 hours ago

      Truthfully, I don’t hate windows that much. I do use Linux because my hardware is unreasonably old, and it’s much easier for dev stuff. Windows is honestly usable for me after fiddling with a few settings

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        11 hours ago

        Windows user since… windows existed, and I still use Windows (10, LTSC IoT) on my game machines and as a dual boot on most machines I have. I refuse to ever touch 11, and 10 home is a nightmare right now. With zero exaggeration, windows is now fully spyware, with built-in abilities to easily become ransomware to any standard user. It’s WILD how horrible it’s gotten.

        Gotta say though, 10 LTSC IoT is still pretty solid. Still need to debloat (thank you OOSU!) and change all sorts of settings with gpedit, registry tweaks, OpenShell, and various other stuff which sucks… but hey. It looks like windows 7 now, performs better than 7, and has all of the bullshit stripped out.

        Wish it was easier for your average user to do it that way, but you can’t even buy a computer off the shelf and use it without making a Microsoft account now! Bonkers.

        Bless Linux for being.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    16 hours ago

    I’m fine with windows. Means I can have multiple things open at once compares to using everything in full screen.

  • harc@szmer.infoEnglish
    14·
    16 hours ago

    Listen, no one ever has discussion recommending operating systems to other people. Also; Debian, obviously.

    • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
      5·
      14 hours ago

      I sometimes have conversations about recommending operating systems with myself in the shower.

    • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
      7·
      15 hours ago

      I understand this is a joke, but anyone who uses computers professionally (digital artists, authors, programmers, etc.) likely has an opinion on that. If their computer suddenly started running Windows 13, they would likely have things to say about the changes that made to their workflow.

      • harc@szmer.infoEnglish
        4·
        15 hours ago

        Peter Griffin here; that’s exactly why my last comment seems to contradict itself. I’m ready to straight up murder anyone attempting to shift my workflow patterns by a pixel.

        /s omewhat

  • hcf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    16 hours ago

    I like that I don’t have to update anything on Linux.

    I should—and I do—but I don’t have to worry that every time I walk away something else has auto-updated (or decided to stop working unless I agree to update it).

    It didn’t used to be such a battle just to get your PC to stop doing things for its sake rather than for yours.

    Linux also doesn’t quietly “queue-up” background updates that incrementally slow the machine down to the point where you have to restart it to apply the changes to free up all the garbage temp files stored just to stage Copilot updates or some such nonsense.

    • PlasticExistence@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      13 hours ago

      I booted up a 16 year old laptop the other day to use the disc drive on it. It had Linux Mint 16.04 installed on it, hasn’t been used or updated in years.

      And it just worked. I got what I needed out of the disc drive without having to negotiate anything with my operating system first.

      It was glorious!

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    5·
    16 hours ago

    I like the windows bad memes as much as any linux user but there is a lot of technical stuff thats cool about windows. I enjoy learning about how things are done in linux and windows and it’s interesting to see the differences in implementation and philosophy.