The Windows operating system is a cancer

@donkulator nah it’s total fuckry for mass deployment you might be better off using Linux at this point in the game.

Join us on the Linux/BSD side!

@Demolishun > "Like I go to dismount a drive using a file manager."

Likely the linux UI developers could care less about making those functions user-friendly. They would open a command prompt and type in the cryptic regular expression to dismount a drive and make fun of you+me+rest of the world for not knowing the command.

"What morons, must be Window's users....everybody knows the FileManager is broken and they should use 'sudo dsf adk^%4 =6 ~24 <' to dismount a drive...the command is so simple and intuitive."

@retoor it’s really does make no sense. It basically has to have super computer level components for it to run smoothly and then it’s only for a time. Conversely put a Linux distribution on a computer with 16GB of ram, a SSD, and a relatively good processor and you’ll be set for 10 years

@retoor Awesome!! When I see stuff like this and hear people saying they have 12 year old computers running Linux like it’s brand new I have to wonder why we are using stable Linux distributions for mass deployment. For example, in pharmacies and medical centers where users would be running mostly web applications and storing docs on a shared drive.

@Demolishun I can understand the issues users would face running a Linux distribution customized to their liking. Before moving to MacOS i was a die hard Linux user too. What I’d like to see is a Linux distribution for mass deployment in fields that need a stable OS that doesn’t shit itself when you least expect it.

@retoor yeah the chrome book could come back but I feel like Google may have approached the concept the wrong way.

In all honesty they may have been better off building their own open source Linux distribution customized with Google apps running as if they were native and build out a framework for developers to use.

The issue then would be something else Linus spoke of. The fact that to win Linux would have to support the random keyboard from China and the odd printer from Japan. That it would be great for the big ticket items but might feel apart when it comes to niche devices and use cases.

@retoor it’s crazy when you see how smooth Linux derivatives work on minimal hardware.

@retoor yeah it’s gotten to the point where a lot of people don’t really need a full blown computer I mean look at the proliferation of android. One could argue thought that its not a pure Linux distribution and more a derivative.

Ever developed something in Win32?

Once you write a 10k lines WinProc callback (even with abstractions), well you can surelly acknowledge this.

If Valve releases steam OS to the masses and I can properly do UE5 dev in there I would ditch it immediately.
My experience with Linux desktop goes from nightmare fuel to mediocre. And macOS is shit for 3D dev, so I’m not touching that either.
Sadly I have to stick with windows for a while.

But why use a desktop environment? I CAN DO IT ALL FROM BASHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Well, not really, I use perl. ITS EVEN WORSE.

@Demolishun what's stopping you from switching to Plasma or KDE? Even better, choose XFCE! It is so light and quick that it feels like it is running out of thin air

What's the name for a cancer that kills and outlives it's victims?