Linux Users Switching Back to Linux

Can we avoid using the space tourists for memes?

Unless we're ridiculing them, obvs.

I mean, it kinda is to me, the base meme image isn't of them being in space or doing any of the "tourism" parts, but of them being "so grateful to be on the ground" because they couldn't "handle it"
- Looks to me like the reader (the Linux user) is identifying with the subject of the image, which would appear to put them in a sympathetic light.
I'm pretty sure this is making fun of those twats
They were not space tourists.
They were cargo. Marketing material for Jeff's rocket-powered overcompensation that just happened to need oxygen to stay fresh.
- Passengers*, I think. I'm pretty sure passenger vehicles are subject to higher quality standards than vehicles meant only for cargo (ISS supplies, for example).
  (I could be wrong. I'm an internet comment, not a rocket surgeon 🤷🏻‍♂️)
Uh, isn’t that what this is?
Agreed, this was my first thought. We do not need to make these monsters into a meme. Let them go back into non-existence.
If anyone wants to listen to a 40 minute rant about it, always recommend Angela Collier.
https://youtu.be/0WtyGK7TdCs
It is so fun to trash them.

Literally me after using my moms Windows 11 Laptop for 10 Minutes.

Are you still Katy Perry or was it a temporary affliction?
- If this premise entertains you, you might enjoy the American Dad! episode regarding Guy Fiere.
  Personally, I love most of their episodes, but I think my favorite is the one with the rear projection TV.
I come home and just turn on my laptop and look at it when I get home from work. Just to remind me that there's better things in the world.
How can you not love W11? It has more telemetry, AI, privacy violating features, garbage uit (not to mention double ui for the same thing) than ever.
Perfect right?

Was helping a friend install Windows on his new PC this week and my god it was such an awful experience. Just looking at the start menu had me in tears.

Must not be a good friend if you installed windows on his PC.
A decent prank though.
My boy! Look how they massecured my boy!
Sionara, lean windows 7 start menu
- Open-Shell can fix that when you're forced (at gunpoint, obviously) to use Windows ;)
I hear ya. Seeing fedora's logo after 8 hours of fixing windows servers and MSSQL has me in tears.
Somebody's looking for a linux sysadmin?
it takes soooo long, think it also needs to be wired, mightve just dine that to speed it up idr

I one time left a job where everyone had Linux workstations and went into a finance job where developers were using windows. It was the strangest thing I've ever seen.

To begin with, the PCs were highly restrictive. You either had to rely on a shitty service to request software to be installed, or had to beg for an admin account to install anything. This took days if not weeks already on onboard.

One works with interfaces that hide the actual process. No one actually understood git. They just know a few sequences of buttons. They ask me all the time when they want to do something other then add,commit,push and have no idea about even the status command. They pull up some shitty cli tool, usually within an IDE, and they act as if I'm some sort of genni or know some black magic when I type "git status", or do things like stash, or solve a conflict.

The lack of automation possibilities, or scripting, or the fact that so many things have to be done by clicking around interfaces means that everything is super slow. There is friction everywhere! On top of this you get apps freezing or crashing randomly with no information of what happened. Somehow the PCs are so incredibly bloated with company spywares that despite the fact that they are suppose to be Lenovo Ultrabooks with a lot of RAM, SSDs, and a good CPU, they run like a 15 years old laptop with a half broken hard drive.

Horrible, just horrible.

Ah you must be the new hire at my firm, welcome!

I have had to use windows for like the last two weeks and the taskbar crashes and freezes constantly so I put a bat file on my desktop that kills and reopens explorer.exe also if my bluetooth headphones disconnect while my mic is muted it refuses to unmute... I have to reboot. This is what people say is a "it just works" experience.

No one has more problems on windows than a linux-first user.
Every thread like this has people that can't seem to get windows to do the bare minimum, but I have yet to have a single hiccup in months. I don't get it. This isn't even a "linux bad" comment, I dual boot and enjoy my linux install as well, the only "problems" I have on there are from being new to linux.
- I'm wondering if some of those issues are just simple annoyances that Windows users are used to putting up with. Because I had lots of those before switching to Linux that I didn't think were fixable.
  The only time I had my windows install be completely unbootable was when dual booting. The rest was always an issue.
- It's even a work pc, there's a thread on the microsoft forums detailing how common the problem is.
- That's because all the people who don't have issues, aren't going to make comments about not having issues in a community that is basically dedicated to shitting on it(seriously, check top posts. It's not "haha linux funny meme", it's "windows bad" over and over again).
  Even if they do make a commen,like you, they get downvoted by people who like to wallow in misery.
- My work laptop with Windows 11 works OK for what I need it for, but I do have to fight it all of the time to get it to do shit. And it is also incredibly slow for no real reason.
It's so funny how you can crash the whole Windows desktop by mounting a network share, disconnecting from the network and trying to access it.
Found that at a previous job where technicians would frequently connect and disconnect from networks. Also, it's impossible to unmount such a share from explorer or PowerShell. Only the old CMD tool works
Other day I tried opening the command prompt on a windows server 2019 by hitting the start button and typing cmd. Waited for 20s before hitting win+r and running cmd.exe from there.
Ws2k19 maybe dated, but wtf is up with that level of performance in searching? I mean if you can't do it in a way approaching satisfactory, then why roll it out at all?
NO BECAUSE I'VE LITERALLY DONE THE SAME THING! For me it was on my desktop instead. But yeah. I don't remember exactly why but it happened enough that I definitely had a bat file that just killed explorer.exe. iIf I'm remembering right it auto restarts.

Every three months for about 30 minutes I’m forced to use windows in a VM. It’s so awful dealing with the pop up’s, forced updates, and background bullshit that I feel the need for a shower after.

My new job issued me with a sweet ass workstation laptop... With W11

Upside is that the IT dept has about zero awareness of the governance part of cyber security. The laptop has an unlocked bios and coworkers have had no questions asked when their domain joined machines didn't check in for years.

So guess who's about to swap the ssd and roll the machine for a debian based distro. Just need to figure out drivers for the nvidia rtx 1000 ada GPU

Same with Android after having to endure iOS for a few minutes

WHERE THE FUCK IS THE BACK BUTTON??
Really? I find these two so similar. On desktop, however, the difference between the three major operating systems is quite big. Especially between Linux/Windows and macOS with its weird shortcuts.
- With Android, at least you can select custom roms to de-google, like CalyxOS (shameless plug.)

I have my Linux laptop open at work next to their windows machine and the difference when I switch between them is ridiculous.

Me after every workday.

Why can’t Windows just work? It’s such a frustrating experience

I'm in this picture and I don't like it. Fuck my work computer

I wouldn't even think about leaving Linux. I use Arch, btw!

I'd consider BSD but it's just the same systems with a worse license I think.

Literally finally let my windows partition upgrade to windows 11 last night. It took like 3 HOURS to do. Then I shrunk the partition way down and clean installed my Bazzite dual boot over the extra space and that took MAYBE 15 minutes. I use Windows MAYBE once every 6 months or so. Linux has just been the better experience for 99% of my computing and even gaming needs.

Yes but wouldn't you like to sign up for an outlook account? No? Sorry that wasn't a question, this full screen window has no X and you will comply.
... unless you do the thing that skips it, but man that's an awful experience.

If she's an astronaut then I'm a gynecologist.

And a plumber.

Those titles are interchangeable.

I can feel this image as I've been working on macos due to regulations for years and then going back to linux full time was orgasmic. Its crazy how much better dev experience on Linux is.

If Linux was introduced to me a lot sooner and I wasn't such a jackass that had to play video games on my computer, I would literally have switched a long fucking time ago. I've used all operating systems at this point and Linux ecosystem is far better. What you can't do on Linux is shit I don't even want to do. Most of the time.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed player here with an Nvidia 3000-series GPU.
Gaming with Steam, GoG (Heroic Launcher), and even disc games installed with Bottles has been a smooth experience with VERY few if any tweaks or fixes needed.
Except for VR (where Monado is making strides!) we are THERE. I'd highly encourage trying it out these days.
Unless you gotta play the latest AAA hyper-competitive monolithic server games with kernel level anti cheat but...at that point might as well have a burner PC. X_X lol
- Even then some work! Marvel Rivals works on Linux fine!
  So does Helldivers 2 but that's cooperative.

Wait wat, grovelling and eating grub and dirt? /s

You prefer eating lilo?
- ffffffffffuuuuuuuuu that’s a good one
- Is that like an alternate term for fifo?

Can confirm. I am on this image

Winderp has unskippable ads and begging for paid subscriptions even in their card games now. Can't even play Solitaire in peace. It's just a deeply enshittified OS.

Install Win7 version of solitaire

I can't watch Disney plus in the browser on Linux, which kinda sucks. Fuck Disney, but also, anybody knows how to fix it? I tried changing the user agent override, but that didn't work.

Pirate it
- Its too long ago since I have pirated anything, don't know remember how, also don't wanna download malware lol
I can watch all the stream services from Linux you should enable DRM.
VM Windows. Downsides: obvious. Upsides: you can give it a funny name, like, Mousesoft Cheesedoughs Disney-bution.
You have to enable DRM in Firefox, then it will work. But Disney only allows low resolution streams over browsers.
- It's enabled
Is DRM enabled?
- Yes
Does it work in (proprietary) chrome?
iirc it also works in ms-edge for linux.
You could check !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Fr tho, I had to use my brother computer for printing and it's such a god awful os

hahaha!

Everytime

I am repulsed by windows. I would just give up completely entirely on computing if I had to use Windows. I will go to extreme lengths to maintain my ability to develop and work on Linux. It is a real operating system while Windows is the virus. Also, Apple sucks.

5 minutes and i'd be making sweet, sweet love to that sand.

Getting sand and bugs on their lips?

An unpopular opinion (and a bit of a rant), but honestly I actually like Win11’s design, it is to me better than Win10, and I would actually enjoy using Windows. Too bad it’s a slow and unstable piece of garabage even on my
M I C R O S O F T S U R F A C E.

I have Garuda Linux on my main laptop which works completely fine, and the whole point of the Surface was to be able to use Windows at university while avoiding fragmenting my setup with dualboot (because surely Windows will Just Work™ on Microsoft’s own hardware, right? /s), but Micro$oft is tempting me so hard to install Linux to the damm thing. Another point of the Surface was to actually have a full fledged computer instead of an overpriced digital notebook like the iPad is.

I also enjoy OneNote (my uni gives me acces to Office 365), which I genuenly prefer over Xournal++, but Office 365 is a completely stupid piece of unstable garbage which keeps randomly stopping working in the middle of the lecture, right when I should be annotating what the teacher is saying.

See, as a native Windows user, I mostly feel the opposite. I use Linux Mint because it's almost like Windows, but it's incredibly frustrating when it's not. I'm not even much of a gamer (most of my games are FOSS, or run in RetroArch, Vice, or DOSBox-X). I just like being able to instantly find the software I'm looking for. It shouldn't take an hour to find a Notepad. There needs to be something like Dspeech. I shouldn't need to search and poke and hope that the software is either in apt or flatpak. So every time I go back to Windows, even the hellscape that is 11, I can get everything done faster than Linux.

Totally get it! It's somewhat jarring moving from the Windows world of software to the world that are available in apt (or other), or otherwise running essential software through wine/proton.
An hour to find a notepad? Most desktop environments come with some simple text editor. And if you're running something minimal, there's always nano or vim.
If some software is not found by apt search, I usually start to wonder, is it not free software? In that case I'd rather find an alternative. Some times I have to go to the softwares web site, where they have install instructions, but that's the exception.
- In those cases where it's not free software, I care more about free as in lunch than as in speech. Just let me run arbitrary .exe files in whatever folder I want them in.
  Basically, I want to emphasize the Personal in PC. I don't want to think about a user account. I don't want features built for "network security" in my OS. TBH, I just don't want a server OS - and all UNIX derivatives (including NT Windows) are. My ideal OS would be a dual-boot of FreeDOS & an updated Win Me that runs current hardware.

She looks practiced... A little too practiced.

Linus has entered the chat
- Ooh swear word bingo
But Debian after knowing how to install the WiFi drivers or before?
If you want to rag on a Linux distro on Lemmy your best bet is to rag on Ubuntu.
Which makes me sad since I still like the distro. But it is a deb based distro, so I wonder how it falls into your categories.
But definitely grouping all other distros to disparage them will not be appreciated here.
Looks like you’re new here. Welcome. And I don’t recognize the instance either. Is that a new instance?
- I was neutral towards ubuntu until I started the interview process for Canonical. An essay about my achievements in High school is pure ageisme. Adding to this the "better than thou" attitude of Mark Shuttleworth and I decided to shut the door on Ubuntu.
  Debian is pretty rad though.