• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    57 minutes ago
    Do you want a working computer? Yes
To play games? Yes -> Windows
 |--- No
 |--- Will you just browse the internet and maybe work with some sort of Office document? Yes
 |------ chromeOS
  • _stranger_@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Don’t worry everyone, it’s like the Sorting Hat, it takes your preference into account. Just say “not TempleOS” and you’ll get into Linux.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    What kind of Bizzaro world reverse order is this nonsense? Mac is worse than Windows is worse than Linux.

  • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    cope and seethe. Haven’t had an issue with either my laptop desktop nor my debian laptop in the 5 years I’ve been running it on them. Sounds like you’re just mad your OS condtantly advertises paid services to you an mine doesn’t

    • Victor@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      Been running Arch for probably ten years now, or soon, too. It’s no work to maintain. Just run the package manager update command and let her rip. Check what packages are updating. If it seems like something you don’t know or understand, or something system critical, check the website if something manual needs to be done.

      It’s honestly no more work than any other distro. More like less work, because the system is improving at a faster rate than more “stable”/stale distros. And I don’t remember how many times I had to reinstall Ubuntu when I was running it. The system upgrade just not finishing as it should for whatever reason.

      Happily using a system that doesn’t run out of space unless I make it so. That does my bidding rather than some company’s.

      Keep feeding the penguin, folks. 👌

      • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
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        6 hours ago

        Not unless they want me to be their bull

        Listen, it’s a funny hyperbolic way of saying “stay mad”; don’t let sex-negative reactionaries have all the fun phrases

  • Chef_Boyardee@lemm.ee
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    13 hours ago

    Working computer? Apple? Tell that to my dad. He destroys a Mac in about two years. Bought his house 7 years ago, and three dead macs in the basement.

    Could you imagine if he used a PC?

  • LANIK2000@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    After being forced to use an iMac in collage, I’ll admit it’s fine and definitely better than windows. But it’s still annoying. I wouldn’t call not being able to use the F key row, just because I dare to use a non apple keyboard a “working computer”, just as a most in my face example, there’s much more. It works and it does so looking pretty, as long as you have literally zero personal preferences.

    • Clbull@lemmy.worldOP
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      15 hours ago

      If you think that’s bad, look at the LinuxSucks community and how bad they’re being ratio’d.

  • namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev
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    18 hours ago

    Once, when I started a new job, I had to use an Apple laptop until my Linux laptop came. While the Apple laptop was better than I expected, it was still one of the most annoying weeks of my life. The most unbearable part was the keyboard. I could never tell which hotkeys used ctrl and what used alt, and it just wasn’t worth the effort of remembering the differences or remapping them.

    But besides that, after using Linux for 15 years, the very basic levels of configurability that the Apple window manager provides just made it look like a child’s toy compared to Linux. In Linux, there are so many different window managers that it becomes very easy to customize an environment that works perfectly for you. With Apple, you just get what you’re given and if it’s bad or doesn’t work well for your habits, then tough luck, you’re stuck with it anyway. So in that respect, Apple computers don’t work at all - you work for the computer, whereas it should be the other way around.

    But at the end of the day, what it really comes down to is the fact that people just like what they’re used to, and it sucks to change. What’s best is a matter of preference; none is better objectively better than the other.

    Except Windows. Fuck Windows.

    • HowManyNimons@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      On paper Macs are very good computers. In practice whenever I try to use one I go strict Boomer Mode and can’t get anything done.

    • FuzzyDog@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      He was also incredibly racist and extremely homophobic even before his schizophrenia got bad. I don’t want to play suffering Olympics here but you can suffer from mental health issues and still be an awful person.

    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      18 hours ago

      I took it as a lighthearted jab at the user of the OS, not as an insult at the creator of the OS. I have mad respect to Terry.