I’ve just joined a windows shop after developing in Linux for the last 15 years.
Nothing is predictable. UI prompts change my files. I get ads for Xbox in my development environment. Build assemblies/dependency chains are inscrutable.
Windows is fucking cancer.
Just use WSL 😄 so much more easy to set up development environments
Fighting with Linux is generally rewarding. On the rare occasion when it happens, I almost always learn a lot, and I’m able to figure out a functional solution.
Windows on the other hand feels like fighting with a manipulative, toxic partner. It happens constantly, you’re always a little on edge, and you never come out learning anything, you’re just relived that it’s over.
edge
Honestly it’s all about usage. Fought a lot with PopOS and Mint recently, learned nothing. Partner handed me a laptop with Windows 11 asking about a “grinding sound” and I cleaned out the fan checked everything in the OS and it was all fine. 11 ran like butter on that cheap laptop. I get that people bitch about Windows, but for the most part it is bullshit bitching. 11 ran laps around Mint and Pop during my use of it. PopOS is still loading its PopStore or what not and Mints Cinnamon is running updates for days while 11 finished it’s tasks yesterday. I love Linux and all, but this thing that Windows in inoperable is just dumb. They put ads and shit, it sucks. But the os runs really fucking well for so many people, that they don’t find a reason to switch.
First image is from a film about a submarine…
Hmm, yes, the US Navy uses Linux on their nuclear subs, this is correct.
Second image is from a film about a lighthouse…
Lighthouses indeed have Windows.
Meme checks out, carry on.
Supreme autism. Never change king
Submarine consists of compartments that you can manage individually, disallow access, etc, while it’s hard to control anything inside the warehouse once the user is there
Submarines also famously don’t have windows
Or screen doors.
i only use windows in a virtual machine where it belongs. even then, i have a gun pointed at the screen the whole time in case it tries anything silly
Ever had to pull the trigger?
I may have issues I never had on windows but I have way fewer issues and if I mention them online roughly half the time a dude who develops the thing that caused it sees it and, completely unlike any microsoft employee, gives a fuck. I once mentioned that I experienced a bug in the only mbin mobile app in reply to a post that was related to mbin but not the app (directly, anyway) and jwr1, the guy who makes that app, responded asking what it was.
I hope it’s still going alright :)
I have to use Windows at work and I feel like a boomer since I haven’t used it since I was 14/15. I’m constantly looking up the most basic shit like how to overlay calendars in Outlook or change the orientation of a single page in Word.
I once broke the table of contents for a manual I was writing in MS Word. Spent like 2 days untangling that mess.
It isn’t bad depending on what you are doing. I think part of the issues with Windows is software.
The other half is hardware. And the other other half is users.
I recently had to install windows for a research project and the fact the “latest version” i downloaded moments before needed to update while installing and then again needed to update twice after it was installed pissed me off way more than it should.
Also gotta love that my laptop can go 5+hrs on a charge with arch and xfce but lasts less than 2hrs on windows.
Windows used to have great battery life. Microsoft apparently thinks updates, malware scanning and AI are more important.
xfce is fucking king shit for laptops, imho
I just downloaded a .exe file to update a program because I forgot I switched to Linux a while ago
Me when I’m used to downloading random executables from the internet instead of a binary signed by the developer from a trusted repository:
Me when I’m used to downloading random executables from the internet instead of a binary signed by the developer from a trusted repository:
Is “anytime I use windows, I’m a real man” the message?
More like Windows users are depressed nihilists and Linux users are happy absurdists.
