I like to think I’m not. On the other hand if those are the only two options I guess I must be?
That other person though… seems to be wildly bent out of shape over a downvote on someone else’s comment. I show they deleted their other comment now but: definitely an asshole.
Anyway, since we’re this deep into the convo, might as well explain: the downvote was mostly about someone still dual-booting Windows at this point. That was not at all articulated by a simple swipe to downvote, but a lot quicker and easier (or not, in retrospect). Does that make me an asshole? Maybe; if so, I’ll take that hit to my little reputation and move on.
In the interest of continuing the conversation though, I’ll ask… what draws you to keep it around? My experience when I was dual booting was that before long I found myself not booting windows for a year or two. When I did [around the time of the transition from 7 to 10], it just caused extra hassle with things updating and breaking. And the last couple of games I had “needed” it for began working fine in Linux. So I reclaimed the space, and haven’t missed it as windows 11 enshittified further and Microsoft went all in on vibe coding slop.
Hmm interesting. I saw that comment, it was certainly a funny response I never saw coming.
In reality? There’s still things that I have to use windows for, mainly work related stuff and the occasional video game. I keep most of the important stuff on my Linux boot but ffs Nvidia drivers blow chunks sometimes, there’s a ton of games that have a ton of problems that I play. Its also still windows 10, im sure thats a security issue at this point.
I find the “just don’t play it if it refuses to play on Linux” to be a failure of a comment most of the time because it all the games my friends play. I would be a very lonely person if I couldnt play battlefield 6 atm, shitty as EA is, its what my friends are playing. Its annoying but my life.
Also my keyboard app only runs on windows, I’ve tried everything but can not for the life of me get it to actually read my keyboard while using linux. So thats also a thing.
I just find it interesting to get an actual answer on the downvoted on seemingly innocent comments, I like to learn about others psychology.
My work computer is a whole separate thing, and there I do find Windows pretty important, mainly for Active Directory management.
Definitely a case where “your mileage may vary” as games go. I can’t stand EA as a company, and the competitive online shooter scene just strikes me as so appallingly toxic every time. Obviously that doesn’t work for everyone and I very much get the appeal of that social aspect of gaming. So I guess I count myself lucky there that I’ve spent years cultivating the kind of environment where my games and friends are compatible with Linux — lol.
However, I’m struggling to even comprehend the concept of a keyboard either needing an “app” or not working on Linux. Maybe with some unusual key mapping desires, but QMK firmware seems to take care of that and it works fine on Linux.
Lmao they read our posts immediately and got butthurt. Like literally within seconds. Really strong and confident energy radiating from @Hawke@lemmy.world. I really look up to you @Hawke@lemmy.world you’re such a strong and powerful internet commenter with well stated and explained opinions. I hope to some day be as smart and eloquent as @Hawke@lemmy.world. I will never live up to that though.
os-probe, the thing that suppose to help grub mkconfig auto-detect windows boot menu entry, is by default disabled in
/etc/default/grub.You need to:
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=falsein/etc/default/grub/boot/grub/grub.cfgOh neat, I have just gotten used to it and by extension means I rarely boot to windows which is a good thing in my eyes.
Not entirely sure why I was getting downvoted though, maybe I finally gained a hater? Or was it the use of lol?
It was @Hawke@lemmy.world and they either misclicked or they are a raging asshole. Either way don’t worry about them.
Weird, not sure if I’ve interacted with them or not. I don’t have them tagged. @Hawke@lemmy.world did I piss you off before?
I don’t think so, no.
I feel like people put a lot more stock in downvotes than is really necessary or intended. It’s nothing personal.
Also it feels very weird to get called out like that for something so trivial. Let alone directly insulted (by the parent reply, not by you.)
Im not sure they were insulting you, it does say “or they are a raging asshole” only if you are an asshole… which you aren’t right?
I like to think I’m not. On the other hand if those are the only two options I guess I must be?
That other person though… seems to be wildly bent out of shape over a downvote on someone else’s comment. I show they deleted their other comment now but: definitely an asshole.
Anyway, since we’re this deep into the convo, might as well explain: the downvote was mostly about someone still dual-booting Windows at this point. That was not at all articulated by a simple swipe to downvote, but a lot quicker and easier (or not, in retrospect). Does that make me an asshole? Maybe; if so, I’ll take that hit to my little reputation and move on.
In the interest of continuing the conversation though, I’ll ask… what draws you to keep it around? My experience when I was dual booting was that before long I found myself not booting windows for a year or two. When I did [around the time of the transition from 7 to 10], it just caused extra hassle with things updating and breaking. And the last couple of games I had “needed” it for began working fine in Linux. So I reclaimed the space, and haven’t missed it as windows 11 enshittified further and Microsoft went all in on vibe coding slop.
Hmm interesting. I saw that comment, it was certainly a funny response I never saw coming.
In reality? There’s still things that I have to use windows for, mainly work related stuff and the occasional video game. I keep most of the important stuff on my Linux boot but ffs Nvidia drivers blow chunks sometimes, there’s a ton of games that have a ton of problems that I play. Its also still windows 10, im sure thats a security issue at this point.
I find the “just don’t play it if it refuses to play on Linux” to be a failure of a comment most of the time because it all the games my friends play. I would be a very lonely person if I couldnt play battlefield 6 atm, shitty as EA is, its what my friends are playing. Its annoying but my life.
Also my keyboard app only runs on windows, I’ve tried everything but can not for the life of me get it to actually read my keyboard while using linux. So thats also a thing.
I just find it interesting to get an actual answer on the downvoted on seemingly innocent comments, I like to learn about others psychology.
My work computer is a whole separate thing, and there I do find Windows pretty important, mainly for Active Directory management.
Definitely a case where “your mileage may vary” as games go. I can’t stand EA as a company, and the competitive online shooter scene just strikes me as so appallingly toxic every time. Obviously that doesn’t work for everyone and I very much get the appeal of that social aspect of gaming. So I guess I count myself lucky there that I’ve spent years cultivating the kind of environment where my games and friends are compatible with Linux — lol.
However, I’m struggling to even comprehend the concept of a keyboard either needing an “app” or not working on Linux. Maybe with some unusual key mapping desires, but QMK firmware seems to take care of that and it works fine on Linux.
Lmao they read our posts immediately and got butthurt. Like literally within seconds. Really strong and confident energy radiating from @Hawke@lemmy.world. I really look up to you @Hawke@lemmy.world you’re such a strong and powerful internet commenter with well stated and explained opinions. I hope to some day be as smart and eloquent as @Hawke@lemmy.world. I will never live up to that though.