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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Windows breaks:

  1. find a Windows installation Disc or USB (1 hour)
  2. backup files from broken installation (2 hours)
  3. Install windows (15 minutes)
  4. Install Windows updates (8 hours) 4a. Debloat/Decrapify Windows (30 minutes)
  5. Restore backed up files (2 hours)
  6. Find and install previously installed programs (??? Years)
  7. Try to remember accounts and special settings for special previously installed programs (3 hours)

Done in 16 hours

Linux Breaks

  1. Find Linux Live USB (5 minutes)
  2. Reinstall Linux (10 minutes)
  3. Install updates (20 minutes)
  4. Reinstall previously installed programs (5 minutes)

Done in <1 hour and spend the rest of the weekend playing Elden Ring

Separate /home partitions are a godsend.

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

Windows breaks:

  1. find a Windows installation Disc or USB (1 hour)

Linux Breaks

  1. Find Linux Live USB (5 minutes)

You know both of these are easy to find on the internet, right? Why the 55 minute discrepancy? Is Microsoft throttling your download?

Install Windows updates (8 hours)

I guess they are throttling your downloads. What did you do to piss them off?

Separate /home partitions are a godsend.

And easy to do in windows if you care to spend a few minutes. People praise Linux because it's customizable then bitch about windows forcing them to customize.

There are so many legitimate things to whine about in windows. It kills me to see people lash out in ignorance and just hardcore make shit up

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

  1. People with Linux installations tend to have Linux LiveUSBs already created, so finding one is faster. Most people don't keep Windows installations handy, so it takes a while to locate the Media Creator online, download the file, and begin the process

  2. Or if you are someone like me, who keeps an older build of Windows 10 on a flashdrive, the updates require multiple restarts, before being able to install the Feature Updates. Maybe 8 hours is a stretch, but it certainly feels like it

  3. It's possible to do separate %userprofile% drives, sure, but it feels clunky and can't be done during install like you can with Linux

It's funny you talk about people making shit up when my post is slight satire in response to the pure satire meme. Maybe you should talk to OP instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

People with Linux installations tend to have Linux LiveUSBs already created, so finding one is faster. Most people don't keep Windows installations handy, so it takes a while to locate the Media Creator online, download the file, and begin the process

Your failure to prepare is Microsoft's fault.

Or if you are someone like me, who keeps an older build of Windows 10 on a flashdrive, the updates require multiple restarts, before being able to install the Feature Updates. Maybe 8 hours is a stretch, but it certainly feels like it

How is this different than installing from an Ubuntu 20.04 disk? Another failure to prepare.

can't be done during install like you can with Linux

Sure it can. All you need is an answer file. You can put that on your USB, and it'll become the default just like Linux. It's actually significantly easier to customize a windows installer than most Linux installers.

It's funny you talk about people making shit up when my post is slight satire in response to the pure satire meme. Maybe you should talk to OP instead.

OP seems to understand this community in a way that you don't. OP is also making legitimate criticisms of some members of the Linux community rather than lies born out of ignorance of the product he is criticizing.

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

Or team up with buddies on Discord and vote brigade.

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

its not vote brigading champ. you're unpopular because your ideas are bad.

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

This whole community is just so sad, i cant believe it every time it comes up in my feed. You make a meme talking about how linux users have nothing better to do than post about it, but your entire deal is posting negative memes multiple times a day. Like I hate using windows, but i dont spend all my time thinking about it. Do you honestly have nothing better to do?