My fave.
I like Linux, I hate the app names. It’s confusing as hell, especially if you are looking for some app that functions the way you imagine, then they name something weird like Nautilus instead of file explorer lmao.
For some reason people get all ways extra fabulous when they make open source Software and need a fancy name instead of a great descriptive one…
Or they could name it atleast nautilus the file explorer or something.
It’s actually called “GNOME Files” nowadays. And it’s had the moniker “File Manager” for ages in the desktop entries for most distros, even if the official name was “Nautilus”.
I actually feel the other way around… if they had just called it “File Explorer” it’d come off as if they are getting “extra fabulous”, because it implies the other file explorers are not really THE “File Explorer”.
Imagine if when Google launched Chrome they had decided to name it “Web Browser” instead of “Google Chrome”.
lol, thaat is so true. It’s never just “File Explorer”, is it?
It doesn’t exactly help that there’s like 5-10 of each kind of thing.
For me personally, having 5-10 of everything is good. I find what I like the best and you find what you like best. It can make extra work, but if you subtract out all the time I’d spend fighting the windows UI or looking at ads and “recommended content”, I think we may actually come out on the better end of things.
I still remember thinking, “wtf is a nano and why should i sudo it?”
[side-eyes PCManFM]
I believe both Xfce and Cinnamon have a setting for generic app names: i.e. “Firefox” becomes “Web Browser” & “Nautilus” becomes “File Manager”. I always thought this feature was great.
I set up an alias for nautilus that’s just “explore” and 10/10 very useful.
Don’t worry guys, I know how to fix this. I’ll just create another package manager!! That should do it
No lie, it’s got to the point that it’s more convenient to use Linux. Windows has become very intrusive with trying to help, privacy issue landmines you have to navigate, it’s not unpleasant to use Windows. It’s just more work to do it.
Thing is, I use Linux cuz it allows to have simplicity and convenience where those things are of value to me.
Not having an online always connected local user account is simplicity to me.
Having file permissions changeable with a simple command rather than having to fuck about a ui and registry is simplicity to me.
Having an os that’s under my control is convenient for me.
Having a user interface that suits my wants/needs and has ample options for customization is convenient for me.
I love simplicity and convenience. I just don’t like giving up control.
As a disclaimer, I didn’t make this myself, and I lovingly use Linux for all my computing needs.
But when I selfhost nextcloud to avoid google, or use proton, I am aware that I don’t allways choose the easy way.
I am aware that I don’t allways choose the easy way.
We don’t do it because it’s easy, we do it because we thought it would be easy.
Package manager vs rogue EXEs and kernel drivers alone make things easier in Linux compared to Windows.
Never heard of chocolatey eh?
Chocolatey is … meh. Better than nothing I guess. Now WinGet is an official MS tool, not to bad, but not much in the repo either.
I use chocolatey on Windows when I’m on windows, the slight issue is a lot of stuff just isn’t on it. That’s rare for me on my main OS where everything is on pacman or the AUR.
Oh I use arch btw.
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Things that are simple are often not simple to use. Things that are simple to use are often complex. Although, hammers also exist so it’s not exactly an universal rule…
This. Even the command-line is extremely simple and convenient once you are familiar with it.
It’s so much more complex and frustrating to try and come up with words to explain to someone the steps to do anything on a Windows GUI… browsing through menus clicking this thing here, right-clicking here that, going through tabs, dragging this to there… go to “this” -> “that” -> “whatever”… and then to only realize you misremembered the exact location and have to look it up to make sure.
Or maybe they changed the location slightly in the last Windows update because “reasons”. More than once I’ve been searching how to do something on Windows 10 and found outdated instructions with setting panels that don’t exist anymore.
And hammers are also the best tool to deal with a Windows machine!
The person who made this has never had to deal with Windows driver issues obviously
This feels like a comment from 1997. Aside from occasionally updating video drivers for a new video game, I can’t remember the last time I had to maintain–much less fix–a driver.
I second this. I’ve really only had to modify one driver in the seven years that I’ve been using Linux.
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I second this. I’ve really only had to modify one driver in the seven years that I’ve been using Linux.
I second this. I’ve really only had to modify one driver in the seven years that I’ve been using Linux.
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Oh! Apparently I’m in 1997, then. Remarkable that they have Windows 11, then. I have a machine where the Microsoft provided drivers cause screen blanking when hardware accelerated video plays. Installing the AMD drivers fixes that, but I’ve yet to figure out what the magic sauce is to prevent Windows Update from overwriting part of the drivers that Adrenalin installs. One boot after installing and the machine works great, then the next boot it’ll just be a black screen of death. At least AMD’s installer helpfully makes a restore point.
Sounds like my experience with Manjaro lol
Lol. I started with Slackware and used it for many years, but I got tired of dealing with dependency hell.
I switched my desktop and laptops to Kubuntu, but ran Slackware on the server for a few more years. I switched my server to Debian maybe 5 years ago, and I’m glad I did.
Sorry, Patrick, but I just didn’t have the time to handle it any more.
Apparently Windows users just want something that never works, is unsupportable, and required re-installation 3 times a year.
I upvoted this meme, but to be fair, I often feel like it’s more certain Linux developers that don’t like (or understand) simplicity and convenience rather than the users. Users that migrate to more simple distros like Mint, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc. generally get to have a pretty simple experience.
I was on Linux Mint with Cinnamon for almost a year at one point because I was tired of Windows giving me problems, and was able to handle it because I wasn’t really playing games during that time. Only had to leave because I got sick of trying to get my games to work through WINE because back then, it was actually difficult and not like nowadays with Proton and Steam Deck. I still got World of Warcraft working though, oddly enough.
I’ve used Linux as my main desktop OS since 2008, and the only times I had problems were when hardware manufacturers supplied device drivers as binary Windows blobs and I had to kludge up a workaround. In all other instances, it was smooth sailing. If I don’t like the desktop look, I can change it, if a file manager bothers me, that too can be changed, if I have older hardware, I can find a lightweight distro and avoid spending money and creating unnecessary e-waste.
With proprieatry operating systems, you do not own your machine. You paid for it, but you do not own it. Don’t like the browser that came with the OS? Fuck you, we’re gonna shove it down your throat. Don’t want ads in the taskbar? Lmao get rek’d peasant! Want to search files locally without triggering our third-rate search engine? Bing bong, choke on our ding-dong! To be frank, even if Linux was less user friendly (and Windows is downright user hostile) I’d still use it, because I’d rather learn a thing or two about computers than be treated as a shearing sheep.
I love simplicity. This is why I use Linux. Its just simpler to get simple Software that does just one thing and that good.
And I love tinkering with my os.
