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The Unix Way, everybody!

Also, first post!

@linuxmemes

There seem to be many long term Linux users switching to Windows right now, and posts like these got me inspired to do the same and report my experience doing the transition.

I'm just done with Linux OS altogether, and I think Windows is the better choice for me.
Why?

1. Linox is too barebones for me. I accidentally left the console mode on my Asus ROG Ally recently and was overwhelmed by the amount of customisation options I had available. Before, I was a KDE user, and one single setting app just felt... lackluster.
   But then I saw, that Windows had three different ones, and I find this way more elegant. Three is three times better than one, did you know that? Checkmate, Linus 😉😎
2. The CEO of the Linux company has made some very unsettling decisions in the recent past.
   The most prominent example is making the kernel open source.
   I don't know, if you've ever heard about this weird concept before, but let me explain it to you in layman's terms. This basically means, that my laptop is now fully exposed to hackers! 😳
   Wimdows on the contrary is way more secure, because there's no hacking instruction available on file sharing sites like GitHub. I now feel way safer, knowing no one can access my search history on MS Edge 😎
   Also, speaking of, thanks to the sponsor of this post, South VPN, i am now totally safe against evil hackers!
3. I really like the recommendations in the start menu.
   On Linus, I always had trouble finding applications, but here this decision has already been made for me.
   This is how good UX works, you nerds.
   The software selection is absolutely great, especially because it usually integrates very well with my OS. Without that, I would never have discovered a neat app called "Tik Tok" for example. I wish I would have used it sooner, I've never been as politically informed and entertained before in my life!
4. The AI features are stunningly amazing. I've bought the newest Surface device, but it came with Linux pre installed and couldn't make full use of the hardware.
   There's a highly sophisticated AI chip, basically a small brain, built in, which takes a screenshot every few seconds and adds some OCR layer on top of it.
   It's really amazing how innovative this OS is!
5. Linux feels "stuck". It's basically version 6.x for over a year now, but Windows is already ahead 5 versions. Using such old software just feels wrong and is at least 1,8333 times less secure.

I could continue that forever, but I think you should just check it out for yourself. It's amazing!

The installation is really quickly done. It only took about 4 hours, some minor regedits, and another 4 hours again because I had to reinstall due to virus I got when downloading Fortnite.

I chose the Windows 11 distro instead of the Windows 10 variant, because everyone knows 11 is the bigger number and therefore superior.

Speaking of the last posts, lets keep it civil guys.

Explanation for newbies:

• Shell is the programming language that you use when you open a terminal on linux or mac os. Well, actually "shell" is a family of languages with many different implementations (bash, dash, ash, zsh, ksh, fish, ....)

• Writing programs in shell (called "shell scripts") is a harrowing experience because the language is optimized for interactive use at a terminal, not writing extensive applications

• The two lines in the meme change the shell's behavior to be slightly less headache-inducing for the programmer:

  • set -euo pipefail is the short form of the following three commands:
    • set -e: exit on the first command that fails, rather than plowing through ignoring all errors
    • set -u: treat references to undefined variables as errors
    • set -o pipefail: If a command piped into another command fails, treat that as an error
  • export LC_ALL=C tells other programs to not do weird things depending on locale. For example, it forces seq to output numbers with a period as the decimal separator, even on systems where coma is the default decimal separator (russian, dutch, etc.).

• The title text references "posix", which is a document that standardizes, among other things, what features a shell must have. Posix does not require a shell to implement pipefail, so if you want your script to run on as many different platforms as possible, then you cannot use that feature.

Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove it

https://lemmy.world/c/linuxsucks