Windows user:
*Complaining about ads on their desktop
Me, a linux enjoyer:
*inhales*
Linux user complaining about having to add repositories manually in order to get a piece of software to update or to add a tool they need.
Me as an any operating system user. Both have draw backs that aren’t for normal people.
I’ve been bombarded with Shit about Linux ever since I signed up here.
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME THE CRAZE BEHIND THIS DAMN OPERATING SYSTEM?!!! I just dont fukin get it! Whats so special about it😭😭
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Windows is a privacy nightmare. The OS is constantly sending data to Microsoft while being used.
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Windows hogs resources. If you don’t shovel money out for new hardware every few years, your computer will run like shit.
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Windows is full of ads.
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The majority of malware is written for Windows. Not really a selling point for me, but it’s a bonus.
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Linux is free.
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Linux doesn’t force updates. You update when you want to, and it takes less than a minute to do.
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Think about why you joined Lemmy. Reddit has been getting greedier and greedier, so you left to a place where the grass is greener. The same thing is true with Windows and Linux (and Linux is also much more big and mature than Lemmy). It attracts the same kind of people.
Oh- huh… I mean Im outta the loop as to what Windows is doing thats so awful as well as what makes Linux so amazing.
@Cock_Inspecting_Asexual Things like, for example, putting ads and tracking into an operating system you paid money for?
I use arch by the way, and I don’t recommend it.
I would recommend this though https://mspoweruser.com/windows-12-lite-is-here-and-it-doesnt-have-any-built-in-ads/
I met a vegan who uses vim and arch linux. I’m that guy. I use vim and arch linux, and I’m a vegan.
I someday hope to meet myself again.
Have you considered CrossFit?
Why is your username blue?
Edit: sorry. You’re OP
Maybe they cook only with an air fryer.
vegoon btw
we be vegooning all night
I’m going to argue that it’s very unlikely any of those people are friends or colleagues. It didn’t ask if you recommend Windows on social media or forums.
We’re not friends? 🥺
Sry, who dis?
Betrayal.
Given your name, I think it’s for the best.
Hey! How dare you discriminate against me for my job! MODS!!! SIEZE THEM
Not to mention your sexuality!! Hey everyone! We got an ace-phobe over here!
are those real? I don’t believe anyone ever said “it’s like linux but it works.”
it does work though, on windows i can see ads and intrusive crap all the time. Linux distros don’t bother you at all, it’s like linux is not even trying at this point.
This makes me want to make a Linux addon just for ads
Like make it entirely transparent Download this is you miss having ads lol
don’t forget to activate your linux distro
I think they’re tongue in cheek.
Oh god
well duh. windows is the default everyone uses, no one needs to recommend it.
linux on the other hand is an obscure choice that may be better for that use case and may not be known.
This meme is older than Windows 11
This meme is older than windows 8
Don’t be so certain - I’d recommend Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC IoT over Windows 11 any day
You can’t get IOT as a consumer
Not with that attitude.
Not legally
You people are coordinated in your recommendations. You are more efficient than the KGB
It might look like that when the topic is Linux vs windows, but if you ever wanna see that coordination fall apart just ask “which distro?”
…Ubuntu.
Definitely start with a nice beginner friendly distro, like Gentoo, NixOS, or LFS.
If we claim we are recommending distros do we escape on a technicality?
The distro IS the OS, so no.
The word distro is a commonly used for Linux distros, where the OS is Linux, I would say.
The kernel is linux. From wikipedia: An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
Linux being designed to work with so many things (and so many things designed to work with linux) all combined make the OS. This is also where the famous quote comes from. https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.en.html
I wouldn’t say the OS is Linux any more than the OS of an Apple computer is XNU. Linux is just the kernel. Similarly the other OS isn’t “Windows NT kernel,” but Windows 10 or Windows 11.
unironically: most distros are actually mostly gnu, just with a linux kernel. bit annoyed when people just call it “linux”
No, the OS is a given.
I would always start all conversations with my friends with “Hey Windows peasants!” If I had any friends. These two things have nothing whatsoever to do with each other.
I swear Linux users are borderline jehovah’s witnesses going door to door
hey!.. We’re clearly tech vegans
Isn’t cruelty against animals - specifically one self - a key part of the Linux learning journey?
Ah, but you see, we consented to the cruelty against ourselves.
Cruelty to oneself is part of the Arch journey.
Life is suffering. Once you accept that fact wholly, you may ascend
Why are you still using Windows? Switch to Linux!
Imagine using linux in 2024, TempleOS all the way
After the latest bullshit from Microsoft I would make absolutely sure to recommend literally anything but Windows to everyone that talks to me.
After the latest bullshit from Microsoft
I like how your comment works regardless of whether you consider “latest” to be the past year or the past decade lol.
Fair point. I haven’t used Windows for almost a decade, so maybe a bit of a, a bit of b?
If you are cross-posting please mark it as such. My poor communist in c/memes.
I must have missed it if this had just been posted in another community.