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    So many things I'd rather do than go back to Windows (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    [–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Putting tobasco in your own eye is still easier than getting sound card drivers to work in Windows ME.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    I'm a pretty patient person when it comes to technology..... But Windows ME (Mistake Edition) is the only OS that made me legitimately throw my Compaq ESN pro computer down a flight of stairs

    (Yes it still worked fine afterwards)

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah. It was so bad that they didn't even bother releasing and service packs, just skipped straight to XP. Then came Vista, which was also bad enough to gain the nickname Windows Me 2 (or Me too).

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    So many fond memories of running the XP beta more than a year past the official release lol

    *Forgot to add finding alternative ways to update the beta version to the release version patches was fun, too

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

    Nah, Vista wasn’t even nearly as bad as ME, it was just released with hardware requirements that were too high and OEM manufacturers that installed it anyway on their low-end hardware.

    And of course too strict UAC, but that could be disabled.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

    Yeah, not nearly as bad. But still bad enough to get that nickname.

    [–] ikidd 2 points 9 months ago

    Vista.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    is it also easier than installing nvidia drivers on linux?

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

    No clue. I don't even bother with Nvidia.

    [–] GladiusB 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I have zero issues installing drivers for Nvidia on Linux

    [–] pete_the_cat 4 points 9 months ago

    I'd say in the 10+ years of using Linux, and most of those have been with Nvidia. Maybe 5% of the time I've had an issue, half the time it's fixed within a few minutes.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

    i only had issues with nvidia in fedora, since i moved to arch i havent had many issues (other than making installing the os take a few minutes longer)

    [–] AnUnusualRelic 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Have you even used Linux in the last fifteen years?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    i have, and the only issue i ever had with nvidia drivers was in fedora when i had just started using linux. i wasnt being serious when i said its hard.

    [–] AnUnusualRelic 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    In that case, you are forgiven.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

    thank you for your forgiveness.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Might depend on the flavor of Linux, but I had no issue at all with PopOS or Mint

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    from my experience fedora is horrible at installing the nvidia drivers. i had no issue with arch though, other than installation taking a bit longer

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    I had ONE hick-up with Nvidia drivers on arch in about 6 years. I needed to downgrade them initially when Valve released the new Steam UI. That's been fixed pretty fast. When I'm thinking back it was the only problem I had with arch upgrades in its entirety apart from one that was completely on me: installing KWinFT which completely messed up some system libraries (but was repairable). Arch was nothing but rock solid stable for me.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

    arch has been really stable for me too, the only things that ever happened on my pc has either been the clock unsyncing(probably errors when installing arch) or thinking an update of nvidia drivers made all the black parts of the screen glitch(my old gpu just broke down, nothing to do with the drivers)

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Windows ME is definitely one of the Windows of all time.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

    Yep. It is definitely one of the Windows.