"I can't switch, there's this one function of this one programme that I may need in the next 50 years."
There's a Linux app for that but the buttons are in different places
"They told me to type words into a black screen with green letters, and the mere suggestion burned down my house and killed my family."
Yes, do as I say!
"But I am more than happy to root around the registry and make changes to obscure variables that will be reverted in the next update"
I:
A) Try Wine. No? Ok..
B) Hello windows using friend or relative, can I borrow your PC for 30 min? No? Ok..
C) Hey work IT man, so, I know this is dumb but I need to run a program called pkhex. Yeah it's a hex editor specifically for pokemon hex files. Yeah I can get you anything on your cart. I can get you a legit Mew, even change your OT name from whatever you thought was cool in 1998. Ok so I need admin to download that real fast because I run Fedora, you bring your cart tomorrow and we can do this on lunch.
Typically option B is enough lol.
Wine?
Now we need a windows compatibility program called "com-plain"
Simplified communication, components, compatibility, whatever makes the backronym work
alias complain=proton
Whine -> wine -> translation layer
Complain -> com-plain -> Emulation like WSL
It helps but it's too expensive to distribute to everyone.
"No, you don't understand, Linux is not desktop ready, I know that because I installed Fedora back in 2008 and it was kinda wonky."
"I'm a busy person with a jobbity job and kids and a mortgage on an iPhone 18 Ultra Plus Air and stuff.
If I have to READ to make anything work, it's not customer ready, and this new thing should take no time at all to completely understand on my part.
It needs to be a perfect 'free Windows clone' before I'll even consider switching from the mega-corporate ecosystem I was coerced into dependency on from the start. If there's one thing I hate more than reading, it's asking anybody for help. Especially my friends. The operating system is the problem."
EDIT (clarity): Just making sure it's clear this is a hyperbolic hypothetical quote based on real things I've read/heard. Trying to be funny. Not my thoughts lol.
That same user, Oh I need MacOS so I can edit pictures of my kids. I'll have to buy all new hardware, $2000 dollars for a MacBook no problem. When they try Linux, What the heck, everything works except my cheap Wifi card. This is unacceptable, all of Linux has failed and is completely unusable by 100% of the computing world. Buying a 20 dollar USB dongle that is Linux compatible is completely out of the question for them.
It's great that there is overlap in hardware support between the three Oses, but lets not lose perspective. Imagine a Windows user complaining that MacOS had failed because MacOS doesn't have full support for all the hardware in their Windows machine. Or vice versa.
Ironically, for me, Arch has been the “Just Works” Distro lol.
Can confirm. In over 10 years of Arch I had only three breakages, two of which were self-caused by not checking for required manual intervention before upgrading. The third was because my laptop's battery died during an upgrade.
And the fix was always the same. Boot a life image, chroot into my install and fix it.
To make a long post short, windows is shitty but its setup bullshit is very straight forward and clear to deal with, linux is great when it works but its setup bullshit is byzantine as all hell. I got Linux working with only light bullshit on a laptop but just gave up entierly after 3 days of trying to get different distros at different advice working on my desktop.
windows is shitty but its setup bullshit is very straight forward and clear to deal with
Unfortunately, you definitely get a false sense of simplicity when you're essentially forced down a lazy river of:
"Accept all these corporate agreements, make an account with our centralized authority structure, try to deny a litany of invasive ad permissions (you can't turn it all off lol nice try.), enable our one touch AI button, shut up, and click go."
"(Pulsing blue light) We'Re TaKiNg CaRe Of YoU. . ."
Some setup things in Linux can be confusing at first, like how I've agonized over the implications of which file system to use. (Settled on BTRFS for rollbacks, otherwise it doesn't matter for 99.9% of people lol.)
But also I think we're just at a sad point in history where computers are everywhere but people have terrible computer education (self included), and it's left up to private interests who mainly want a cattle-like customer base.
...So everything seems scary and complicated.
I imagine cars would be the same way if we weren't required to test for a license. They're getting that way quickly though, people wanting a "Push ignition and turn off brain" machine that seemingly "just works" until it doesn't and they must take it to Special Wizards. A black box which they ultimately have no control over, but feels "easy".
I think it's because people are forced to use these devices. Like driving, some people enjoy the act of computing. Linux is for those people.
When everybody is forced to use computers every day and most of those computers run something by Apple, Microsoft, or Google, anything else feels like yet another stupid thing to deal with.
TL;DR: Linux respects the user, but respect is built on a two way street of understanding. People hate learning because they're systemically stressed TF out all the time.
Brown suit guy is the type to install third party modding tools and fiddle with regkeys.
Instead of switching to Linux, he breaks windows.
There’s a “defenestrate” joke here somewhere.
Yup, fella left Windows through the pain of installing Arch
I use Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarch
Also as a side note, i would recommend new Linux users to not learn the command line. Do not touch the command line if you're not sure what you're doing. Like with a knife, it's a powerful tool but you can also do a lot of harm with it if you don't know exactly what you are doing.
Everything that most people need (web browsing, writing emails, watching movies, making presentations) can be done with graphical programs only. You shouldn't ever need to touch the command line.
I only tried Linux once, about 15 years ago, and got scared off because it was all command. When I blow the dust off my laptop I might try it again now that its all user friendly.
Just make sure to pick the right distro. Some are complex still to cater to us veterans
Has anyone at Microsoft even considered adding solitaire, pinball and ski run back in?
theres a plasma window decoration called klassy that has a bunch of presets. all the windows-like presets are called defenestrated (followed by the number of whatever version of windows it is like).
I have been online linux mint for a good while now.
Wine was actually a good tip hahah
fucking switch or shut up, it's that easy. WHY. COMPLAIN. IF. YOU. DO. NOT. SWITCH???
well not everyone can, there's a lot of corners not well covered by Linux yet or any of its related projects (wayland, etc) some of these being accessibility problems others being compatibility problems, some being at the intersection of both... I am in the process of moving over to Linux (I can already work to a great extent after a week or so)
Arch users deserve to be defenestrated.
Tell me why Arch is so bad?
Its not that its bad. Its that it isn't any better but people go out of their way to say it is. Its the Vegan choice for linux. I've installed it and used it but honestly it doesn't bring anything better to the table. Right now I've installed KDE Neon but its going to go pretty quick.
Its the effete users that are annoying.
I'll whine until there is a solution for anticheat
As long as you're whining to the game publishers, not Linux people who are not only technically unable but also legally prohibited from doing anything about it.
It's important to place the blame where it belongs.
Whine with your dollars, the companies that make the decision don't give a fuck about shit else.
There are solutions. Those developers/publishers would rather have kernel level anticheats than use any of them.
Server level anti cheat is never going to work on its own unless they switch to cloud gaming entirely. And nobody except shareholders are waiting for that.
Hint: :q!
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