yeah, but between now and next time I need it I’ll have forgotten wiztree but will still remember windirstat because I’ve been using it for years.

fedora kinda sucks for people new to linux. I’ve used it a few times in the past and hated it each time.

Finally actually made the switch to linux permanently a couple years ago with mint and it’s a much nicer experience overall.

fault isn’t zero sum.

both the driver and best buy can be 100% at fault.

I wish I knew that 20 years ago.

sometimes you do, sometimes you don’t. Different updates will break different things for different machines. Some people are blessed by Bill Gates himself, and never have to re-fix their shit. Others are cursed and have to fix random shit unrelated to the update every fucking update.

I can’t prove it, but I think microsoft does this on purpose so that some people will enthusiastically share their positive experiences with windows while everyone else gets shat on.

Is this even an issue anymore? I guess it might depend on what distro you’re using, but I’m using mint and shit’s running flawlessly on modern amd hardware.

I could be that jackass that says “well your first mistake was buying x when you should have bought y.” I’d be correct, but it wouldn’t be helpful to anyone actually trying to deal with this kind of problem.

I’m still “new” to linux myself, despite attempting to use it several times over the years, so I don’t have any actually useful advice. I can however say that linux mint (after getting it installed and updated and upgraded and updated again), runs flawlessly on modern AMD hardware. The package manager even has a gui!

Well, yes. But also that only addresses half my comment. I suppose it’s fair since my own comment only addressed half of the previous comment.

I don’t want to pasta with middle click. I want to scroll with middle click. I want to pasta with ctrl-v.

if I could copy pasta with ctrl-c and ctrl-v in terminal, then 90% of my hatred of the command line would evaporate instantly.

git is fine. girhub sucks ass and if a I am ever directed to it then that project is dead to me.

solution: a checkbox for “show advanced settings”.

also, sounds like i should try kde

a cluttered ui that works is better than a pretty ui that doesn’t.

i imagine a perfect world in which everything has guis and the guis contain all the information I could want about what it does including the relevant terminal commands. In this way, the gui is also the manual.

If the GUI is good, then it’s self documenting.

I’ve got a new favorite quote: “I don’t need tutorials, I need verbose tooltips.” -Wonderbot

I imagine a perfect world in which full guis exist for every setting, and in the tooltips for those settings you can find an explanation of the terminal command to also do the thing. In this way, the gui is the manual for the command line.

To quote Wonderbot: “I don’t need tutorials, I need verbose tooltips.”

This thread has made it clear to me that I should wait another year before checking on gimp again.

anime style anything and gpt will stick a character in it

Back in the day, I learned how to network winxp machines together, without a router, and without being able access the internet to find instructions, all because everything I needed to know about any given setting was in the gui where I could manipulate that setting. I had lan parties featuring dozens of pcs, all manually configured. Was this the correct way to do things? Fuck no, but it worked. I was able to make it work because I could see everything I needed to as I was doing it.

None of the above would have been possible if CLI was the only option.

If i have to suffer because I’m a dumb dumb, that’s on me. I’m tired of suffering because other people are stupid.