At some point Lemmy is going to track me down and murder me because I’m only running Linux on home automation and media servers, not my daily drivers.
Comment on Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons
SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Linux, bro.
Linux.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
NoFun4You@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nawh
UnityDevice@startrek.website 8 months ago
Linux and a windows virtual machine with a dedicated nvme hard drive and GPU using PCI pass-through. Windows is boxed in but easily accessed when you need it, and the performance is 95% of native, or more. And because of the dedicated hard drive, you can still dual-boot it like normal if you want.
Also, I recommend installing windows 10 enterprise in the VM, minimal bloat.
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Linux mostly works. It’s both fun and frustrating learning how to operate it. There’s only a couple things I can’t get to work on Linux which is annoying, but much less annoying than having to deal with MS.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The logic I always subscribe to is, issues in Linux can be fixed maybe not by you or me but someone at some point in the future. On a long enough timeline we win. Where as it’s not an issue, but a business decision to annoy you and thus can never be fixed.
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s been like that for 20 years though. This is the future and it still isn’t ready
cooopsspace@infosec.pub 8 months ago
I’ve been daily driving it for 10 years, what’s the problem with it?
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I haven’t used windows for 15 years, minimum
metaldream@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
It’s so much better than it used to be though. There’s been a lot of real progress and there’s more interest than ever in creating a viable Linux consumer-grade desktop among foss developers and even corporations.
I’ll grant you it’s definitely not there yet for non-techies. But I do think we’ll get there eventually and I wouldn’t have said that 5 years ago.
Jako301@feddit.de 8 months ago
Most Windows issues and annoyances can be fixed pretty easily with registry tweaks. This specific issue requires you to go trough the major effort of changing a single 0 to a 2.
As long as its still easier to completely debloat windows instead of debugging Linux, your so called win is still far away.
HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
And the demolition plans are in a disused washroom in the basement behind a sign that says “beware of the leopard.” That’s an absurd justification.
Normal users are not going to root around in the registry and twiddle things to mske the OS treat them with respect. Most of them won’t search for it, and many of those that do won’t have the skills to deploy a registry hack or identify legit info instead of malware or pranks.
The right answer is a third button-- “No, forever.” We all know it’s the right answer; I’m sure even Microsoft has focus group data. It doesn’t exist because someone in Redmond’s bonus is tied to how many people are cowed into signing up for OneDtive.
I’ve got a CS degree and 15 years of dev experience, and have come to the conclusion that you can’t negotiate in good faith with Windows anymore. It is going to take you down whichever hellpath their biz-dev team demands, and any attempts to fight it are going to be undermined and replaced with a new set of hacks or a differeny gauntlet of dark patterns for a few months later.
Maybe LTSC and Enterprise versions are a bit better, where they might have to preserve the goodwill of big dollar corporate customers instead of chasing some trifling revenue hack, but do we as ordinary users on home/pro licenses not deserve the same respect? And even there, don’t those business customers have to spend undue effort crafting and deploying policies to cram the endless stream of spam back in the box?
jkrtn@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
“Simply find the registry value and know to change it from 0 to 2 to turn off this specific recurring ad on your own machine.” No thanks, I can actually just begin adless and remain adless with one simple trick.
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Windows is way more shitty than Linux is difficult to learn, because it isn’t. You just need to understand how computers actually work to be able to use Linux.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
-Dr. Martin Linux King
ballskicker@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
This should be emblazoned somewhere in the initial Linux setup. I’m not in tech by trade, just a hobbyist nerd, and playing with Linux is like if a soulslike game were an OS. I had a terrible time figuring out how to get both monitors to work but eventually did and that felt like a huge win when it finally happened. Had an equally bad time trying to figure out how to install some game software but finally got that sorted and it felt like another big victory. But I still dual boot for now because some days I’m just not ready for the heartburn of dealing with my own ignorance in Linux
Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
For me, Linux recreates the exhilaration of 1990s MsDOS: will this setting, that I really don’t understand, make my game work or just render my whole system unusable?
I really want to play this awesome new game called Syndicate…
What’s the worst that can happen? Reformat for a 4th time this week?
y/n?
lordnikon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I agree but with timeshift im able to be back up and running in 5 mins tops so I take more risks.