517
just leave some RAM (media.piefed.social)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux_memes@programming.dev
81 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
"Hey can I uninstall Edge?" Windows: "Noo your system will break" | "I'm taking your boot device. Don't shut down." Linux: "go ahead lol"
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[+] -9 points 1 year ago (22 children)

also windows: "Can i use X app" "sure here's a .exe"

also Linux: "can i use X app?" "here's an open source alternate that doesn't work as well as the windows version, but you don't care about that, you just wanna be cool!"

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 22 child comments
    •
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If I may ask, what software are you referring to? The only software I could think of off the top of my head that doesn't have suitable replacements for Linux is creative production software like the Adobe suite and DAWs, professional CAD software like AutoDesk, and, like, AutoHotKey.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

    1993 called and wants the inferior FOSS software you last tried back. Haha.

    I find that Linux apps for basic stuff are now well ahead of their Windows counterparts.

    It's getting hard to find quality free software that is Windows native, and not just a recompile of a Mac or Linux tool.

    I'm happy to pay for software too, but the paid stuff has all been shit, for awhile, in my weird experiences. (Weird, in that I'm not doing music or video editing or non-developer power user stuff. I've heard mileage may vary with those.)

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 17 child comments
    •
  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    dude, linux is not a desktop for non-programmers.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 16 child comments
    •
  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

    It literally is. Please get out from under your rock.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 9 child comments
    •
  • [+] -9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    no its not and stop trying to push it like it is.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 8 child comments
    •
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Pewdiepie runs arch and hyprland. What's your excuse?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
    •
  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    good for him. I like my apps to run natively. so i use windows 11

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    And you hang out here and do what exactly? Either you're happy with win11 or you're not. Replying to random people's comment by raging against linux in a linux memes community while supposedly running windows and liking it is a bit weird isn't it?

    And you sound like you havent touched a proper linux OS in the past 5 years. Things have genuinely gotten better. But I see you seem quite fixated on coming here to argue instead (again.. quite weird to do so when you have no horse in the race)

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    i have used linux alot, and if there's anything that annoys me the most is A) people who say linux is for everyone and B) some rando downloads a distro and when they run into HW issues they post on fourms and reddit like its personal tech support. when you get to that point, stop, and reinstall windows 11.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    when they run into HW issues they post on fourms and reddit like its personal tech support

    For folks reading along, we absolutely are your personal tech support. Most of us owe way more than that to our mentors, and can never pay our mentors back, we can only pay it forward to folks like you.

    Ask away!

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    statistically, who make up the majority of computer users? Software nerds? No its people using a web browser. So really you're annoyed that "everyone" in "linux is for everyone" doesn't include you?

    B.) The whole point of Open Source is there is no single tech support. People learn through exchange of knowledge. How else would you troubleshoot hardware issues? Its the most difficult class of issues linux users face as hardware vendors don't seem to want to support linux.

    Besides I find it quite hilarious to get worked up over reddit posts for random issues. Why don't you just ignore it and move on? Or you contribute instead?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (3 children)

    It’s for people who aren’t tech literate. The people who don’t know/shouldn’t be using cli commands or editing the registry.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    It’s for people who aren’t tech literate.

    My experience installing Linux for tech illiterate parents and grandparents was lovely.

    They never noticed they're not on Windows. They just wanted their two desktop icons - web and email.

    Edit: Funny related story - they (grandparents) always rebooted with the power button after Linux told them it had updated - which was almost never necessary. I always just told them "good job", when they mentioned it, though.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent