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[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

..... And it sucks

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The AI crap added to notepad was something I didn’t believe until I saw it for myself. Like a fractal cauliflower blossom of bloat touching all things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

It takes 7 seconds for the terminal to load on my brand new laptop. I'm sure there's some way to fix it, but that...just enrages me.

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

My workplace (government) has left it to the last minute and I bet a lot of others have as well. The numbers should shift hard in the next 3 minths.

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

Governments really should be shifting entirely to Linux. Reliance on corps not to corp is not good practice for a government

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What's even the difference? Same shit, a bit JS added.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

No Internet Explorer (replaced by probably JavaScript app)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And they moved the start menu.

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

You can move it back. My forced on me win11 looks a lot like my win10.

Not saying I like it, it's owned and controlled by the employer, but with a little work some of the shitty pointless default UI changes can be minimized.

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

Right, but my point is that it's change for the sake of change, not to improve things. It's the same old Windows, but with some downgrades like telemetry and stupid defaults.

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

Unless we are all techies we don't have much to switch to.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

There's plenty of tutorials on YouTube to walk you through installing all the major linux distros. And distros like mint are pretty streamlined now. It's pretty straight forward. And there's a good community here that is always willing to help.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I found Mint rather simple to install. That said, I am a techie. I am using several different distros in my house, but I wanted to live in Mint for a while to see how well a non-techie might fare. My reasoning was that since Ubuntu (Mint's parent) is rather ubiquitous, there is more development and more attention paid to support and troubleshoot issues. So far, so good. Yes, being tech literate does help, but I think a non-techie could live with Linux. And over time, the environment will become more known like Windows is now.

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

I don't have a significant need to use a laptop or desktop as my phone is my primary computing device. With that said, I run Mint Debian Edition on my laptop. Just because I want my computer to work when I go to use it, even if it has been six months.

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

I'm not a RedHat fan (actually very explicitly not a fan), but frankly Fedora with Gnome seems as problematic as Windows at worst, and very easy to install.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was looking how to autologin on an old laptop that is used as a media player on my tv, followed the instructions but turns out thay whole section of the settings is missing for some reason.
Had to look wtf and turns out there's a fix but it requires me sitting and taking my time with it (which I won't have for a while), nobody else can do it but it bothers me to no end... Why the fuck did it happened in the first place? How can it's own installer miss things?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Different version, probably.

I think the way to approach this is creating a PR that a simple (plenty of people autologin on Windows) functionality is hard to find. It's also very valuable feedback for the developers, they usually have sort of tunnel vision and see completely different things as terribly important for users, while some really important (and maybe easy to do) just skip because in their skewed view it's not pressing.

That could be replaced with proper QA and lots of testing on focus groups and so on, but we live in 2025, nobody does things properly anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Worse part is it's damn Fedora KDE, they are meant to be user-friendly, this would make my sister go back to windows in less than a second

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago

That's only because I left for Linux.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It was forced on to my computer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah my corpo laptop will update to 11 on July 10th. I'm going to be testing out in house app on Linux with an older corpo laptop soon

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

You always had the choice to install Linux, and still do. Dont let them control your PC.