While y’all were beating your chests over PC operating systems, I was simply browsing lemmy on my phone.
Windows is the virus.
I find it amussing that tech bros think the average home user will care… They’ll keep using Win 10 like nothing has changed. I knew people still happily using XP in 2014…
For those who aren’t already aware, you can continue to get Windows 10 security updates after EOS, as well as updates for legacy windows systems, with 0patch. That’s what I plan on doing. https://0patch.com/
I thought they specifically planned to end the security updates to force people to use win11
Microsoft is going to stop providing updates, but 0patch is specifically providing security patches after EOS so that people don’t have to upgrade to Windows 11.
Microsoft does that too though. And afaik they have offered extended support for a long time for loads of windows versions (especially for the server versions)
They are not ending support for some evil plot to force people to use win11. They just don’t want to support win10 forever. The exact same thing has happened to every other windows version and most Linux distros and lots of other stuff like servers and networking hardware.
it would feel less evil if win11 wasnt so full of awful and downgraded features.
That’s just incompetence. It’s not like they are laughing with the devil because people can’t place the taskbar at the top anymore.
They feel they can afford incompetence because they know so many people dont have a choice anyway. Any microsoft locked institution for example. If that isnt at least a little evil I dont know what is.
You can also overcome your Stockholm syndrome and ditch the trash for good.
Unfortunately there are a few things that keep me from switching to Linux.
- The drivers for my mouse don’t work properly
- JACK is not a substitute for Voicemeeter
- JACK’s latency makes it less suitable for recording guitar
- I use FL Studio
- I need access to a Windows testing environment
- Having to suddenly troubleshoot in Linux completely breaks my flow
Support for mine ended the day I unplugged it from the net 4 years ago
I think widows is the virus
Wait, was the scabbard always curved in this image?
“Linux will never supplant windows” naysayers in shambles.
Yes, everyone can have Audacity (for all your audio basics needs!) Audacity & Gimp work on Windows & MacOS, for those of you who continue to pay homage to corporate overlords for your computational playground (but want to use free (& open source) tools).
I’ll just ask chatgpt instead of being told LMGTFY and RTFM
why spend time googling dozens of half-related forum issues when chatgpt can average all those half-related issues in one plausible-looking reply. just think of the time saved.
Rtfm?
“Read The Fucking Manual” (sometimes seen as “Read the Fscking Manual”) I remember saying it back in the day when I was annoyed that the answer could be found in the documentation while someone is asking others what something means, how it works, or having a common problem.
I now see it as quite pretentious of a reply and I now don’t reply if I can’t also be helpful.
Related: Angst About Windows 10 Support Ending Soon, Ending Soon!
Don’t be elitist. You were a noob once, and someone helped you along the way.
The more people who leave corporate platforms, the better. Punch up, not down.
someone helped you
New to the FOSS community, eh? 😉
Been here since Fedora Core 5.
The FOSS community is awesome, if you hang out on the right IRCs.
The people who voulenteer in the irc chats of the Linux mint help I talked with were so chill and helpful
Sometimes you just need to be told to “read the manual”
The meme is poking fun at elitism.
Ah, ok. I’m a bit neurodivergent, so I sometimes miss the tone of memes.
Last sentence shows you’re the real hero.
If by “someone” you mean man.
I can name 2 women right off the top of my head who helped me greatly early in my venture into FOSS.
One is an Ubuntu MOTU on the forums, and the other helps organize the Ohio Linuxfest.
That bit of context was missing from your comment. It probably would have savwd you a few downvotes if you had included it to begin with.
You already had a few when I saw the comment.
Yeah, the man pages, various forums and LUGs.
sudo touch grass
I know this is a joke but I genuinely get annoyed by people who seriously believe this.
I mean I do reserve the right to get annoyed when I’m asked for help because windows messed something up and they want it fixed in windows.
In that cases while perhaps a little less polite and more over the top than I would phrase it the meme’s end at least is valid in my opinion.
I also very quickly get frustrated when people fail to follow the instructions with a program.
I just say I don’t use windows anymore so I can’t help you from the windows side of things.
And not following instructions are something that needs to be undone slowly. I tend to just point out the instructions they missed and how they could have avoided the whole ordeal if they read that. Unfortunately you need to teach (or unlearn the windows habit) people that in Linux there’s no BS next next next where there’s no useful info given.
I just say I don’t use windows anymore so I can’t help you from the windows side of things.
And yet they come back again and again :(
I think the rest I would agree with, I’m just impatient with that.
and i just repeat that and be like i cant help you, i will probably make things worse (shrugs)
and i get that, at that point i would just say nothing cause thats better than a negative impression. just imagine a 3 yr old and be like they dont know any better.
the whole 3 or 4 of them?
Unfortunately, people like that are an outsized problem wherever they exist. The extremes are often the most visible parts of a group, especially in the world of algorithmic relevance. If you really want to see whatever your group is achieve cultural success, those people are counterproductive.
I dunno how many are there but there were a lot of them at some point. Maybe I just ignore them now, but outsiders of the clique don’t know that even we don’t take them seriously.
Sudo apt install edge
You mean
flatpak install flathub com.microsoft.Edge?Wait is that real? Why would anyone do that? Omg…I’m gonna vomit brb
I used to like edge. It was a much better choice over chrome and IE.
I think at least few years ago it was much better for laptops if you cared about your laptop’s battery life (on Windows). Not sure how it’s nowadays, or if it works the same way on Linux.
I think in the end, if you need Chromium-based browser and want something that is supported by bigger corporation for some reason, you need to decide which company you hate more and use competitor’s product.
Yea back when windows 10 was just peeking out it seemed great
Isn’t edge just IE ported to Chromium?
It used to not use Chromium at all.
