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[–] MonkeMischief 5 points 6 days ago

I used to dual-boot and use my Win10 for gaming.

But in the middle of Vermintide 2 I kept getting BAD BSoDs seemingly at random! None of the typical steps seemed to help. Probably something NVIDIA related I dunno.

I was gonna "refresh this system" and all Windows told me after "We're getting this ready." was: "Can't. Dunno why. Sorry."

But hey, switching over to my OpenSUSE Tumbleweed install made the game play really smooth, and no crashes! And soon, I discovered it ran all my other games just fine or even better as well!

I haven't touched that Win10 install in ages, and will probably drop it in favor of VMing it really soon.

The only real holdout is that my VR headset is WMR. That really sucks. :(

[–] pinkystew@reddthat.com 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'd literally rather risk losing everything to a blue screen than use something arcane, deliberately difficult to use, unnecessarily complicated and bereft of any interesting or useful programs.

Linux is great for niche scenarios, like software development, but horrible for most daily use and any critic who pretends otherwise is ignorant or lying.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Windows is making it more a'd more annoying to keep using it and Linux is becoming more and more user friendly

[–] IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I cannot remember the last time I had a blue screen

[–] mako 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I cannot remember the last time I personally experienced racism so it must not be a real problem.

[–] IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

only on lemmy will you see someone compare windows to racism

[–] mako 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I encourage you to pay close attention when they start teaching the concept of comparison in 2nd grade.

The point was to shine a light on the fallacy that one person's experience represents the whole. What else were you trying to bring to the conversation except to say, "I think Windows is fine."

Comparing Windows to racism would sound more like, "Windows and racism are similar because.."

I also find it an inaccurate, lazy, played-out "joke" to say, "only people from x would y." That's an unthoughtful way to try and reduce people to your own bias and prejudice. I prefer something like, "only an idiot tries to shit on someone else and group together large swaths of humanity because they don't understand what's being said but they still want to to feel relevant."

[–] IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] mako 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

"You have poor reading comprehension."

"I ain't gonna read that."

you're so smart and cool

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Didn't Microsoft fire employees who held a vigil for Palestinians?

[–] IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

don't know. but that's neither here nor there. we're talking about computers here.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah a corporation punishing its employees for expressing opinions on ethnic cleansings has no bearing on whether their product can be equated to racism, because software.

Also, remember when the Kinect didn't work on black people?

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 0 points 6 days ago
[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 67 points 1 week ago (4 children)

NGL, some distros will give you the anxiety that the next update will brick your OS as well

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well I updated my computer and my audio stopped working; to the logs! Lol I love Linux, but find myself asking "what now?" much more frequently with it..

With windows it is more like "wtf is this new ad on my start menu?" Or "how can I opt out of all these features no one ever asked for?"

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[–] almar_quigley@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sigh… c/linuxmemes continues to leak

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[–] bob_lemon@feddit.org 44 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Other cures include literally just restarting your PC once a month so it can install updates.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or disabling the stupid power settings that mean a shutdown isn't a shutdown, and turning your computer off when not in use

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's hilarious that so many issues in Windows can be fixed with a restart but then they made it not actually restart when turned off and on again.

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[–] Shard@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Linux Syndrome:

When nobody asked but somehow the solution is Linux.

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you browse linux communities long enough, you eventually start seeing openbsd users who condescendingly speak about linux the same way some linux users speak about windows lol. It's turtles all the way down!

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (16 children)

I haven't seen a blue screen in years.

Yes, Linux Preachers, I am a Windows user.

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[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 27 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Linux machines don't crash unexpectedly, because if they do, it's your fault for configuring it wrong and you should have expected it.

[–] dch82@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago

Windows machines don't crash unexpectedly because it's Microsoft and you should have expected it.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hum... Hardware does still fail at random.

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[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I saw that happen once in a big presentation.

There was a team of students presenting their work to ~200 people. Right in the middle, a pop-up says updates are finished and the computer needs to restart. It has a helpful 60-second countdown, but β€œcancel” is grayed out, so all they can do is watch.

I was only in the audience and I still have nightmares.

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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Sure, because Linux never has hardware crashes ...

I have crashed Linux before. On a Raspberry Pi. I was fucking around with some electronics on a breadboard, hooking them up to the GPIO pins while the thing is running like a dunce, and a male jumper wire connected to Vcc got away from me and dragged across the circuit board near the SoC.

It came back up after I power cycled the board. I've otherwise never actually crashed Linux. I've crashed software running on Linux, sure, but I've never seen a kernel panic in 10 years of penguin flavored computing.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

For a while, Linux Mint was significantly less stable than Windows 10 on my previous laptop. Worse, sometimes the system crash would freeze *everything, where it wouldn't even let me do the CTRL ALT F1 to get a basic shell, so the only solution was a full power off/on

[–] MonkeMischief 2 points 6 days ago

That is painful. It'll work SO WELL on a bunch of systems but sometimes someone has a particular config that'll throw monkey-wrenches all over. It always feels like the most rotten luck being on the other end of that huh? :(

[–] Laser@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago

Blue screens were much more common back in the day, I guess nowadays they're equally stable. Windows current issues are the deliberate choices Microsoft makes

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Windows user here. I don't have a fear of BSODs.

On the other hand, I have "Linux users are elitist jerks" syndrome, which stops me from switching to Linux, due to a fear of Linux users might be elitist jerks. This can be only cured by massive improvements to the Linux community, and a debugger that has an actual GUI for Linux (no, I don't care about whatever cute little script you've written for GDB for a semi-automated testsuite for command line utility that converts one obscure format into another).

[–] MonkeMischief 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

"Linux users are elitist jerks"

Elitist jerks are elitist jerks. Ever talked to a stuck-up Windows I.T admin? The constant scoffing is unreal.

What about people rich (or financially goofy) enough to obsess with Apple products?

I think most community people regardless of OS just wanna be helpful and enthusiastic. (I like the word "enthusiast" haha) You'll always find elitists around topics that involve learning skills and mastery.

I dunno, I'm just happy sometimes people care here when I enthusiastically ramble to them about all their Linux-y choices they can solve problems with lol. We're not all like that.

Jerks just stick out more. Don't let them tint your opinion of an entire community. I managed to even enjoy ranked League of Legends for a short while because I didn't assume everyone was out to attack my ego with theirs.

Hope you have an awesome one and let us know if we can help you with anything. :)

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[–] renzev@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm a Linux user, and I have "X11 decides to lock up the entire system irrecoverably for no reason" syndrome. Should probably look into wayland...

X does fall over sometimes. Since I've been on Fedora KDE running Wayland, I've had a couple "you're now in recovery mode" moments as well.

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Since when did the Blue Screen concept change from being an actual error screen to simply the Windows update screen?

I'm guessing shortly after Windows began implementing aforementioned update screen?

This is the first I've heard it referred to as the Blue Screen.

For reference: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_screen_of_death

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

I think the whole thing might be a joke? πŸ˜€

[–] Kyatto@leminal.space 11 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately as a linux user you may get stuck-on-post syndrome but there are widely available immunizations and treatments available.

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