He gets out of Windows! 😀👍
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I use Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarch
I read that as “I use arch by the waaaaaaaaaaaaayy…!”
I bet that, like most Arch users, that one kept on thinking “So far, so good” all the way down.
Why not all 3? I love complaining.
We had a quip in the bug tracker at a company I worked at:
Man developed speech because of his deep need to complain.
There’s a “defenestrate” joke here somewhere.
Yup, fella left Windows through the pain of installing Arch
More like Parabola, judging by the trajectory!
I’ll whine until there is a solution for anticheat
As long as you’re whining to the game publishers, not Linux people who are not only technically unable but also legally prohibited from doing anything about it.
It’s important to place the blame where it belongs.
There are solutions. Those developers/publishers would rather have kernel level anticheats than use any of them.
Actually, for most of them, the anticheat works fine on Linux, they just choose not to enable support
Server level anti cheat is never going to work on its own unless they switch to cloud gaming entirely. And nobody except shareholders are waiting for that.
Whine with your dollars, the companies that make the decision don’t give a fuck about shit else.
Has anyone at Microsoft even considered adding solitaire, pinball and ski run back in?
Complain, then switch to Linux and use WINE to run that piece of software that you just can’t do without or replace.
I have been online linux mint for a good while now.
Also as a side note, i would recommend new Linux users to not learn the command line. Do not touch the command line if you’re not sure what you’re doing. Like with a knife, it’s a powerful tool but you can also do a lot of harm with it if you don’t know exactly what you are doing.
Everything that most people need (web browsing, writing emails, watching movies, making presentations) can be done with graphical programs only. You shouldn’t ever need to touch the command line.
So I agree with you, kinda. it shouldn’t be something scary. It just needs to be understood. The command line is very literal. With a graphical environment, there are design elements that can kind of nudge you towards one way or another of doing or saying something to the computer. A command line is blindly speaking to something. Is incredibly efficient at doing exactly what you already know exactly how to do. The GUI is more assistive.
I only tried Linux once, about 15 years ago, and got scared off because it was all command. When I blow the dust off my laptop I might try it again now that its all user friendly.
Just make sure to pick the right distro. Some are complex still to cater to us veterans
Arch users deserve to be defenestrated.
Tell me why Arch is so bad?
Arch isn’t bad. It’s the users. I use EndeavourOS btw.
Love me some EndeavourOS.
Its not that its bad. Its that it isn’t any better but people go out of their way to say it is. Its the Vegan choice for linux. I’ve installed it and used it but honestly it doesn’t bring anything better to the table. Right now I’ve installed KDE Neon but its going to go pretty quick.
Its the effete users that are annoying.
It’s the vegan choice for linux, in that actual users of it aren’t actually that annoying, but everyone else plays up the stereotype so much that y’all think they actually are
I don’t use Arch btw and also I’m not vegan
Vegans are the most annoying. I get crap from some arch goons regularly. I don’t get much from vegans on lemmy because I block their communities. I’m not leaving the Linux communities. I was here before them and I’ll be here after they moved on to some other distro. They do however resemble Vegans in their inability to accept no one wants to hear them ad nauseam.
I’m confused. Are you blocking users that harass you, or communities where they’re talking amongst themselves? Because like. Ofc they’re going to talk about veganism in a community centered around veganism, and they’re gonna react poorly when you barge in complaining about them. That’s like saying chess players are particularly annoying because they don’t like hearing how much chess sucks on /r/chess
I dont care about vegans or their opinions. They are entitled to them but I block the communities so their brand of ridiculous doesn’t show up in my feed as much. Just like I block the women only community so they don’t have to worry about me reacting to their brand of bigotry.
“I can’t switch, there’s this one function of this one programme that I may need in the next 50 years.”
You jest but the pain is real. Developing a Windows only software for work in a Windows only environment.
There’s a Linux app for that but the buttons are in different places
“There’s this obscure function in Excel that I know somebody who knows somebody who used it that won’t work in LibreOffice Calc”
I mean, you can keep putting up strawmen, but that is not going to convince anyone that Linux is superior.
“They told me to type words into a black screen with green letters, and the mere suggestion burned down my house and killed my family.”
Yes, do as I say!
“But I am more than happy to root around the registry and make changes to obscure variables that will be reverted in the next update”
You mean through a GUI?
Geez, I wonder why.
I mean, just now I was talking about dual booting Linux and Windows, and they fight over the RTC, Linux wants UTC, Windows wants local time. It’s a line of bash to set Linux to use local time, it’s changing a registry key in Windows.
That man’s home address?
/dev/lp0Ah yeah that’s a bug. Should be a fix in a few days
No, it’s a feature.
Still needs a toggle. What is this? North Korea?
It’s Microslop so… yeah same thing.
Ahem… I believe you mean BEST KOREA.
Excel tables.
No Linux/OSS app can do this (and will likely never). Open Office devs have outright declared they won’t.
Or the automated process that export/import data via excel.
Let’s see you rebuild all those things, without man hours or errors. Costly errors.
Whenever someone gets on a “just switch” campaign (whether it’s something like Linux or Metric), I know they’ve never had to work on a migration project and seen the challenges, difficulties, and risk.
I use Linux for servers, but I’ll be damned if I’m gonna spend time converting my workstation - there’s zero value in it for me when I have decades of tools and process. The value proposition just isn’t there.
Don’t go taking down a fence until you fully understand what it’s for.
Can the web version of Excel do tables? I know that it’s a lesser version of the desktop app, but if tables was the most advanced feature you need, that could be an option.
OnlyOffice is supposed to be better than OpenOffice for Microsoft documents
Not to mention that LibreOffice has all but replaced OpenOffice as the latter is virtually unmaintained.
Fair enough. Excel is pretty complicated.
I:
A) Try Wine. No? Ok…
B) Hello windows using friend or relative, can I borrow your PC for 30 min? No? Ok…
C) Hey work IT man, so, I know this is dumb but I need to run a program called pkhex. Yeah it’s a hex editor specifically for pokemon hex files. Yeah I can get you anything on your cart. I can get you a legit Mew, even change your OT name from whatever you thought was cool in 1998. Ok so I need admin to download that real fast because I run Fedora, you bring your cart tomorrow and we can do this on lunch.
Typically option B is enough lol.
There is also option D.
Huh, neat! Never seen this, how is it?
It’s VM based, so it’s perfect for niche applications that don’t work on Wine and don’t need GPU acceleration. That’s the only shortcoming.
Good to know, thanks!
“I need quickbooks.” Use the web version. “Yea but that one sucks.” They all suck. Use something else. “There is nothing else. My account says quickbooks is all there is.” He’s wrong. “Well what am I supposed to do? People with money use quick books.” No, people spend money to use quickbooks. You have an accountant. He can use quick books. You can use whatever you want. -continues to bitch about expensive things he hates, dismisses anything free as hippy crap-
I don’t know, the most whining I see here on Lemmy is from Linux people.
That’s just the ones who don’t use Arch.
No no, the ones using Arch are the most vocal whiners.
What would they have to whine about? They set up their system exactly how they like it since the OS comes without any preinstalled software and only minimal defaults for the ones you install.
Wine was actually a good tip hahah
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hineFinally swapped to Linux last week and loving it! Kubuntu because I wanted KDE for KZones since I was using FancyZones from PowerToys on Windows. The hardest part was migrating my qBitTorrent, Sonarr/Radarr/Plex because they all point to windows drives. A simple replace in the DB file fixed it, and we’re running smoothly!
Gonna get an auto encode/upload working this weekend, and I’m so excited. I don’t feel held back like windows, and it doesn’t feel like work configuring it, which I was afraid of.
A few hiccups here and there, but I think of it like growing pains that will eventually go away.
A few hiccups here and there, but I think of it like growing pains that will eventually go away.
Yeah, once you learn the Linux way of doing things or the KDE way of doing something, after some time, it’ll just be old hat. Just like how it was learning the Windows or MacOS way of doing things.
fucking switch or shut up, it’s that easy. WHY. COMPLAIN. IF. YOU. DO. NOT. SWITCH???
This is not how you attract new users.
You complain when you hope it will get better. You switch when you realize it won’t. Just like relationships.
Then why are they aren’t realising it won’t get better, and they’re milked for $$$?
