The chances are pretty high that is probably Kims computer, arent they?

And thats where we can come together. 7 was the best, the peak of microsofts excellence.

I’d probably still be running it today if I could, but it died, and my choice was Windows 11 or Linux… so I went linux, and never looked back.

Straight up said I wouldn’t call 10 better than 7. So what’s your point?

10 is the primordial ooze from which all the current vile evil coming out of microsoft was formed.

I think it was Windows 2000 I had to install on a laptop for someone…

This was 20+ years ago, so I dont remember the details…but i think there was like 11-13 floppies for the install that I had at the time? All of them OEM floppies… I think from microsoft, but maybe from the laptop OEM?.. and every time I ran the installer another disk would fail, and i’d have to go online and find that disk image and burn it to a replacement floppy. It was the worst OS install experience of my entire life, lol. I think by the time I was done I had replaced all but the first oem disk.

Nah, 10 is the primordial ooze from which all the current vile evil coming out of microsoft was formed.

7 was faster, more convenient, less in your way, and just overall a superior product. No microsoft OS has even equaled what 7 was, much less be superior to it.

All windows after 7 was just a downward spiral of shittiness.

No.

They like the texture of leather.

Its the polish that provides the taste.

Most of its just AI generated websites. Search for any topic and you’re likely to get 50 AI generated website that give a similar bulletpoint presentation of what search item X is according to the AI that generated the site.

I used to self-host searxng for a while, but somehow the search results were always off and mixed with to much non-relevant results :/.

I mean, getting non-relevant results happens with every search engine anymore.

The days of your search results being relevant, and what you want on the first page, are long dead thanks to SEO and other factors.

Yeah, I know I’m not the target demographic.

That doesnt mean I dont think its an interesting piece of tech, and I would like one as a toy/curiousity… but i’d only get one if I can get it used/second hand and dirt cheap (and probably broken, so i can drive the price lower and fix it myself)

If that was true the steam deck would have already done it.

been playing on linux for many many years.

never once have I been stopped by kernal level anticheat.

Weird, its almost as if good games don’t use invasive spyware rootkits.

Shrug, I dont know man… personally, last time I had to dig into regedit was on…i think win98? maybe xp? and that was under guidance of the tech support I was on the phone with… the why I long since forgot, I just remember them telling me it was okay and as long as I listened nothing would get broken (and that their thing would be unbroken)

And if the average idiot searches for a solution to the problem, and the solution says to run X command… the average idiot is gonna trust it and run it, and assume anything that comes up is supposed to happen.

He was approaching linux as an average idiot, like me, would.

and that is absolutely how it would have gone, and probably did go, for lots of people before it got caught on a camera by a big youtuber… especially since, iirc, the issue was known to Pop OS for a while before hand.

For like my first 4 years in linux, all the support I could find basically boiled down to “if X doesnt work, paste this command and run it”. So yes, I can totally see an average idiot doing exactly what happened in the video… and I’d wager it happened quite a few times to quite a few people, before the this video made it famous and made Pop finally get off their ass to fix it.

I don’t particularly make secret of my dislike for Linus, but I feel like the criticism on this particular topic is unfair. Shit like this does happen with new users with no IT/Sys Admin linux knowledge, And its most likely going to happen more frequently as more non-knowledgable new users come into linux and stumble into things weird niche situations and stuff… More monkeys smashing keys means more weird issues being found, afterall.

There was more that was going on with LTT than harassment.

Like receiving a loaned prototype that was meant for X card, using it on Y card, saying it was crap cause it didnt fit and didnt work, then selling it at auction… Then coming out and saying he had been in contact with teh company to make amends and they have accepted it, only for the company to immediately torpedo by stating they’ve heard nothing from him.

I’d wager things were not going well behind the scenes, either, with the mass exodus of major talent they had over the past year or so, either. Sure people drift in and out of jobs, but for you to have most of your big names all leave in a relatively small window… That hints at behind the scenes shit maybe not being so bueno.

And theres also the “just trust me bro” warranty on the stupid laptop bag, and him basically going on wan show acting offended and shittalking people who were calling him out for a long history of justifiable criticism against shitty warranties, only to pull the same… but hes gods special angel, so obviously its different with him and how dare you question his glory.

All in all, Linus just strikes as an insufferable twat… and sadly it doesnt seem to be fame going to his head either, because he’s been an insufferable twat on Camera since the goddamn beginning of LTT (I never saw his NCIX videos, but I would assume he was much better behaved on them, since he was representing someone elses brand and ran the risk of firing if he acted a twat), Especially when it comes to any valid criticism towards him, or his channel, or methodology.

Windows 7 was the only OS I ever had that didnt make me want to rip my hair out for one reason or another.

The two great linux migrations.

The end of Windows 7

The end of Windows 10.

I know, its just SO HARD to not buy your latest shiny. You just cant resist, so it must be someone elses fault.

Its always someone elses fault.

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Only person that thinks reading the packaging is a mountain of effort, is the kind of lazy person who buys stupid home automation devices to avoid walking five feet to turn off a lightbulb.