Windows user: I use Windows! It's the best!
Apple user: I use OS X! It's the best!
Windows and Apple users: Which do you use?
Linux user: Linux.
Windows and Apple users: OMG shut up, nobody asked!
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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What windows user says that lmao
You'd see that a lot on Reddit, on subs like r/pcmr or r/gaming. But not much of that here, presumably because Lemmy has a higher ratio of FOSS-friendly folks.
Windows user: I use Windows! It's the best!
No not really no. This doesn't happen. Not even remotely close to as often as Linux users say Linux
I'm not even saying Linux users should say it less, I'm fine with whatever, it's just that this isn't true at all
Yeah cus maybe it is the best 💀
This happened with XP, 7, and 8.1. 10 wasn't bad either at first, but they've gradually enshitified it. 10 now and 11 are spyware masquerading as an OS.
As a Windows user, just keep your Apple away from me. I can't do shit with it. My wife stepped away while we were zooming with someone the other day, and the Mac got pulled to another desktop (or something). I had no clue what to do. Apparently, it's a three-finger swipe on the trackpad, because of course it's a three-finger swipe.
This kids a prick that says shit for attention. don't feed them. (The original post, not the person I'm replying to)
Kiddo thought I was "flexing" because I don't really watch much mainstream media, lol. Dude obviously has issues.
I mean, if you want to pay for an operating system that displays ads by default... More power to you, I guess?
Did you post this ironically? This is the shit I'm making a joke about lol
doubling down i see
Doubling down on... What?
Did you post this ironically?
It was sarcasm.
I don't care much about what other people are comfortable in using, but please don't expect tech support from me. Every time I have to use Windows I get frustrated at how it forcibly feeds me stuff I don't want. Although I admit that sometimes I joke to people to switch to Linux when they get frustrated with Windows as well, but that's about it.
And also, some popular memes about Linux are probably just that, memes. Don't take it too seriously.
The force feeding of news and shit is fucking enraging! Why on earth did they start pushing that, and why is it so hard to turn off? Why do they turn it back on at every opportunity? I have a Surface Pro that I use for digital painting. I'll be happily just painting along when I misclick the system notification area and all of the sudden "Trump! Trump! Trump! Outrage! Doom! Gloom! Global catastrophe!" gets shoved in my face. I'll open a fucking browser if I want to see the news. Ugh! Fuck off! That's honestly a huge part of the reason I finally switched to Linux as my primary OS.
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But for real? Linux is actually so great. I'm running a shitty old PC as a media server and learning Linux as I go. It's so light and nimble compared to a Windows machine. For anyone considering Linux, I highly recommend trying it out even if it's just for funsies.
I never tell people I am a linux user.
I tell them I use Kubuntu.
Telling someone, you love drinking pop is unhelpful,
Telling someone how obsessed you are about drinking MOUNTAIN DEW*, is way more informative.
FYI: I rarely ever drink pop.
*choose your own fizzy water
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I mean, next year is definitely the year of the Linux desktop.
have you tried linux? its really cool
What a coincidence, so are vegetables!
i know ;)
What is a good distro for an absolute noob? Like me.
Linux Mint is pretty good, it has a Windows 7 kind of feel to it. Fedora is also nice, it great for tablet, also with touch. Both work pretty well and consistently out of the box.
mint! its popular for beginners, ubuntu based, user friendly, lots of tutorials/troubleshooting help
Mint is great for beginners. I never had any issues with it and the cinnamon desktop is very nice.
Depends a lot on use case, certainly!
Also, do you like a "bottom up" or "top down" approach? Grabbing a raspberry pi and setting up a headless (no monitor) home server is a great bottom up way of getting familiar with things
learn to configure various services and whatnot from the command line. Or, just start with a user-friendly distro with a GUI you like, and gradually work your way up to looking under the hood.
Watch a few beginner tutorials on YouTube and see which one appeals to you most.
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There is quite a bit of truth to this.
I wouldn't say it is "Year of the linux desktop!" But I do think eventually it will take up much more of the market of OS use. Maybe years and years away.
Linux has come a very long way. I found it is actually easier in many ways to Mac and Windows, more complicated in others.
For general use, and even gaming, it's actually in a really good state for general users right now.
Linux users are vegetarians while free software users are the vegans.
As an 11 year Arch user, I would like to correct the title: "Arch users are the vegans of the computer world". :-P
Then what are Apple users? Meatheads?
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