lmao

(also use Linux)

    • Owl [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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      Windows has a long history of every second version being shit. 2000->XP, Vista->7, 8->10, 11->Something slightly less shit than 11?

      I think they’ll dial back some of the most visible bad parts, while keeping whatever are the most profitable, and a lot of people will go along with it.

      Windows people seriously should just use Linux Mint though.

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          Ignore videos about vim or windows manager vs. tile manager or any of that bullshit. You don’t need that shit at all. I go into these things just because it’s quick snd enjoyable sometimes, but I literally do not care about being “efficient” at programming. I don’t care about saving 5.23 seconds changing navigating through a folder with my keyboard. I will use my arrow keys. I will use my mouse. I will use an editor with a debugger, thank you.

          I use Linux as a daily desktop. I do use my terminal often, but that’s because I find it easy, but literally 99% of the things I do don’t require it. Just download most things from the App Store, install games, click play.

          Sometimes you’ll need to tweak certain settings to get a game working. It’s annoying, but if you’re comfortable editing game files to mod then this is no different. Many tools exist, and sometimes you don’t even need a tool. You just click and drag a file to your game folder.

          Someone really needs to make an introduction to Linux video where not a single command line is used to get things up and running lol. As easy as it is, people see a terminal and they shit themselves. Understandable, but that’s why you need to show that these distros exist to draw in people who never want to touch a command line.

      • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        95/98/ME was kind of the other way around. 95? Shitty, unstable OS. 95B/SR2? Surprisingly stable, by Win95 standards. 95C/SR2.5? Shitty OS again because of the Internet Explorer integration baked into everything in the fucking shell.

        Same deal with 98 – the initial release was a crash-prone mess, but 98 SE fixed a lot of that through improved hardware support.

        …and then there’s Windows ME, which was just dogshit all around. Love it when my OS decides to optimize a slow-ass PATA disk and corrupt the kernel while doing so.

        (And Vista was just 7 with really nonsensical branding/segmentation, and released for use on hardware that hadn’t caught up yet. Vista Ultimate was legit if you had a beefy enough CPU and tuned a few things in the OS.)