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Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? (www.xda-developers.com)
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[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

there is a vocal subset of the community that thinks referring people to just read technical manuals is fine

I mean, I agree, it's not ideal. Just to point out though.... Windows is also not really well documented, and if you have an issue that's a bit on the unusual side? You can find yourself skimming forums for days, or just saying fuck it and reinstalling. There's definitely more information out there on Windows troubleshooting, but it has market dominance and it would be insane if there wasn't loads out there.

If you come across people hating Ubuntu - including myself - it's usually for ideological reasons rather than usability ones.

Yeah, fuck canonical! Shame they make a fairly decent and stable distro......

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago

A lot of Windows troubleshooting info, even on Microsoft forums, is frankly garbage responses to reboot this, regedit that without any real fixing involved. The Linux stuff I find much better, especially when one of the actual developers gets involved which isn’t that uncommon.

[-] sovereign@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

I got pushed away from arch because of the constant RTFM answer to questions when trying to google solutions to problems. Half the time they wouldn't even link the actual part of the manual they were talking about and just linked the whole thing to the person in question.

Running gentoo now and couldn't be happier with the community and how helpful people are.

[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, I'm not on base Arch. I run Garuda Arch, it's a quite polished derivative.
Things that drew me to, and kept me on Garuda:

  1. Flavours in:
    -KDE(lite & several other KDE based including a gaming flavour with options for a bunch of preconfigured programs)
    -GNOME
    -Cinnamon
    -XFCE
    -SWAY
    -i3
    -Hyprland
    -A NixOS subsystem
    -COSMIC
  2. The forums are highly active, any issues that aren't already covered in the forum the Devs are really quick to respond to. Think the longest I waited for a Dev or mod/admin to hop into a question I posted was 45mins.
  3. The gaming flavour's preconfigured bits work exceedingly well OOTB

If you're feeling a hankering to distro-hop, I would highly recommend Garuda.

[-] sovereign@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

I'll check it out. Ive been running a single distro for almost a month which is far too long.

[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Yeesh! Well....now you can install every flavour of Garuda! 🤣 12 flavours should keep you busy for at least an afternoon!

[-] sovereign@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

I'm installing dr460nized first lol it looks good.

[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Lemmy know how you get on 👍

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