I endure Windows on my work computer because it’s not my computer. I also don’t like when people complain about solvable problems and contribute time and money to a company that should have been forcibly liquidated in the late 90’s.

tl:dr use Linux or I will crawl into your bedroom and suck your toes while you’re asleep.

Madness? Buying a new computer every 2 years because the OS vendor is on cahoots with hardware manufacturers is madness. This is rational usage of resources for your benefit.

I still remember the bad old days of stale repositories and compiling from scratch. Never again.

The other day I wrote I like snaps and shot more rope than Spiderman.

I actually like snaps ducks

Why? So that we can spend the next week recompiling the kernel? (This is a joke, please don’t spam my inbox with distro holy wars)

Now only if there were a nice alternative to Android. I might get a Fairphone with Ubuntu touch.

Hwaet is witþ þe þorn?

This would make more sense with Emacs /ducks

Name calls people who read documentation.

Does not offer any alternative.

“No John, you are the neckbeards!”

Jeez, maybe the technican deserves a nice blowie, field work isn’t easy y’know.

I am the smug well guy in this picture. You can complain and whine about Microsoft’s shitty practices to people who have no way of effecting them…oooorr you can use a different OS. Kind of a “better to light a candle than to curse the darkness” deal.

Proprieatary software has become completely unusable, programs that would have been labeled adware and spyware are now being pushed by corporations as the norm. I use open source software in my workflow, but I am still hobbled by Microsoft’s awful OS.

You install Linux to run cool software.

I install Linux to run cool software.

We are exactly the same.

Affinity suite is dirt cheap and is a single purchase, none of that licensing crap.

The Windows ecosystem is an abominable pile of half-finished apps and dark patterns that should be slam dunked into the trash. The problem is in the leadership that is laser-focused on milking business users who are used to Microsoft’s abusive practices.

Why? The browser client is ok.

I use gimp for professional graphic design at my workplace, nobody gives a shit.

Meanwhile, on c/technology there is another thread on how linux should ditch the terminal (for some reason).

“Whoops I stomped on the MBR again, what are you gonna do 'bout it?”