I love the concept of a bunch of people holding game controllers and staring at the start menu.
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Honest question to y'all windows users:
Do you have fun with your operating system?
Yes because I get to play games without having to do the equivalent of installing five different Windows library emulation tools and hours configuring/troubleshooting several scripts just to launch a simple ASCII roguelike game or an Unreal Engine game with shitty DRM.
All I see is 4 Linux users whose eggs are about to crack.
I also enjoy fucking around with a game controller while staring at the Windows Start Menu with no video game open.
Arch users
As a Linux user, can I just say, fuck Arch users. Especially Arch users who tell beginners to use Arch.
As an arch user, if you tell someone who's never used Linux before to use Arch, I'm taking away your using-Linux privileges.
What would we do without the arch wiki?
Hell, I use the Arch wiki for my Debian WSL most of the time to configure my Docker containers, it's the best linux wiki out there.
No need to push beginners towards arch, they'll become curious and check it out just for the meme anyways
On an unrelated note, have you heard the good news about our Lord and Savior, NixOS?
Saying something that could be construed as positive towards windows on lemmy???
yeah that's what people complain about on windows sure
i don't hate windows because of design inconsistencies and imagined security differences. i hate windows because it shoves ads in my face and spies on me, and every time i dig through the registry to get it to not do that, it gets undone with the next system update.
i use linux because it doesn't make me do that in order to have a system i consider usable.
I am not a fan of the design inconsistencies or the apparent desire within Microsoft to change the entire GUI style every 5 minutes, but the way Windows has turned into bloated AF adware/spyware has been the main force behind me moving to Linux. I would have been happy with Windows XP forever if they just kept updating DirectX etc.
My other major annoyance is how Windows Update now forces itself on you, forces a reboot, then takes forever, and of course will randomly fail to apply the updates. Whereas with Linux, the updates just.... work. And they don't take half an hour to do nothing.
Also the pulling-teeth-process of updating Windows. How does a commercial OS shit the bed on that so hard?
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I don't think people's #1 problem with Windows is that the icons are inconsistent sometimes.
Sure keep telling yourself that you enjoy all the ads, malware, garbage UI and UX, bloated size, cost, etc
Nobody has fun using windows, they just tolerate it.
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Wow, I'm having so much fun staring at the start menu.
Oh man I love playing Start Menu. One of those games that just doesn't work on Linux.
Linux folks can get annoying sometimes, but Windows has become absolutely painful to use recently. It's adware is absolutely disgusting, in line with everything else in corporate society. Every time I use my computer, I'm reminded that I live in a dystopia. When I get a new desktop, it sure as shit won't run Windows.
You know what, I hope they do have fun.
(i use mint btw)
inconsistency with icons and design in some areas
Sounds like a straw man argument. What Linux user would cite that as a complaint against Windows?
(I use arch btw)
A noob, or anyone who spends too much time on /UnixDesktops without realizing that /rainmeter is also a thing.
Just answering your question. Debian here
Cope.
and seethe
possibly also mald
straw pengiun......
also i wan that as a plushie now meow >w<
OP successfully triggered people, this isn't even offensive (I use opensuse btw)
Someone loves sucking on micro soft dicks (joking, wanted to make the micro soft joke)
This is so true! I would say, especially on Lemmy, but I'm so late plenty of users already made that point for me. lol
That said, I'm just waiting for Microsoft to implement that copilot crap to finally maybe actually try to transition to linux - same reason I finally left reddit (I was basically forced off)
Yah, I got tired of reconfiguring my windows every-time it updated.
The little annoyances built up to a point where the 1 hour of migrating stuff over and booting up a new OS was worth it.
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