And that's why I switched to Linux.
this post was submitted on 16 May 2024
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My grandma call me saying she's sick of Widows and its shenanigans and asked me to install gentoo on her machine next time I come around. Gonna be a fun weekend.
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I just rolled back my Win 11 to Win 10 only to use temporarily while I test some other distros to see which one(s) I like.
Shout out to Ventoy, my new favorite usb utility.
better than flashing usb flash drives to install operating systems.
Truly a "where have you been all my life" moment. It even works with recovery ISOs!
I'll never flash another usb again if I can help it.
I have a 128gb usb c flash drive that I just dropped a ton of distros onto and went to town. So far, EndeaverOS has been my favorite.
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Stockholm Syndrome is the only explanation I can come up with at this point.
Stockholm Syndrome
Completely off topic: Stockholm syndrome gets its name from a hostage situation where the police seemed to show no care or concern for the hostages' safety and the captors did more to protect them than law enforcement. Of course the hostages' felt more empathy towards their captors.
According to accounts by Kristin Enmark, one of the hostages, the police were acting incompetently, with little care for the hostages' safety. This forced the hostages to negotiate for their lives and releases with the robbers on their own. In the process, the hostages saw the robbers behaving more rationally than the police negotiators and subsequently developed a deep distrust towards the latter.[9] Enmark had criticized Bejerot specifically for endangering their lives by behaving aggressively and agitating the captors. She had criticized the police for pointing guns at the convicts while the hostages were in the line of fire, and she had told news outlets that one of the captors tried to protect the hostages from being caught in the crossfire.
That's a really interesting bit of nuance that I'd never taken note of! Thanks!
Honestly I think many consumers go buy “computer” & have no concept that it has an operating system or that you can change it.
If you know there is an alternative, then yeah… wtf
100% true, I should have acknowledged that!
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I just switched all my systems over to mint. I used to think Linux was the "just at work" environment. But now I'm flipping it. I'm sick of Windows, I know it's less hassle but my digital well-being needs a break from ads.
It is truly the year of the Linux desktop.
So much of this shit apparently going on 11 but I've never seen any of these changes on mine.
Is this only for US or?
I'm in the US and I've not seen any of it either.
Windows 11 kinda sucks, I don't know why it's so hard for them to design a consistent UI, but I've not seen this ad nonsense.
I am using adguard DNS across my network, so maybe that's why?
This time the software giant is trying out having PC Manager suggest that you 'repair' your system by reverting to Microsoft's default search engine, Bing.
These are sound like things that are just begging European union to milk out some cash from Microsoft through fines.
They probably already set it up to not happen in Europe
Or set aside the cash as a neccessary expenditure to greater income.