But I Was A College Student Who Did Not Have Time Or Spoons To Get It To Work For Me So I Caved And Got Windows - Tumblr Posts

nickala
1 year ago
post from Dan Fixes Coin-Ops, @ifixcoinops@retro.social: Linux is a bit shit sometimes, There's your headline. I don't care whether you use linux or not; ten years ago that might have mattered, I might be trying to get more people to use it so that adobe or whoever would put more effort into supporting it, but that doesn't really matter anymore, these days everything either Just Works or there's a native equivalent that's better and I've no selfish reason to recommend linux anymore, so if you're happy with windows stick with windows. If you're *not* happy with windows, here's the other half of that sentence at the top of this post: Linux is a bit shit sometimes - but when it's a bit shit, it's a bit shit in the way of a cat who watches the mouse run across the living room floor, not in the way of a cat who suddenly decides to bite you for no reason. It's not *actively malicious,* it's just a bit shit sometimes, which these days is tbh pretty damn good compared with a lot of stuff. Like, it's not bad because it's being hollowed out for investors, it's not bad because it's spying on you to make more money, it's not bad because its makers know you've gotta take it anyway, it's not bad because it knows it can get a lot worse before you look elsewhere, it's just... bad. But bad in like a normal way, like a bike with a wonky gear shifter and tyres that keep going soft, not like a bike that shows you adverts. There's my linux recommendation. LINUX: It's A Bit Shit Sometimes™

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considering trying the linux machine again I tried Ubuntu in 2012-2013 when I built my (recently retired) PC but I was a college student who did not have time or spoons to get it to work for me so I caved and got Windows my biggest issue is painting programs I hate GIMP computer resource linux moot point I am waiting until after I move to make a box linux or otherwise relevant: I'm going back to school for computer science
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