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!
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.
This is attention whore activity. There were people stuck on the ISS for what like nine months, did they kiss the earth when they returned? These people willingly go to barely the edge of the atmosphere for like two minutes and this is their response when they returned?
OTOH Windows does suck. Though again I’m guessing no one is switch back for ten minutes by choice.
tbh 9 months on iss isn’t too long, they’re experienced astronauts and they had their ride back docked to the iss for a long while anyway. it’s probably way more miserable having to hang out with dumbass celebrities for the rest of your life
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 🤷🏻♂️)
I’m pretty sure this is making fun of those twats
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.
It is so fun to trash them.
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.
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
Literally me after using my moms Windows 11 Laptop for 10 Minutes.
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.
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
Why can’t Windows just work? It’s such a frustrating experience
If she’s an astronaut then I’m a gynecologist.
And a plumber.
Subtle flexing but ok
Those titles are interchangeable.
Same with Android after having to endure iOS for a few minutes
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.)
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.
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it. Fuck my work computer
Me after every workday.
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.
I have my Linux laptop open at work next to their windows machine and the difference when I switch between them is ridiculous.
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.
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.
Great to know!
Both games I really want to play. For some reason I thought Marvel Rivals didn’t do kernel-level? I’m likely wrong haha.
But I loved the original Helldivers. I just really don’t want to have to install a “just trust us, bro” rootkit to enjoy the clearly excellent sequel. :(
I don’t know if it does kernel level or what, all I know is Marvel Rivals works on Linux just fine. I might be misremembering but I think they even pushed an update out that broke Linux support and then fixed it because they said Linux support is important to them.
So far I’ve heard Marvel Rivals is pretty based. Good on them! That’s awesome. :)
