I was, when I was younger. I kind of don’t want to spend the rest of my life I have left tweaking some stupid theme that doesn’t matter in the long run. Whenever I reinstall, I pretty much just use it as is and probably only change the wallpaper and turn the theme to dark mode and that’s it.

I’m at the far end of the desktop tweaking inverted U curve and have achieved nirvana, with the new users at the beginning and you in the middle.

One-handed locking my PC as I leave my desk with Windows-L.

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If you weren’t checking tech news regularly, shit like this just passes right over your head as a regular Linux user sometimes. I keep forgetting about the EoL thing.

Also having a clean frame of reference, if you have been a user for a long time now, you are definitely able to remember occasionally using a Windows machine and seeing the downhill slide literally happen before your eyes as everyone else is unaware of the growing pile of shit and getting slowly boiled like the frog in the pot.

The last version of Windows I’d consider clean of all this modern horseshit that’s in those OSes now would be Windows 2000. Even XP started pushing the telemetry shit hard and started getting sketchy towards the end.

:3

There’s an entire step between trying to figure it out yourself and resorting to an LLM which is probably likely to tell you to shove cheese into the USB ports. Regular web searching. Forum and social media posts. The distro’s wiki itself or other such resources. You know, the stuff the AI originally sucked up, mashed together, mixed around, and spat back out.

The acronym kinda sounds like an STD.

It’s okay, you can find alternative install media here: https://distrochooser.de/en/

Okay, so, this place IS filled with furries. Cool.

Now hang on, 2008 ain’t that old…

Realizes it was 17 years ago

Slowly walks into the sea.

For shits and giggles I played with them in a virtual machine a couple years ago. They are near fucking useless.

Amazing how wide the gaps can be in tech. A friend of mine is all over Windows power shell scripting of which I know next to nothing about, but he’s just as stumped when he sees me writing C for embedded microcontrollers.

But people who aren’t heavily into tech will just look at both of us and ask to fix their printer because we’re both “good with computers”. 🤣

Sure, potato is nice, but also running Linux on an actually powerful machine is also very nice. I love compilations of some things being reduced to seconds from minutes. It spoils you and you never want to go back to potat.

I can’t believe I’m older than this thing.

The zoomers and gen-alpha aren’t doing much better. Just ask the average teen what a filesystem is and how to find a file without it being organized in some sort of media gallery app.

As a millennial, I often feel like I’m surrounded by tech illiterates on both the upper AND lower sides of my age bracket.

You gotta put the sticker on lest you forget it’s even there, just being an OS and getting out of your way.

Wow, you must be one of today’s lucky 10,000!

(the term “Winblows” is like 30 years old. We were trash-talking Windows 95/98 with it 😂).

Have some more:

Micro$oft

Micro$hit

Microsucks

Internet Exploder

I’m gonna squeak up in this thread too and shift the average up some more because I also am furry trash.

It’s not very good at it though, if you’ve ever used it to code. It automates and eases a lot of mundane tasks, but still requires a LOT of supervision and domain knowledge to not have it go off the rails or hallucinate code that’s either full of bugs or will never work. It’s not a “prompt and forget” thing, not by a long shot. It’s just an easier way to steal code it picked up from Stackoverflow and GitHub.

Me as a human will know to check how much data is going into a fixed size buffer somewhere and break out of the code if it exceeds it. The LLM will have no qualms about putting buffer overflow vulnerabilities all over your shit because it doesn’t care, it only wants to fulfill the prompt and get something to work.

I wish mobile Krita had a more mobile friendly interface though instead of just being a squished down desktop UI. I primarily draw on my tablet with a stylus.