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You’re not wrong, but this rant isn’t really going to accomplish anything useful I don’t think.
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Submitted 3 days ago by trespasser69@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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orclev@lemmy.world 3 days ago
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
You lost me at shitting on legacy code. My brother in Tux, we don’t rewrite code that works willy-nilly in the FOSS world either and for a good reason. New code always means new bugs. A shit ton of the underlying code in your Linux OS was written one or more decades ago.
FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I was a pretty casual windows user, like just going along with its slow crapification because that was the path of least resistance. At work though via AWS I was exposed to various Linux desktop experiences and it was surprisingly fine. Then one day I was trying to do some mundane disk admin task that in Windows XP would have been fairly straight forward to root around in the control panel and find what to do. Searched in the windows 11 start bar for ‘disk management’ (or something similar, whatever it was it was exactly the name of the admin component). Did it find it? Did it heck. Instead it popped up bing (fucking bing??) web results complete with ads. Absolutely zero results for anything on the actual computer or remotely useful. I snapped. It’s done. Windows is crap and dead to me. Put Debian (personal preference) on my main boot drive, kept my windows disk just for the games I think will play better on it. That’s it, it’s over. Microsoft finally fucked it up and will have zero view of me except “this guy seems to play games periodically”. Adios you bloated pile of useless crap. You put XP to shame…
orclev@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The EOL of Win 10 and MS silently installing copilot on my desktop was the final straw for me. I’ve been running 100% Linux now for a couple months with no real issues so far. I expected a few games to give me issues but so far if anything I’ve had fewer issues with games than I did even in Windows. Had a couple hardware problems, although those I’ve mostly been able to solve.
I’ve got it setup to dual boot “just in case”, but haven’t actually needed to which is great. If I still haven’t needed that partition a year from now I’ll probably just reformat it as extra storage and keep a Win10 VM around if I really get stuck on something.
FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’ve admittedly not looked much into games on Linux as it wasn’t my priority. I mostly played via steam on windows. What’s the equivalent route on Linux? Is steam available?
Dalraz@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I was expecting a, “that is all” and was disappointed
RiQuY@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Where are you getting the percentages? Do you have the Windows source code?
n3cr0@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I cannot relate to most of your points. I’ve never seen the ads you describe. UI made a huge leap forward after they neglected it for decades, so it almost caught up to the usual Linux DEs (as they were some years ago). System performance is not worse than on my several Linux systems.
I just don’t see the point in switching to Linux now, if you haven’t already done years ago.
orclev@lemmy.world 3 days ago
If you don’t see the point, then Microsoft has successfully boiled the frog.
n3cr0@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Probably. But maybe it is my habit of unshitifying every OS I install. I always decline telemetry, ads and suspecious features since Win10 rolled out. Same on my android phones. Use adblock since I cannot stand seeing ad banners without freaking out.
My point is: Microsoft and Google always offer opting-out. Users are responsible for accepting or declining services like telemetry. If you still cry about this crap: FIX YOUR CONFIG.
lime@feddit.nu 3 days ago
this reads like a teenager wrote it