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    [–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

    And yet most people choose Windows.

    You guys will never ever understand and you'll be on your death bed screaming Linux DE is just fine and totally just as easy to use.

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I tried Windows 11 on an old laptop I had. Experience:
    "Why the hell is TikTok installed?"
    Clicks icon
    "Installing TikTok"
    "No, you retard!"

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    How about not using slurs?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    For whatever reasony work tools on Linux aren't working right now, so I am using win10 for the moment.

    The start menu is a fucking nightmare. I don't care about what's on the internet when I am looking for my software. This isn't a mobile phone.

    What's even worse is that I know what the name of my software is. But half the time, when I use the start menu, the web results and ads load first and it takes a while to show my software, if it ever shows up at all.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I don't agree with the Mac one.

    The Mac UI is basically windows 3.1.

    It's absolutely awful.

    Also, windows will never brick your machine because of a full hard drive. My wife has a shitty MacBook air. She filled the drive completely. The OS can no longer function. It boots and that's it. You can't open anything, you can't delete anything. Every single click says free up HDD space, even deleting files.

    It's so fucking bad.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It's 2023 and Apple is a trillion dollar company, and they still don't have window snapping/tiling in OSX. I don't have anything positive to say about their OS lol.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Damn tell that to literally every single Linux WM lol

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Calm down MacOS hasn't done shit to make it better. They decide what you do and don't get, daddy apple already made the decision and you have to deal with it.

    "We did the thinking for you, and you'll like it." Might as well be their slogan.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    When I got a macbook from work I was honestly choked at how awful things were.

    Even the simplest of tasks required googling. It was so very unintuitive.

    I mean, I had to do some weird dragging to install an application!?

    Even to this day, I totally avoid using it.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I mean, I had to do some weird dragging to install an application!?

    Ah yes, the notoriously unintuitive feature known as… drag and drop.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Err, why couldn't they do the double click like everything else?

    Double click and then do a drag and drop, totally intuitive.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    That’s… exactly what you do. macOS software is usually distributed in DMG files (compressed disk images). You download the DMG, open it (with a double click in Finder), then drag and drop the APP file to your Applications folder (or wherever else you want it to be).

    Speaking of APP files, the structure of macOS apps is vastly superior to that of Windows, imo. Linux generally has them both beat, but there’s some additional complexity there.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    I have to agree with the other person actually. The drag and drop thing is kind of weird. They ought to just automate it.

    Other than that I think Mac is fairly easy to use, and more customizable than people realize.

    I do wish they had better window management though. GNOME and Windows both make window snapping so much easier than Mac. And the support for third party hardware on Mac is pretty bad.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    The drag and drop thing is because it's an app file. "Installation" is just putting the file in your application folder, or wherever you want it. Apps are (usually) just files, unlike on windows, so you don't need to go through a complicated installation process, just put them where you want them (usually the applications folder).

    The window snapping thing is annoying (but it's not apple's fault, Microsoft has a patent on it lol). There's a bunch of free apps that add window snapping though 🤷‍♀️

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    An aside, You can make KDE feel like that, but youd know every hairbrain behavor because you did it yourself.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Mac still locks up with frozen applications. I hate it

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, MacOS has way more bugs than Windows 10. It's kind of hard to believe that it has been this bad for the past several years. They keep pushing features, but they need a 1-2 year pause on features to fix the existing features they have.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Windows is far more customizable by comparison. Still nothing next to Linux but trying to put them on the same field at least in an enterprise environment is ludicrous.

    [–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I actually like Linux, but I'm considering just blocking all the Linux communities because it's so incredibly boring to just see you guys circle jerking all day long. We get it. We all get it.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

    We're on linuxmemes.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    My guy, you are on linuxmemes lmao

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    I came here hoping to see gnome and X11 memes. You know, actual Linux memes.

    Instead I found "Windows bad" circlejerking.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Distros and package managers are bad. Reject modernity, embrace compiled source. Burn Lennart Pottering at the stake!

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No, I'm on All, but a far higher percentage than most other content is just the same message in slightly different words on repeat, "Linux good, Binbows bad."

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Binbows isn't that bad, it's Michaelsoft as a company we should worry about.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    I like you.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

    But have you heard the latest hilarious thing? Windows... BAD! Hahaha! My goodness, I'm sure you never could have imagined. Also, I use Arch, in case you were wondering.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Meanwhile yesterday I fucked up my linux installation trying to find alternatives on how to be use the wheel click without having things pasted with it :/

    I'll be trying again when I am not lazy to reinstall it again.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Click "Activities" in the upper right and search for "tweaks", click the "Tweaks" icon. Select "Keyboard & Mouse" and turn "Middle Click Paste" to "off".

    For Gnome ^ but I'm at work and can't confirm.