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0 pointsheresie-dabord1mo ago0 comments

> I can use Linux but I have decades of Windows muscle memory and I do a bunch of DirectX programming.

I see a likely inversion of motives here: you earn your living coding or otherwise are deeply vested in Windows, so you are committed for survival to Windows and to fixing the absurd account problem that MSFT has inflicted on you.

The expression "muscle memory" here just means the cognitive load of working with a technology. MSFT has added a hard-blocking piece of stupidity to your cognitive load.

I am sure this is not the first time! Registry problems, update problems, and now for pity's sake account problems.

As a long-time user of both Linux and Windows, I'd say my OS cognitive load with Linux is almost entirely related to efficient actions, whereas with Windows I have a quiver of stupid arrows to shoot at all the problems that MSFT inflicts.

When people advise you to switch to Linux if you can, they are giving solid advice.

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noosphr1mo ago· 9 in thread

My Ubuntu servers have been in an undefined state since canonical botched a regular upgrade to 26.04 LTS due to the ongoing DDOS. Their status page says everything works. A simple ping tells me nothing works.

Let's not pretend Microsoft has a monopoly on idiocy in the software world. All major Linux distros are hell bent on repeating the mistakes of Windows. Especially since the people in control of the stack (minus the kernel) are the rejects who couldn't make it in Microsoft and Apple in the 90s and 00s but really wanted to.

Meanwhile my small happy place with OpenBSD and Guix just works.

codedokode1mo ago

Linux has lot of bugs and issues, but they are not caused by intention to make users' life worse.

noosphr1mo ago

They are caused by moral busy bodies who think they know better.

To quote CS Lewis:

>Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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red_admiral1mo ago

Intention or not, Gnome 3's "desktops are outdated" caused even Linus to switch away from it.

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deathanatos1mo ago

… Linux literally just had the age-verification outcry, and the "let's put AI in Ubuntu" thing, and that's just off the top of my head.

I want to toot the Linux horn too, and I do think MS is on another level here, but let's take a look in the mirror first.

charcircuit1mo ago

There is plenty of elitism going on where everyday users' experience is intentionally made bad.

ninjagoo1mo ago

> My Ubuntu servers have been in an undefined state since canonical botched a regular upgrade to 26.04 LTS due to the ongoing DDOS. Their status page says everything works. A simple ping tells me nothing works.

So is it the DDOS that's responsible, status page notwithstanding?

Anyway, heard about Timeshift for Ubuntu on here, might be worth taking a look at it: https://github.com/linuxmint/timeshift

Doesn't require a GUI, so it can be used for servers/headless too. Please note that's it's not a backup solution, just an OS snapshot one, albeit with scheduling.

Kamq1mo ago

> Let's not pretend Microsoft has a monopoly on idiocy in the software world.

Entirely fair, but let's not pretend the situation is symmetrical. Canonical doesn't have monopoly on the linux or broader *nix world the same way that Microsoft has on the Windows world.

LocalH1mo ago

normalize coming up through slackware like many did in the 90s

kelvinjps101mo ago

You can download from a different mirror in linux and open source you always have another option

sagacity1mo ago· 4 in thread

Yeah, so, to be clear: I'm fairly sure Linux will also have its fair share of issues that I occasionally would have to repair.

I don't necessarily even have a problem with Windows occasionally needing a bit of hand-holding, either. It sucks, but it's IT so meh, unfortunately it still comes with the territory.

What I'm mostly pissed off about is the fact that I have a perfectly useable machine but since I'm unable to login due to vague Microsoft nonsense and there doesn't seem to be a way to fix it I need to reinstall. This seems wholly unnecessary.

Even having some sort of repair installation that doesn't blow away all installed applications would have been somewhat ok as a last resort, but that doesn't exist either.

chinathrow1mo ago

> Yeah, so, to be clear: I'm fairly sure Linux will also have its fair share of issues that I occasionally would have to repair.

Issues with account, login and passwords would be none of them. Sure, there are other areas of common issues at times, but I have never, ever had issues logging into any of the linux OS I ran for the last 23years or so.

charcircuit1mo ago

I've had PAM break due to distro's ridiculous policy of updating the system in place allowing for invalid combinations of files to exist. I've had Linux distros break the booting process countless times.

Krasnol1mo ago

I don't know where you are but oobe/bypassnro worked for me just 2 weeks ago.

sagacity1mo ago

I've reinstalled using this trick, so this issue won't bite me again in the future.

naikrovek1mo ago

> When people advise you to switch to Linux if you can, they are giving solid advice.

They absolutely are not. Switching operating systems isn't like switching toothpaste. They are declaring, without evidence, that you don't need Windows, without knowing if you do or not. They are avoiding the problem that the person is having entirely and asking that the user replace their single problem with a whole new class of problems that the user has no idea how to solve. And there will be problems, because someone who has never used Linux before isn't going to know how to do anything in Linux. They aren't going to know what software to use to do anything, they aren't going to know how to install software or update it, they aren't going to know what to do when any problem comes up at all.

"Just switch to Linux" is a malevolent and self-serving recommendation, is absolutely not realistic, and is not ever intended to actually help the user needing help with a problem they are having.

deterministic1mo ago

> When people advise you to switch to Linux if you can, they are giving solid advice.

I am forced to use Linux at work and I dread updating anything because the result is usually a broken system. I never have that problem with Windows.

So YMMV is as always valid here.

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noosphr1mo ago· 9 in thread

Meanwhile my small happy place with OpenBSD and Guix just works.

codedokode1mo ago

Linux has lot of bugs and issues, but they are not caused by intention to make users' life worse.

noosphr1mo ago

They are caused by moral busy bodies who think they know better.

To quote CS Lewis:

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red_admiral1mo ago

Intention or not, Gnome 3's "desktops are outdated" caused even Linus to switch away from it.

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deathanatos1mo ago

… Linux literally just had the age-verification outcry, and the "let's put AI in Ubuntu" thing, and that's just off the top of my head.

I want to toot the Linux horn too, and I do think MS is on another level here, but let's take a look in the mirror first.

charcircuit1mo ago

There is plenty of elitism going on where everyday users' experience is intentionally made bad.

ninjagoo1mo ago

So is it the DDOS that's responsible, status page notwithstanding?

Anyway, heard about Timeshift for Ubuntu on here, might be worth taking a look at it: https://github.com/linuxmint/timeshift

Doesn't require a GUI, so it can be used for servers/headless too. Please note that's it's not a backup solution, just an OS snapshot one, albeit with scheduling.

Kamq1mo ago

> Let's not pretend Microsoft has a monopoly on idiocy in the software world.

Entirely fair, but let's not pretend the situation is symmetrical. Canonical doesn't have monopoly on the linux or broader *nix world the same way that Microsoft has on the Windows world.

LocalH1mo ago

normalize coming up through slackware like many did in the 90s

kelvinjps101mo ago

You can download from a different mirror in linux and open source you always have another option

sagacity1mo ago· 4 in thread

Yeah, so, to be clear: I'm fairly sure Linux will also have its fair share of issues that I occasionally would have to repair.

I don't necessarily even have a problem with Windows occasionally needing a bit of hand-holding, either. It sucks, but it's IT so meh, unfortunately it still comes with the territory.

Even having some sort of repair installation that doesn't blow away all installed applications would have been somewhat ok as a last resort, but that doesn't exist either.

chinathrow1mo ago

> Yeah, so, to be clear: I'm fairly sure Linux will also have its fair share of issues that I occasionally would have to repair.

charcircuit1mo ago

Krasnol1mo ago

I don't know where you are but oobe/bypassnro worked for me just 2 weeks ago.

sagacity1mo ago

I've reinstalled using this trick, so this issue won't bite me again in the future.

naikrovek1mo ago

> When people advise you to switch to Linux if you can, they are giving solid advice.

"Just switch to Linux" is a malevolent and self-serving recommendation, is absolutely not realistic, and is not ever intended to actually help the user needing help with a problem they are having.

deterministic1mo ago

> When people advise you to switch to Linux if you can, they are giving solid advice.

I am forced to use Linux at work and I dread updating anything because the result is usually a broken system. I never have that problem with Windows.

So YMMV is as always valid here.

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