Didn’t think I had that on a PC browser! For everyone missing it like I did, it’s under your main settings.

Already is if you’re running a cloud server.

My dumbass was trying to click on a link a lemmy user posted and hit Putty instead.

“Oh what fresh hell is this?!”

Ah! You’re moving goalposts! The meme is about choosing an OS at boot time, not up, down, up again.

I’m in the game less than 60-seconds from that point. And that’s on an old i5-1135G7 NUC, 32GB DDR4, god knows how old the SSD is, been through 3 PCs without a Windows reinstall.

Yes, Linux almost always smokes Windows on a reboot, but it’s not that big of a deal anymore.

CAVEAT: I should note my Windows install is from an official ISO, not some manufacturer’s crapware.

My old i5 boots to Windows in less than a minute, fully functional.

I’m a sysadmin and I’m weeping, gnashing my teeth and rending my garments. 😆 And I’ve never done anything janky like that. Ever.

The Debian bit hit a little too close for home. “You only use the command line.” Debian has a GUI?!

The bullshit lemmy tells me I see on Windows, I do not see. I have never once had a Windows issue that has come up on here.

Spellcheck crosses out even basic English, has me questioning myself! I’ve probably added 2,000 words to the dictionary, no improvement.

Weird graphic artifacts, non-stop, it’s blinking as I edit this post.

Sometimes the graphics go fuzzy and I have to reboot, not even restarting the video drivers works, no issue in Edge.

Imgur doesn’t load. I use the Imagus extension in both browsers, flawless in Edge, spotty in Firefox. (Yes, that’s on Imagus, probably not the browser.)

I can watch YouTube logged in on Edge with Ublock, no ads. Have to log out in Firefox. So if I see an interesting video here, I have to copy/paste to Edge.

Porn browsing? Straight to Edge. What six keys do I need to hit for private mode again? CTRL+SHIFT+N, as it ever was.

There’s more, but those issues are top of mind.

I could probably figure out these issues, point being, non-technical users would run away. Kinda like how lemmy is utterly broken for me. My brain just shunts off the annoyances, but I can’t expect anyone else to do so.

I can hardly sell Linux to Joe User, when not even technical people use it as a daily driver, was the point of my original comment.

Lemmy: “Switch to Linux!”

Me, in IT for 3 decades: “Fuck is Wayland?”

Comments: Clusterfuck of conflicting opinions.

Seriously, y’all are not moving me to switch daily drivers here. I run nothing but headless Linux servers, but for a desktop? Let me start a fight: Which distro?

Last job was at a software dev. One soul of 130 worked with Linux as his daily driver. One. And y’all expect non-technical people to run Linux?!

Also, and this guarantees downvotes, I don’t have the Windows issues you all tell me I have. Same install, years and years, multiple SSDs and PCs, no issues. I can hear you grinding your teeth, “NOAWW! You have problems! I INSIST your desktop fucks up all the time! I INSIST $MS crams unwanted updates up your ass!” Well, there is an update icon waiting on me. Not touching it ATM.

Only issue in recent memory is that it sometimes doesn’t wake properly. About once every 2 weeks I have to hold the power button for a few seconds, let off, hit it again, acheive desktop.

Not trusting the gang who talked me into Firefox last year. What a fucking mess of a browser. Was on Edge last week, without realizing it, everything was smooth as glass. Firefox fucks up the most basic spellcheck. Really?! Still have to swap over to watch YouTube without ads, how’s that for irony? Imagur is plain broken outside of Edge. I get weird graphic artifacts and issues on Firefox.

I used to do charity IT for folks. I’d upgrade with whatever RAM I had laying around, add an SSD, polish it up, install Linux Lite, get all drivers straight, install Chrome or Firefox, setup their email, show them how to get to GMail, FaceBook, etc.

Here’s the secret sauce: I never fucking told them it was Linux. STFU with your evangelism. STFU you fucking nerds.

“Here’s a working computer. You’re welcome.”

Listen up Linux evangelists. Here is how you get users on Linux:

YOU DO NOT TELL THEM IT’S FUCKING LINUX.

Don’t talk about operating systems, M$ Winblows, open vs. closed source, security, privacy, STFU and deliver Linux.

I used to make “little old lady” laptops and PCs. “Oh! You know computers? Can you fix mine? I can’t afford much.”

Yes. And I’ll do it for free.

Take it apart, dust it out, throw in whatever spare parts ya got laying around, install an SSD, see if that old CPU will fit, new heatsink grease, Load Linux Lite, get all the drivers working, hook it to their WIFI, show them how to get email and browse.

Done. STFU about Linux. Nobody cares but nerds. They don’t know it isn’t Windows, and they don’t need to know.

Not one of those folks ever called me back to repair their machine.

LOL, no, they don’t want us dying, en masse anyway. They need workers to prop them up.

But yes, we need to stop consuming. When I say that on here, people have all the excuses in the world. OTOH, I find so much free shit on the side of the road. How hard up are we really?

I could go on all night, but just this last summer we scored 2 new bikes (one with the tags still on it!) for the kids, a new wine fridge, brand new toaster oven, and so on. LOL, I grabbed an old mattress, took 20-minutes with a box knife and made a sweet trellis for my ferns where nothing else would grow.

Fridge finally died beyond my ability to repair. Got the nicest one I’ve ever owned off FB, $200. Same deal with the clothes washer, FB, $200. Found a near-new flattop stove on the road, free, 1-hour to wipe it off, yank the old and install. I could show you around my house for an hour, easy, just showing off stuff I found and repaired for free or near enough.

And nothing wrong with the occasional Amazon purchase, I do that all the time. Saves money and time. Consider, if 100 people need a thing at Walmart, and those 100 people all get in their cars and trucks and make the 16-mile round trip, yikes! Versus one van driving the hood everyday. And not to mention, much of those goods are delivered by the mailman, who is coming by anyway!

Nothing wrong with working for a megacorp, we gotta do what we gotta do. I just quit Lowe’s because they were a pain, but not too bad overall, not for that kinda shit employer! My best gigs were for small companies, and that’s where most Americans work. Looking now. Need an IT guy?

As to consuming media, I’ll be blunt as fuck, I steal it. No way I’m paying a dime.

We should be friends.

My VIC-20 and Commodore 64 came with pinout charts. Every single internal and external connector was labelled.

I could jump in any car my family has owned, starting with great-grandad’s push-button transmission up to 2005 and instantly intuit the controls and go. You’d need the manual later for maintenance, but you could drive just fine. Now, you gotta read the manual.

I read every manual, but I’m skimming and skipping, looking for what I don’t know. Maybe people have opened enough manuals that spent the first 4 pages, “Don’t do stupid shit.” and gave up.

Go ask ChatGPT what it knows about lemmy $user. Try it.

Lowe’s does exactly that. My store even have nicknames for repeat offenders.

Thought this would be a riff on that speech.

YES! Camp Chaos had some great videos.

Yep. Watching Cinemax at my friend’s house with the boys:

https://imgur.com/trtqYxQ