5 minutes and i'd be making sweet, sweet love to that sand.

Getting sand and bugs on their lips?

Was helping a friend install Windows on his new PC this week and my god it was such an awful experience. Just looking at the start menu had me in tears.

I one time left a job where everyone had Linux workstations and went into a finance job where developers were using windows. It was the strangest thing I've ever seen.

To begin with, the PCs were highly restrictive. You either had to rely on a shitty service to request software to be installed, or had to beg for an admin account to install anything. This took days if not weeks already on onboard.

One works with interfaces that hide the actual process. No one actually understood git. They just know a few sequences of buttons. They ask me all the time when they want to do something other then add,commit,push and have no idea about even the status command. They pull up some shitty cli tool, usually within an IDE, and they act as if I'm some sort of genni or know some black magic when I type "git status", or do things like stash, or solve a conflict.

The lack of automation possibilities, or scripting, or the fact that so many things have to be done by clicking around interfaces means that everything is super slow. There is friction everywhere! On top of this you get apps freezing or crashing randomly with no information of what happened. Somehow the PCs are so incredibly bloated with company spywares that despite the fact that they are suppose to be Lenovo Ultrabooks with a lot of RAM, SSDs, and a good CPU, they run like a 15 years old laptop with a half broken hard drive.

Horrible, just horrible.

My new job issued me with a sweet ass workstation laptop... With W11

Upside is that the IT dept has about zero awareness of the governance part of cyber security. The laptop has an unlocked bios and coworkers have had no questions asked when their domain joined machines didn't check in for years.

So guess who's about to swap the ssd and roll the machine for a debian based distro. Just need to figure out drivers for the nvidia rtx 1000 ada GPU

Every three months for about 30 minutes I’m forced to use windows in a VM. It’s so awful dealing with the pop up’s, forced updates, and background bullshit that I feel the need for a shower after.

Me after every workday.

I have my Linux laptop open at work next to their windows machine and the difference when I switch between them is ridiculous.

Why can’t Windows just work? It’s such a frustrating experience

I have had to use windows for like the last two weeks and the taskbar crashes and freezes constantly so I put a bat file on my desktop that kills and reopens explorer.exe also if my bluetooth headphones disconnect while my mic is muted it refuses to unmute... I have to reboot. This is what people say is a "it just works" experience.

Literally finally let my windows partition upgrade to windows 11 last night. It took like 3 HOURS to do. Then I shrunk the partition way down and clean installed my Bazzite dual boot over the extra space and that took MAYBE 15 minutes. I use Windows MAYBE once every 6 months or so. Linux has just been the better experience for 99% of my computing and even gaming needs.

I'm in this picture and I don't like it. Fuck my work computer

I wouldn't even think about leaving Linux. I use Arch, btw!

Can we avoid using the space tourists for memes?

Unless we're ridiculing them, obvs.

I can feel this image as I've been working on macos due to regulations for years and then going back to linux full time was orgasmic. Its crazy how much better dev experience on Linux is.

If Linux was introduced to me a lot sooner and I wasn't such a jackass that had to play video games on my computer, I would literally have switched a long fucking time ago. I've used all operating systems at this point and Linux ecosystem is far better. What you can't do on Linux is shit I don't even want to do. Most of the time.

Wait wat, grovelling and eating grub and dirt? /s

I can't watch Disney plus in the browser on Linux, which kinda sucks. Fuck Disney, but also, anybody knows how to fix it? I tried changing the user agent override, but that didn't work.

Winderp has unskippable ads and begging for paid subscriptions even in their card games now. Can't even play Solitaire in peace. It's just a deeply enshittified OS.

Can confirm. I am on this image

Fr tho, I had to use my brother computer for printing and it's such a god awful os

hahaha!

Everytime

I am repulsed by windows. I would just give up completely entirely on computing if I had to use Windows. I will go to extreme lengths to maintain my ability to develop and work on Linux. It is a real operating system while Windows is the virus. Also, Apple sucks.

See, as a native Windows user, I mostly feel the opposite. I use Linux Mint because it's almost like Windows, but it's incredibly frustrating when it's not. I'm not even much of a gamer (most of my games are FOSS, or run in RetroArch, Vice, or DOSBox-X). I just like being able to instantly find the software I'm looking for. It shouldn't take an hour to find a Notepad. There needs to be something like Dspeech. I shouldn't need to search and poke and hope that the software is either in apt or flatpak. So every time I go back to Windows, even the hellscape that is 11, I can get everything done faster than Linux.

An unpopular opinion (and a bit of a rant), but honestly I actually like Win11’s design, it is to me better than Win10, and I would actually enjoy using Windows. Too bad it’s a slow and unstable piece of garabage even on my
M I C R O S O F T S U R F A C E.

I have Garuda Linux on my main laptop which works completely fine, and the whole point of the Surface was to be able to use Windows at university while avoiding fragmenting my setup with dualboot (because surely Windows will Just Work™ on Microsoft’s own hardware, right? /s), but Micro$oft is tempting me so hard to install Linux to the damm thing. Another point of the Surface was to actually have a full fledged computer instead of an overpriced digital notebook like the iPad is.

I also enjoy OneNote (my uni gives me acces to Office 365), which I genuenly prefer over Xournal++, but Office 365 is a completely stupid piece of unstable garbage which keeps randomly stopping working in the middle of the lecture, right when I should be annotating what the teacher is saying.

She looks practiced... A little too practiced.