• Julian@lemm.eeEnglish
    94·
    27 days ago

    I think the real thing we need to do to attract windows users is have tuxkart installed by default.

    • kboy101222@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      13·
      27 days ago

      I’ll have you know I know exactly how to install Linux and simply choose not to!

      (I ran Ubuntu for 3 years)

      • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
        7·
        27 days ago

        Android is Linux, simply not the traditional userspace :)

        Linux Distros have a huge variety. What have you tried?

    • frengo@lemm.eeItaliano
      2·
      26 days ago

      Why would i need to? I tried Linux and it’s mental. Took 20 minutes to edit mount settings on my hdd. fstab, gnome disks, and whatnot. Meanwhile Windows is: here’s your files bro, whenever you want. And don’t even get me started with the countless problems i encountered to install apps, edit hdd permissions, configuring panels and more.

      • mhague@lemmy.world
        3·
        26 days ago

        I need to try windows again. I remember it being more complex than Linux. I switched just so things were easier. Cygwin! Registry editing! Getting a Microsoft degree just to edit my desktop menus. I didn’t just sit there and install my programs like a good kid and actually wanted to, you know, do things with my computer. And boy did windows hate me for it.

        I’m hoping modern IDEs or just having Linux on standby would make Windows simple enough to use.

      • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
        1·
        26 days ago

        Yes on Windows I think disks are not mounted, they are just there on the letters

        But that works fine on Linux too. I have not used multi-drive systems much, but I use an encrypted SD card that is liked to a folder in my home so that programs dont even need to write to anything custom. Was like a few clicks and even worked on GNOME, on KDE that is easier too.

        Panels, yes. KDE had a separate panel config per monitor which is worse than on Windows. But apart from that, they work out of the box and are really customizable.

        GNOME… doesnt allow configurations like at all. You need 3rd party apps for everything, then you can do whatever you want, which also works well.

        So maybe that just has changed.

          • InputZero@lemmy.world
            1·
            26 days ago

            If you wanted to take a second crack at it, it is easier than ever to learn how to use Linux. The one thing I have found ChatGPT useful for is guiding me through setting up a new program or daemon or to explain to me what that super cryptic error message means. ChatGPT is not perfect and requires whoever is using it to sanity check the result it gives, but more often than not I find I walk away with a better understanding of what I was doing.

    • 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      27 days ago

      I use windows on my PC, mint on my laptop and lineageOS on my phone. Installing linux on a gaming PC feels pointless to me

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        26 days ago

        I made the full switch probably 1.5y ago. Gaming on Linux is great now. The only major issue is modding. Nexus doesn’t have an app for Linux yet (it’s in development) so you have to install mods manually. That’s not too big of an issue, but it is annoying. Other than that it’s nearly flawless, excluding a few games that have anti-cheats that haven’t added Linux support, like Valorant.

  • msmc101
    76·
    27 days ago

    Christ a bit of paranoia would do modern internet users good, I still remember when it wasn’t normal to have every single piece of identifying information online and readily available for anyone.

    • leisesprecher@feddit.org
      2·
      27 days ago

      Isn’t that pretty much a thing of the past? This meme is maybe true for Facebook, but most sub 40 people don’t use that anyway and the “public diary” days are also pretty over. Sure, you can stitch together a lot from geolocating Instagram posts and LinkedIn information, but it’s not like it’s the searchable database Facebook was in 2012.

        • leisesprecher@feddit.org
          1·
          27 days ago

          That’s not “readily available”, and it’s certainly not given voluntarily by users, it’s often straight up illegal. That’s a very different case.

          • pemptago@lemmy.mlEnglish
            8·
            27 days ago

            It’s available to whoever is willing to pay. Consent is given when users agree to privacy policies and ToS. Unfortunately, unless you’re in the EU, it’s legal, and when companies violate permissive laws or suffer a data breach, the penalties are often inconsequential. The original comment was vague and didn’t specify the case. In the context of linux users vs MS and Apple, I’m leaning towards a distrust of big tech and “readily available for anyone” being inclusive of a multibillion dollar ad industry and the ecosystems developed around it. Though, technically not anyone can access every piece, so I guess we could dismiss it as a thing of the past.

            • leisesprecher@feddit.org
              1·
              27 days ago

              Though, technically not anyone can access every piece, so I guess we could dismiss it as a thing of the past.

              That’s how words work, yes.

              The threat of public information for most people is not a data broker, but their neighbor. And unless you have a particularly psychopathic neighbor, they can’t realistically access data from a data broker.

              It’s threat modeling like every cyber security. My phone’s password protects me from a random thief, but if a state actor really wants my data, they will get it, but the chances of them even trying are very low for me personally.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
      16·
      27 days ago

      The key is to have that infinite money glitch, aka be born rich and have parents that stay rich

  • IHeartBadCode@fedia.io
    30·
    27 days ago

    In all fairness paranoia is important in things like finding someone trying to slip a backdoor into xz. Going by the most recent Windows 11 update, Microsoft seems to be “we’ll fix it in production”.

    • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
      17·
      27 days ago

      Well it wasn’t so much paranoia as obsession. The person who found it wasn’t paranoid, they just went “Why is my connection taking a quarter of a second longer than it used to? This is unacceptable!!!”

      • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works
        11·
        27 days ago

        Technically they thought they might have introduced a bug that caused the delay / a regression and set about investigating it. Pretty sure it was a Microsoft developer too.

        • Evkob@lemmy.ca
          8·
          27 days ago

          Pretty sure it was a Microsoft developer too.

          Indeed it was, a PostgreSQL dev by the name of Andres Freund.

      • SkyeStarfall
        4·
        27 days ago

        I mean, small things like that add up, you want your stack as optimized as possible

        A quarter of a second here, another quarter there, and suddenly it might take 2 seconds longer for a connection to form, which matters a ton. A lot of work in the modern web is going into reducing latency

  • kbal@fedia.io
    10·
    27 days ago

    Windows users have regrets

    Mac users have stockholm syndrome

    Linux users have a computer

    • toothbrush
      9·
      27 days ago

      Tuxkart is really great! One of the really good FOSS games, it has multiplayer and it even supports the wiimote :)

      • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        26 days ago

        Open-source Mario Kart with all the functionality of Mario Kart, and you don’t even have to spend money on an actual Wii.

    • jqubed@lemmy.world
      4·
      27 days ago

      Mario Kart can be fun depending on how your partner is with video games in general and how you are as a couple competitively. Overcooked can also be a good franchise as a coop game but I’ve also heard in some languages it’s referred to as “divorce kitchen” so your mileage may vary.

    • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      27 days ago

      If you’ve consistently only bought products from one company rather than buying the best product available, and never even bothered trying something else, then yes, you do seem to.

  • abbadon420@lemm.ee
    4·
    27 days ago

    I’m a windows user and I don’t deny anything. I’m just too lazy to switch to Linux and I need the full functionality of Teams for my job.

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      1·
      27 days ago

      The Linux Teams app works. I’m not sure what is missing other than MS abandoning dev on it

      • abbadon420@lemm.ee
        2·
        27 days ago

        For one thing, you can’t make break-out rooms in Linux, which is something I need to do all the time.

        • Petter1@lemm.ee
          5·
          27 days ago

          Crazy, that the web app is missing this, when the windows app is just webView as well…

        • BCsven@lemmy.ca
          4·
          27 days ago

          Hmm, that sucks. I was disappointed they trashed it almost as soon as it started…like a Killed By Googke thing

  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee
    3·
    27 days ago

    Linux

    Have time to make everything work before doing anything

    Also I live in a river in Egypt bitch, guess which one first one guess doesn’t count and you can’t repeat guesses and only possible answers allowed…

    Also there’s a camera recording everything I’m doing at all times that’s somewhat accessible to hackers.

    • edinbruh@feddit.it
      4·
      27 days ago

      First guess is “the Nile” second guess is “denial” , third guess is Sinai. Also, what the hell is that, an AI catcher?

      • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee
        1·
        27 days ago

        I don’t know man. I was really bored and being silly and sucking at it.

        The idea is that there’s only one river in Egypt. The Nile and denial was what I was going for, yes obviously, but that’s not a river in Egypt. Egypt the denial isn’t just play on words and then I kept on going because that’s how I communicate