It really feels like no matter what community you look at on Lemmy, every 3rd post is Windows bad Linux good. It’s honestly a bit exhausting. And I’ve been running Linux for over a decade…
Protect your PC
Submitted 11 months ago by myedition8@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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efstajas@lemmy.world 11 months ago
MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
swan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For real lol makes me feel a little alienated. I just want to play games on my computer
cqst@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Sadly, you should feel alienated. When you choose to use proprietary software, you further the injustice that it creates over society. Windows is so shamefully harmful, even outside of just being proprietary that choosing it in 2024 is choosing the side of unjust power, and you should be rightfully alienated for making that decision.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Ok but this one is funi
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
This is how the Internet was back in the 90s
nikaaa@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I swear, it’s no longer possible to distinguish satire from reality.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It does sound like something they would do.
KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Advise people on installing Linux? Yes.
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/installnxdefiant@startrek.website 11 months ago
They’d name it Microsoft Windows Deprecation Maker 2024 Enterprise 11 though.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 11 months ago
Not really.
Microsoft won’t explain further after “we end support”.They are now the “Something went wrong” people.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 11 months ago
If you have a hard time telling this is satire, you might just be a bit dim.
FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 11 months ago
And it’s your fault if it happens to you, because we sent you EMAILS telling you it was going to happen!
ephrin@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Lol, SCSI
Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone 11 months ago
You’ve got to give Microsoft credit for their dedication to backwards compatibility.
Ozy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
but my DVI graphics monitor doesn’t get the love SCSI does 😔 what a society we live in…
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s a term I haven’t heard in a very, very long time. I keep one in a drawer with my Sound Blaster PCMCIA card.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I work at a MSP, and we support a variety of customers, some with quite old hardware. I still on occasion have to assist in replacing 1.8TB SCSI 7200RPM drives in a RAID array. Finding compatible drives gets harder every time.
Battle_Masker@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m glad this wasn’t posted like 3 weeks ago when my laptop battery died on me. otherwise I woulda thought this was legit happening
DakRalter@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
Never mind that, Windows 10 did an update a couple of days ago, and now my dual boot screen has gone. I literally can’t start my Linux Mint anymore, it boots straight to Windows :(
There is a way to get it back with the command line, but my computer nerd days are over.
askubuntu.com/…/dual-boot-with-windows-10-broken-…
I’m assuming that command needs to be edited to whatever my setup is, I have no idea.
OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Windows might have changed the boot order in your bios, so just go into your bios and check if the mint partition is set to boot first
nixcamic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah with EFI the days of Windows completely overwriting your Linux bootloader are mostly over.
DakRalter@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
I have no idea how to do this, but I’ll keep looking for a tutorial. Luckily I only use my Linux for storing my music. I wish I could have got my art software to work on Linux, they just don’t seem to want to cooperate.
terminhell@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is what can happen dual booting from the same drive. If the windows bootloader updates it can override grub.
Usually you can still boot to the Linux partition from the efi menu manually. Then you can find dozens of guides to reinstall grub to fix this.
But it’s likely to keep happening. Best dual boot setup is to have a second drive dedicated to non windows.
DakRalter@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
My Linux is on a separate hard drive.
JCreazy@midwest.social 11 months ago
Is that actually possible? I don’t know how much privilege an operating system has. I would think if would need to go deeper
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
i mean an os could definitely overvolt the gpu, that’s how users do it
Lemzlez@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pretty sure the gpu BIOS is limited by default, nothing the OS can do about that.
Same for other parts like the cpu - core voltage is determined by the motherboard.
I doubt the os can just go “2V vcore” and blow up hardware.
JCreazy@midwest.social 11 months ago
Ok that makes sense
nifty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fedora 40 is also a nice intro distro, can attest to that
esty@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Haven’t given Linux a proper chance on my desktop on a few years, till windows 11 finally became too frustrating. Aside from a very short headache with my nvidia drivers, fedora has been absolutely flawless and much less of a pain in my aSs than windows…
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
How do you downvote a post in Lemmy?
m4xie@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Your insurance doesn’t support down voting.
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Our accounts are on lemmy.blahaj.zone, which doesn’t support downvoting. We can’t downvote or be downvoted. I know other instances do this as well.
caden@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
You can definitely be downvoted… @sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone’s comment is showing -3 points as of this writing.
Irelephant@lemm.ee 11 months ago
What client is that?
myedition8@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Irelephant@lemm.ee 11 months ago
oh, great. Thanks!
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Megalodon for mastodon
Irelephant@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Thanks!
efstajas@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I swear to God, if one more post on this goddamn site tells me to switch to Linux…
^… maybe I’ll just switch …
bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Good to know VGA and parallel port devices are safe.
maynarkh@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Nah, they’ll just sue you if you’re using VGA instead of HDMI since it obviously means you are trying to crack DRM and thus running afoul of DMCA.
hemmes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Everyone loves listening to their favorite purchased movie while watching a black screen
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What about my Hercules graphics card?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sorry, it put on a poisoned shirt and had to jump into a fire.