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We talk a lot about enshittification of technology, so tell me about technology that is getting better!

I personally love the progress of electric scooters. I've been zooming around on a 400$ escooter for a year and it works so well. It has a range of around 20 miles and top speed of 15 mph, so it works just super well for my uses, and 10 years ago scooters with that range/speed/price were no where near a thing.

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[โ€“] superkret@feddit.org 176 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

I know, I know, it's getting boring, but...Linux.
Nowadays you install it by clicking "next" a few times, and when you're done, the latest updates are already installed, the firmware for your hardware is installed, your wifi is connected, your networked printer/scanner combo is already recognized and set up, storage media or devices you plug in are auto-mounted, most games work out of the box, bluetooth works, MS Office files can be opened without becoming a garbled mess, touch screens work, touchpads work better than on Windows, ...

It didn't used to be this way. 20 years ago, Linux ran only on desktop PCs with Ethernet cable connection, all games had a penguin as the main character, shopping for a printer made salesmen look at you like you're from Mars, and when someone sent you a .doc file, you sent back a reply to please use a free format or PDF.

[โ€“] 2001aCentenaryofFederation@fedia.io 63 points 2 months ago (1 children)

all games had a penguin as the main character

I see no issue with this

[โ€“] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Num10ck@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago
[โ€“] youngalfred@lemm.ee 25 points 2 months ago

Sooo many issues getting wifi or sleep working in the past. It's so much better now.

[โ€“] neidu2@feddit.nl 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I wholeheartedly agree with you, but today I feel like ranting about the debian 12 installer a bit and its inability to accept that, yes, I do in fact want to install grub on two separate hard drives at once, so that I have two sets of /boot/EFI

The OS itself allows installation on mdraid, but grub does not. So in the end I had to set up one /boot/EFI partition on one drive, and reserve an identically sized partition on the other drive so I could manually duplicate the grub installation afterwards. Took me a few hours of hair pulling and way too much coffee to figure that one out.

[โ€“] superkret@feddit.org 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have you ever tried something like this with a Windows installer?

[โ€“] neidu2@feddit.nl 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I haven't used a windows installer in a decade, so no. Does windows even allow basic partition8ng during install?

[โ€“] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Basic, yes. But windows still assumes it knows better than you and does whatever it wants anyway. But you can set up separate partitions for C:\ and D:, etc

[โ€“] Toribor@corndog.social 5 points 2 months ago

Linux has been easier to install than Windows for a while now, particularly with all the goofy hacks you have to pull out just to make an offline account on Win11.

[โ€“] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

We had Widelands and we liked it! Don't even get me started on trying to view porn!

[โ€“] StereoTrespasser@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What was i expecting. Of course Linux is the most top-rated answer ITT.

Sigh.

[โ€“] spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The things we like don't change much from day to day.

[โ€“] christophski@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

I just used Virtualbox's auto install feature yesterday and it was insane. Literally just put in name and password and iso and it did the rest.