I fell into the rabbithole and have decided to stay.About more than a year ago, my curiosity has driven me to try using Linux.I'm not going to lie and say th...
Cinnamon, xfce, MATE, Gnome 4 … I mean you’ve got lots of choice and Linux keeps getting better all of the time. Fucking supporting Windows 10 and 11 is a goddamned nightmare. I thank baphomet for being able to go home to my own lab and work on BSD and Linux systems. Open source is my sanity.
I don’t entirely get this idea that Windows is easier to troubleshoot problems. I get crashes not often but regularly on Windows. It’s usually some obscure error code that I can’t find any info on (which is why I have this wallpaper as my dual booted Windows desktop wallpaper). Trying to get support for many errors, not even just the obscure ones, usually results in being told to reinstall software or the entire OS. Nevermind having to reinstall Windows regularly anyway because it would inevitably start slowing down over time, no matter how much I regularly ran cleaning software and whatever else.
Whereas my longest Linux install (Arch) was 6 years running. I was able to easily enough troubleshoot problems either on my own or with the help of a truly great *nix community. If it was a bug no one else had reported yet, I reported it and it got fixed. Usually I could just roll back a package version until that time or I could work around it. Meanwhile crashes and hard locks are so few and far between.
I would completely ditch Windows and not dual boot if more people got away from Adobe products and I didn’t have to use them to work on projects with others.
My biggest issue on windows was non-ironically printing. The hours I had to waste to trouble shoot that. I still use windows at times but not that much.
After how many decades of printers being in existence, they are STILL the worst peripheral. Did the inventor of the desktop printer sell their soul to the devil or something because I swear to gods every single one of them is possessed by troll demons.
I used to have issues with CUPS and wireless printers. Then we replaced our home printer with the business flavour (next to no difference between them but for a couple of extra features including wireless)… This one gives us trouble when printing via LAN but is completely plug and play via wireless 😬😈🤦🏻♀️🙄
I’ve actually had a much harder time troubleshooting Windows because everything is kind of hidden behind an abstraction layer, i.e. the GUI. The event manager often throws inscrutable error messages and searches based on the error code often come up with patently wrong solutions. To hell with Windows!
The biggest issue with Windows is that their use of legacy systems holds their entire ecosystem back. They rely on 25-30 year old kernel-level services that were written for a completely different time when no one ever had to bother looking into what the problems were. Now if you take a peek into Event Viewer, it’s an absolute mess.
Yeah, I had heard an ex Windows dev say the whole kernel was spaghetti code. I’m glad I don’t have next to anything to do with Windows anymore. I pity my spouse being an IT tech.
And windows has too much downward momentum and can only go further downhill from here. Linux distros keep getting better.
Red Hat: Are you challenging me?
The only red hat I know is maga hat and those aren’t welcome around these parts…
Cinnamon, xfce, MATE, Gnome 4 … I mean you’ve got lots of choice and Linux keeps getting better all of the time. Fucking supporting Windows 10 and 11 is a goddamned nightmare. I thank baphomet for being able to go home to my own lab and work on BSD and Linux systems. Open source is my sanity.
I don’t entirely get this idea that Windows is easier to troubleshoot problems. I get crashes not often but regularly on Windows. It’s usually some obscure error code that I can’t find any info on (which is why I have this wallpaper as my dual booted Windows desktop wallpaper). Trying to get support for many errors, not even just the obscure ones, usually results in being told to reinstall software or the entire OS. Nevermind having to reinstall Windows regularly anyway because it would inevitably start slowing down over time, no matter how much I regularly ran cleaning software and whatever else.
Whereas my longest Linux install (Arch) was 6 years running. I was able to easily enough troubleshoot problems either on my own or with the help of a truly great *nix community. If it was a bug no one else had reported yet, I reported it and it got fixed. Usually I could just roll back a package version until that time or I could work around it. Meanwhile crashes and hard locks are so few and far between.
I would completely ditch Windows and not dual boot if more people got away from Adobe products and I didn’t have to use them to work on projects with others.
My biggest issue on windows was non-ironically printing. The hours I had to waste to trouble shoot that. I still use windows at times but not that much.
The only printers are brother laser and old models of other brand laser. Everything else is dead to me.
After how many decades of printers being in existence, they are STILL the worst peripheral. Did the inventor of the desktop printer sell their soul to the devil or something because I swear to gods every single one of them is possessed by troll demons.
I used to have issues with CUPS and wireless printers. Then we replaced our home printer with the business flavour (next to no difference between them but for a couple of extra features including wireless)… This one gives us trouble when printing via LAN but is completely plug and play via wireless 😬😈🤦🏻♀️🙄
I’ve actually had a much harder time troubleshooting Windows because everything is kind of hidden behind an abstraction layer, i.e. the GUI. The event manager often throws inscrutable error messages and searches based on the error code often come up with patently wrong solutions. To hell with Windows!
The biggest issue with Windows is that their use of legacy systems holds their entire ecosystem back. They rely on 25-30 year old kernel-level services that were written for a completely different time when no one ever had to bother looking into what the problems were. Now if you take a peek into Event Viewer, it’s an absolute mess.
Yeah, I had heard an ex Windows dev say the whole kernel was spaghetti code. I’m glad I don’t have next to anything to do with Windows anymore. I pity my spouse being an IT tech.