BRO is that Katy Perry after her space trip, I haven’t heard anything about that in a hot minute
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10 years ago I wouldn't have imagined this, but this is me every time I have to use Windows (e.g., occasionally for work) or help someone else with it.
Same. I just switched a few months back. My laptop runs cool and quiet on Linux. When I need to boot to Windows, I hear that poor cooling fan laboring even when Windows is idle, plus everything is much slower and poorly organized. Why does my context menu have 14 selections?! Going back to Linux feels like coming home.
Genuinely, the more I use Linux the more slow and clunky windows feels. Also I'm a power user, when you install custom apps on windows it FEELS bloated, it's like "you didn't do this the WINDOWS way, so it's clunky" meanwhile on Linux it's like "yeah man it's open just plug in whatever" and it JUST WORKS
Doesn't matter if you did do it the windows way, honestly. Anything of any scale programmed in .NET has runtime reflection scattered everywhere, and that shit adds up.
.NET runs fast on Linux
bought one of the new snapdragon x elite laptops refurbished recently. obviously it came with windows 11 and i had to briefly use it to shrink the boot partition and disable bitlocker so i could install the ubuntu concept image on it.
The amount of advertising i was subjected to in that time was infuriating. not to mention the frankly arduous setup wizard.
Even with the slight bugginess of a "concept image" OS, the user experience is SOOOO much better than shitty horrible windows.
Sent from my HP OmniBook running NOT windows
How is it? Does stuff work?
There was some fiddling to do post installation to get wifi and audio through the speakers working (although careful with this, apparently fiddling with alsa can cause hardware damage. you have to set a kernel flag for it to work).
It's mostly fine, The omnibook is apparently one of the least problematic models in getting shit working. There isn't a catch all guide though you have to sort of figure it out from the launchpad bug comments
The function bar at the top doesnt have the shortcuts for things like vol up and vol down working; it's literally just F1-12, wasnt a big deal for me. and apparently, although i havent tried it myself yet, external displays over HDMI isnt working. screen bightness goes up to 95ish% and then for some reason drops down to basically nothing which is kind of weird but not game breaking. Software support is reasonably good since a lot of linux stuff is already compiled for ARM because of the Raspberry Pi and other SBCs. mine is currently running the "Raspberry Pi" build of Private Internet Access
I set it all up pretty quickly before i flew off on holiday. i did a two and a bit hour flight watching movies and still had 75% battery.
couple days later i did a 4 hour train journey watching movies and having bluetooth and wifi with VPN active and was trying (and failing) to compile stuff and ended the journey with like 30% battery
It's mostly silent so long as you keep it on a hard surface.
Honestly it's game changing not having to hover around a power outlet. i'm probs selling my 2020 Razer when i get back to the UK
Every time I'm force to use Windows it feels like I'm being punished.
It sounds so dramatic and I know people roll their eyes when I say things like that, but it's absolutely true.
The deeper I've gone with Linux over the years the more Windows seems (aside from the obvious privacy concerns and generally being trash corporate citizens) like an intentionally convoluted and overcomplicated mess.
Windows 10 requiring sign in only made me start using Tiny10 but even then I figured if end of life was happening, I may as well settle into using my favourite distribution. I love the feeling of Fedora but I have to use Arch for its incorporation of Deepin stuff.
Win11 is like 30% ai code iirc
Just put it in a VM. Keep it contained.
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More like being molested.
After a day at work, forced to use mac, I just have to start my linux machine, even if I do not have anything to do on it, just to feel sane again.
Man idk I find Mac at least functions intuitively. Windows is just endless pop ups and pain.
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First thing I noticed about this photo is that she's holding her hair away from the ground while putting her mouth right on it. I'm not sure why but that seems funny to me.
maybe getting it out the way so the cameras can see it?
Your logic has no place in the internet. Begone!
That would explain it.
"I don't care if I get dirt in my mouth, but I better not get it in my hair."
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>Be me
>Build new PC
>"Maybe I'll try out Linux. "
>Fairly popular 2 year old Motherboard
>Integrated WiFi Module no drivers available
>Integrated Bluetooth Module no drivers available
>No support for $170 Sound Card
>4 hours of troubleshooting later
>Linux more bloated with dependencies and packages from troubleshooting than your grandmas browser extensions
>"Fuck this"
>Nuke Partition
>Install Windows
>Shit instantly just works
>Use Linux partition drive for backups
did you try and use Arch?
i've only ever had to fuck around with wifi drivers when installing Arch
Everytime i've installed ubuntu on a laptop it's worked fine out of the box, including on the same laptop i had to fuck around with drivers on for Arch
No, but apparently I have one of the only WiFi/Bluetooth chip of MediaTek Corps. MT Series that is inexplicably not supported. Most others of that lineup are, just this exact one isn't.
i learned from my recent incursion into setting up a concept ubuntu build for snapdragon laptops that you can pull binaries from the windows partition to make the wifi drivers work
I love Arch, but it is not for beginners. WiFi and Bluetooth are both sketchy. Or, at least, they used to be.
My WiFi on arch is so all over the place when it connects to my phone hotspot. Connects, disconnects, "oh what's the password again?" Otherwise router based WiFi is fine.
Actually the Bluetooth is somewhat even more reliable than the Windows one. And it waits for you to connect manually instead of auto connecting to that one speaker you happen to have on.
i settled on Manjaro in the end for my desktop PCs. it has the flexibility of Arch including use of the AUR but i don't have to put much effort into setting it up
Namedrop the mobo and soundcard
The MT7902 WiFi/Bluetooth Chip by Mediatek Corp. does not (and probably never will) have any official driver support. There are some unsuccessful community attempts to get it working, but nobody actually managed to pull it off.
G6 Soundcard works for simple pass-through but SBX features aren't natively enabled, you need a Windows install with Soundblaster Connect to enable the functionality and load the settings into the onboard memory of the card.
Linux "supports" Dolby Atmos but it sound mostly like dogwater if not combined with Atmos mixed audio.
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Windows has it's upsides imo. My personal problem is that I'm so bad at using it.... Set static IP? Traverse down four different GUI applications all the way back to Windows NT -_-
My personal problem is that I'm so bad at using it
It's not you, it's just that Windows is badly designed.
No! Don't take the fall for what Windows forces you to do. Creating a billion GUI menus for users to get through before reaching what they really want to reach was Microsoft's choice, not yours.
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I find it hard to understand how people are able to kiss the ground without the thought getting in their mind that - someone probably spat/pissed in that place not too long ago.
This was in the desert in texas wasn't it?
good chance nobody has been in that particular spot for a long time
If they aren't worried about dirt, I doubt that they're gonna be worried about spit or piss.
I had to click 4 times over 90 seconds on "sleep" on my work laptop windows 11 machine today before it actually did anything.
A meme can't be more right.
That's the AI code at work there.
I can't deal with that picture of Katty Perry kissing dirt.
"I kissed some dirt and I like it..." xD
I use windows at work. even WSL doesn't make it great....
Half the time, we dont even deploy to windows boxes. They are too expensive haha. Its all Linux cause they are much cheaper and just as powerful. But mostly the cheaper angle. Still wont let us use Linux for development work though...
That's so weird, tons of people use Linux for dev. Do they say why you can't?
According to one of our adjuncts: "Windows just works for dev, why are we teaching Linux at all?"
He didn't last.
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Performative and dirt-on-lips pilled.
I use arch btw.
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