Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human

skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Linux does. Not all, but a lot, and more every day.

  It’s been years now, amd it still hits me sometimes how insanely nice it is that my computers now work the way I want them to.

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, that was an unexpected nice thing about switching to Linux, though also the whole point. Like I knew that I wanted to take control back over my computer and OS, but I was surprised at just how much nicer it is when defaults are set without any profit incentive. There just wasn’t “spend time disabling MS attempts to get me to use their other software” or “dig deep for how to change a setting MS would really rather you don’t change” periods and it made me realize that that was where I’d spend a majority of the “computer maintenance” time on windows.

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    • JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve hated and avoided 11 since I first experienced it. After Xmas I had to help setup my parents new PC. It of course is win 11. I spent so much fucking time getting that shit just to a usable state. I’m more convinced than ever to fuck off from MS for good.

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  • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Interestingly, Linux also runs old Windows games better than modern Windows.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    remind me about the odds on whether a specific distro will work with my gpu or cpu

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    • gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      odds are pretty good these days, and if you’re worried dont switch now, but next time you buy hardware buy it with the intention that you may switch and opt for some Linux friendly hardware, which is pretty simple - avoid nvidia and realtek (avoid realtek on windows too if I’m being honest), make sure things are compatible with standards.

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      • JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What’s Realtek done? I haven’t kept up on them.

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    • JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Older stuff, nearly 100%. New stuff, still really high to nearly 100%. The only place you’ll run into trouble is with devices made with only windows drivers etc. So things like a USB label printer or glucose monitor or something like that.

      Computer hardware though, very unlikely to see an issue. Servers use both the CPU and GPU. And most servers run some flavor of Linux.

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    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Gamer’s nexus did a great testing breakdown with Bazzite in a lot of different hardware configs.

      Nvidia GPUs are all over the place in expected performance, AMD and Intel just worked from what I remember.

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    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Odds?

      Just look it up, or tell me what you have.

      Regardless of what you have, the “odds” are good.

      If you have something unusual that causes problems, that’s too bad, but it doesn’t stop the rest of us from having a good time. Now that I’m on linux, I can make sure something will work before I buy it, and if it doesn’t, I can return it.

      It’s only at the time of when you switch you need to think about whether your existing hardware will work.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        it says created for windows vista on the front if that helps

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• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s so hard about C:\users\skisnow, it’s pretty intuitive. Also I don’t think that has changed for almost 2 decades now. (XP was last I remember it being different).

  Unless your talking about OneDrive or some shit.

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  • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What’s so hard about C:\users\skisnow, it’s pretty intuitive

    Except it only plays out like that if you follow their entire plan for how you want to structure your files and do it exactly how they want. Yessir, I put my pictures in Pictures and my documents in Documents and my music in Music and my videos in Videos like a good boy and everything is taken care of, until the moment I have to do something very very slightly different to Microsoft’s plan for my life, like get a second SDD.

    Unless your talking about OneDrive or some shit.

    You mean the OneDrive that gets bundled with every Windows along with an account that you have to really fight the computer to not give you? Why wouldn’t I be including that?

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can move your home folder anywhere you want, like the second SSD you mentioned. This can be done with both a GUI and the command prompt. I’m forced to use a Mac OS for work, and use linux for my devices. But file systems on Windows are easy. Complaining about forced injections of ads or ai makes sense, but their file system is fine.

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