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That's only true for a time. After you stop dealing with Windows for enough years, you just forget the bullshit and you become almost as clueless as the guy asking for help. You're really good at Linux though. So when they ask for help you are all like:

But with a less annoying and more kidnapper vibe where you're withholding your valuable help till the bastard pays ransom. "You want help? Switch to Linux." You don't care if they don't.

Dealing with Microsoft's bullshit has always been one of the most pursuasive arguments for Linux.

I dare to say most Linux users know more about windows problem solving than the average windows user

Well, your Windows skills are being represented by Bennett, who is no John Matrix, but also
isn't a standard civilian. And he does have that chain mail vest...that separates him from the normies too.

90% of problem solving is just Googling stuff and screwing with settings, which isn't particularly Linux specific.

Even the average windows gamer doesn't know shit anymore.

In my experience professional Windows admins tend to be click ops guys. Trying to tell them that they don't need a GUI is impossible.

They are also the ones who will lock onto legacy ways of doing things. Try telling them that the thing they are trying to do is in the settings app.

At the expense of an exciting new array of problems!

Control panel is being deprecated in favor of the settings app

My least favourite technical support calls were with people who didn't know their own interface and I was having to direct them, blind, to get the information and do the diagnostics I needed.

There were at least a couple of times where I had to ask the customer to describe literally everything they saw on the screen starting at the top left and working their way down.

I sometimes pretend to be one of those people when I get tech support scammers on the phone because I know how tortuous it is.

I bet that if you stepped away from the computer while removing said thongs they wouldn't seem so complicated.

chkdsk /f

As a Linux user, I shit on Linux tutorials being obtuse because the solution is often like "then sudo [command]" and now run these 8 other commands. But at least with Linux commands, a smart person can piece together what's going on.

Windows, it's even worse. It's like a bunch of black boxes talking to other black boxes so after you right click to enable that property and add this registry key, you then have to reboot into your bios to turn on "Fuckboi" mode and take photos of your asshole for verification, then log into your Microsoft account to get this Powershell script and now you can finally see your children again.

what the fuck is an app?

Why is everyone poking fun at Vernon Wells?

because he didn't win 7 Mr. Olympia titles - that's why!

Leave discount Freddie Mercury alone!

He holds the distinction of fighting in the most comically lopsided boss fights ever filmed. Arnold circa 1984 vs my neighbor Larry who always lets me borrow his ladder and smokes a mean brisket while drinking 12 beers.