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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  This is all very cute, but those Windows items don’t apply to me.

  • I’ve never paid for Windows, not even preinstalled on a machine.
  • It’s set so updates are not forced, but I update anyway because it hasn’t caused me an issue since… ? I can’t remember. A decade or more?
  • Rooted out the telemetry and/or blocked it. I accomplished this faster than setting up any given Linux desktop I’ve used.
  • This Windows install has ridden the same SSD across 3 or 4 machines for 8 years or more. Not sure I’ve ever had a BSOD on this install, and you won’t either if your hardware isn’t soft damaged.

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• ducktumn@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Both vibecoded 😍

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• Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  #hashtag #fuckdrake

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  • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • bmpvy@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    can I get this meme in a “Linux Mint is easy to use for a regular user"-Version pls

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    • Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      LM is so damn easy to use that my 76 year old tech illiterate boomer father uses it as his daily driver. Yes I had to install it but that a half an hour and it’s been chugging away just fine for nearly 3 years now.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Linux Mint gang rise up! (Because apparently we’re at the bottom of the Linux world).

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    • fu@libranet.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      @bmpvy no

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• W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• expletivedeleted@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was a Linux admin on a team of fourteen. A Windows Server admin bragged at his server had gone a full two months without a reboot.

  In fact, it was 65 days. The other Windows admins congratulated him. He came over to tell me the news, which I already overheard and sshed in to check my uptime.

  “821 days uptime.” He got disappointed. That’s cool, because he was a jerk for many reasons.

  But deep inside, I realized I needed to stay late after the call center closed, as it is a good idea to apply kernal patches to your firewall.

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• saart@jlai.lu ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  please do reboot your linux, that’s needed to upgrade your kernel.

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  • voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not with live patching

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• Zink@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The biggest difference with updates isn’t even being forced vs “when I say so,” even though it does matter.

  The biggest difference for me is the whole “be good at the thing you were made to do” aspect of Linux and FOSS. I never have any hesitation to update my computer, because updates are fast and unobtrusive. At work I will run an update check in a terminal in the middle of a Teams meeting while I also have code building in the background using 100% CPU. No issues.

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• DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I feel like in this entire discussion, people almost always forget Windows actually costs money, and quite a lot of it.

  Even if Linux-based OSes weren’t superior in every possible way… they cost nothing versus Windows 11’s $139 USD price tag.

  Linux doesn’t even need to beat Windows at everything to win. And yet it still does.

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  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Almost no one actually buys Windows as a standalone product. If you purchase a new PC from HP, Dell, Acer, etc it comes with it. If you have a Win10 PC or license then Win11 is a free upgrade. The are even several Microsoft 365 SKUs that come with Win11 licensing.

    You can literally d/l it direct from Microsoft and run it without a license; you just have to deal with a small licensing message and a few inconveniences in the UI.

    The only people buying it as a standalone seem to be business idjust who went to a store and bought a retail PC with Win11 Home that then find out they need Pro in order to Entra join / AD join the hardware. Those people deserve what they pay so I have no sympathy for them.

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  • wall@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    you pay for windows? i pirated windows 11 enterprise

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Been using Windows since 3.11 and have never paid for it, not even preinstalled on a machine.

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    • DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t use Windows

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• Wren@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Are there not enough Linux meme communities?

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  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No, never were.jpg

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