• Drigo@sopuli.xyz
    5·
    6 months ago

    I can’t watch Disney plus in the browser on Linux, which kinda sucks. Fuck Disney, but also, anybody knows how to fix it? I tried changing the user agent override, but that didn’t work.

  • ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    36·
    6 months ago

    Was helping a friend install Windows on his new PC this week and my god it was such an awful experience. Just looking at the start menu had me in tears.

  • frozen_flaps@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 months ago

    Winderp has unskippable ads and begging for paid subscriptions even in their card games now. Can’t even play Solitaire in peace. It’s just a deeply enshittified OS.

  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
    44·
    6 months ago

    See, as a native Windows user, I mostly feel the opposite. I use Linux Mint because it’s almost like Windows, but it’s incredibly frustrating when it’s not. I’m not even much of a gamer (most of my games are FOSS, or run in RetroArch, Vice, or DOSBox-X). I just like being able to instantly find the software I’m looking for. It shouldn’t take an hour to find a Notepad. There needs to be something like Dspeech. I shouldn’t need to search and poke and hope that the software is either in apt or flatpak. So every time I go back to Windows, even the hellscape that is 11, I can get everything done faster than Linux.

    • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      6 months ago

      An hour to find a notepad? Most desktop environments come with some simple text editor. And if you’re running something minimal, there’s always nano or vim.
      If some software is not found by apt search, I usually start to wonder, is it not free software? In that case I’d rather find an alternative. Some times I have to go to the softwares web site, where they have install instructions, but that’s the exception.

      • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
        1·
        6 months ago

        In those cases where it’s not free software, I care more about free as in lunch than as in speech. Just let me run arbitrary .exe files in whatever folder I want them in.

        Basically, I want to emphasize the Personal in PC. I don’t want to think about a user account. I don’t want features built for “network security” in my OS. TBH, I just don’t want a server OS - and all UNIX derivatives (including NT Windows) are. My ideal OS would be a dual-boot of FreeDOS & an updated Win Me that runs current hardware.

    • sandflavoured@lemm.ee
      4·
      6 months ago

      Totally get it! It’s somewhat jarring moving from the Windows world of software to the world that are available in apt (or other), or otherwise running essential software through wine/proton.

  • SilverShark@lemmy.world
    35·
    6 months ago

    I one time left a job where everyone had Linux workstations and went into a finance job where developers were using windows. It was the strangest thing I’ve ever seen.

    To begin with, the PCs were highly restrictive. You either had to rely on a shitty service to request software to be installed, or had to beg for an admin account to install anything. This took days if not weeks already on onboard.

    One works with interfaces that hide the actual process. No one actually understood git. They just know a few sequences of buttons. They ask me all the time when they want to do something other then add,commit,push and have no idea about even the status command. They pull up some shitty cli tool, usually within an IDE, and they act as if I’m some sort of genni or know some black magic when I type “git status”, or do things like stash, or solve a conflict.

    The lack of automation possibilities, or scripting, or the fact that so many things have to be done by clicking around interfaces means that everything is super slow. There is friction everywhere! On top of this you get apps freezing or crashing randomly with no information of what happened. Somehow the PCs are so incredibly bloated with company spywares that despite the fact that they are suppose to be Lenovo Ultrabooks with a lot of RAM, SSDs, and a good CPU, they run like a 15 years old laptop with a half broken hard drive.

    Horrible, just horrible.

  • Drathro@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    6 months ago

    Literally finally let my windows partition upgrade to windows 11 last night. It took like 3 HOURS to do. Then I shrunk the partition way down and clean installed my Bazzite dual boot over the extra space and that took MAYBE 15 minutes. I use Windows MAYBE once every 6 months or so. Linux has just been the better experience for 99% of my computing and even gaming needs.

    • taiyang@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 months ago

      Yes but wouldn’t you like to sign up for an outlook account? No? Sorry that wasn’t a question, this full screen window has no X and you will comply.

      … unless you do the thing that skips it, but man that’s an awful experience.

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
      14·
      6 months ago

      They were not space tourists.

      They were cargo. Marketing material for Jeff’s rocket-powered overcompensation that just happened to need oxygen to stay fresh.

      • percent@infosec.pub
        11·
        6 months ago

        Passengers*, I think. I’m pretty sure passenger vehicles are subject to higher quality standards than vehicles meant only for cargo (ISS supplies, for example).

        (I could be wrong. I’m an internet comment, not a rocket surgeon 🤷🏻‍♂️)

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
      57·
      6 months ago

      I mean, it kinda is to me, the base meme image isn’t of them being in space or doing any of the “tourism” parts, but of them being “so grateful to be on the ground” because they couldn’t “handle it”

      • call_me_xale@lemmy.zip
        63·
        6 months ago

        Looks to me like the reader (the Linux user) is identifying with the subject of the image, which would appear to put them in a sympathetic light.

        • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
          11·
          6 months ago

          This is attention whore activity. There were people stuck on the ISS for what like nine months, did they kiss the earth when they returned? These people willingly go to barely the edge of the atmosphere for like two minutes and this is their response when they returned?

          OTOH Windows does suck. Though again I’m guessing no one is switch back for ten minutes by choice.

          • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            6 months ago

            tbh 9 months on iss isn’t too long, they’re experienced astronauts and they had their ride back docked to the iss for a long while anyway. it’s probably way more miserable having to hang out with dumbass celebrities for the rest of your life

  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
    16·
    6 months ago

    My new job issued me with a sweet ass workstation laptop… With W11

    Upside is that the IT dept has about zero awareness of the governance part of cyber security. The laptop has an unlocked bios and coworkers have had no questions asked when their domain joined machines didn’t check in for years.

    So guess who’s about to swap the ssd and roll the machine for a debian based distro. Just need to figure out drivers for the nvidia rtx 1000 ada GPU