Comment on When Windows users find the Threadiverse

• ekky@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fewer than 19*

  I’ve converted to Linux since.

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• TheDuke@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The thing is - most windows user don’t even know Linux exists…

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  • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Most Windows users don’t know Windows exist.

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    • adarza@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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’.

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  • SirHaxalot@nord.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Linux users 👇 2FQ2ZRF0d13XGH9.jpeg Windows user 👆

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• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    … I worked for Microsoft.

    … during the time the 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.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      '98 was a marginal improvement over '95 at least

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      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 to 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.

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