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aksdb

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  • Why do you still hate Windows?

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  • Heh, yeah. I had to fix that earlier this year on another machine, but that one was ooold and went through a bunch of upgrades so I figured it was due to its age (even though I still didn't get how they could be so lazy to not automate this process as part of the update or ... well... slim down the rescue tools again). But then they apparently didn't even care enough to release a new installer that prevents the issue. So they either don't give a crap or even do it deliberately to break Win 10 in favor of Win 11. Either case: that's not what I pay for.

  • Why do you still hate Windows?

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  • And that's exactly what I said: the installer didn't give me that choice. I had to use a MS account and I had to set up a PIN. Everything else required completely nonintuitive changes (plural!) afterwards.

  • Why do you still hate Windows?

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  • I know. My point was that I don't wanted any local auth at all. It should boot right to desktop, no PIN or password asked. The linked MS account is completely worthless and only used to satisfy the installer.

  • Why do you still hate Windows?

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  • Just this weekend I had the pleasure of installing Win 10 on a blank disk. The install went ok, but then it bothered me logging into the MS Account. After cursing for a while and since it wasn't my PC, I gave in. I know I can fight it, but it's not worth it here. Then it continued trying to get me to consent to all kinds of shit. NO, I DON'T WANT FUCKING OFFICE AND I DON'T WANT MY FILES IN ONEDRIVE you assholes!

    Then it forces me to choose a PIN for "secure login". DUDE! That motherfucking PC is used for a bit of office work and gaming. Just let these poor people boot up the machine and use it! 0000? Too simple. 1234 too. Fuck you, MS. Ok, random PIN and a sticky note it is, asshats.

    Anyway, after getting it to fuck off, I continue to the desktop. Oh wow, 10 updates and a ton of missing drivers? It's a fresh install! What the fuck did it install?! Of course the installation of all these updates takes an hour and countless restarts... AFTER A FRESH INSTALL! Not even my overblown super slow Ubuntu server takes that long for updates; and that runs on a HDD not a SSD like that PC I set up.

    But wait. One update failed. Why? Ah, the rescue partition is too small.... THE ONE THAT DUMB SON-OF-BITCH CREATED ON ITS OWN AS PART OF THE INSTALL! How to fix? Ah, execute a bunch of commandline foo with diskpart and other tools. Wait, isn't that exactly the kind of shit that Windows fans laugh about when looking down on us Linux nerds?!

    So ... ugh .... just one simple anecdote of why Windows can fuck off.

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  • I still rank OSX higher, simply because it's at least consistent. Windows is a fucking mess.

  • People doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome?

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  • What I find weird about Tumbleweed is, that updating is not integrated into YaST or another UI. You have to use the commandline to keep your system up to date. That makes it exactly as inconvenient as Arch for newcomers, but Arch has a whole philosophy behind this while SuSE is typically very GUI oriented. It's weird.

  • The anti-AI sentiment in the free software communities is concerning.

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  • If you are so keen on correctness, please don't say "LLMs are lying". Lying is a conscious action of deceiving. LLMs are not capable of that. That's exactly the problem: they don't think, they just assemble with probability. If they could lie, they could also produce real answers.

  • Is it possible to use Linux without the command line?

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  • Yup, I don't understand it either. Many "how to fix ..." articles involve quite a lot powershell magic. And I say "magic" because IMO they are often essentially API calls which I find far harder to grasp than config files that follow some logic and help me understand what is interacting how.

  • Is it possible to use Linux without the command line?

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  • They said "in addition to registry editing".

  • RustDesk (FOSS easy to use TeamViewer alternative) has experimental Wayland support that needs testing!

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  • I said it's possible, just much more effort than the current solution which only requires reading and and parsing the process name on startup.

  • RustDesk (FOSS easy to use TeamViewer alternative) has experimental Wayland support that needs testing!

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  • They still need to know the key. If you publicly distribute your config, that's a problem. But IMO one even the pro version couldn't solve.

  • RustDesk (FOSS easy to use TeamViewer alternative) has experimental Wayland support that needs testing!

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  • If it's so easy to implement, go ahead and open a PR. The community will be thankful.

  • RustDesk (FOSS easy to use TeamViewer alternative) has experimental Wayland support that needs testing!

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  • The apps are bundled completely differently on OSX and Linux. It's technically not possible to do the same thing there. Also this is not a free/paid limitation at all.

    They could maybe build a packaging tool that can customize the binaries (adding data to the PE executable in Windows and maybe a property file in OSX and Linux); but that's quite some effort for not much gain.

  • RustDesk (FOSS easy to use TeamViewer alternative) has experimental Wayland support that needs testing!

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  • They also document scripts to bootstrap clients on other OSses. And I don't think you need Pro to build rustdesk yourself - they even document the process.

  • What are the best proprietary/paid apps for linux?

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  • You joke, but I actually have a license key for WinRAR that I use with the native rar cli on my Linux machines.

  • Is this discrimination?

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  • That's true. The circumstances could be right. If reading laws somehow put him off though, the criticality of acquiring this knowledge might still not offset the "negative" dopamine.

  • Is this discrimination?

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  • Did I trigger your hyperfocus? 😁

  • Is this discrimination?

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  • I know, but even those theories (if we talk about the same ones) argue with the attention quickly swapping to new situations, making one practically a "problem solver". I think, however, that still only works out under the right circumstances and might only be an advantage in the statistical median. Some problems/topics simply don't catch ones attention and then the missing dopamin rush will simply prevent one from focusing on it. So I think someone with ADHS alone would have a big evolutionary problem, but in a group of people they can jump into action whenever the right circumstances occur and then solve whatever it is quicker than anyone else.

  • Is this discrimination?

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  • My understanding is, that the hyperfocus sets in for something that catches ones attention in the right way. If one was able to do that deliberately with any chosen task/topic, would it still be an "attention deficit"?