Also the average ‘advanced’ windows user: if you open regedit and add this DWORD entry to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Microsoft/application/windows/something, then you can stop Microsoft from screwing you, but it’ll revert after each update so you gotta keep fixing it
Linux user: Hey I made a PowerShell script for you that’ll change the entry so you don’t ha…
“advanced” Windows user: KEEP YOUR HACKER LOONIX AWAY FROM ME
The installation progress is absolutely insane if you think about it.
Oh, so I just go on the internet and download a random executable with the expectation of running it and giving it administrator access and I have to do this every single time I want to install a new piece of software?!
I can’t imagine what could go wrong with such a system…
Yeah. I’ve been spoiled by Linux for awhile, but sometime in the last few years, I realized I don’t reach for the terminal on Linux anymore to configure anything (other than crazy bullshit I compiled from source code… I am still me, after all.)
And Windows is still the usual level of pain, not amazing and not the worst… Well, I guess maybe now it really might be the worst, just because everything modern has gotten better.
Lol. The ‘average’ advanced Gn*me user: I need to enable fractional scaling where is the UI for that. I know!!! if I just type this simple formula in my terminal gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']" it might show up in the UI, or not. Do I need to reboot? But gurus told me Linux does not need this restart nonsense. I know, I’ll just distrohop and install Ubuntu it has those options enabled by default, maybe. Oh, right we hate Ubuntu now, but don’t despair there is always horribly outdated Linux Mint, or corpo testbed Fedora.
The average ‘advanced’ window user: CLI is scary!
Also the average ‘advanced’ windows user: if you open regedit and add this DWORD entry to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Microsoft/application/windows/something, then you can stop Microsoft from screwing you, but it’ll revert after each update so you gotta keep fixing it
Linux user: Hey I made a PowerShell script for you that’ll change the entry so you don’t ha… “advanced” Windows user: KEEP YOUR HACKER LOONIX AWAY FROM ME
But downloading a .reg file from some rando website is a-okay.
The installation progress is absolutely insane if you think about it.
Oh, so I just go on the internet and download a random executable with the expectation of running it and giving it administrator access and I have to do this every single time I want to install a new piece of software?!
I can’t imagine what could go wrong with such a system…
Seriously. Regardless of platform, when you have to do something advanced you just Google it and follow the instructions or ask AI.
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Yeah. I’ve been spoiled by Linux for awhile, but sometime in the last few years, I realized I don’t reach for the terminal on Linux anymore to configure anything (other than crazy bullshit I compiled from source code… I am still me, after all.)
And Windows is still the usual level of pain, not amazing and not the worst… Well, I guess maybe now it really might be the worst, just because everything modern has gotten better.
Lol. The ‘average’ advanced Gn*me user: I need to enable fractional scaling where is the UI for that. I know!!! if I just type this simple formula in my terminal
gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']"it might show up in the UI, or not. Do I need to reboot? But gurus told me Linux does not need this restart nonsense. I know, I’ll just distrohop and install Ubuntu it has those options enabled by default, maybe. Oh, right we hate Ubuntu now, but don’t despair there is always horribly outdated Linux Mint, or corpo testbed Fedora.Are you alright?
Excellent, thank you for your concern.
Ubuntu lets you have the worst of both worlds by forcing you to use some arcane incantations to banish snap after every update