That said, did they fix the issue where explorer (with the desktop) would just randomly crash for no reason? I’ve worked in IT for 3 months and it was a frequent issue.

Windows 8 is ancient though.

I don’t have time playing games right now, let alone modern games which need few gigabytes of updates, load for a couple of minutes each time, and where I need to remember what I did last time.

If you have a phone with Android, it already runs Linux.

Someone should make a book called “Life. Beginner’s guide” and put stuff like that there.

I’d rather pay for shit and not have ads.

Just as I said, maybe except Android or Apple smartphones, neither of these tech companies create products which are required for a living. And there are usually some more eco-friendly alternatives in another industries as well, even if more expensive ones.

Just don’t use products made by these corporations. It’s your choice. Stop pretending it is not.

Edit: WELLL, maybe except Google or Apple, since it is forced on society to use smartphones, which sucks, but that’s where some government regulation could help.

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I am grateful that my past me (from few months ago) decided to study Slavic philology, instead of getting stupid tech job. I hate modern tech, including anything from big corporations.

I am also glad that I’ve switched to Linux (Debian ftw) to escape software enshittification.

I think a lot of people expect Linux to work like Windows, and that’s why they go back to Windows, even if some stuff is easier on Linux.

Many of us probably remember times when we tried to download random applications through a web browser, because that’s what Windows expects you to do. People will try that, and be confused, why stuff breaks or not work at all.

Nah, that’s OpenBSD.

I have used btrfs exactly once because it was the default on openSUSE, and the filesystem eventually became corrupted and unrecoverable.

Yes, and their donations are limited to 100k a year per corporation/organization

Interesting that they did that.

Debian testing is not rolling. Sid/unstable is.

I was using Ubuntu and Linux Mint more than a decade ago, then I switched to Debian, so I guess I skipped most of this curve, lol.

For me it’s like:

• PulseAudio - Bluetooth Audio doesn’t work
• PipeWire - Audio sometimes work, sometimes not. Reboot and figure it out.

Literally me. One time I was asked “What is happiness” or some other similar shit. It’s not like I think about stuff like that at regular basis, lol.

Kolorpaint is decent if you don’t care about layers.

How do you do any kind of work without having layers?

It is, but most modern software doesn’t work at all in Wine. I have 2 apps (Paint.net, and SketchUp Make 2017) which don’t have any real alternatives (or they suck) for Linux and they don’t work in Wine.