• Ricky Rigatoni@piefed.zipEnglish
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    11 days ago

    My favorite thing is going onto the community for a game that explicitly supports linux with a problem just to have a bunch of replies to install windows from random chuds.

    • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      11 days ago

      It happens when MS does something that annoys their userbase. Then Linux nerds jump in and tell how much Linux is better.

    • Bonje@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      Yes. Because we want native support from apps. Windows has the market share to not care. Linux is getting there but is nowhere near to even macOS.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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      11 days ago

      That’s okay because unlike Windows, Linux isn’t guilty of market capture, adware, spyware, bloat, and any number of other things that are wrong with windows.

    • yesman@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      That’s not true. Linux users do this waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than Microslop users. Microslop has billions of users, but fewer than 20 fanboys, worldwide.

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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        11 days ago

        Used and supported Windows for over 30 years at this point. I’ve NEVER been a fan, and started looking into Linux back in '99. It wasn’t ready back then, but two decades later and it seems like Linux does everything except anti-cheat, which I have no use for, better than Windows ever did.

        • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          11 days ago

          … I worked for Microsoft.

          … during the time they rolled out Win8, by dogfooding it through every employee and contractor.

          I don’t know anyone that hates Microsoft and Windows more than I do.

            • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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              11 days ago

              Agreed, peaked at 7.

              And its been literally all downhill from there.

              I actually could not believe what was happening, when they rolled out 8 on us.

              “We’ve removed… the windows… from Windows.”

              Saying that outloud made my boss very angry.

              We spent a month pleading to let us go back to 7, to use some kind of standard, non tablet UI.

              For a month they told is that didn’t exist in 8, the UI was all totally new and redesigned from the ground up, and no we can’t go back to 7.

              But, they were lying, of course. There was a sequence you could do to override the new UI that had indeed been slapdashed over 7’s UI, to go back to 7’s UI.

              (Where 7’s UI is modified XP UI, which is modified 98 UI… etc)

              We figured it out, they’d patch it to not work, some other email chain would figure out some other override, they’d patch that out.

              After about a month of that they actually admitted that the 7 UI was indeed still there and was not just some kind of emergency fall back mode.

              Some months later, 8.1 is basically just them making the 7 UI mode fully work.

              Again, I literally could not believe how stupid this all was, to the point of sometimes literally dissociating.

          • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
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            10 days ago

            I used to be sysadmin for a uni with a citrix farm. I may have a good shot at taking that crown.

          • adarza@piefed.caEnglish
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            11 days ago

            i’ve run across some people around here who i would never have guessed knew about linux… and not only did they know–they ran it. and yea, more than one was ‘i use arch btw’.

  • wpb@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I genuinely have never seen this take. Sometimes someone shares something like “I tried it out and it wasn’t quite for me”, and that’s about as vitriolic as it get. And even that’s rare.

    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
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      10 days ago

      I see you have not been graced by madthumbs and the linuxsucks community. It’s so hilariously stupid I’ve got it blocked so I can’t link, but that should be enough to find it if you like.

  • nyctre@piefed.socialEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Fastest save of my life. Applies to so many things too. I never understood the appeal of showing up just to say negative things. I’m guessing it’s some need to drag people down to your sad level or something but it’s not something I can understand.

    • Sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
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      11 days ago

      You ever see one of those videos of a guy sitting alone in his truck, filming himself talking about something that’s bothering him even though nobody asked (or cares)? Same thing. They feel like nobody is listening to them and it just burns them up inside, and it fuels their bottomless sense of resentment.

      • nyctre@piefed.socialEnglish
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        11 days ago

        Huh… I never thought of it that way. And I can see how they’re similar but I feel they’re different still mostly because these are usually trolls or just idiots that come to complain, whereas those people usually post on fb/utube/etc. where they’re easier to ignore. Feels less targeted.

  • Vespair@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Nah, as a Windows user on the topic of Linux here in the fediverse I’ll be totally honest: I mostly just feel like I’m looking at and a bit wishing I was smart and savvy and motivated enough to be one of the cool kids, but after my last disastrous attempt at switching (because apparently my video card just isn’t supported I guess? whatever, I’m not looking for tech support here) I’m just happy enough to be at the cool punk party instead of predatory frat party (reddit, twitter, take your pick of corporate shithole) where I’m likely to get roofied.

      • Vespair@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        10 days ago

        PC, ASRock Z370 Taichi mb with NVidia GTX 1080TI card and 32GB RAM.

        Last time I tried install disastrously Lemmy Linux wizards told me that card isnt supported for some reason 🤷

        • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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          10 days ago

          I had a much older nvidia card and just had to install the older drivers.

          It was with OpenSUSE which has a repo maintained by NVidia directly, and they had generation drivers G03 , G04, G05 etc.

          But I did find that while distro hopping that no all linuxes are equal for hardware support. I had a laptop with a bios bug that would kill Debian based installs, but work fine with fedora or opensuse, and also fine with nixOS. Those distros acknowledge the bug and did a work around.

          So if you have interest again, its worth shopping around sometimes.

    • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Trying to switch was your problem. Linux is not like Windows or Apple. There’s no marketing department trying to manipulate any brand loyalty. It’s just a tool, and one that has been developed organically to fit in your life as much as you want it. Unlike Windows, Linux does not try to take over your whole computer, it can easily coexist with other systems in a variety of ways whether dual-booting, vms, or live distros.

      I like to keep a distro on a usb stick ready wherever I go, in case I ever have to use somebody else’s computer, for instance.

      Once accustomed to using an operating system that’s actually trustworthy, any time spent with the other big two feels like being violated. Windows is best kept minimized and quarantined.

    • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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      10 days ago

      I think that the motivation is the real key point here.

      You could be the best technical person but if you are not motivated, it won’t happen. And that’s fine. When the motivation will be there, Linux nerds will be there to help you.

    • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Mint gets tossed around because it’s pretty forgiving. It just shits me i have to rewrite udev for usb key removal. Its the 21st fucking century, no one “dismounts” usb any more

      Kubuntu is another one that just works. Hubs hasn’t has problems and he’s definitely not hardware wired

      • Anti_Iridium@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 days ago

        +1 for Kubuntu just working. I put my grandpa on it and I actually had someone I support for IT install it on their personal computer because they were getting sick and tired of windows.

        There is some fuckery I’m not a fan of, but the user will probably just be oblivious+happy it just works.

      • Vespair@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        10 days ago

        When I muster up the courage again, Mint is probably the distro I’ll try. I’d tried Pop!_OS because I’d read that it’s very superficially Windows-like as an easing in method, but I think the larger install base of Mint (and thus docs, support, etc) makes it the more appealing choice next go round, if ever that day comes.

        • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          10 days ago

          I got thrown in the deep end professionally with slackware years ago and i personally think pop is satans taint, so don’t feel bad.

          Been playing with mint on media server builds, works pretty well (apart from aforementioned usb caching), just adjusting to the flatpak sandboxing. Also works well with retroarch and my 8bitdos but i haven’t fired up the n64 emu yet.

          Daily driver is kubuntu, the biggest issue with both is if you have a mixed os system - the ol “won’t network browse or auth as guest on a win machine share” unless you use cifs.

          • Vespair@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            10 days ago

            This feels like a very friendly and supporting comment, so I appreciate it, but I’m not gonna lie, about half of what you said may as well be Korean to me it’s so unfamiliar.

            • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
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              10 days ago

              All G :)

              Flatpaks is a software control architecture. So instead of having files and executables able to talk to each other across the OS all willy nilly they’re kept in little pens. This means the file locations change from what you automatically go to look for

              8bitdos are retro feel wireless controllers, retroarch is an emulation software package for playing old console games on a pc. I haven’t tested how the nintendo 64 emulator (notoriously hardcore) runs on mint yet.

              Daily driver is my default go to pc to use. I run kubuntu on that. If you have windows-based servers or pcs that you’re gonna mix with linux, kubuntu and mint have issues browsing to windows file shares with their default network browsers. You need to use what’s called “cifs” instead, plenty of documentation if you need to poke about.

              • Vespair@lemmy.zipEnglish
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                10 days ago

                8bitdos are retro feel wireless controllers, retroarch is an emulation software package for playing old console games on a pc. I haven’t tested how the nintendo 64 emulator (notoriously hardcore) runs on mint yet.

                This was the part I knew 😜 On my 3rd 8bitdo controller I think and been emulating games forever. The rest was legitimately foreign to me though, thank you

                • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
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                  10 days ago

                  I fucking love 8bitdos. We have some for the retroarch, and then ones for legitimate systems - the SNES and the Sega Megadrive. I’m just salty I was never able to get my hands on their n64 controllers before they got slapped with copyright.

    • Bluewing@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      It’s Ok. You don’t need to like Linux. (Evil villain accent slips out)-- You vill use Linux! Und you vill like it! Even if you don’t like it. Ooops! Sorry! That just slipped out somehow.

      An OS is a tool no more, nothing less. Use what you like and like what you use! And if you decide to try Linux again some day in the future, great! If not, that’s great also!

    • pipes@sh.itjust.works
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      10 days ago

      Don’t despair, Vespair,

      I like your vibe btw;

      Being on the penguin side,

      having a sharper mind,

      does not garantee.

      Let me assure thee,

      for plenty of us,

      are plenty dumb.

    • Dvixen@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      I put off the switch for ages due to similar reasons, tried once that failed horribly. Later had a motherboard failure and Microsoft showed their whole arse. Reactivated the dual boot, channeled my inner old woman energy, solved the video issue and have been happily tinkering with the smaller issues as they come up. Still playing whack a mole, but now I’m getting things the way I want them, instead of disabling things I’m being told I want by some corporate nutcase.

      And hilariously, I am spending less time maintaining Linux than I did for Windows.

    • binarytobis@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      I was prepared to go through hell when I switched recently, since Windows was making me so mad. Everyone told me my graphics card wouldn’t work, gaming would be hard, etc. Then Mint just worked. 🤷

      I did have to troubleshoot why my speakers were muted on startup, but it was worth it. Oh, and volume up defaults to 5% instead of the standard 2%, that took some fixing. Games just work, though.

  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    The hypocrisy! “Linux bros” are constantly shutting all over Mac and Windows, even more than they shit all over every flavor of *nix that isn’t their preferred flavor.

  • Godric@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    The lack of awareness from Linux nerds who think this is perfectly on-brand, I’m dying XD

  • [object Object]@lemmy.ca
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    11 days ago

    Linux is pretty nice.

    I have my issues with it, but they’re more on the UI side of things.

    I love nixos, I really like before silver blue, and I’m a huge fan of podman — it feels like all the right compromises.