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[–] [email protected] 151 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you know that using Windows makes your balls shrink?

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[–] UnRelatedBurner 23 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] MaliciousKebab 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or as I like to call it GNU+Linux.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

Typical Windows app 🧌

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Windows bad, give Internet points!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Edge browser bad, give Internet points!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

God damn kids these days.

Internet Explorer was bad, give me internet points.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My linux config does give me a boner tho

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Barbarian 15 points 1 year ago

Congratulations, your toaster can now run Doom

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Come to Linux mountain charrrleeee

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The guy that became a Marxist because of Linux?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year 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 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year 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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