Yeah, a lot of upholding the letter of the law instead of the spirit of the law as well as following rules without really critically evaluating why they’re rules in the first place. (Example: Answering an old thread should be fine, but folks just view it as bad and lock them.)

A fraction of

the what!?

I switched about a year ago. It’s going great. The only problem with my computer was because my RAM broke, but that would’ve still happened on Windows.

What I hate is when I find a solution for some old post but it’s locked because “you should just make a new question” well FUCK YOU BECAUSE SEARCH ENGINES GO THERE AND I HAVE THE ANSWER AND I WANT TO HELP PEOPLE! BUT FUCK ME I GUESS 😭

The one time I used that official forum I did my due diligence and laid out what I ended up doing to solve my problem as well as responding to the other person with a similar one. I am not DenverCoder9.

You marked your account as a bot but you look like a human user. Some users filter out bots so you may want to change it.

Flying Squid was memorable but has been gone for a while. My understanding was they moved to a different country and haven’t posted since.

wait lol, if she thinks her address is so valuable for strangers to steal, wouldn’t that make tossing it somewhere other than home more risky? Not that there’s much thought going into this routine.

Maybe people will shut the fuck up about Photoshop not working on Linux now. (Not saying it’s not a valid complaint, I just get tired of hearing it.)

Haha, hehe, heh, hehheh are all very different.

xDDDDDDD

It’s giving lol

same lol

Fun fact: That weird 3d navigation thing was a real program that existed. It’s called fsn. Here’s some information about it. https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/06/fsn-the-irix-3d-file-system-tool-from-jurassic-park-arttuesday-vintagecomputing-jurassicpark-whoopsie/

On Windows running tree from C:\ is a good one.

Oh you KNOW I had to be the robot.

My consciousness is on the cloud now, please speak for yourself!

POP ALREADY!

I think sometimes it gives people analytics on how many people click the link when the link is to something they themselves don’t control. But I’m not entirely sure if that’s a common service shorteners offer.

The only problem I’ve had so far on Linux was due to my RAM breaking. Same shit could’ve happened on Windows. As much as everyone talks about needing “manual intervention” in Arch, I had to do the same shit on Windows after a bad update pushed unsigned USB drivers (which I was unaware of, I only saw the blue screen) then once I did a system restore it just failed after wiping my hard drive despite only using tools from Windows itself. I ended up having to get a third party tool to fix it all, because the vhdx files Windows made assumed my computer was UEFI despite only supporting BIOS. It was a mess.

The moral of the story is: Windows still has these problems, people are just more used to solving them so it doesn’t feel like they’re solving a problem.