More like “My computer came with malware and I’m starting to realise that’s what it is” in most cases.
madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
“I installed malware to my computer and now the malware does what the author of the malware wants.”
Oh no. Anyway…
404@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, exactly. You can help people accept that or be an asshole to people when they start to approach it
darcy@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
i agree with your contention, but sadly many are forced to use windows for work or school.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Never had anything like that happen to me and I’ve got four windows 11 computers and one windows 10.
madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Well, congratulations, but “works on my machine” is not exactly the best argument when it comes to software.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Neither is “I had a bad experience because I don’t know how it works.”
madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
I agree, but what to do when people give up so easily on Linux when hitting their first bump. 🤷♂️
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
[deleted]Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Did I mention Linux or made it about Linux vs Windows?
DarkMessiah@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ladies and gentlemen, a prime example of exactly why people don’t switch to Linux.
The loudest portion of the community are insufferable twats, and you know it’s bad because I’m an insufferable twat and I’m calling this one out on it.
Rogue@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Most of the Linux communities are the same.
often the content isn’t even related to Linux it’s just tirades of anger against corporations. Doesn’t even have to be Microsoft, any commercial that dares make any move in the Linux space - Canonical, red hat, oracle get derided.
dustyData@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“Proposers of a piece of free and open source software, an ideology created by an anarchist-socialist software engineer, tend to lean left on the political spectrum. More news at 11…”
Rogue@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Not to forget this is Lemmy which has a development leadership so left leaning that the CIA are likely already working to destabilise it.
lud@lemm.ee 8 months ago
To be fair, Oracle seems to be ridiculed by everyone.
amio@kbin.social 8 months ago
Yeah, but, DAE LE WINDASS WINDOWNS BAD??! LOL LE MICRO SHIT USERS LOLOLOL XD XD EGGS DEE MI$RO$OFT IS BIL GAETS DIK JOKE. Seems perfectly welcoming to me, especially the heavy insinuation that absolutely everything is PEBKAC, even if you're on a fresh install of something allegedly intended for mainstream - following verbatim, explicitly appropriate instructions. If you're really lucky, someone might deign to link you an LMGTFY.
This stuff truly has helped make Desktop Linux a force to be reckoned with over the years. So much so that Year of Desktop Linux has been... pretty much every year of the past 20, I think.
On Windows, we all know it's spackled together shit with shoe strings, spit and duct tape - probably still involving some tech out of the 70s-80s or at least tech debt from back then. We tend to not pretend it's flawless because no software is.
madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
People install obviously shit software and then whine on the Internet about how shit the software is they chose.
You cry about how people point out how it’s obviously their own fault entirely.
I’m pretty sure I’m not the most insufferable twat in this thread. Not even close.
Maalus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yup, you are the insufferrable twat. You just keep proving their point. Just move on, life isn’t about “winning” imaginary internet discussions.
madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Discussion? You think this is a discussion? You might want to freshen up on the definition of discussion, my friend. Neither you nor the other guy even have made a single point yet. None of you even tried to prove to me that I am wrong. All you have done until now is throwing insults at me. Please keep doing that. Please keep not proving me wrong.
glimpseintotheshit@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
You may not even want to hear it because you’re obviously so far up your own ass that you wouldn’t be able to but:
Most computers ship with Windows installed, maybe they didn’t “choose” anything
There are a lot of people who need to use Windows professionally, Linux is not always a viable alternative at all
People are allowed to prefer Windows for their own reasons and still complain about the shit MS pulls off without immediately being attacked for “installing malware”
madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
They chose a computer with Windows preinstalled.
You misunderstand. I’m not saying don’t use Windows. I’m saying don’t use Windows and then whine about it later. If you have a job that requires you to use Windows and you have a problem with using Windows, go complain to your manager, not some strangers on the Internet, they can’t help you.
People are allowed to prefer Windows no question, but somehow they’re always surprised that an operating system, that is generally known for performing actions from which MS profits, performs actions from which MS profits. And then they go cry on the Internet about it like it wasn’t the consequences of their own choices.
eee@lemm.ee 8 months ago
As someone who just wandered into this thread - yes, you are by far the most insufferable poster on this thread so far. Worse than many other vegetarians in fact.
madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Vegetarians? Are you sure you’re doing alright? This is a discussion about software, not beef and lettuce, buddy.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, if you want people to try switching you need to understand their use case and nicely explain the pros and cons. Being a dick about it just makes people think it’s some elitist club for computer nerds instead of a tool they may find useful
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
DarkMessiah@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Your lack of self awareness is disturbing.
synceDD@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Preach, lemmy user was mean to me so ill stick to my os lmao? Enjoy