• x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      “Here have this brand new house!!”

      “But you still have to smack down a few walls, disable the cameras we added, find a way to go trough your door without having your anus print registered with us, and keep us from moving your furniture to our warehouse, all for your convenience ofcourse.”

      As soon as I realized that Microsoft laughs at people trying to harden Windows I switched to Linux and never looked back. Microsoft doesn’t care about you hardening it and they don’t care about cracked versions in the slightest. You’re a statistic with an advertisement in your home and you’ll still be making money for them.

        • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          You failed to understand my point completely.

          • You’re a statistic: Your Windows installation is used in the metrics that software developers (such as game developers) use when considering what platforms to support
          • An advertisement in your home: Whenever somebody visits you, uses your computer, or talks about computers with you, you are showing them that you support Windows by using it which is a form of advertising.
          • You’ll be making money for them: Microsoft makes money on a macro scale. As I said, they don’t care about you bypassing licensing, blocking stuff, or anything similar. You use Windows, and because everybody just follows that same mentality, they are getting big money from companies and computer vendors, because they have huge monopoly.
  • Knightfox@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m preparing for a new computer build and I have some questions. I’m feeling really scorned by Windows 11 and its incompatibility with my current hardware as well as the overall sense of that my privacy is being invaded. I’m not super familiar with linux, but I have messed around with various distros.

    The build I’m planning to put together will likely use an AMD processor, but I’m uncertain about the GPU (definitely AMD or Nvidia). With my current build, RX 480 and i5-6500 I have found that in recent years I get massive artifacts in relatively old games such as Planetside 2 and Path of Exile (I also play Magic Arena quite a bit, but haven’t experienced any issues there). I even get screen tearing when watching youtube or amazon prime. It’s possible that my card is just dying, but considering that I don’t consistently see these issues across multiple applications I feel like it might be a driver issue.

    I’d really like feedback and to know more about Linux gaming (especially with the games mentioned) as well as experience with AMD, Nvidia, and Intel hardware.

    Thanks to anyone who responds.

    • JargonWagon@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      In my experience, gaming worked great on Linux Mint. Overall, you may encounter issues with online gaming but only because the servers will see you’re using Linux and decide you must be cheating. Not really an issue with Linux, more an issue with the devs not doing a proper job.

      ProtonDB is a good resource to understand what games run well on Linux and what issues you may encounter.

      • Knightfox@lemmy.oneEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Oh wow, that cheating bit is interesting and something I would not have thought of. The games I play are prominently online, do you know if this is an issue with them?

        • JargonWagon@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          Some games will just automatically block Linux machines in their anticheat engines. This site is one that tracks online playability of games on Linux machines, or more specifically if a game will automatically block you simply because you’re playing on Linux.

    • Petter1@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      For me, nvidia with proprietary drivers works great, just make sure to have correct dependency packages installed for vulcan etc. (should just work in most distros if their recommended way of installing nvidia drivers is used)

  • coherent_domain@infosec.pubEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I think mixing app and system components together is a bad idea, and Linux desktop is still fighting that.

    When all the app on a consumer laptop is expected to depend on the same dependencies, the system run into dependency hell, which means many apps needs to be downgraded to keep older apps working.

    This mixture of system dependency and app dependency also prevents users to use the the latest version of an app on a hyper stable system.

    Flatpak basically aim to solve this problem, where each app chooses their own dependencies, so you don’t need to downgrade all your app just because one app depends on python 2.7.

  • frayedpickles@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    What the actual fuck are you smoking?

    At least update this meme to the 2010s if you won’t go to the 2020s

  • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Edge (Microsoft browser) thinks the Microsoft Teams exe installer FROM MICROSOFT SERVER is malware, no joke.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    IDK, but I more often had issues with installing apps to Linux than to Windows, usually dependency-hell related ones, but once I had trouble enabling snap on Linux Mint.

  • madcaesar@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    When you make fun of something that really isn’t an issue it just makes your side look worse. Windows has real problems, but installing shit ain’t it.

    My dad can install anything on windows with clicks, he can’t do shit with a terminal.

    I’m a power user and love GUIs. I’ll use git desktop all day everyday, instead of typing shit in a command line. It’s one button press vs typing paths and hoping you don’t misspell shit.

    I don’t really get the whole command line fetish, there are no extra points in life for doing things the harder way.

    • redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      Ah, yes. I also love it when I search for firefox on my new PC with Edge (without adblocker) and get sponsored malware in the results.

      I still use windows but I think installing software on Linux is way more convenient. Especially with the AUR.

    • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      Yay -S app is hard? Or apt install app? Or flatpak?

      Being used to a habit doesnt make the habit the default way. Humans adapt quickly.

    • bradd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Power users are just regular users with an ego.

      GUI is like fast food, sure you can eat it and enjoy it, and you will live to see another day, but it’s inferior in every way to everything else. The real problem is that people start acting like fast food is the default food and start looking at people who eat raw or cook their own food or pay for food at a restaurant as being full of themselves.

      There are countless real advantages to CLI over GUI, but allowing people to use their computer effectively by fumbling around isn’t one of them.

    • thevoidzero@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      A simple analogy is, would you rather have keyboard with a-z and symbols you can use to build words/sentences, or would you want a wordlist you can scroll and click, while expanding words in groups, and having to find non-frequent words with a lot of difficulty to make up sentences.

      Command line use is harder if you come from gui. But the main use case of command line are:

      • automation: anything you can do in a command line, can be copied in a script,
      • uniformity: every software now has almost the same format of use,
      • flexibility: gui almost always has less options than command line, and many times options are hidden within a lot of tabs and options.
      • Auto complete: whenever someone complains about terminal being hard to use and spelling mistakes I think about this. I think many people that come from GUI don’t know about auto-completion on terminal. It’s easy to see which options are available, easy to choose files, wildcards for multiple files, and all that
      • piping: command line allows you to chain one command with another. You have a command to list all your music files, chain that with a search command to search files within them. Now if you need to search in a python code, you use the same search command, just different command to read the file. You basically have lego blocks (old ones) that can be used to make anything.

      I can understand people being afraid of command line when they start, but I think many people come with biases and don’t use good terminal and other tools to make things easier.

    • Prok@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      The GUI app centers on most distros are quite usable without command line wizardry and reduces the risk of dodgey download sites

  • VonVoelksen@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    I don’t like windows either, but updating with Winget in terminal works pretty good. Not as good as with Linux, but better than downloading every app via browser.

  • Gestrid@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I can’t remember the last time I got a DLL error on my Windows laptop, honestly. I don’t think that’s ever happened on my current computer.

  • tehn00bi@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Been using Linux off and on since 2003-ish. I remember the days of having to compile applications and having to download various dependencies. Linux now is so streamlined and easy. Minus gentoo.

  • M137@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The Windows updating experience, both the system and apps via the Microsoft Store is so fucking bad it’s unbelievable. Shit just stops working all the time, updates fail, grinds the whole system to a halt etc.

    For several years now I’ve been unable to update apps in the Microsoft store in one go, I have to open it, click “get updates” and the circular progression bar goes to about 1/5 and then just stops. So I have to close the app, wait a few minutes, open it again and then press the “play” button for every single app that has updates for the download to actually start, nothing else works. It’s been the same for Windows 10 and 11 across four different computers.

    There was a Windows 10 update several months ago, might even have been last year that just failed for a ton of people and it took months before it was fixed.

    • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      That’s actually a major reason I switched to linux. Windows security update kept failing with no solution for like 6mos. Afaik there is still no solution.

  • BatrickPateman@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Windows side of things is getting better though, thanks to winget. Not perfect and it f’s up with certain packages but already a lot better than updating by hand.

    • Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Windows is not getting better,
      CoPilot, Recall, all more unwanted spyware…

      UniGetUI is a good way to maintain software on Windows in a Linux fashion through package managers,
      however that does not change that the underlying OS is pure spyware.