• iByteABit [he/him]@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It’s funny, but memes like this affect the opinion of people who haven’t tried it.

    They mistake some extreme minimal arch rice for the general Arch experience or the general Linux experience as well. If so many Lemmy users, who are statistically tech nerds, don’t see through the meme, then the average person will definitely stay away from Linux.

      • spez@sh.itjust.worksOP
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        1 year ago

        simply better

        for you yes, I reallly don’t like the linux community’s mentality of hurr durr mine betterrr. To each their own.

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    What kind of weak anon compiles his kernel without supporting the clearly required and already integrated hardware?

    It’s fine and dandy if you remove coax or something, but video output? Really?

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    Arch is the truest test of how much you’re willing to sacrifice for control.

    You get control of everything on your system, but you’re basically on your own when it all goes to shit… which from how many of these posts I keep seeing seems to be a daily occurance haha

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      Hardly.

      Gentoo is closer, it’s like Arch except you’re supposed to COMPILE every package…

      Then there’s Linux From Scratch. You don’t download the Distro, you download the manual on how to MAKE the Distro.

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    Unironically me as an IT professional who uses Windows. It just works. I have to fuck around with all that shit all day, I don’t want to go home and do it too.

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      As a windows user in corporate IT. It just doesn’t work. I spend most of my time hacking my way through useless unix pseudo toys, wsl2, cygwin, mingw… Each one for every tool because… Reasons. And because wsl2 is just painful. So we spend time creating fake unix virtual machines via docker on kubernetes using vs code remotely on expensive linux clusters… Frustrating.

      Go home and turn on a linux laptop just to see a real functional terminal. Deep breath, zen, cathartic.

      Windows makes my otherwise fine daily work miserable.

      I hate enterprise IT. Built for sending around emails and working with excel sheets.

      I am seriously thinking about starting an AI start up just to avoid risking another windows laptop switching job (they always promise cool stuff, at the end they always deliver overpriced windows garbage, my 8 years old laptop is more functional than their $ 3k notebook)

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        Sounds like you’re just more familiar with Linux and that’s fine. I use Linux, Windows and MacOS regularly and haven’t had a problem with Windows honestly. The most frustrating of the 3 is MacOS, and even then it’s nitpicking.

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          In sorry, but they’re kind of right. Windows is HELL ON EARTH to support. Fixing issues is a guessing game because no one really knows what’s wrong, its garbage driver enumeration system means a year down the line a users monitor/headset/dock will magically stop working, restarting is a 50/50 shot of getting stuck on the spinning circle, I could go on and on and on.

          Within three months of starting that job windows was gone from every PC I owned.