• lustyargonian@lemm.ee
    3·
    8 months ago

    I met a vegan who uses vim and arch linux. I’m that guy. I use vim and arch linux, and I’m a vegan.

  • Rolling Resistance@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 months ago

    My workplace has this common braindead policy where we have to change our passwords every 3 months. So every time I change it, Microsoft page asks me, “HOW WAS IT?”

    Like it wasn’t annoying enough.

  • Cock_Inspecting_Asexual@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 months ago

    I’ve been bombarded with Shit about Linux ever since I signed up here.

    CAN SOMEONE PLEASE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME THE CRAZE BEHIND THIS DAMN OPERATING SYSTEM?!!! I just dont fukin get it! Whats so special about it😭😭

    • gerryflap@feddit.nl
      1·
      8 months ago

      Lemmy generally attracts the same kind of person that would also use Linux. Both of them are open source and community driven alternatives to software otherwise provided by large corporations and milked for every last cent. Both of them require just a bit more knowledge in order to comfortably use them. Linux with all the distro’s and desktop environments, Lemmy with all the instances and apps/front-ends. We’re very much a bubble here.

    • ugh@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 months ago

      1. Windows is a privacy nightmare. The OS is constantly sending data to Microsoft while being used.

      2. Windows hogs resources. If you don’t shovel money out for new hardware every few years, your computer will run like shit.

      3. Windows is full of ads.

      4. The majority of malware is written for Windows. Not really a selling point for me, but it’s a bonus.

      5. Linux is free.

      6. Linux doesn’t force updates. You update when you want to, and it takes less than a minute to do.

      • Cock_Inspecting_Asexual@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        Oooh… okey, noice noice…

        How similar is the interface to windows?? Im mostly interested in how customizable it is. if theres more customization features (I lake to change the colors n fonts of stuff and all my themes are an eyesore on purpose uwu) then im sold.

        Also the amount of fucking data lost on games/programa cus of forced updates…

          • Cock_Inspecting_Asexual@lemmy.world
            1·
            8 months ago

            ok it looks cool but all that code looks hella fuckin scary(･◠･;)

            Do I gotta learn to code ALL THAT??? Do I even need to learn whatever tf that code stuff is to even change the settings/wallpaper??! Oh god now I know how Apple users feel when I ramble off about Android lets me Sideload apps that aren’t in the app store…

            Im hoping to god I dont even have to touch whatever all that block of text is just to personalize my system

    • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
      1·
      8 months ago

      Think about why you joined Lemmy. Reddit has been getting greedier and greedier, so you left to a place where the grass is greener. The same thing is true with Windows and Linux (and Linux is also much more big and mature than Lemmy). It attracts the same kind of people.

  • Thorry84@feddit.nl
    1·
    8 months ago

    Windows 11 has changed this, many many people now warn other people about not using Windows 11 because it is such shit. Doesn’t matter what you run, just don’t run Windows 11.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      I literally can’t install Windows 11 on my current computer lol. I know there are workarounds for it but I don’t feel comfortable doing that for my primary computer.

      • Revan343@lemmy.ca
        1·
        8 months ago

        That happened with Windows 8 and Vista as well. There was a running joke that every other Windows release was garbage when I was growing up.

        And the joke works with 8 and 10 both being shitty, because they skipped 9, which would have been the good one.

        They really should have gone with Windows Nine, to bring the naming scheme in line with Xbox One while also avoiding the startswith.('Windows 9') issue

      • irreticent@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 months ago

        “We like the clean design and improved performance of Microsoft’s latest operating system, but it still suffers from its fair share of issues. Here’s what people gripe about the most.”

        And they don’t even mention the ads or that Recall garbage thing that takes screenshots being forced on you even though the public made it obvious they don’t want that. That and all the telemetry; it’s pretty much spyware disguised as an operating system.

        I’m sure there are more things but those are just the ones off the top of my head.

        *Edit: I remembered the name of Recall

        • Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world
          01·
          8 months ago

          Most of those are tiny gripes, and to be honest I don’t care at all about most of them. The OS looks nice, runs well, and is pretty painless. That’s all I want in an OS.

      • iopq@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        Doesn’t let you just do whatever you want. I turned off the windows firewall in windows 7 and went on with my life. Windows 11 wouldn’t let me download updates with the firewall off.

      • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Obsoleting a lot of relatively recent fast hardware means people are either faced with a fuck off or complicated work arounds. Then there is forcing people to log in with their MS email account which they may not have or want or again forcing people into complicated work arounds. The implicit privacy issues of recall if it was rolled out as planned.

        Ads in the windows UI both exiting and planned. The fact that they have discussed the idea of making Windows a monthly/annual fee.

        Then the carry overs from 10 The fact that the start menu search is less useful than any linux DE or windows XP Re-enabling crap that people disabled on purpose Certain kinds of links opening in Edge even if people use chrome

        • tee9000@lemmy.world
          1·
          8 months ago

          Wait i have w11 in my laptop… i dont have a windows account sign in. Is that a forthcoming change?

          Ads are fucked, thats fucked.

          But it mainly seems like microsoft policy, not necessarily w11 itself is the issue?

          I ignorantly think a monthly subscription would never happen and we’d see mass linux adoption.

          I have a dual boot in my near term plans for my desktop. I would pull that trigger immediately if ads or subscriptions materialized.

          • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            Ads are…already a thing. Shit like putting candy crush which allows you to spend real money to pay to win. Search suggestions in the start menu. The app store is an attempt at an Apple style money grab except the money grab only exists on the apple side because its the only way to get apps on the machine and MS never got much out its store in comparison.

            Ads and subscriptions would already have happened if they had succeeded in using secure boot to lock machines out of alternative OS

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      01·
      8 months ago

      No… I’ve literally only seen this on Lemmy. I’ve never once encountered anyone in real life that does this.

      Edit: and to add, people really don’t like this. I love Linux, but hate this community at this point. It’s disingenuous and I see blatant lies all the time about where I’m going to see ads in windows. I’ve yet to see any ads at all so far.

    • Prethoryn Overmind@lemmy.world
      0·
      8 months ago

      Linux user complaining about having to add repositories manually in order to get a piece of software to update or to add a tool they need.

      Me as an any operating system user. Both have draw backs that aren’t for normal people.

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 months ago

    I would always start all conversations with my friends with “Hey Windows peasants!” If I had any friends. These two things have nothing whatsoever to do with each other.