• Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
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    2 days ago

    God damn, after ~20 years of being off Windows reading about problem after problem on each and every update is exhausting.

    How do you all (Windows users) deal with this shit?

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      22 hours ago

      This is the first Windows update that has significantly altered how my daily driver laptop works (read: for the worse).

      It’s too inconvenient to use a Windows computer anymore. I’m switching to Linux

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      Wait 3 weeks before applying updates and let other people be the guinea pigs. It’s usually enough time for things like this to be caught and withdrawn by MS.

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        I delayed the 24h2 update as long as Windows physically let me which was like a month or two I think? After that delay ended my only option was to download cause it was popping up in an intrusive way every single hour… God I hate windows so much.

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      2 days ago

      I’ve never had an issue of this gravity on Windows. I use Linux and it has its issues as well. Stability is not why I use Linux lmao

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        14 hours ago

        The amazing thing about Linux is there are distros for any purpose. If you want stability there are distros focused on that. Yeah, the popular ones are often bleeding edge, or near bleeding edge, but you don’t have to use one that’s using the latest updates.

      • I'm Hiding 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
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        23 hours ago

        Perhaps not stability, but certainly the ability to understand a problem and fix things is why I use Linux. On Windows or MacOS you just get “Oops, something unexpected happened”, or if youre lucky “Error -2847”.

        On linux you can read the journalctl or have a poke in /var/log/ and actually find an answer that’s more helpful than “reinstall the operating system / program”

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        17 hours ago

        as far as I know, Debian is the “gold standard” for stable linux to the point of being one of the most famous distros used on servers as well.

        Exceptions are using unstable/testing versions of debian or accounting for an windows program to just work perfectly under wine (but that is a microsoft-linux integration which MS almost always wants to not happen)

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            In what way? The most stable Linux is far better than what Microsoft could yank out of their AI asses. Debian and Red Hat has been the staple of many servers around the globe. Hell, this Lemmy instance might be on one of those.

            It’s only when you tinker around too hard and fast then you have problems in Linux. But there are ways to get things back on track easily compared to Windows.

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            1 day ago

            I usually restart my gentoo machines when I move or once every couple of years when I update them. Debian stable is pretty similar.

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      1 day ago

      Haven’t updated to windows 11 yet and probably won’t. Just gonna wait until I can afford a new PC then learn how to install Linux

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        There’s nothing to learn. Mint and Fedora were click click done.

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          16 hours ago

          Ya I’ve heard this before! I’ve also heard there is still a lot of problem solving to learn for maintenance and some problems that often arise. But haven’t taken the time yet to familiarize myself with it.

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      Most people don’t have this issue. You are only reading about the less than 1%. Per usual, everything posted her is overblown and the linux trolls feed on it.

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      2 days ago

      Same way as I do on Linux. There was a post a few weeks back about an Arch update breaking vlc if you don’t manually install a new optional dependency after an update split the package.

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      2 days ago

      Crying, sniffling, more crying, over eating, crying some more, and existential dread. Then I go to work and pretend it will just magical go away, become delusional, go home, and start the process all over again.

      I might need therapy.

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      bashing the executable

      three instances of Battlefield 6 load up

      “ss-seethe, linux-turds!!”

      gpu explodes from poor driver implementation

      browser renames itself