As a 20 year Linux user I cringed at this.
Exactly the same, what kind of lame bs is this, the best thing about the Linux community is that people help each other, not for money or fake internet points, but because they are good people.
That’s the purpose
As a 2 week arch Linux user I related to this meme. In fact I might incorporate this into my personality.
but why? more users for linux means better linux support for everything
Sorry if it wasn’t clear but I’m completely joking and not serious.
can’t tell such things nowdays at all. that is why i use /j or /s to clarify if needed
You are 20 years old?
“gimp skills”
While y’all were beating your chests over PC operating systems, I was simply browsing lemmy on my phone.
I hope the point is that it is as idiotic as the original. WTF did the original guy study the blade for, if not to protect other people from the barbarians ? Is he really so bad at the blade he can only protect himself ? Then I guess maybe he really did need to train all that time after all 😆
Windows is the virus.
I’m kind of surprised at the number of people taking this post seriously.
Lemmy is SRS BUZINESS!!!
Half the people at my local LUG would espouse beliefs like this post unironically.
I find it amussing that tech bros think the average home user will care… They’ll keep using Win 10 like nothing has changed. I knew people still happily using XP in 2014…
Yeah? No looking it up, give me a bash script for a ping scan of a subnet with a 24 bit mask.
#!/bin/bash
ping 255.255.255.0 > checker &
sleep 5
kill “$!”
grep unreachable checker || echo ‘255.255.255.0’
ping 255.255.255.1 > checker &
sleep 5
kill “$!”
grep unreachable checker || echo ‘255.255.255.1’
ping 255.255.255.2 > checker &
sleep 5
kill “$!”
grep unreachable checker || echo ‘255.255.255.2’
…
Did I do it coach? 😭
You get an A for effort!
#!/bin/bash
for i in 0…254; do ping -c 4 10.0.0.$i &; done
wait
Throwing that many background tasks at once is a little risky, but awesome
nmap -sn x.x.0.0/24 I think, was a while. Pure coincidence how I know.
Edit: no, it’s one less x because 16 is the middle.
Close!
That’s not a bash script silly.
Just add
before the code from above.Dang.
Why is everyone so sure that W10 support ending will have its users stampede towards Linux? I think most users don’t care about support and will happily run an outdated OS. They’ll probably switch to Apple if they are concerned with that. Am I being too pessimistic?
We will get thousands more new users at least and I saw a poster in my local university about a install linux on your pc event.
Yeah some people for sure will come to Linux, and that’s good. Maybe that PewDiePie video (as much as I don’t like it) will have some impact too.
The biggest hump is probably video games, even I do most of my gaming on Windows. I guess Valve is making really good progress there, but I don’t think we’ll see mainstream Linux native game development any time soon.
Also, sounds like there are some cool people at your university!
It doesn’t help that win10 support ending doesn’t mean your device will immediately die. It means that you’ll probably face some kind of consequences at some point in the following year and years to come, which is too hand-wavey for most people.
I think most users don’t care about support and will happily run an outdated OS.
This is precisely what happened every time a previous edition of Windows met end of support, with most users only moving to the current version by way of buying a new name-brand PC because their old one either finally broke or, more likely, because it became so loaded down with malware that it was subsequently unusable.
The majority of home users are non-nerds who only barely tolerate their computer at the best of times, click off error messages without reading them, and are quite likely to ignore any pleas from Microsoft to upgrade or buy a new computer as long as the prompts are dismissable and don’t go as far as fully locking them out of using their machine.
These users will overwhelmingly have a “go to the store and buy it” mentality; they will not migrate to Linux. Rather, they will march to Best Buy or go to Amazon and buy a new PC with Windows 11 already on it, or maybe a small subset of them will work themselves up to being angry enough to switch to a Mac.
I ran XP for years after, Win 7 until 2.5 yrs ago, and bumped my current laptop back to 10 immediately.
Soon enough I’ll be changing it to Mint tho 'cause shit is real out there now.
Heck yeah! I hear a lot of people go to Mint as their first Linux distribution. I don’t know what the experience is like now, but it’s probably good for newcomers. I think EndeavourOS is another good one. Right now I’m fully invested in NixOS, but it’s not beginner-friendly at all. I think it’s the best OS out there right now, though, so feel free to check it out!
I played with a couple of flavours in the early 2000s but stopped when I began university.
It doesn’t matter much in the end
For those who aren’t already aware, you can continue to get Windows 10 security updates after EOS, as well as updates for legacy windows systems, with 0patch. That’s what I plan on doing. https://0patch.com/index.html
I thought they specifically planned to end the security updates to force people to use win11
Microsoft is going to stop providing updates, but 0patch is specifically providing security patches after EOS so that people don’t have to upgrade to Windows 11.
Microsoft does that too though. And afaik they have offered extended support for a long time for loads of windows versions (especially for the server versions)
They are not ending support for some evil plot to force people to use win11. They just don’t want to support win10 forever. The exact same thing has happened to every other windows version and most Linux distros and lots of other stuff like servers and networking hardware.
it would feel less evil if win11 wasnt so full of awful and downgraded features.
That’s just incompetence. It’s not like they are laughing with the devil because people can’t place the taskbar at the top anymore.
They feel they can afford incompetence because they know so many people dont have a choice anyway. Any microsoft locked institution for example. If that isnt at least a little evil I dont know what is.
You can also overcome your Stockholm syndrome and ditch the trash for good.
Unfortunately there are a few things that keep me from switching to Linux.
- The drivers for my mouse don’t work properly
- JACK is not a substitute for Voicemeeter
- JACK’s latency makes it less suitable for recording guitar
- I use FL Studio
- I need access to a Windows testing environment
- Having to suddenly troubleshoot in Linux completely breaks my flow
Support for mine ended the day I unplugged it from the net 4 years ago
I think widows is the virus
Wait, was the scabbard always curved in this image?
Cringe.
I can assure you no one is such a dire need to come to u for help
It’s (I hope) self aware, so there’s that at least
Cringe
Calling this cringe is cringe
Yes, everyone can have Audacity (for all your audio basics needs!) Audacity & Gimp work on Windows & MacOS, for those of you who continue to pay homage to corporate overlords for your computational playground (but want to use free (& open source) tools).
“Linux will never supplant windows” naysayers in shambles.
