It’s seriously hilarious to me that something like Linux will literally let you uninstall the bootloader and reboot without installing a new one and won’t say shit about it. :D
You can’t even put /Users fully onto a second drive without hacks that potentially break Windows Update because they can’t even be arsed to use their own environment variables or follow mounts.
“Reformatting huh? Hope you had a backup of all your documents, lol. Hey why not try OneDrive only $199 a year bro”
What hardcore Linux users don’t seem to really get is this: The vast majority of people who need to use computers simply do not care about anything you just said. They absolutely don’t. They simply want to press a button to boot the device, use the apps they need and maybe even play a game and that’s it. That is what Windows does for them.
The average user is overwhelmed when the desktop icons have been moved.
I love Linux and it is on a great way to being used by a wider audience and it’s great to provide the freedom it does. But it still has its quirks that makes it too hard to use for 95% of users.
But the average user is not going to uninstall their bootloader to begin with. We were talking about power users. As a power user it’s nice to be able to do whatever you want.
Similarly, in Linux, I’ve seen issues like a chown/chmod gone wild that fucked the system file permissions enough that reinstalling is the best course of action.
Yep I’m well aware. I jumped on the Linux train awhile ago. It’s so freeing.
I remember when you could uninstall Internet Explorer on your own as a regular ass user. Now? Get rekt idiot you’re stuck with Edge on your system and we’re gonna regularly reset it as your default browser.
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s seriously hilarious to me that something like Linux will literally let you uninstall the bootloader and reboot without installing a new one and won’t say shit about it. :D
aniki@lemm.ee 10 months ago
4am@lemm.ee 10 months ago
You can’t even put /Users fully onto a second drive without hacks that potentially break Windows Update because they can’t even be arsed to use their own environment variables or follow mounts.
“Reformatting huh? Hope you had a backup of all your documents, lol. Hey why not try OneDrive only $199 a year bro”
aniki@lemm.ee 10 months ago
bearwithastick@feddit.ch 10 months ago
What hardcore Linux users don’t seem to really get is this: The vast majority of people who need to use computers simply do not care about anything you just said. They absolutely don’t. They simply want to press a button to boot the device, use the apps they need and maybe even play a game and that’s it. That is what Windows does for them.
The average user is overwhelmed when the desktop icons have been moved.
I love Linux and it is on a great way to being used by a wider audience and it’s great to provide the freedom it does. But it still has its quirks that makes it too hard to use for 95% of users.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 10 months ago
But the average user is not going to uninstall their bootloader to begin with. We were talking about power users. As a power user it’s nice to be able to do whatever you want.
aniki@lemm.ee 10 months ago
wmassingham@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sure, if you boot a Windows recovery image, you can do that: …microsoft.com/…/use-bootrec-exe-in-the-windows-r…
Similarly, in Linux, I’ve seen issues like a chown/chmod gone wild that fucked the system file permissions enough that reinstalling is the best course of action.
DarkenLM@kbin.social 10 months ago
It's almost like every OS will have issues if you start fucking up core parts of it, who would have guessed?
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yep I’m well aware. I jumped on the Linux train awhile ago. It’s so freeing.
I remember when you could uninstall Internet Explorer on your own as a regular ass user. Now? Get rekt idiot you’re stuck with Edge on your system and we’re gonna regularly reset it as your default browser.
systemglitch@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve not had win 10 default to another browser (edge) one single time in the five or so years I have used it.
I get the windows hate, but I also hate seeing bs about shit that doesn’t happen.