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Obsidian @OpalSys2/13/2024, 11:38 PM

n.s.@reth

Nire Bryce @NireBryce2/13/2024, 5:20 PM

the real thing to understand is that with desktop Linux, the less you know about how computers work, the more it works fine. but the minute you know how they work and go "yeah but Gnome feels clausterphobic and they don't even have an option to disable suspend on lid close" you're fucked until you learn a whole lot more

much like modern windows, windows just has a higher threshold before knowing things destroys you as you see beyond the veil, because it prevents you from doing most of it until you Know Enough About The Six Generations of OS Living In Windows 11

much like Linux, Window is still running code from 1991, and supports apps back to the 80s

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walking mirage @atomicthumbs2/13/2024, 6:02 PM

i like the mac because just like in 1991 if there's something you want to change or customize, or something the OS doesn't do, there's someone with a weird little shareware thing that fixes it

Nire Bryce @NireBryce2/13/2024, 6:22 PM

windows too. fancyzones/aquasnap, tidytabs, etc have websites that look like they were last design updated in 2005

Nire Bryce @NireBryce2/13/2024, 6:22 PM

Everything (a search utility) has a website that looks like it's from a dotcom in 1999.

Linux, of course, has these too, but the GUI frameworks were abandoned and no one has had the free time we had in the 2000s to write anything for them

evie @ewie2/13/2024, 6:26 PM

it’s so weird they’re not as common in other oses tbh. why isn’t there a shottr or paste or magnet or whatever for other oses? is it just that it’s accepted on mac to charge like $10 for these?

Nire Bryce @NireBryce2/13/2024, 6:30 PM

there's copies of many of those for both, but window suffers from a naming problem (almost nothing is named something you'd look for) and Linux suffers from "so many people half made this software that it's impossible to find which one is actually fully built"

John Colagioia @jcolag2/13/2024, 11:01 PM

Yep. As someone who can dig into the internals, but refuses, because I have things to do that don't involve farting around with my computer, Linux has worked fine for me for something like fifteen years.