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[–] [email protected] 131 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But you haven't clicked yes on any of the offers yet...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Let's set up your subscription to your own hardware! Continue / remind me later?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Would you like to back up your folders to OneDrive?
It would be a shame if something were to happen to your files!

[–] [email protected] 103 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Without windows and macos, we would all be divided on what is the better distro, but thanks to shitty corpo trash, we can unite to hate them together. Fuck windows!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ubuntu could have taken windows spot

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They are nowhere near close to windows

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Amazon based search results integrated in the Unity dash beg to differ. Canonical has a history of being shitty.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

There was backlash, they removed it and never tried anything similar since. But I'm with you on that, the idea was insane and if they pull anything like that again, I'll be switching away from ubuntu immediatly.

[–] rottingleaf 9 points 4 months ago

There were a few good lenses for Unity, like the porn one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (9 children)

Well. in the modern day, there's Ubuntu 22.04 and up with their insistence on snaps for many otherwise native apps. For example, Firefox as a snap and taking anywhere from 30 seconds to up to 2 minutes to launch when you first open it.

I used Ubuntu for years, pretty much from 16.04 all the way up to 22.04 but that was a line for me and I ditched it for Manjaro. The experience has been much better overall.

Snaps should be for applications that may not receive updates on current systems or have a hard dependency on old libraries for some reason. Things like Spek come to mind. To use if for something like Firefox, and not only use it, but insist on it to the point you can't install the native version without ridiculous workarounds... it's absurd. And on top of this, it's especially dumb because flatpak already existed prior to snap, but as usual Canonical had to be special instead of working with community standards.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 months ago

You WILL set up Cortana or you WILL be put through the Setup Wizard

[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My wife started joking about " if I update it at this point it's gonna brick it" and I laughed so hard because she's not even an IT person

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Due to all the registry and group policy changes I've made to decrapify Windows, I'm legitimately worried that every major update will brick my install. Luckily so far they've only make it worse in the ways that Microsoft intended.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"New device detected: mouse. Please wait…"

But the mouse is already working dude.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

At least it doesn't make us restart afterwards anymore.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

"Mouse movement detected, please restart for changes to take effect."

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Anyone remember the early Windows 10 update that booted back up with a black screen that said "Don't Panic"?

That was the most panic inducing moment I've ever had with any PC.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I remember reading a post from some person who struggled with hallucinations and was absolutely creeped out when that large, semi-ominous text appeared on their laptop screen out of nowhere lol. Then again, this was on r*ddit, 97% chance they were making it up for upvotes.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Boss/teacher: Is your project ready to present yet?

Linux user, still tweaking colors and theme options in their DE after 4 years: Let me finish setting up my device!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Linux user, still tweaking colors and theme options in their DE after 4 years: Let me finish setting up my device!

switch to gnome; customizations are intentionally buried because a huge majority of users don't go very deep w with them.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wonder what I’ve said no to more all-time - Microsoft’s spy- and bloatware or the YouTube tv free trial.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago

Heard you loud and clear. Maybe Later it is then.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

i plan to move to linux very very soon but winaero tweaker can take care of most of this stuff in windows

…still insane that it exists at all though. especially with the only options being continue and remind me in 3 days

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

Yeah but have you had these new ads for 4 years?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Let's check this one off the list." Bitch I only installed you to play The Void. One more peep out of you and you're derezzed.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Void

Why though? That looks like an XP era game. Does it not work with proton?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ran into a game breakinf bug on linux. Maybe they patched it by now, but I doubt it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Guess that's how it is

Significant Bugs: game craches when i try to enter to second sister chamber

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well stop trying to enter your sister's chamber.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Jesus, I don't miss that shit. Now, it has to be something way the hell out in left field to not be picked up and installed silently. linux-firmware ftw

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Windoof on my computer got an update last week. I wonder when it's done. /j

(But seriously, it took almost the whole evening.)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

they were the worst updates because it guaranteed it was installing some bullshit you didnt want

[–] possiblylinux127 5 points 4 months ago

Candy Crush, Ticktok, Clipcamp, bing AI and what ever else suites there fancy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

I admit to being old and out of touch, but why is this meme a sandwich?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The original meme template, to my knowledge, was something along the lines of "People be like "Subway sucks". Bro, you made the sandwich." and then it was tweaked a little, tweaked a little more, tweaked a little more and we ended up with this and even more absurd versions.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A while ago I saw this meme about the exact experience you're having right now. We've come full circle lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

This warms my heart! Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

TIL "My brother in christ" is use as a replacement from Nigga.
Thanks for the link.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

I wouldn’t know

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