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    [–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    I agree with 1,2 and 3 but I don't really understand the remaining 2,

    I've never across the 6 systems I've had, had windows brick an install to the point it no longer can restore/recover itself without me doing something really wrong (usually something stupid on the Linux partition). it's way of handling updates and upgrades is actually something I miss on my current system, with windows if it failed the update it rolled itself back, on Debian I gotta roll a snapshot,which isn't hard but takes longer and is manual.

    I've also never had an issue with the UI not looking uniform, or at least anything worse than anything not Apple.

    [–] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

    Every time I've come across this it's because windows restore points have been disabled for some reason, or the only restore point happens to be from when it was first installed. Other times it's been when there are 2 hard drives installed and it somehow shits the bed and installs the bootloader to one and the os to the other, or upgrades to one disk but leaves a half valid install on the other, then boots the old install. Generally getting confused about multiple disks

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    [–] black0ut@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I once accidentally bricked a windows install by replacing the system font with another font, while calling it the same. The system crashed on boot, and apparently the recovery menu also uses the same file, because it instantly crashed too. Had to do a complete reinstall of that one...

    On the UI not being uniform, you may not have noticed, but it's awful. They've fixed some stuff, but there was a point with win11 when 40% of the apps were light theme when you had dark theme. Even to this day, you have a complete mix of icons from different generations of windows in different menus (hell, there are still win95 icons in some places, and you can still set them up as folder icons). Some apps, despite rendering with the modern w11 style, clearly have the structure from decades ago (in fact, to this day, you can find menus from windows 3.11 in windows 11, and it also comes with the dialer app hidden in System32). Context menus are also another incredibly inconsistent thing, and for the longest time, win11 had 3 types of context menu styles that were used seemingly at random (some of the context menus also rendered in light mode even when the system-wide dark mode was enabled)

    [–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I get the feeling Microsoft often starts modernization projects and abandons them halfway through. That's why we still have the modern and the classic control panel. Even their web apps have this problem - there is an old version of the Exchange administration panel and a new one. And it's been like that for a decade.

    They're just piling new junk on top of old junk and it shows.

    [–] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

    I once found a dialog that default searched for a:/ in a windows 98 style popup. Pretty sure it was early windows 10

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    [–] rachelzsnow@lemmy.pt 2 points 21 hours ago

    i just started using it and choose Fedora, and it is indeed a little confusing at first but when you move to linux you should be prepared to study a bit, watch videos, even use your text app to keep stuff and organize commands, its not a move in with full furniture kind of deal and i think thats part of the fun

    [–] ddplf@szmer.info 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    I love this copypasta, I love my linux, I hate my windows. But let's be honest with ourselves for a second and completely ignore the punchline of this meme.

    Those ARE valid criticisms of linux distros. Arch is not for casuals so you should be aware what you're getting into before stepping in, however your everyday-consumer-facing distros like Mint are still far from providing a fully comfortable day to day experience.

    I love my Mint, I'm never going back to windows, I'm a technical person and I had to use AI to help me run my nonograms game without it injecting cocaine into my CPU.

    [–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Mint was providing a comfy day to day experience 15 years ago. I never can figure out why everyone says it's so hard.

    [–] Dvixen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I'd wager it's due to the user's catalogue of knowledge being effectively reset, even the deepest of users of windows has years of working around the (many) issues. Swap to a new OS, the knowledge doesn't always transfer.

    It's not hard, it's just different.

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    [–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

    Wow, so much coping with half-truths and whole lies.

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    [–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I feel like he's gonna get banned for posting this on that subreddit lmao

    [–] dfgxx@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    He 100% going to be banned, I was banned with doing nothing wrong there. The mods there are bit crazy

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    [–] ian@feddit.uk 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

    One thing where Windows has an advantage over KDE for non IT people, is applications can directly access network shares. Most KDE applications don't even show the network in the file browse selector. So for sync or backup apps it only works with mounted shares. Which isn't necessary in Windows. To mount a share in KDE it's convoluted and a hack that is no good non IT users. If they expect good usability.

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    [–] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago

    It's obviously RB but there's some truth in there. I remember back in like 2008 when I was first introduced to Linux, kinda felt like magic that there was another OS besides windows and Mac. I had an old powerPC iBook collecting dust that I installed Ubuntu on. Honestly I was just toying around with it for a few weeks. I remember being confused by a lot of things kinda like this post and honestly not even knowing where to look for information, what terms to put into the search. I just clicked around and essentially broke shit and reinstalled.

    I forgot about Linux for a while until my Intel Mac mini fell out of support so I installed Ubuntu around and 2010 full time on my main machine. The good megaupload and Netflix as a DVD service days.

    I ended up distro hopping to nearly everything. Ended up getting that old PPC laptop up and running again with a version of puppy Linux. I got really into light weight distros and minimal UI's with all my own cli scripts for everything, mps-yt for YouTube, made my own script for 8tracks, for web scraping and so on. Lots of pipe menus for everything, weather, calendar events and so on. Although these days I just run Fedora, have been thinking of switching to an immutable base with a container for everything I need to install besides flatpaks. Vanilla OS looked like a cool project but it's not mature yet, same with pop cosmic.

    A mature cosmic UI on something like vanilla OS with an Ubuntu and an arch container for software that isn't available as a flatpak or otherwise doesn't work well as a flatpak I think would be my ultimate if and when they become mature.

    [–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

    The second issue was too blatant, I knew I was getting the old 4chan bait and switch

    [–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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