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Goodbye Linux

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Lynx
After having lost a lot of time over the last few weeks (on top of a heavy workload) trying to get a virtual Windows guest running smoothly on an ArchLinux host I came to the realisation that over the last two decades I have lost countless hours of my life messing around with command line options, pouring over internet articles to deal with some form of error code or another, going into IRC chat rooms for assistance with one matter or another, etc., just to resolve problems or to try to get things running almost as well as under Windows.

I have learnt a lot about computers and computing in the process, and on the plus side Linux allows you to do a lot of things you cannot under Windows. But looking back on the time I wasted battling with things to get them to work or fix problems I feel sad about the many hours lost - surely I could have put that time to better use.

So it is time for me to say goodbye to Linux. Wiped all my drives clean and went for a fresh Windows 10 install. Everything just works and my life is easier. I should have done this a long time ago.
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3 years ago
Easey>better :D
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3 years ago
arch-linux is not really meant to be comfortable

No luck with Ubuntu derivates? What did not work for your with Linux?
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3 years ago
The best thing about Win 10 is that you can run WSL and have the best bits of Linux too.
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3 years ago
I agree about Arch. It's 10x harder than Ubuntu.
+0 / -0

3 years ago
Arch is for ricers, Debian is for everyone else.
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3 years ago
+4 / -0
im the exact opposite, i rage-quit windows after the 10th uninvited update

don't worry once you have the modern windows experience you will be back

its a bad situation, you can either spend hours troubleshooting Linux, or hours updating windows at the most inconvenient times
+5 / -0
3 years ago
Windows updates are more manageable now than when Windows 10 originally launched. Still a pain in the ass though. Microsoft basically babysits the user which is good if you know nothing of computers but can be frustrating for anyone who knows how shit works and wants it to work their way.
+1 / -0
3 years ago
There recent initiative to remove paper manuls means most of there babysitting is now not optional.
Their new manual is a single double-sided panel that teaches you how to push the power button and plug the thing in. As well as warranty and other random stuff. So now, their entire setup process is a tutorial and you cant skip it.
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3 years ago
why does stallman's name card on that pic have the Chaos Undivided logo
+3 / -0
3 years ago
quote:
why does stallman's name card on that pic have the Chaos Undivided logo


Look behind him and to his right.
+0 / -0
3 years ago
why would you use arch then? why not just pick a normal distro like mint or ubuntu?
+0 / -0
3 years ago
+7 / -0

3 years ago
Meanwhile on stock Ubuntu 18.04 repos the newest python you can get is 3.6.
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3 years ago
this read like beautiful music to my ears
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3 years ago
In my practical experience, all three flavours of popular OSes are garbage, but in fascinatingly different ways.
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Firepluk
I've never had a linux working flawlessly - it's always some degree of anal torture.
Sometimes it's your speakers and headphones, sometimes it fails horribly with multi-monitor setups...
And sometimes when u are in the mood for spicy eGPU(thunderbolt 3) shit will just freeze your whole workstation(kernel module crash?) requiring a hard reset...

A lot of things in Linux desktop eco system feel like they are made from shit and sticks glued with a bunch of troll snot... Seriously, X11 and friends that build on top become one ugly mfk for all those years.
And systemd, what the !@#% is this?.

In the end you start to look for magic scrolls which may even work(if you are lucky and persistent enough to find one) for a while but then will mysteriously break after upgrade leaving u with nothing but a cloud of dust and frustration...

Linux is pain if you want it just to work and have any non standard hardware configuration...
(Speaking from own experience, been running debian/ubuntu on several laptops and virtual machines)

On the other hand I absolutely love linux for server environments where u need nothing but ssh and terminal to access your server, I also got semi-decent experience using linux as dev station(but due to mentioned above issues with sound, eGPU and multi-monitor setups it's always below average experience).
+2 / -1
3 years ago
This discussion (Windows vs Linux) was relevant for me when I had only one decent computer. Nowadays I use a Windows computer for gaming (most games don't support Linux), a Linux (Arch) computer for all other personal stuff and a Mac for work (not my choice).

I am happy with each for different reasons. Still appreciate how easy I can install new software on Arch (one command) versus Windows (find it online, download manually, deselect all the extras they want to install, then automatic updates, where does it save files, etc.). Also was really amazed there is no Docker for Windows 10 Home... Still overall Windows 10 seems a solid OS.

Not sure what you software you use daily and what's your job, but I would not recommend Linux to everybody for sure... Then again my parents happily used Arch and they did not know it was not Windows for a couple of years (used it just to browse the Internet and occasionally print a grocery list)
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I've had worse experiences with Windows than I've had with Linux

I remember something like 8-10 years ago I spent DAYS figuring out how to get legacy nvidia drivers installed on Linux. Turns out you needed a specific proprietary kernel module, for a specific version of Linux, and retrofit that onto modern Ubuntu which expects a much more recent kernel version. That was not fun, but you can't really blame Linux for that.

Compare this to Windows 10, where
- I regularly need to enter SAFE MODE to delete folders and files
- antimalware (Windows Defender) makes compiling, installing etc. take way longer than it should
- you can't turn off Windows Defender. just temporarily disable it
- MSVC doesn't support x64 inline asm (I'm guessing this is one of the reasons why Spring has no 64-bit executable on Windows. streflop requires it. the other is because building with msvc is a megaton shitfuck is general, even with cmake support and vcpkg)
- Visual Studio's clang/gcc support is too buggy to use, and gcc support is VERY partial. You can't even target windows with gcc on visual studio. ON WINDOWS.
- MSVC is completely non-conformant to the C++14-17 standard. things that should compile don't, and things that shouldn't do with absolutely no warnings. They brought in '/permissive-' recently (as in, 2 weeks ago recently) but I shouldn't need a flag to say I want portable code.
- MSVC is just a piece of shit in general
- almost every piece of software on earth needs an entirely separate build process for Windows
- come with GIGABYTES of bloatware (candy crush, cortana, etc.)
- user permissions are an absolute clusterfuck. your account with 'admin' privileges isn't actually admin, the admin account isn't even admin, SYSTEM is admin, also the admin account is different from the user with 'admin' privileges. Instead of sudo and user groups in windows you have 2 fake admin accounts and the SYSTEM admin account you need a special tool to access
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