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Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update improves and breaks dark mode
(www.theverge.com)
Good ol' CS flashbang PTSD.
Good old Flash of Unstyled Content.
Guess Explorer is now a webapp too?
I hate the little animations everywhere. Luckily I no longer need to use windows.
That’s some software gore.
How does that even get shipped?
Written by Copilot and passes the tests also written by Copilot.
The corrupt oligopolists have completely given up on QA; why would they bother when they don't feel any real competitive pressure.
AFAIK, this has been happening as far back as Windows 8. I believe they had a giant pool of physical PCs (laptops, pre-builts and various popular component combinations for desktop) that they physically tested updates on, but they scrapped all of it because they know they don't need to worry about competition.
Win 11 is one of the 'bad' releases for sure (cf ME, Vista, 8 vs XP, 7, possibly 10)
Beyond the title, Louis eloquently talks about this dynamic here:
Good riddance Windows die in a fire. I'm glad they're owning up to having an unmainatable 20 year old pile of spaghetti code and are giving up. Makes it die faster.
i could make a mean comment, but i recently switched from mint to ultramarine kde and i could swear it's buggier than w11. literally every time i look at it wrong i need to reboot.
I have experience in KDE being a bit buggy too. It's kinda crazy how powerful it is, but I guess more "moving parts" means more breakage.
After a while, I moved away from KDE.
In fairness, it's been more stable for me than Windows.
I haven't used KDE Plasma since Plasma 6 came out, though. I've heard people say it's a lot less janky, so maybe my experience is no longer the case. Nowadays the only interaction I have with KDE is the 0.1% of the time my steam deck spends in desktop mode while I'm updating stardew valley mods.
I've had very few problems with KDE Plasma (on Fedora) since I swapped to it like a year ago. Discover is being weird every now and then, but I mostly use dnf directly anyways.
every time i open my computer i have the tray filled with sad face emojis because discover crashed. then it will not open anymore but the sad emojis still reappear
Have you tried launching Discover through the terminal? You might get some helpful logs (especially if it's immediately segfaulting, that means it's a known bug with a fix!)
yes i have launched it from terminal. it only launches with sudo, it works completely normally then. funny that it nags that it's unnecessary to run it with sudo. without sudo it's just silent, nothing appears in terminal.
there's also 4 updates always available, but they keep coming back after restarting discover. sometimes it gives an error complaining about color schemes, wallpapers, cursors etc. even if I remove everything i downloaded...
i used to be a windows guy. discovered arch linux and it's not enough. i wanna do hardcore shit so i'm going kali
What kind of "hardcore shit" are you planning to do with your computer? 😅
I thought the "hardcorer" alternative to Arch was LFS
i'm new to this shit (started arch yesterday) so i dunno
i use my macOS terminal all fucking day so i know my way around a linux interface, it's more or less the same shit (macOS uses zsh and linux uses bash...the syntaxes are almost identical, if you know one, you know the other)
You're going to feel right at home with TempleOS.
i'm autistic and schizophrenic
people seriously have compared me to the guy who made it (why tf can't i remember his name)
Terry Davis.
Welp, here's sincerely hoping this is not a bad omen.
terry davis! i had it right on the tip of my tongue. they only thing i know about terry is that he's schizophrenic and he made templeos. i have the paranoid variety....well, not quite, i was diagnosed schizoaffective in 2019, in other words roughly half schizophrenic and half bipolar
i don't know how people feel about the use of the word "schizo" around here......trust me, it's totally fine, we call ourselves schizos all the fucking time, lmao
Nice to know you're enjoying Linux :P
I think that later on in your adventure, you'll notice that you don't actually need a distro that's hard to maintain in order to do the hardcore stuff.
Going back to more tame distros (Mint, Debian, Fedora, Solus) may actually suit you better, even for said tasks.
what would you recommend for cybersecurity? i'm interested in a few things (shell scripting, web dev, nlp), but i'd also really liek to know how to stop hackers
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