That’s not true. Linux users do this waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than Microslop users. Microslop has billions of users, but fewer than 20 fanboys, worldwide.
i’ve run across some people around here who i would never have guessed knew about linux… and not only did they know–they ran it. and yea, more than one was ‘i use arch btw’.
Used and supported Windows for over 30 years at this point. I’ve NEVER been a fan, and started looking into Linux back in '99. It wasn’t ready back then, but two decades later and it seems like Linux does everything except anti-cheat, which I have no use for, better than Windows ever did.
I actually could not believe what was happening, when they rolled out 8 on us.
“We’ve removed… the windows… from Windows.”
Saying that outloud made my boss very angry.
We spent a month pleading to let us go back to 7, to use some kind of standard, non tablet UI.
For a month they told is that didn’t exist in 8, the UI was all totally new and redesigned from the ground up, and no we can’t go back to 7.
But, they were lying, of course. There was a sequence you could do to override the new UI that had indeed been slapdashed over 7’s UI, to go back to 7’s UI.
(Where 7’s UI is modified XP UI, which is modified 98 UI… etc)
We figured it out, they’d patch it to not work, some other email chain would figure out some other override, they’d patch that out.
After about a month of that they actually admitted that the 7 UI was indeed still there and was not just some kind of emergency fall back mode.
Some months later, 8.1 is basically just them making the 7 UI mode fully work.
Again, I literally could not believe how stupid this all was, to the point of sometimes literally dissociating.
Or maybe Windows 8 was my personal Vietnam, or something, lol.
That’s okay because unlike Windows, Linux isn’t guilty of market capture, adware, spyware, bloat, and any number of other things that are wrong with windows.
C’mon, us linux users do the inverse all the time…
Literally any time Windows is mentioned
no we don’t also windows is stupid you should install gentoo
What about Arch btw?
BSD
no, NixOS obviously
Unironically.
Best distro I’ve ever tried. Once it’s set up, things work. Always.
Every time Windows is mentioned it’s somebody complaining about some hostile thing that Linux doesn’t do…
So yeah.
you just did 🤮
windows 🤮
I was bitching about a shitty Windows thing to a happy Windows user just this afternoon.
Windows?? You just need to bring up Gnome
windows 🤮
I promote linux, not complain about windows, every time someone has a an enshitification problem, which is incredibly common now.
You see shit, you clean it up, plain-as.
It’s not the same, when you are the minority/counter culture, you are allowed to advocate for yourself.
grrr
That’s not true. Linux users do this waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than Microslop users. Microslop has billions of users, but fewer than 20 fanboys, worldwide.
Fewer than 19*
I’ve converted to Linux since.
The thing is - most windows user don’t even know Linux exists…
Most Windows users don’t know Windows exist.
i’ve run across some people around here who i would never have guessed knew about linux… and not only did they know–they ran it. and yea, more than one was ‘i use arch btw’.
Linux users 👇
Windows user 👆
Used and supported Windows for over 30 years at this point. I’ve NEVER been a fan, and started looking into Linux back in '99. It wasn’t ready back then, but two decades later and it seems like Linux does everything except anti-cheat, which I have no use for, better than Windows ever did.
… I worked for Microsoft.
… during the time they rolled out Win8, by dogfooding it through every employee and contractor.
I don’t know anyone that hates Microsoft and Windows more than I do.
'98 was a marginal improvement over '95 at least.
Windows 7 with all the SPs was peak Windows
Agreed, peaked at 7.
And its been literally all downhill from there.
I actually could not believe what was happening, when they rolled out 8 on us.
“We’ve removed… the windows… from Windows.”
Saying that outloud made my boss very angry.
We spent a month pleading to let us go back to 7, to use some kind of standard, non tablet UI.
For a month they told is that didn’t exist in 8, the UI was all totally new and redesigned from the ground up, and no we can’t go back to 7.
But, they were lying, of course. There was a sequence you could do to override the new UI that had indeed been slapdashed over 7’s UI, to go back to 7’s UI.
(Where 7’s UI is modified XP UI, which is modified 98 UI… etc)
We figured it out, they’d patch it to not work, some other email chain would figure out some other override, they’d patch that out.
After about a month of that they actually admitted that the 7 UI was indeed still there and was not just some kind of emergency fall back mode.
Some months later, 8.1 is basically just them making the 7 UI mode fully work.
Again, I literally could not believe how stupid this all was, to the point of sometimes literally dissociating.
Or maybe Windows 8 was my personal Vietnam, or something, lol.
I used to be sysadmin for a uni with a citrix farm. I may have a good shot at taking that crown.
I’m admin for a Citrix farm right now.
I feel you.
The fun starts when it decides to kick off the AV for every single user at once
You clearly don’t know about their MVP program.
(Also applies to “Lemmy users” on the top and “Reddit users” on the bottom)
Adblock and Chrome users too
The lesson to the top image people is, don’t tell the bottom image people you feel bad for them, just be glad you’re not them.
That’s okay because unlike Windows, Linux isn’t guilty of market capture, adware, spyware, bloat, and any number of other things that are wrong with windows.
It happens when MS does something that annoys their userbase. Then Linux nerds jump in and tell how much Linux is better.
Exactly, never complain. We lead the way to a better future.
If I didn’t have to use windows for work…
We don’t really do the same thing, because Microsoft is forced upon us every step of the way.
Yes. Because we want native support from apps. Windows has the market share to not care. Linux is getting there but is nowhere near to even macOS.
My theory is you are a Windows user wearing a mask.
I have never gone to look for a windows community, is there one?
Not anymore. It was embraced, extended and extinguished.
On the fediverse?!
Good luck with that.
Every post would be negative
Good
I don’t use Arch, by the way.
How dare you come at me with self awareness!!