Exactly my feeling each time I get back on personal PC/laptop after whole day of working with Mac.
Every time I’m forced to use Windows it feels like I’m being punished.
It sounds so dramatic and I know people roll their eyes when I say things like that, but it’s absolutely true.
The deeper I’ve gone with Linux over the years the more Windows seems (aside from the obvious privacy concerns and generally being trash corporate citizens) like an intentionally convoluted and overcomplicated mess.
Win11 is like 30% ai code iirc
Just put it in a VM. Keep it contained.
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Windows 10 requiring sign in only made me start using Tiny10 but even then I figured if end of life was happening, I may as well settle into using my favourite distribution. I love the feeling of Fedora but I have to use Arch for its incorporation of Deepin stuff.
More like being molested.
After a day at work, forced to use mac, I just have to start my linux machine, even if I do not have anything to do on it, just to feel sane again.
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First thing I noticed about this photo is that she’s holding her hair away from the ground while putting her mouth right on it. I’m not sure why but that seems funny to me.
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That would explain it.
Your logic has no place in the internet. Begone!
“I don’t care if I get dirt in my mouth, but I better not get it in my hair.”
Maybe she’s used to pull her hair back in this position out of habit?
I know this is an older thread but I don’t know why you’re getting down voted. I am long haired and always move my hair out of the way bending over and whatnot. I love long hair but I don’t like it getting in my eyes or tickling my nose so it becomes habit to hold it out the way of my face.
I have long hair too, you just dont let it dangle in front of your face when you look down like this.
I use windows at work. even WSL doesn’t make it great…
Half the time, we dont even deploy to windows boxes. They are too expensive haha. Its all Linux cause they are much cheaper and just as powerful. But mostly the cheaper angle. Still wont let us use Linux for development work though…
That’s so weird, tons of people use Linux for dev. Do they say why you can’t?
According to one of our adjuncts: “Windows just works for dev, why are we teaching Linux at all?”
He didn’t last.
Maybe if you develop C# in Visual Studio then Windows does just work best.
Company policy and MS licensing agreements. Also while devs can work with any OS, most users are “used” to windows and windows based products. We are talking 30+ years at the job. So they just stay there.
Although its changing slowly. More and more apps are just web interfaces with makeup. Theres real talk that getting macs for certain departments. Its just one small step for linux at that point. And as people age out of the workforce, theres a push for newer tools…which dont require windows at all.
In my companys case, they said it was an issue with intune compatibility for a good while. I’m hoping to switch off W11 soon!
Genuinely, the more I use Linux the more slow and clunky windows feels. Also I’m a power user, when you install custom apps on windows it FEELS bloated, it’s like “you didn’t do this the WINDOWS way, so it’s clunky” meanwhile on Linux it’s like “yeah man it’s open just plug in whatever” and it JUST WORKS
Doesn’t matter if you did do it the windows way, honestly. Anything of any scale programmed in .NET has runtime reflection scattered everywhere, and that shit adds up.
.NET runs fast on Linux
Windows has it’s upsides imo. My personal problem is that I’m so bad at using it… Set static IP? Traverse down four different GUI applications all the way back to Windows NT -_-
My personal problem is that I’m so bad at using it
It’s not you, it’s just that Windows is badly designed.
If you have to use Windows and you’re power-userish enough to go setting up static IPs, it might be worth learning a bit of PowerShell. You can do everything with it!
bought one of the new snapdragon x elite laptops recently. obviously it came with windows 11 and i had to briefly use it to shrink the boot partition and disable bitlocker so i could install the ubuntu concept image on it.
The amount of advertising i was subjected to in that time was infuriating. not to mention the frankly arduous setup wizard.
Even with the slight bugginess of a “concept image” OS, the user experience is SOOOO much better than shitty horrible windows.
Sent from my HP OmniBook running NOT windows
How is it? Does stuff work?
There was some fiddling to do post installation to get wifi and audio through the speakers working (although careful with this, apparently fiddling with alsa can cause hardware damage. you have to set a kernel flag for it to work).
It’s mostly fine, The omnibook is apparently one of the least problematic models in getting shit working. There isn’t a catch all guide though you have to sort of figure it out from the launchpad bug comments
The function bar at the top doesnt have the shortcuts for things like vol up and vol down working; it’s literally just F1-12, wasnt a big deal for me. and apparently, although i havent tried it myself yet, external displays over HDMI isnt working. screen bightness goes up to 95ish% and then for some reason drops down to basically nothing which is kind of weird but not game breaking. Software support is reasonably good since a lot of linux stuff is already compiled for ARM because of the Raspberry Pi and other SBCs. mine is currently running the “Raspberry Pi” build of Private Internet Access
I set it all up pretty quickly before i flew off on holiday. i did a two and a bit hour flight watching movies and still had 75% battery.
couple days later i did a 4 hour train journey watching movies and having bluetooth and wifi with VPN active and was trying (and failing) to compile stuff and ended the journey with like 30% battery
It’s mostly silent so long as you keep it on a hard surface.
Honestly it’s game changing not having to hover around a power outlet. i’m probs selling my 2020 Razer when i get back to the UK
I had to click 4 times over 90 seconds on “sleep” on my work laptop windows 11 machine today before it actually did anything.
A meme can’t be more right.
I can’t deal with that picture of Katty Perry kissing dirt.
“I kissed some dirt and I like it…” xD
10 years ago I wouldn’t have imagined this, but this is me every time I have to use Windows (e.g., occasionally for work) or help someone else with it.
Same. I just switched a few months back. My laptop runs cool and quiet on Linux. When I need to boot to Windows, I hear that poor cooling fan laboring even when Windows is idle, plus everything is much slower and poorly organized. Why does my context menu have 14 selections?! Going back to Linux feels like coming home.
Performative and dirt on lips pilled.
I use arch btw.
BRO is that Katy Perry after her space trip, I haven’t heard anything about that in a hot minute
Yeah that seems about right. Bunch of things that I wish were better but I am not going back. When I absolutely must there’s a VM for that.
Could a similar meme be made between distributions?
Arch users switching back to Arch after 10 minutes of using Ubuntu:
Alternatively:
Ubuntu users switching back to Ubuntu after using Arch for ten minutes
Or at the very least Debian.
I haven’t tried Arch, the whole idea gives me fever.
It’s really not as tough as it’s made out, try something like Endeavour for all the “Arch” but with some sane defaults. The hardest thing is learning a new package manager, but Arch’s is called pacman and it looks like Pac-Man, so you get extra whimsy!
Be honest: Is the user experience as easy as Debian’s or Ubuntu’s is?
I mean, Debian and Ubuntu are very different beasts, but I’ve never had a problem with any of my Endeavour machines except for the nagging itch in the back of my head that said, “it’s not real Arch” lol. The biggest difference from an Ubuntu or Mint is that you have to update more often, and you shouldn’t do it from a GUI so you’ll have to see the terminal every so often. I’d say it’s just about the same as Debian, just that Arch-based distros focus on performance, while Debian-based ones focus on stability. So I use Debian for my servers and Arch for my gaming/music making rigs.
Anyone after trying Ubuntu. Anyone after trying a tiling manager.
For me, it’s after trying a non tiling WM. I’m too deep into i3 (now Sway) + tmux.
after trying a tiling manager
I like the idea of tiling window managers – I just find it so much less hassle to use tiling keybinds on a stacking window manager …
I can do the exact same thing in gnome without having to config for days lol. Super key right super up. I agree with you!
For me, it’s after trying a non tiling WM. I’m too deep into i3 (now Sway) + tmux.
Me when coming back to a system without NetworkManager
systemd-networkd
It would be the “Corporate needs you to find the difference” meme
