• saltesc@lemmy.world
        24·
        27 days ago

        Even 4s would be fine

        install finishes

        “That was it?.. Heh. Of course it was. This is Linux, afterall. Not some grotesque accumulation of defects for those base creatures.”

      • galaxy_nova@lemmy.worldEnglish
        151·
        27 days ago

        Yeah honestly even if you try it and give it a fair chance but still decide to go back that’s fine with me.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53·
    27 days ago

    4 days?

    Took me 4 seconds to realize I can actually use the super key and have my start menu pop up instantly and not watch it struggle to load 50 ads and tell me to download candy crush

    • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      27 days ago

      I have a couple of Linux machines, but I also use a MacBook. It’s been a year now, and every time I use the Mac it kinda pisses me off that I have to hit Cmd+Space to bring up a search. It feels like a massive step backwards.

  • hansolo@lemmy.today
    44·
    27 days ago

    Well I know I’m superior because I don’t use the OS that funds a pedo’s STD collection via stock value.

    • Ghostie@lemmy.zip
      21·
      27 days ago

      Sex is cool and all, but that feeling of something natively supporting Linux….

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        27 days ago

        Unfortunately, that’s where I see it heading. And for all the good intentions out there, as soon as the corpos get involved, it goes to shit.

        I think we’re a few principled maintainers away from standard enshittification of the Linux Foundation.

        • Limerance@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          27 days ago

          Without the „corpos“ spending money on developing the Linux ecosystem, we wouldn’t be where we are today. Red Hat (systemd), Oracle, IBM made a lot possible. Apple took KHTML and turned it into WebKit, the browser engine bundled with GTK and Qt.

          Google managed to capture Linux with Chromebooks and Android phones. However their spending benefited others as well.

          Single maintainers can’t do much to stop a determined corporation with money from forking a component or writing a replacement. I remember how Debian maintainers spent immense amounts of time and energy into fighting about adoption of systemd to replace sysv init.

  • IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world
    35·
    27 days ago

    The first few days is where you realize “holy shit, there is another world I’ve been ignoring and it’s so much more fun.”

    • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
      41·
      27 days ago

      I’m always somewhat confused by this, I haven’t tried Linux since 2009 so maybe I just need to try it some more to appreciate what people mean by thks. I’d say it was “fun” in so much as it was nice to have a challenge for a little while but that was more sort of incidental to it facilitating my computer being a useful machine for me. In terms of it being a better operating system that does it’s job efficiently without problems, shouldn’t it be sort of… Invisible then? Like how can it be fun? I use my computer to do stuff so for me it’s sort of like an operating system is only noticeable to the extent that it is bad and if it isn’t bad I won’t really be aware of it.

      • IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world
        61·
        27 days ago

        “I’m always somewhat confused by this”

        “I haven’t tried Linux since 2009”

        ok

      • yata@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        27 days ago

        Well, invisible is how linux (mostly) is now, as opposed to windows which has become very visible and pushing and annoying by design. It is very refreshing to have an os which works and doesn’t constantly annoy you with unwanted things.

        You should try it again, I am pretty sure your experience will be very different from 2009, because a lot has happened to linux since then.

        • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
          21·
          26 days ago

          But see, doesn’t that just mean it’s a really good operating system? Not necessarily “fun”? I don’t know if I’m getting my point across here. Think of a pair of shoes, there is much variation of form and design intent and pricing and capability but nevertheless they’re pretty much all there to facilitate the task of walking. You could get a really bad pair of shoes that constantly dig holes in to your foot and fall to pieces and make walking a huge chore. Maybe some day someone will make a pair that somehow force you stop and look at billboards and ad displays, those would be your windows shoes. You could also get a great pair, that feels so comfortable you could forget you’re even wearing them, they look great and they were a fantastic price and they never worsen your ability to perform the task of walking. They might even be such good shoes that they’re suitable for all sorts of walking adjacent tasks like running as well, perhaps you’ll enjoy running, again though what’s fun there? Running? Or having shoes that don’t make running difficult? I’d assume the former. That’s what I tend to wonder about with the folks who talk about how much fun Linux is. I’m sure the various distros are really great operating systems that work way better than a lot of other options and don’t have the same perverse incentives that keep those other options so consistently poor and for all those reasons it’s a great choice but who’s looking at operating systems thinking “this is going to be fun”? I’d love to have that same capacity to be so amused by it but it’s hard to see it as anything other than a functional piece of equipment. I certainly will have preferences and appreciation for good equipment but I wouldn’t think of it as fun. I have a similar reaction to people that say they like it because they want to tinker or “you can do anything you want with it”, I don’t want to yuk anyone’s yum but, what would you even be trying to do with it?

      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
        4·
        27 days ago

        Like how can it be fun?

        So many cool utilities are Linux native first, today.

        When I finally switched my work computer to Linux, various little tools I had been using were suddenly trivial to install, instead of maybe an hour each. I had restored my full favorite toolset in less than 30 minutes, and moved on to exploring things that never worked on Windows, for me.

        The combined feeling, for me, is like when my father user to hand me $5 to shop at our local 10¢ candy store. “I can just have as much of this as I want.”

  • utopiah@lemmy.world
    32·
    27 days ago

    And rightfully so. They might not know much about Linux itself BUT they did dare try and for that they deserve recognition.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    311·
    27 days ago

    Back before I switched to linux it was how I (as a then Windows 2k user) looked at any version of Windows w/o the NT kernel. Now its how I look at people who still use Reddit.

    Maybe I just like to look at people that way.

    • criticon@lemmy.ca
      11·
      27 days ago

      The few people I know that still use Reddit already used the Reddit app and the “new” interface before the API changes. I don’t think they care too much to begin with (so yes, I also look at them that way)

    • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      27 days ago

      Its more you are at the cutting edge where the general public will be in a few years. The only time I don’t see that happening is when I think of the tildeverse as that is more an offshoot than a evolution of the tech landscape.

  • rocketpoweredredneck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    22·
    27 days ago

    I had been dual booting bazzite for about a year, up until last weekend when it borked and I wound up just reinstalling. I just deleted everything and went pure linux. Still bazzite, still a little scared of the terminal, but windows is completely gone from my computer.