Yeah, it’s Windows users going out and proudly exclaiming their love. 👌👍
When Windows users find the Threadiverse
Submitted 3 weeks ago by CallMeAl@piefed.world to [deleted]
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makeshift0546@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
lemongarlic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Windows users don’t think about or even realize that other operating systems exist
makeshift0546@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Or they value an os that works out of the box with the vast majority of hardware. Even valve and steam is on proprietary hardware has a ton of issues. Windows is God awful but I didn’t have to run a script on every boot up to set my HDMI device as a default. Or have to reboot my device every time I turn off my TV because HDMI can’t connect. And none of my controllers, 8bitdo, ps5ds, xbox360, work wirelessly without latency issues 🤷♂️.
The stubbornness of the community to acknowledge this continues to hamper improving the situation.
I give money and use bazzite+ my steam deck to support foss, but I’m not blind to the numerous issues that need to be fixed before Linux is less ignored.
HieroProtagonist@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
THIS Windows user has used Linux and BSD sytems for ~30 years and still manages a fuckton off Linux servers as his dayjob. The thing is - and it is a somewhat invonvenient truth - that Windows 11 has evolved to a point where it works just really, really well when used on dedicated hardware.
And Powershell is simply the better scripting environment, this is a hill i will gladly die on.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You’ve never been to a LAN party when those where bigger. Completely unprompted, windows users will shit on mac and linux users.
makeshift0546@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
You are barking up the wrong tree. mohaa, dota (the mod) big game hunters, ns, cs (again before the stand alone or steam).
You’re friends were correct back then. Linux was mostly worthless unless it was your job. Triple so for gaming.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
My favorite thing is going onto the community for a game that explicitly supports linux with a problem just to have a bunch of replies to install windows from random chuds.
Wataba@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I keep my dislike of Linux to myself.
Its Linux bros who are constantly flooding any and all legit questions about Windows with ‘just use Linux 4head’.
Go away.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I keep my dislike of Linux to myself.
Clearly.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
When I complain about Linux it’s in the hopes that some nerd will come along and provide actual solutions to the problems I’m having with it in an effort to prove me wrong. Unfortunately mostly I just get the “That’s normal you just have to deal with it” kind of answers.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Windows has an issue or flaw: Just switch to Linux bro! It’s so customisable!
Linux has an issue or flaw (like middle click copy/paste being forced): just live with it, it was a decision made in 1965 because one dude wanted it that way and it’s so baked in we can’t fix it.
Nugscree@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or just fix it with this easy but entirely unreadable command in the terminal. Oh it did not do what I expected, welp you’re on your own now. I want a complete UI so I can move my non technical family members over to it, but the Linux bro’s think it’s fine to have a half functioning UI and just do the rest in the terminal. And yes I know the terminal fix is faster and usually simpler to run, but I can’t explain that to my non technical family members, nor do I want to cosplay as a sysadmin for them.
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Can you keep your Linux dislike even more to yourself?
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’ve been having trouble turning light bulbs into meth pipes; they keep breaking! Is there some trick to it?
Vespair@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Nah, as a Windows user on the topic of Linux here in the fediverse I’ll be totally honest: I mostly just feel like I’m looking at and a bit wishing I was smart and savvy and motivated enough to be one of the cool kids, but after my last disastrous attempt at switching (because apparently my video card just isn’t supported I guess? whatever, I’m not looking for tech support here) I’m just happy enough to be at the cool punk party instead of predatory frat party (reddit, twitter, take your pick of corporate shithole) where I’m likely to get roofied.
Dvixen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I put off the switch for ages due to similar reasons, tried once that failed horribly. Later had a motherboard failure and Microsoft showed their whole arse. Reactivated the dual boot, channeled my inner old woman energy, solved the video issue and have been happily tinkering with the smaller issues as they come up. Still playing whack a mole, but now I’m getting things the way I want them, instead of disabling things I’m being told I want by some corporate nutcase.
And hilariously, I am spending less time maintaining Linux than I did for Windows.
mczolly@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
You’re a honorary member of the cool kids!
Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
ngl, I actually appreciate this comment, thank you ❤
binarytobis@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I was prepared to go through hell when I switched recently, since Windows was making me so mad. Everyone told me my geaphics card wouldn’t work, gaming would be hard, etc. Then Mint just worked. 🤷
I did have to troubleshoot why my speakers were muted on startup, but it was worth it. Oh, and volume up defaults to 5% instead of the standard 2%, that took some fixing. Games just work, though.
pipes@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Don’t despair, Vespair,
I like your vibe btw;
Being on the penguin side,
having a sharper mind,
does not garantee.
Let me assure thee,
for plenty of us,
are plenty dumb.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
PC or laptop? And what video card?
Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
PC, ASRock Z370 Taichi mb with NVidia GTX 1080TI card and 32GB RAM.
Last time I tried install disastrously Lemmy Linux wizards told me that card isnt supported for some reason 🤷
Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s Ok. You don’t need to like Linux. (Evil villain accent slips out)-- You vill use Linux! Und you vill like it! Even if you don’t like it. Ooops! Sorry! That just slipped out somehow.
An OS is a tool no more, nothing less. Use what you like and like what you use! And if you decide to try Linux again some day in the future, great! If not, that’s great also!
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I think that the motivation is the real key point here.
You could be the best technical person but if you are not motivated, it won’t happen. And that’s fine. When the motivation will be there, Linux nerds will be there to help you.
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Trying to switch was your problem. Linux is not like Windows or Apple. There’s no marketing department trying to manipulate any brand loyalty. It’s just a tool, and one that has been developed organically to fit in your life as much as you want it. Unlike Windows, Linux does not try to take over your whole computer, it can easily coexist with other systems in a variety of ways whether dual-booting, vms, or live distros.
I like to keep a distro on a usb stick ready wherever I go, in case I ever have to use somebody else’s computer, for instance.
Once accustomed to using an operating system that’s actually trustworthy, any time spent with the other big two feels like being violated. Windows is best kept minimized and quarantined.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This comic is about LGBTQI+
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Linux/GNU BTQI+
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Linux GNU BSD Thinkpad Qt i3 +
PantaloonMonsoon@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
This is the most hypocritical post in the history of the Internet.
Godric@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The lack of awareness from Linux nerds who think this is perfectly on-brand, I’m dying XD
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This doesn’t happen.
realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Oh it does happen. I’ve had people tell me linux isn’t a desktop OS multiple times and they listed ludicrous reasons that either are completely irrelevant or not true for like 10 years.
I’ve also had people tell me that PHP is a shit programming language and the reasons for them hating it were all outdated for like years or even decades. Once had some kid at a university I gave a lecture tell me “PHP doesn’t even have classes wtf how are you coding in that shit?” my man classes were introduced in PHP 5 which was released 22 YEARS ago, you weren’t even BORN when PHP5 was released.
Some people just want to hate something. Mostly if it’s something that’s “competing” with what they’re using. And that’s especially true in the tech world.
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Lol I am the opposite, if some language has classes I will try to avoid them as much as possible
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I had someone tell me you can’t do work on Linux… If pretty much the entire internet, your router, your TV, your phone, your NAS, your car etc run on Linux then what is real work? They defined it as content creation and specifically adobe apps which can’t argue don’t run on Linux, but also are not what I consider “work.”
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Windows users complain and meme all the time about the linux fandom of the fediverse, which is what I assume OP was referring to.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I’ll openly admit that I’ve made comments that could be interpreted as this comic. That said, I don’t hate Linux or look to “dunk on” people, I just see a lot of really uninformed takes about Windows being tossed around and can’t help but try to correct people.
Like someone said something abysmally wrong and very confidently, I asked them when the last time they used Windows, and they said it had been over a decade. I get that people pull that sort of thing online all the time, but when I see it it bothers me.
So I end up making the occasional comment defending Windows from blatant misinformation in a Linux thread, or insisting that the Linux experience still isn’t as smooth as it needs to be for non-tinkerers.
Usually someone will pop up and call me uninformed or something, which is rich given I’ve been casually messing with Linux since before USB thumb drives were ubiquitous, and I have a little more than a decade of career experience in IT support and systems admin/engineering/architecture neck deep in a Microsoft environment.
I love Linux and open source software. I want it all to succeed. But Windows does have its place, it is valid for certain use cases, and is not anywhere as awful as it’s made out to be. Especially if you have the tech chops to switch to Linux, de-crappify-ing Windows is of comparable difficulty and I have not had any of the supposedly unavoidable Windows issues people regularly cite in around a decade.
Switching to Linux is a more than valid choice, but I hate to see it happen only because someone isn’t getting good troubleshooting information for a Windows issue.
I also have a seriously hard time keeping my mouth shut when Linux users claim daily driving a Linux Distro as a smooth process. It is leagues better than it used to be. Mind bogglingly so, and getting smoother every day. But it is still inevitable that you will hit a point of major friction and have to get deep into tinkering, and you will still likely need to make concessions in terms of hardware feature support.
I’m no stranger to tinkering. No stranger to compiling things myself, or even troubleshooting an error all the way down to a specific line of source code and making a PR to correct it.
But I’ve reached a point in my life where I don’t want to be spending hours troubleshooting things that in my mind should “just work”. I want more control than Apple offers, and less tinkering than Linux tends to expect.
So I keep up with the Linux space, use it on VMs personally semi-regularly, and maybe once a year give it a serious try as a daily driver. For now, stripped down/customized Windows installs on my gear is more than good enough.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Same here. I’m firmly in the camp of “I wish Linux was better and easier to use.”
I’ll probably get people telling me I’m wrong.
dlsloop@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I quite literally just saw a post about liking Windows over Linux on Lemmy today… In fact, one of the comments used a version of this meme in reply.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I saw one today too, so I guess it does happen. You have to wade through a lot of “windows sucks use Linux” posts to find them though.
Windows users generally don’t like windows. Linux has a decent amount of rabid fanboys though.
Drewmeister@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think the majority of Windows users know you can buy an Apple or a Windows, and that’s all they know or care to know. The percentage of Windows users who know enough about Linux to decide they don’t like it has got to be pretty low.
On the other hand, most Linux users know the other systems well enough to have a strong preference. This meme should be reversed.
mlg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The joke is that 99% of the other stalls are also Linux lmao
FishFace@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The threadiverse is not a Linux stall.
wpb@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I genuinely have never seen this take. Sometimes someone shares something like “I tried it out and it wasn’t quite for me”, and that’s about as vitriolic as it get. And even that’s rare.
Reygle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I wish all Linux “poofed” out of existence for exactly 24 hours (and then poof back effortlessly) so that dummydumbdumbderps could learn just how much their Apple and Windows computers rely on them to ever communicate with any other device on the planet.
tomi000@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Quite literally the opposite of reality. Good shitpost.
ActualGrapesTasteGreen@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
A fanatic will change neither their mind nor the subject
nyctre@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Fastest save of my life. Applies to so many things too. I never understood the appeal of showing up just to say negative things. I’m guessing it’s some need to drag people down to your sad level or something but it’s not something I can understand.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The comic feels like a preemptive “no u”
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My only remaining real problems are:
- The community often pushing more “elitist” solutions over easier ones, see all the Vim fanboys.
- Coming from the aforementioned issue, your only viable debugger is either GDB with its obtuse TUI or some GUI hackjob on top of that.
angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
What the fuck does the threadiverse even want for itself? Do you see yourself as an enshittification-resistant replacement for Reddit, or a communist Linux forum? This comic only makes sense if it’s the latter.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
At this point, it’s just insecurity about stuff not working right on Windows now.
At the moment, on my dual boot desktop, hardware acceleration and video playback are busted in Chromium browsers, but it works perfectly fine in Wayland linux. And I don’t really know why.
This is fascinating to me, as the situation was reversed about a year ago.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is some stoptalkingaboutpancakes-tier farfetchery
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Linux is pretty nice.
I have my issues with it, but they’re more on the UI side of things.
I love nixos, I really like before silver blue, and I’m a huge fan of podman — it feels like all the right compromises.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Survivorship bias, those that move along don’t really get remembered
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t hate Linux, it’s the people who use Linux that are the worst
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The hypocrisy! “Linux bros” are constantly shutting all over Mac and Windows, even more than they shit all over every flavor of *nix that isn’t their preferred flavor.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
The last week or thereabouts, I have been trying my 2nd migration to Linux. Went with ZorinOS, but ultimately the project failed. This is because there is a lot that isn’t hand-holdy enough, or AppImages just not working consistency. If nothing else, I at least a get a fresh start: Windows Enterprise 25h2 GAC via RUFUS + Massgrave, with Shutup10 Premium to set and forget my privacy. Good enough for now.
It isn’t ideal, as I suspect an 2nd American Civil War down the line - and MS is likely to side with Dogey America. Hopefully Linux would be more friendly and refined by the time things kick off.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Let 'em vent. And then ignore or educate them, if they’re open.
isthereanydeal@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
This guy is AVIS from Phoronix forums
gray@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
C’mon, us linux users do the inverse all the time…
yesman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s not true. Linux users do this waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than Microslop users. Microslop has billions of users, but fewer than 20 fanboys, worldwide.
ekky@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Fewer than 19*
I’ve converted to Linux since.
TheDuke@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
The thing is - most windows user don’t even know Linux exists…
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
mabeledo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You clearly don’t know about their MVP program.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Adblock and Chrome users too
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
That’s okay because unlike Windows, Linux isn’t guilty of market capture, adware, spyware, bloat, and any number of other things that are wrong with windows.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It happens when MS does something that annoys their userbase. Then Linux nerds jump in and tell how much Linux is better.
JoShmoe@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Exactly, never complain. We lead the way to a better future.
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
If I didn’t have to use windows for work…
Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
We don’t really do the same thing, because Microsoft is forced upon us every step of the way.
Bonje@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes. Because we want native support from apps. Windows has the market share to not care. Linux is getting there but is nowhere near to even macOS.
NaoPb@eviltoast.org 3 weeks ago
My theory is you are a Windows user wearing a mask.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I have never gone to look for a windows community, is there one?
axo10tl@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
No, it was embraced, extended and extinguished.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
On the fediverse?!
Good luck with that.
Every post would be negative
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I don’t use Arch, by the way.
bigbangdangler@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
How dare you come at me with self awareness!!