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[–] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 151 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hi, do you have a moment to talk about Arch Linux? I got a pamphlet and reading material for you.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

It's ironic because you are actually more original/funny than that guy. All he does is complain about Windows

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did you know that using Windows makes your balls shrink?

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[–] UnRelatedBurner 23 points 2 years ago

alr alr, but have you known that I use Arch, btw?

[–] zammy95@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly, I think hitting people with pros of Linux more than flaws/complaints about windows is a better strategy. Negativity is usually just hit with more negativity, not a very strong approach lol

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[–] theFibonacciEffect@feddit.de 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No no, all you'd ever get from an Arch user is single postit that says "got a question? RTFM!"

Source: I use Arch btw

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[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 93 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Yep. It's me. Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and savior, GNU/Linux?

[–] MaliciousKebab 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Or as I like to call it GNU+Linux.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 years ago

No I'm pretty sure it's GNU divided by Linux

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[–] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 84 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Those bricks are laid incredibly poorly, look at all those gaps

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 48 points 2 years ago

Typical Windows app 🧌

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[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 65 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Try to understand, not everyone likes windows. They require quite a bit of maintenance, are usually insecure and speaking personally, some setups just don't look good. It's why some people opt for skylights instead.

Honestly windows is so slow at this point, we just use door. Why waste all that energy and power just to get the thing off the ground when alternatives exist?

[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Windows is an anachronism. Since I even got my wife and her gaming PC on the light side with Garuda Linux, works like a charm. After that she wanted me to install that "cool blank desktop" I have on my work laptop on her business machine in the shop. Now she loves bspwm. Learning doesn't make life harder per se, it's fun.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 59 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Windows bad, give Internet points!

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Edge browser bad, give Internet points!

[–] bl4ckblooc@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

God damn kids these days.

Internet Explorer was bad, give me internet points.

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[–] CreateProblems@corndog.social 51 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This is hilarious.

My husband runs our Lemmy instance, and he's subscribed to the Linux community, which is one of the most active on Lemmy (I probably don't need to tell you that.) I'm basically just here for memes and I ultimately blocked the Linux community because it was all over my feed. I'm a normie and I just don't care about Linux whatsoever, not enough for every other post to be about it anyway.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

ALL ABOARD THE WINDOWS SUX COX TRAIN! CHOO CHOO MFs!!

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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I enjoy Linux memes.

But not when the only joke they can muster being "Other OS bad for [insert dumb false argument here]"

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 50 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My linux config does give me a boner tho

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 31 points 2 years ago

If God didn't want me to fuck the toaster, why did he make it so damn sexy?

[–] DarkenLM@artemis.camp 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The... Toaster? Why the fuck would a Toaster run linux?

[–] Barbarian 15 points 2 years ago

Congratulations, your toaster can now run Doom

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[–] spudwart@spudwart.com 42 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Okay, but windows has become alarmingly invasive and dumbed down.

I don’t hate windows as much as I hate Microsoft.

ReactOS is a cool project and I hope it goes somewhere.

[–] rastilin@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

ReactOS is dead and will go nowhere.

The reason I say this is that I've been following them for something like 15+ years by this point, and they haven't made any perceptible progress in that time. They're at exactly the same point now where they were 15 years ago.

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[–] Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] regbin_@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (28 children)

Edge isn't a bad browser. However it's based on Chromium so using it just feeds into the Chromium monopoly.

Firefox or Safari is the only way.

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[–] sircalico@lemm.ee 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 11 points 2 years ago

It's Chrome, but Microsoft. So no it's not good but not because of speed or technical quality.

[–] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 23 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I mean I know people who are still trying to find bypasses to get around Microsoft and their online only strategy.

If you're still doing this, you.need to try Linux.

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[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 years ago

.world really is the Reddit of lemmy smdh my damn head.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Come to Linux mountain charrrleeee

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[–] jeremy_sylvis@midwest.social 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't have a problem with Edge itself. We use it at work and it's fine. I have a problem with microsoft constantly trying to trick me into using it among all their other shitty practices.

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[–] Beowulf@unilem.org 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

I like the memes, but that's it. I use Linux, sure, but I also have to use Windows for a few programs because WINE doesn't work with said programs, and the alternatives aren't the best

With that being said, would I prefer Linux to be mainstream? Yes. Will it ever be? Probably not. Too many people just want something that works out of the box and don't want to spend hours fixing some obscure bug.

I am a nerd. Therefore, I am okay spending time working on my machine and making sure everything runs well. I have previously looked at an OS that doesn't seem to work or is starting to have issues and completely swap to a different distro using a base I have used and know will work 100% of the time

[–] SaintNewts 11 points 2 years ago

Will it ever be? Probably not.

[Android has entered the chat.]

Yes. I know that's not what you meant. You meant desktop. But then desktop is slightly less relevant than it was maybe 10 or 15 years ago

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[–] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The guy that became a Marxist because of Linux?

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Didn't check that far but it was a lot of generic posts from 2 users with similar names which could be summarised as "Windows bad" and "Linux good", with some variations including windows programs. Checked their accounts and they appear utterly obsessed with whining about Windows.

Like I get it. Windows sucks. Doesn't mean I want my entire feed full of a kid spamming their vitriol for it.

[–] sunnie@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

if hating something is your entire personality i am not talking to you regardless of what that thing is

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[–] poke 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When it comes to browsing the web and showing content and having good add-ons, edge does a good job.

But why does it need to constantly advertise itself and other microsoft things to me? It's annoying when Firefox does this, but it feels like edge does it almost every time I open it.

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[–] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

just block me now then I don't have any other personality traits

[–] Spectranomica@pawb.social 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

To be honest I'd still be on Windows if MS hadn't screwed me out of the license I bought through the MS store and attached to my MS account. I do kinda miss the new Bing assistant in Edge, that was neat to screw around with for free while I was on that OS

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