• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      9 months ago

      Your solution isn’t a solution though it’s like saying that the solution to drowning is to set yourself on fire. It’s just a different kind of problem.

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        9 months ago

        No it isn’t.

        It’s more like saying: if that guy you hang out with keeps pushing you into the water and you almost drown every time, perhaps you should stop hanging out with that guy.

        Of course, that’s not what people who are in an abusive relationship typically want to hear.

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          9 months ago

          It’s hardly a big deal, none of what Microsoft has done is really that annoying. Individually they are barely even noteworthy.

          Switching to Linux is a huge pain in the ass to have to go through so Microsoft would have to do something seriously messed up for me to even want to put up with it. I’m not assuming that I could find equivalent programs that even ran on Linux.

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            9 months ago

            Switching to Linux is a huge pain in the ass.

            This is literally how MacOS and long time Linux users feel when switching to Windows.

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      9 months ago

      “Hey I have a problem with my Samsung”

      “Drop it and get an iPhone instead”

      This is what you guys are like.

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        9 months ago

        When people tell you to use Linux, they’re not telling you that to solve your immediate problem (e.g. your “show desktop” icon has been replaced with a different icon), but they are telling you to get out of your abusive relationship with Microsoft, because that is the real problem: Microsoft does not respect you, the end-user of their product, and this kind of abusive shit will keep happening for as long as you keep using Windows.

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          9 months ago

          Who asked you for help with our relationship? I believe someone complained about a random feature change. And here you are. Telling everyone to just fuck off and switch completely. It’s insane.

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            9 months ago

            JFC people like you … You have like the worst case of Stockholm syndrome I’ve ever seen. I swear the only reason you are getting so angry and defensive when people recommend Linux is because deep down you know they’re speaking the truth.

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              9 months ago

              No. It’s annoying being told the only solution is to throw everything out the window and start over. No stockholm syndrome I run a Ubuntu server and ran arch when I was 14. Fuck off with your stupid takes and offer a real solution to the problem.

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                9 months ago

                Fuck off with your stupid takes

                Yeah, real mature take you have there buddy.

                offer a real solution to the problem.

                “My husband always beats me when he is drunk. Don’t tell me to leave him, just tell me how I get him to stop beating me”

                ^ This is you basically.

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                  9 months ago

                  No. That is your perspective to a situation. That is not fact. Stop valueing your own voice so highly. You start to forget you can be wrong.

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                    9 months ago

                    Listen, if you don’t like what I have to say, don’t read my comments, block me or stop replying or something, but I’m not going to shut myself up to please some random twerp like you.

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          9 months ago

          they are telling you to get out of your abusive relationship with Microsoft

          And how well has that worked so far?

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          9 months ago

          It’s funny this meme of iPhones being expensive is still a thing.

          The cheapest one is under $450.

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            why would anyone buy an even more pos phone. I had a 12 and 13 before my pixel there is nothing good about them, unless you are insecure about people’s thoughts on what color your msgs are. also you don’t need to copy and paste you comment on everyone’s damn comment no one give a fuck.

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              You need to chill.

              I responded to a grand total of 2 comments with the same sentiment but they were not copies of each other. The over the top aggressive response is completely unwarranted.

              What’s more is that yours and my mom don’t need flagship phone performance and what you refer to as a “pos phone” would do just fine for the vast majority of people’s use cases without coming close to utilizing all available resources.

              I’m correcting the evidently popular belief that iPhones are expensive. As it turns out, only the expensive ones are expensive. Imagine that.

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      Linux isn’t a solution if you play competitive multiplayer games, which most people do.

      Edit: keep being classy basement trolls, you’re only proving my statements about the shittiness of the linux community with every downvote.

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        which most people do.

        Lolwhut?

        Most people who play competitive multiplayer games (a minority of total users) do so on console

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          “But the controller is an inferior aiming device”

          “Yeah and the foot is an inferior ball handling device, but soccer still exists as a game”

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      I don’t think this meme applies here. The person who’s mad isn’t the one using Windows. They got mad about a “problem” someone else was having and decided to use it as an excuse to push Linux.

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        Exactly. The Linux bros are not offering a solution. They are the same people as the “just move” people. Annoying ass trolls.

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          But moving costs money, switching to linux costs nothing (if you have free cloud storage or a second drive to backup and migrate important data, even then you could get one of those for cheap or free depending on your needs), and with how linux is these days there are distros that are as plug and play as windows for basic tasks that most people do, and a welcoming community and infinite resources to make learning curves small if you want to take on something more advanced. Further than that Linux can be more friendly, allowing easy configuration and GUIs to do things that would require “hacking” to do on windows or third party bloated applications.

          I’m on a more advanced distro, but it’s basically easy-mode arch skipping the technical set up stage, and honestly it is not hard to pick up at all, if I did what I did on windows my experience would be roughly the same except I designed my own task bar set up and my PC has been running quieter and more efficiently, everything past that is me tailoring my experience past what a normal user would do.

          I tried linux a decade ago and it was sluggish in the UI and didn’t have support for a lot of things but these days it feels 99% to what windows is for me with some extras. It’s time to switch for people on the fence, especially with the rapid enshittification of things.

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            I think the hurdle isn’t money but time, and yes it takes quite a bit of time to learn a new OS, figure out why your graphics card is running so slow, move your files to an external drive and back, find alternatives to the programs you use and learn their quirks and missing features, learn the difference between apt-get and snap and flatpak when programs only support one, figure out what a .tar.gz file is and how to install one (what was that chain of commands with “sudo make” in it), find tweaks and workarounds to get certain games working in Proton, and do that all again if you don’t like the distro (because Linux users love suggesting new distros)