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    [–] Reygle@lemmy.world 74 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Normal people (idiots) would rather spend 4 years of their overall life "hacking" with Windows to avoid 30 minutes learning to use a forward slash.

    [–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 52 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

    Meanwhile the entire Internet :
    https://example.com/Laura/Epsom

    [–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 45 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    https://example.com/Laura/Epsom

    Laura Epsom? Is that Lorem Ipsum for the barbaric tribes of Britannia?

    [–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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    [–] einlander@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Tfw windows uses forward slashes too. Now let's talk about how *nix is case sensitive because laziness.

    But all fall short of God's glory that is Temple OS.

    [–] kautau@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

    I won't have the perfect OS until I've rewritten Temple OS from scratch as Hannah Montana's Temple, The OS

    [–] adam_y@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    (Idiots)... Way to roast normal people. Don't know if they will ever recover. The best bit was putting it in brackets.

    You are normal people.

    [–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)
    [–] CaptainFortissimo@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

    I'm ready, Trekkie Monster!

    [–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 4 points 6 months ago

    You are normal people.

    For a fact, i'm not normal.

    [–] Jako301@feddit.de 24 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I've spent ways less time editing the windows registry than I've spent trying to fix all the dual monitor bugs with linux.

    Windows issues/changes are a 30 second google search away, linux issues often enough require a 1 hour deep dive into multiple forums.

    [–] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Have you googled Windows issues? Every problem apparently is fixed by running chkdsk or download a "driver updater". And it wasn't exactly good in the past either.

    [–] stranger@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    If you don't know what to search, how to word it, or where to look instead of clicking the first link with "[SOLUTION]" then maybe you shouldn't be troubleshooting...

    [–] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 months ago

    Oh come off it. Obviosuly you don't click those the problem is the Microsoft support articles are outdated/missing and their own forums aren't much better.

    The chaff you have to cut through for Microsoft products is on another level.

    [–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    It... Depends... Also, you picked the wrong platform to argue against Linux on 😅

    [–] Donkter@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

    The fact that you have to say it depends and wait for clarification of which exact flavor of Linux version and problem it is is just chef's kiss

    [–] Eheran@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago

    Ah yes, no counter arguments here, only patting on the back while everyone takes turns looking down on a different group of people.

    [–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

    Wayland pretty much solves every single dual monitor issue. Only problem now is getting complete Nvidia support and patching out edge cases. I dual monitor all the time, and not just normal dual monitor either, the monitor count increases or decreases on a whim and not a single screen in use are the same. They all have different refresh rates, resolutions, orientations, vrr & hdr support, color ranges, etc. everything works as expected.

    [–] KingOfSuede@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Last time I checked (during the installation of Fedora 39), HDR support was nearly non-existent in Linux, with the only options being some hacky experimental support for gaming via Gamescope. Has that changed in the last 6 months? It’s the only thing holding me back from jumping to Linux these days.

    [–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    KDE Plasma 6 has experimental HDR support. The HDR Wayland protocol isn't finished just yet. Here's a good source.

    [–] stranger@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

    I do technical support (mainly Windows but some Linux) and fully agree; most people just want to project for one reason or another. My main concern is privacy and bloat, but those are easy enough to address on either platform.

    [–] stranger@lemm.ee 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    You sound like an (idiot); you as an individual are not defined by your OS of preference of all things, and by all means, you are one of the normals.

    [–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

    yeah, and most people dont even know linux exists

    thats like calling a kid dumb for not understanding how multiplication works when they havent yet learned it in school

    [–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I mean it's probably a similar amount of time and effort trying to fix Windows than it is learning to use Linux.

    [–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I once spent several hours at work trying to mount a USB drive to red hat. I'll keep fighting windows for now.

    [–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 6 points 6 months ago

    I spent many years trying to fix Windows before moving...

    Just got tired of fixing the same bullshit over and over in this cat and mouse game trying to gain control of my computer.

    [–] Peter1986C@lemmings.world 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    On work machines, it may also be on purpose (IT department having restricted the use of USB storage).

    [–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Yeah. If that's not one of the first things IT did when they got hired, then you need a new IT. You seriously can't trust anyone to not plug a random USB into volatile infostructure.

    Also, they could do it to prevent theft of their proprietary code and other things that you'd probably need to sign a NDA to even see in the first place.

    [–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I don't think so; there was a procedure for it and we had root access. It just didn't work according to the procedure, nor any of the ones I found online. If I remember correctly, it said to mount sda1 and that didn't work. Another different machine worked with sdb0 or 1. Ended up having to plug a laptop in with a network cable and ftp the files.

    [–] Peter1986C@lemmings.world 3 points 6 months ago

    /dev/sda1 might have been your computers hard disk, with "sda1" in the instructions being an example.