Gregory's ServerIf you hate Windows, simply switch to Linux so you can hate Linux instead
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 @schratze Next year, next year, not just right now. I've been reliably informed that next year will be the year when Linux is ready for the desktop. @TimWardCam @schratze My desktop doesn’t run linux in a VM, it runs it as the main OS. Of course, I have multiple USBs with different operating systems, but most of those are just different linux distros. @TimWardCam @schratze My only USB that isn’t a linux distro has Windows on it, so that way I can use all the apps I can’t find on Linux. @schratze I run Windows using Parallels on my iMac….not exactly the best of both worlds..but pretty close  @schratze Dear Schratze, I am inquiring today, to ask whether you, too, noticed the thread getting resurrected today in your notifications, and not in a good way. At least the mentions I got are... *cough* Wait... what if I am contributing to the resurrection myself right now with this toot? Oh no. And what if it's not in a good way? OH NO. CC @shahaan@eldritch.cafe 😆 @schratze Pro strat: switch to WSL so you can blame all your linux problems on windows. @schratze PS: Thanks to every Open Source dev for making good software that we love (even the big tech companies)   @schratze I switched to Linux 17 years ago and... well, yeah, Linux has issues, and some of them are extremely frustrating -- but every time I'm made aware of what Windows is like these days, Linux seems positively idyllic and utopian. @schratze Hate using software? Simply switch to making software so you can hate yourself instead. @patrickmcurry @schratze @doot “instead”? I didn’t know that was an option, now I just hate everything @patrickmcurry @schratze "Hate managing a software project? Become a project manager and hate everyone involved including yourself."   @patrickmcurry @schratze Hey excuse me. Please stop being so darn accurate >:/   @patrickmcurry @schratze *cries while typing in a specialized DSL I made for some reason* way ahead of ya   @schratze I call the process of getting my computer to do what I want it to do "arguing with my computer" "I wanted to get a game running on linux, so I spent some time arguing with my computer" @schratze Also, I set a shell alias so that if I enter a command, but forget sudo, I enter "please" and it re-runs the last command with sudo  @schratze except I don't hate #Linux since #ItJustWorks - unlike #Windows. My only regret is not having committed myself to switch to Linux earlier...  @schratze Oh yeah, absolutely, but yours is homegrown, a lot of those accounts came over with twitter followers in tow. @sexybenfranklin well, thank you. I've put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into my account in the posting mines  @schratze  @schratze If Linux fucks up, it's probably my fault, so I simply hate myself  @schratze no I love Linux since I switched from Windows. Sure it's not perfect but it's open and gets worked on. I think it's fair that it isn't perfect but it didn't ask me for my data and works just as if not better then Windows on my old laptop  @schratze every time I use windows for professional reasons, I realize how much I love Linux despite its own problems   Same. And don't get me started on Apple's alternative. The only way to use that is launch the terminal and make it full screen. @schratze but on Linux I at least know that I am the problem unlike Windows where it's just shrug emoji @schratze literally me when I yesterday tried to copy over browser files on ubuntu and couldn't bc I needed admin permissions, which I had, I was in root, so I had to move the files via console which took me at least 4 times longer than just drag&drop, for what do I have a GUI when I can not use it for basic operations grrrr. Friend recommended installing kio-admin, very essential package @schratze I've ironically just moved to Linux Mint as my daily driver away from Windows 11, and I must say that it's a nicer and quieter experience. There are some frustrating elements to the OS, but I definitely find it preferable to Windows!   @schratze@todon.nl I just hate computers sometimes. (Has "Computer Enthusiast" in bio) @schratze Windows hurts me without my consent, Linux hurts me with my consent :blobCat_uwu:  @schratze    @schratze  @schratze @PCOWandre That reminds me of @PCOWandre @schratze Aaaaaaah nooooooo! Since that job where our main box was a uVAX II with 4.3 *and source code* (which was rare at the time) I have been an ardent BSD fan. @PCOWandre @schratze Actually, working at WeMoveMobileData and later WeHostMillions I learned to like Solaris 10 a lot. Which was rather unlike the SysV I got to know at the University earlier in its different forms of not being very satisfactory.  @PCOWandre @jyrgenn @schratze Porting drivers from early Solaris to SVR4? Would that even be possible? Wasn't early Solaris basically SunOS (BSD) under the hood? @resuna @jyrgenn Nope. Solaris -- as in Solaris proper, not the "Solaris 1" backported name for SunOS 4 -- was STREAMS and System V all the way. With proper API/ABI definitions and compatibility. Look at some of the classic LSI drivers -- one binary covers 2.6 through 10 and the cut at 2.6 is only because of the jump to 64 bit splitting the driver tree. @PCOWandre @resuna It was indeed SunOS up to 4 that was BSD-based, AFAIK from the start. (4.0.3 when I finally got access to the coveted Suns at the university, work as well as study. At my student job I got the task to install "all that GNU software" on the first SPARCstation 1 they bought — a night and a day of pure fun. No "./configure && make install", rather real configuration work at the time. The best thing: Emacs with native SunView support.) @PCOWandre @resuna Compiling gcc three times and things. The only 25-hour shift I ever did. @PCOWandre @jyrgenn OK. Work quit using Sun about then so I have little experience with Sun post SunOS. @PCOWandre @schratze To clarify, the SysV I got to know earlier wasn't beyond SVR3; I never saw a non-Solaris SVR4. The ones I worked with a bit more were ISC 386ix (rather classic), IBM AIX (really weird for its own reasons), and HP-UX, which at least was significantly less annoying once it reached version 10. @schratze @schratze@todon.nl Linux has one big benefit. It supports annoyance driven development (ADD). Basically when you get annoyed enough, you can actually fix things instead of just continuing to be annoyed. Now that might be annoying on its own, but it at least keeps you busy instead of fuming in a corner! @schratze Switched to Linux (Arch, specifically) like 10 years ago except for professional audio and gaming, and I have to say there's been less and less to hate over the years 😅 Except when it comes to managing Python packages but I guess hating that kind of pain is OS-independent. @4udio_4ndrea Python, Haskell and especially R :> Funny, I only made the switch like five years ago and audio production and gaming where two of my main priorities to get running @schratze That’s really funny. Admittedly, gaming has gotten really smooth over the time (I guess Valve has been playing a major role here), but even thinking about getting my Meta Quest setup under Linux is giving me nightmares. And for audio, I’m just too dependent on some VSTs and, unfortunately, iLok stuff that Wine doesn’t like. Not to speak of a bunch of devices with weird Windows-specific drivers… @schratze@todon.nl at least on linux you can blame the individual creators of the software you use    @schratze  @schratze I use a custom Debian install and it basically doesn't work but on the other hand there's no notification popups |
@schratze you don't hate windows or linux, you hate computers and the time they suck out of you.