It’s like complaining about requiring the command line but willing to mess with regedit, group policies or even powershell to just get Windows to a temporarily usable state (before an update overrides your settings).
That was the breaking point for me, actually, back in February 2024; when I realized I was going to have to tard-wrangle my operating system to get it to behave right no matter which OS I used, I’d rather use the one that’s free, doesn’t include spyware I have to rip out, and won’t re-fuck itself after an update. Like, yeah, the terminal is still a pain in the ass for me on rare occasions I have to use it, but it’s no bigger a pain than any of that stuff on Windows; nor is it inherently any scarier than Command Prompt or PowerShell like some seem to think; and unlike Windows things actually stay fixed instead of some corporation going “ah-ah-ah, you can’t do that, let me just fuck that right back up for you.”
Like, I was prepared for the same kind of fight with Linux I’d had with Windows because the fight didn’t seem all that different by that point; that Mint ended up just working most of the time was an unexpected delight.
It’s like complaining about requiring the command line but willing to mess with regedit, group policies or even powershell to just get Windows to a temporarily usable state (before an update overrides your settings).
That was the breaking point for me, actually, back in February 2024; when I realized I was going to have to tard-wrangle my operating system to get it to behave right no matter which OS I used, I’d rather use the one that’s free, doesn’t include spyware I have to rip out, and won’t re-fuck itself after an update. Like, yeah, the terminal is still a pain in the ass for me on rare occasions I have to use it, but it’s no bigger a pain than any of that stuff on Windows; nor is it inherently any scarier than Command Prompt or PowerShell like some seem to think; and unlike Windows things actually stay fixed instead of some corporation going “ah-ah-ah, you can’t do that, let me just fuck that right back up for you.”
Like, I was prepared for the same kind of fight with Linux I’d had with Windows because the fight didn’t seem all that different by that point; that Mint ended up just working most of the time was an unexpected delight.