Where/when does this popup come up? Is it in your browser, is it a Windows notification?
The most recent time I think I saw this was the latest Windows 11 update, but you can just click No and it goes away. Microsoft is being annoying persistent about getting people to use Bing now because of ChatGPT and Edge though. Hopefully there is a limit, if not the annoying Linux recommendations might actually start to have some merit.
How about you galaxy brain “just switch to linux” people actually give some helpful advice? Clearly there’s a registry edit that can be made for Windows users that would take all of 5 seconds to complete, rather than an entire week formatting, installing, reconfiguring an entirely new OS that also requires a degree of command line knowledge.
People who spend half their free time troubleshooting a simple driver install on their OS need to feel like it’s worth it, hence they justify it by their sense of superiority. Sunk cost.
“Driver install” is mainly a windows thing. Linux ships with drivers that just work out of the box for nearly everything, with the only notable exception being Nvidia‘s proprietary drivers. However, every distro streamlines the installation process for that since it’s so common (And Nvidia is slowly moving towards open source anyways)
The first time you connect a printer to your linux machine and you find that it just fucking works is when you will see the light.
And most games work, and most programs work, and for the rare ones that don’t you can use a Windows VM as long as you have just enough attention span to sit through a youtube tutorial
Proton for gaming on Linux has come a long way. You still cannot get to 100% parity with all games and programs, and if you absolutely need something that isn’t supported on Linux, you are out of luck, but chances are that most people would actually be able to use everything they need. I understand there’s also the learning curve and not everyone has time or inclination, but for those that do, in 2023 it’s absolutely worth a try.
I find it a bit ironic that the thing that made it easier to ditch windows completely was o365 web apps, they’re actually decent if you have to use them. Thanks microsoft.
I think the just use linux voices are getting louder because every day more things just work out of the box, it may not quite be there for everyone yet but it’s getting better every day.
I use Windows for gaming but if we need an in-depth technical solution every time Microsoft comes up with some new annoying BS, maybe Linux users have a point to suggest something else. It’s not like the Registry is exactly intuitive to the average user.
yeah, it’s frustrating when they’re smug about it but I’d argue that suggesting an alternative where this issue doesn’t happen is helpful advice even if you don’t agree with it. I do agree that ‘just switch to linux’ is a gross oversimplification as there will be some growing pains and there are a few hurdles that may at present be unsurmountable. I also find it amusing that you present digging up registry hacks and fighting for control over your system for the rest of time to be easier than a modern linux installer that takes about 5 minutes to click through the gui with no command line knowledge needed. I guess the point is that you should use whatever you’re comfortable with, but if you haven’t tried linux in a while you might find it to be less of a fight than windows is becoming.
This… is actually true. I’ll concede that even as recently as 4, 5 years ago it might have not been entirely true, but now it is - Linux has become so accessible (look at Mint, Pop_OS) while Windows has (somehow) become even more hostile to its user base to the point that an average user would actually have an easier time switching than staying in the long term. I didn’t think I’d be able to write this with a straight face, but I honestly think this is now true.
Microsoft will never stop developing new ways to be anticompetitive leeches on society. You learn how to use one debloating tool, they’ll take the developer of that debloating tool to court and have it pulled from circulation. You learn what registry key to edit, they’ll change it. You get used to a menu, they’ll remove it.
You have a choice: 1, You can continue that arms race with a monstrous evil megacorp, which you will continue to lose, or 2, you can switch to a platform that doesn’t treat you this way in the first place.
Linux Mint among many others has a feature complete GUI which will provide anything the average user needs, including a graphical app “store” for installing software. The desktop paradigm is quite similar to Windows, it will be mostly familiar. The CLI is frankly easier to deal with than Windows’ endless and redundant series of settings menus and applications. When someone asks for help on a text-based forum like StackOverflow or Reddit or Lemmy, it’s easier to tell them “Open a terminal and copy-paste lshw -f” than it is to tell them “Open the Start menu and click Programs > Administration >Regedit then look for a thing that says win11embraceextendextinguish and toggle that from 1 to 0, and do this after every update because it automatically changes it back.”
Linux does not require a week to install. Windows does. My father bought a new Dell about the time I built my little Ryzen box I’m typing this on. It took him over a week to wipe the factory Win 10 Dell Bloatware Edition image for vanilla Win 10, fuck around with drivers, then manually go to individual software websites, download installers, run them, haul out CDs and DVDs and install software (including Office 2010, the damned old chad) one at a time, then restore a backup of his files…He was actively engaged with this task for over a week. I had it done in about three hours, most of which I actually spent trimming my hedges while waiting for files to download or transfer from an external HDD. It was a 100% GUI process; I didn’t open a terminal throughout.
Sure, Linux is different than Windows and this will take some learning. Just like Windows does every time they come out with a new version and you have to learn where they arbitrarily rearranged basic functions to this time. When I switched to Linux a decade ago, it was a similar process in going from Win 98 to Win XP, or XP to 7. Except after awhile the basic reorientation finished, and I started learning new things.
Windows works (more or less) out of the box. Linux, doesn’t work out of the box, every single thing you want to install takes 5x as long as it would on Windows. Gaming is still a mess. I’m not arguing that Linux isn’t more capable with less bloatware and shit, but it’s definitely not something your average computer user could ever wrap their head around.
I would posit that perhaps your experience with linux was negatively impacted by a (or multiple) difficult distros. There are many distro’s, of which I’d recommend endeavourOS, that work ‘out of the box’ and install things extremely quickly. I agree that the majority of distro’s haven’t reached ‘general user viability’ yet, but it’s folly to continue to promote such anti-consumer operating systems and software(s) as those produced by companies like Microsoft and Apple.
These companies produce a nice front-facing software that has a generally unreliable and easily broken back end with multiple security holes that are often left unpatched and unnoticed until a nation state has the opportunity to use the zero day as an attack vector. In no way am I saying ‘open source solves all’ because even the AUR has serious issues with oversight, but the requirement for education of the userbase and promoting open source values is certainly more important than embracing anti-consumer companies and practices to the detriment of not only the current general user but several generations of users as well.
The internet is slowly getting more and more restricted and as it becomes so the only ones to benefit are technological oligopolies. We’re in the era of tech-barons now, and it’s vastly more unequal than when oil barons were in power and that’s not something I’d ever expected to see in my lifetime and I doubt it was something our grandparents or great grandparents expected either.
Freedoms being eroded from virtual reality having the impact of eroding freedoms in reality as well
It may be a reference to a pattern I noticed when I was still dating. I noticed that it was usually (greater than 50%) the single moms that were the most daring, willing to explore, kinky, etc cetera, in the bedroom. It might have been because being a single parent (speaking as a formerly single father) doesn’t afford a lot of spare time and on top of that, there are a lot of people not willing to date anyone with a child. So sometimes you are just very excited to have someone interested in you and are willing to go the distance even if it might not be the cat’s meow.
Single moms are my bread and butter. They’re super into it, they have no time for bullshit, they just wanna go. If you’re going for the right single moms you won’t ever even meet the kids.
Married moms are even better. Last three gals I’ve ‘dated’ have been married. As a single father with full custody I get the time to focus on my kids, never have to worry about the whole meeting the kids conversation, and an hour or two a few times a week, usually during work (I work from home), is the perfect amount of time to spend with someone especially when none of it needs to be about stupid shit, they got some loser cuc at home to bitch at.
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