One of us! One of us! One of us!
Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot.
ElcaineVolta@kbin.social 4 months ago
just switched to Linux for the first time this week!
Artyom@lemm.ee 4 months ago
macattack@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There are dozens of us, dozens!
Liz@midwest.social 4 months ago
Twitter sent me to Mastodon. Reddit sent me to Lemmy. Windows has sent me to Linux. These things are basically promoting the better versions of themselves by becoming shittier versions of themselves.
puppy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Same here. But I had always been on Linux since I was a kid because Ubuntu (Gnome 2 days) was very pretty compared to Windows XP to me.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 4 months ago
How much searching did you have to do? Be honest. Ever try to mount a network share permanently yet?
Rustmilian@lemmy.world 4 months ago
[deleted]Kbobabob@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I didn’t realize that was in every distro
Rustmilian@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It will be once I infiltrate all 9billion distro.
Fal@yiffit.net 4 months ago
Literally every distro has dolphin in the repos
Allero@lemmy.today 4 months ago
As someone on Manjaro for over a year, I did have a few searches, but they were rare and mostly related to obscure things I needed.
Not even close to the “search a fix every 10 minutes” experience I was promised.
puppy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No searching at all. I got a new computer last month.
- Copy the IP address of the old computer
- Paste it into Dolphin
- Copy paste everything
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And how would a new user know to find this specific app in the repo? Have you ever actually searched “how to permanently mount a network dive in Linux”? I didn’t see a single one saying dolphin.
puppy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I don’t know how to mount a network drive in Windows. So what’s your point?
btw I just searched how to do it in KDE. First result is a Reddit thread explaining how to do it in Dolphin.
subtext@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I did, and it was fairly straightforward according to the documentation I found. This was a couple of years ago but I’m pretty sure I needed to figure out how to use nano, then type some magic words into fstab along with the IP and password, and I haven’t had to mess with it ever since.
Shade@lemmy.world 4 months ago
More to the penguin army! Welcome
Rustmilian@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’ll happily help you if needed. Hmu.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is the problem with Linux. People that know how to use a PC and are not tech illiterate still can’t use it very well.
JCreazy@midwest.social 4 months ago
I know how to use a PC and I am tech literate and I can use Linux just fine so I don’t get what your point is.
The_v@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I have used Linux off and on for almost 20 years.
I install it, see if I can do everything I want.
Get lost in terminal hell.
Give up and uninstall it.
Until I can browse to a webpage, download a program and click on an icon and have it install and work, the OS is shit for the general user. It’s not that fucking difficult of a concept.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There a reason memes like this exist.
Rustmilian@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is the problem with Windows. People that know how to use a PC and are not tech illiterate still can’t use it very well. Just the fact that you offered means you know they are probably having some issues.
The_v@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s not a problem with windows it’s a feature. Even the barely tech literate people can use it to bumble their way through to get the job done, eventually.
They don’t use it well but they still use it. They also rarely break it anymore.
Those of us who worked with these people with win 98 and XP… Shudder. They ways they screwed up the system was truly remarkable at times.
hightrix@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m extremely technically literate, build my own PCs and write my own software tools.
I don’t use Linux at home because I don’t want to fiddle. I want to sit down, open steam, and play a game.
I use Linux for many things, but my personal computer uses windows because it just works all the time.
Rustmilian@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m sorry all of the Linux fan boys don’t like your comment. My main is Windows and my other PC is a Linux box.