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Re-creation of someone else's post because the original was removed and I found it funny when I first saw it

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[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 266 points 1 year ago

The duck can't actually say anything because his sound drivers randomly stopped working.

[-] __dev@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

In recent memory I've had both a microphone driver bug in Linux and one in macOS with specific hardware. Only one of them was fixed with an update.

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[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago
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[-] HeyMrDeadMan@lemmy.world 123 points 1 year ago

I'm really triggered by the idea that Linux makes running old software easy. The bane of my existence is finding an application that depends on libButts.5.1, but my distro ships with libButts.5.3, which isn't backward compatible for some reason, and trying to install libButts.5.1 bricks the desktop environment for some reason.

[-] eumesmo@lemmings.world 38 points 1 year ago

I just searched for that lib, in an attempt to help you with the supposed problem. I won't deny, you got me there.

[-] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

And this is what is actually good about Linux. :)

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[-] HKayn@dormi.zone 22 points 1 year ago

No time for actual facts, only circlejerking /s

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[-] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

Appimage, Snap, Flatpak, Docker, Podman, Distrobox, Toolbox...

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[-] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 1 year ago

The last character: I can make you spend an entire day trying to install some software or configuring something specific

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[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 53 points 1 year ago

Windows also doesn't let you remove system apps.

[-] Delta_44@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago
[-] dinckelman@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

You can totally remove them, but it'll just reinstall them back, or worst case scenario, you'll break a part of your system, because Windows is a giant monolith of decades of built-up stupidity

[-] demonquark@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Tbf, every moderately old software product is a collection of built-up stupidity.

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago
[-] RespectfullyNo@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

Checkmate, atheists

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[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 38 points 1 year ago

Linux: I can't install steam without breaking my system

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Steam Deck: am I a joke to you?

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[-] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago
[-] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unpopular opinion: flatpaks enable lazy developers to keep old versions of required Python dependencies working longer.

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[-] the_q@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Maybe you and Linus can't...

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[-] eee@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year ago

Linux: "my users spend half their time troubleshooting"

[-] Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

I am a Windows guy, but I occasionally have to work with Linux. I spend a lot of time googling weird problems with cryptic solutions. That’s my experience trying to do anything technical with Linux. I can’t really remember the last time I had a problem in windows, but that’s not to say windows is perfect. It’s taken a hit in usability recently, which is weird since they’ve had decades to refine things. I recently installed pop os as a dual boot and it’s been pretty great with the ability to play games. I haven’t really had to do anything technical and I find myself using it more than I thought.

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[-] Crow@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

I think we should stop trying to figure out what operating system is superior, and just focus on shitting on Microsoft windows.

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[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't have a printer.

I don't like open ports.

Decides to remove CUPS.

"apt list -i *cups*"

There are like 7 CUPS packages and dependencies.

for each package "apt remove cups --simulate"

Get to package 6 and decide 'Ok. No major issues, looks fine.'

For the first 6 packages "sudo apt remove CUPS"

This is easy and painless!

On 7th ...

Removing cups-pk or some shit.... Removing mint-common... Removing cinnamon-desktop...

Oh, fuck

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[-] Nobsi@feddit.de 31 points 1 year ago

"I can't build a steady userbase"

[-] 257m@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago

There is a difference between steady and small.

[-] markon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Actually.... The Steam Deck runs on Valve's custom Arch Linux. To say there is no steady userbase is simply not true.

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[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Yeah, you can run old app on Linux, as long as you compile it manually while solving a shitton of dependency problems.

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[-] Swarfega@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

I'm predominantly a Windows user. However I dual boot with Mint as I am trying to get away from Windows. It's really not easy but I'm trying.

I gotta say though these types of posts make me cringe. I really don't know why some Linux users put themselves on a pedestal all the time. You make these sorts of smug posts making out that Linux is perfect. I have never installed Linux and had it just work. There is always something that requires searching the web for a fix and firing up the terminal to start changing something in /etc/.

I get it. You're proud of your technology. But vegans are proud they don't eat animal products. We don't need to keep selling it to the rest of the world.

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[-] DrQuint@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

All three lines are incorrect, Amazing.

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[-] frezik@midwest.social 17 points 1 year ago

If I want to dd /dev/zero to my bootsector, goddammit, let me do it.

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[-] BlueDwaggin@pawb.social 16 points 1 year ago

I had the opposite problem with Windows 11.

My typical way of shutting down my machine was Alt-D, Show Desktop, then Alt-F4, which brings up a shutdown menu.

For whatever reason in Win 11, they made this menu unable to trigger updates. So for the first several months of my Win 11 install it was quietly never receiving any updates at all.

[-] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 16 points 1 year ago

Re-creation of someone else's post because the original was removed and I found it funny when I first saw it

If the original was removed, there's probably a reason.

This "meme" chooses the dumbest reasons Linux is better when there are so many other options than "updates" and "old app"

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[-] atyaz@reddthat.com 14 points 1 year ago

I think it's humorous how many people are getting offended at such a silly post

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[-] macrocephalic@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Funny, what kernel does android run?

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[-] Romanmir@lemmy.today 13 points 1 year ago

It’s always entertaining when people complain about not being able to stop Windows updates.

Like, has it occurred to you that you are the reason the MS had to prevent you from being able to update your system?!

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[-] SickPanda@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Linux users are like Vegans. No one likes them and they won't stop bratting about being a Linux user.

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[-] Pyro@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Isn't Android just Linux under the hood? You are free to brick your device with root access.

[-] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 15 points 1 year ago

Yes, but a lot of devices don't support getting root access, or come with caveats from doing so (I remember at least on Sony devices in the past, doing so permanently erased the proprietary camera blobs which resulted in forever low quality pictures).

That being said, you can disable system apps in Android (with exceptions, can't disable SystemUI obviously) which is about as good as deleting them. Since they're on the system partition which is separate from the user data partition, it doesn't actually grant you any usable free space anyways AFAIK.

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[-] eochaid@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

No, obnoxious elitism breeds controversy - or more likely, indifference.

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

You can stop unnecessary update on windows by using LTSC, on Android you can delete system app with adb or root

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[-] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

On the plus side, even if you did need to update Linux, it's not like you are running anything on it anyways.

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