Windows 10 is easy to install… If everything goes well. And 2 out of 3 times in my experience, it doesn’t.

I would rather describe Windows as a dampened oscillation with an undefined steady state.

What does it say about me? I have a French press, and I don’t even use it for coffee.

You would be right, only if a preference for one OS didn’t negatively affect other OSes. If less people used windows, there would be fewer windows-exclusive software. And if that were the case, the likelihood would decrease that my university classes would require windows-exclusive software.

You might say, “just use wine,” or “just use a windows VM.” Wine doesn’t always work with all software, and using a windows VM would undermine one of my main reasons for using Linux, which is privacy.

It is therefore in my best interest that people stop using windows. It’s not a vendetta, it’s not activism, it’s democracy.

Jut put my Mother on mint. Her windows 10 pc is reaching EOS, and I finally convinced her that having to buy a new computer every several years is unacceptable.

I’m convinced the reason people hate terminals is because there must have been a disinformation campaign against them by the Microsoft sales department in the 90s.

After that, even people who were comfortable with using BASIC on their 8-bit home micro-computers somehow became convinced they were too stupid to do anything without a mouse. Its Orwellian, honestly.

Don’t know what to tell you. All I know is that WiFi worked before the update, and then didn’t after. Updating the firmware didn’t fix it. Reinstalling the OS didn’t fix it. Taking it to the PC repair shop didn’t fix it. Replacing the network card didn’t fix it. But dual-booting Linux mint did fix it, on the mint partition, at least.

Why do people use wsl? The only reason I can think of is to take advantage of Bash and the shell environment. But if wsl runs in its own container separate from Windows, what’s the point?

Has a Linux update ever broken something on my computer? Yes. Have I ever needed to revert versions? Yes.

Has a Linux update ever broken my computer so badly, that a hardware component on the motherboard had permanently stopped working, even after reinstalling firmware? No, but a windows update did once. I had to dual-boot Mint just so I could use WiFi.

The way everyone talked about Linux, I thought it would be a transient interest I would eventually tire of. I’ve known a lot of professors who say they liked Linux back in the 90s, but decided they couldn’t keep up with it, and have gone back to windows/apple.

I never anticipated that 4 years ago, when I booted up Linux for the first time, that it would also be the last time I shut down Windows. Furthermore, the likelihood of me ever going back seems to be getting smaller and smaller every day.

Honestly, I’ve only ever had problems with Wayland so far. So many times when I look up the issue tracker for a software I’m having issues with, the solution is always “switch to a DE that uses Xorg.”

I get that it’s not a mature software yet, but neither should people be pushing to use it until it is.

I deliberately said Windows instead of Mac, because all the apple users I know are the type of people who will never, ever try linux in the first place.

you either go back to windows, or turn into this guy. There is no 3rd option.

You know, I’ve always loved C and doing my own memory management. I love learning optimization techniques and applying them.

But you know what? Everybody around me keeps saying I’m being silly. They keep telling me I won’t find any jobs like that. They say I should just swallow my juvenile preferences and go with what’s popular, chasing trends for the entire rest of my career.

I don’t think you can blame people for trending away from quality software. Its clearly against the grain.

If I could, I’d compile all my software from source. Unfortunately, it seems a lot of open source developers don’t like writing software in C, which means the burden of sorting through dependancy-hell has been deferred to my shoulders instead.

i read a blog post by a former MS employee who shed some light on the situation. apparently the windows dev team is entirely made up of junior developers. As soon as anybody gets any experience, either MS tries to promote them to management, or they leave to find a better job.

what that means is there is nobody at MS who has deep knowledge of the Windows kernel. So instead of re-writting, re-factoring or making additions, all they know how to do is add things on top of the existing OS.

windows 11 isn’ all bad. It made my mother ask me to install linux on her computer.

you’re not using debian? that must mean you hate freedom.

My advice is to get a hobby. Self-hosting, or home automation to name a few examples. When you have a specific goal for something you want to do, it’s a lot easier to learn.

Green Is My Pepper

an alternate timeline, where Linus didn’t make Linux open source, got rich off of it, and sold it to IBM.