For the main initial one, near 10x the resource use of 95/98/NT/2000, to accomplish apparently nothing more but pointless shiny.
Then when I moved to SuSe, with KDE3, I saw they had even far greater shiny, for near 10x less resource use. Further confirming my leaving Windows and all proprietary. And further making me wonder what the resources were being squandered on. Also, I dont recall the specifics, but there was rumors going around of various spyware in there too, and some compatibility difficulties with some of the software I was using at the time, and no apparent means to work around it.
Also, shortly after, I learned of M$ Window’s subliminal messaging system, and one drunken night with a couple of rotters on the outer fringe of our friends network, we messed around with it on a friend’s computer (with WinXP), largely thinking it wouldn’t be effective. But oh boy was it effective [just one example, as a new Linux user, I put in “get red hat”, and days/weeks later, utterly uncharacteristically, he bought a red fedora!]. Really glad I put the brakes on the more foul stuff they wanted to put in the messages. Gets one wondering what messages the corporation put in.
FYI, subliminal messages, as in “messages that you can’t see but your subconscious will be affected by” are not a thing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli
I remember watching a science show where someone wanted to demonstrate them, blatantly failed, tried again, failed again, called a psychologist to try better, and failed again. At the end the guy excused himself and said that it must surely be working for everyone but him, for some reason. Except no one actually managed to get it working, the guy who invented the concept later admitted he faked the result.
Qwel@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
What did XP do? I’ve never heard someone complain about it
Digit@lemmy.wtf 3 days ago
For the main initial one, near 10x the resource use of 95/98/NT/2000, to accomplish apparently nothing more but pointless shiny.
Then when I moved to SuSe, with KDE3, I saw they had even far greater shiny, for near 10x less resource use. Further confirming my leaving Windows and all proprietary. And further making me wonder what the resources were being squandered on. Also, I dont recall the specifics, but there was rumors going around of various spyware in there too, and some compatibility difficulties with some of the software I was using at the time, and no apparent means to work around it.
Also, shortly after, I learned of M$ Window’s subliminal messaging system, and one drunken night with a couple of rotters on the outer fringe of our friends network, we messed around with it on a friend’s computer (with WinXP), largely thinking it wouldn’t be effective. But oh boy was it effective [just one example, as a new Linux user, I put in “get red hat”, and days/weeks later, utterly uncharacteristically, he bought a red fedora!]. Really glad I put the brakes on the more foul stuff they wanted to put in the messages. Gets one wondering what messages the corporation put in.
Qwel@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
FYI, subliminal messages, as in “messages that you can’t see but your subconscious will be affected by” are not a thing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli
I remember watching a science show where someone wanted to demonstrate them, blatantly failed, tried again, failed again, called a psychologist to try better, and failed again. At the end the guy excused himself and said that it must surely be working for everyone but him, for some reason. Except no one actually managed to get it working, the guy who invented the concept later admitted he faked the result.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 days ago
I’m guessing you’ve no idea how uncompelling that is to those who have deployed such and seen it be intensely effective.
“not a thing” XD yeah. not like there’s not big incentives to have people believe that.
PS, I used to work in advertising. It’s a thing.