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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.)
If she’s an astronaut then I’m a gynecologist.
And a plumber.
Subtle flexing but ok
Those titles are interchangeable.
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it. Fuck my work computer
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.
Can confirm. I am on this image
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. :)
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
QbitTorrent is a libre bitTorrent software and just pair it up with mullvadVPN in a random country away from yours somewhere and you’ll be golden.
Edit: typo. Also, taking over a cargo ship forcefully is unnecessary if you just want to watch Disney+. Using bitTorrent is easier. /s
Don’t download .exe files, the video files have a different extension.
Find a good torrent site (PM me if you need an invite), get a VPN and use qbittorrent.
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.
Does it work in (proprietary) chrome?
iirc it also works in ms-edge for linux.You could check !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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
Fr tho, I had to use my brother computer for printing and it’s such a god awful os
hahaha!
Everytime
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.
