reth

the display name is my initials

experimenting and all that.
chief executive dysfunction officer. few of my posts are high-effort, but at least they're funny.
current avatar is an old art by fireflufferz because i'm bored with having michiru pfps.
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disclaimer: the text below was originally written by me in a Telegram comment section in Russian while under some concoction of vitamin candy, cheap coffee and mango soda. i think this just needs to be put out there, because the brain is a wonderful mechanism. this below is pretty much a literal translation of what i wrote to english.


linux was not made for the desktop. xorg and, god forgive me, wayland are greatest mistakes of the smartest developers of mankind. you were given a system that works with text better than with graphics any day of the week. and you people try to play videojames on it. many such cases.

all important people of humanity, everybody you hear of in the news every day - they don't even know what is linux. they either don't use computers at all, or they sit on windows. in best case - macos.

i'm not saying that linux sucks. linux is a wonderful thing for servers, the perfect pair. but not for the desktop.

tim cook didn't pay me to make this post, but macos in 2023 is an idealization of computers for productivity, developed by a pretty competent company. yes, i'll agree, expensive. but it's the best we have.

macOS is free if you don't value your sanity, as they say.

windows is here only because backend of various companies are still held up by it, and the economy holds up on these companies. microsoft has a holy job - to commit to backwards compatibility, as a repayment for the mistakes of the past. to make money from telemetry is just, you know, a side hustle.

linux was made only for servers, windows was made a mistake, and macos in turn was made by an elite sect and, regrettably, is the only path to the normal desktop.

computers were actually made not for videogames. it's just programmisters [sic] who found a funny way to move bits and bytes, so they could occupy the cold uncomputing hardware.

all normal videogames are long ago being made for consoles, this is why gamepads exist. and actually you should just play board games of some sort, socialise or something.


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PC games are really the best way to connect with my friends but I dream of a universe where I can deprecate windows entirely, or just get all of my friends into tabletop RPGs. MacOS is so nice to use, my Windows desktop comes on only when I play videogames.

Well computers might not have initially been done for gaming. But gaming emerged soon enough to be a part of the multiple things a computer can do, and it's a long time since consoles are just easier/cheaper gaming stations than computers.

I bring this because the gaming bit is a topic way bigger than a bit. In my case you could even say it's been a flying trainer, as I really got my flying license (yes, the most basic you can get in my country) in the bare minimum hours possible because I just had very little to learn; I've spent my life using whatever computer I had as a flight simulator, and a very important part of my life, a true passion. I'm just an example.

It's not that Linux sucks, it's that I cannot fully enjoy my hobby in other OS. Same as with smartphones, it's not the phone itself; it's the applications you can use. That's why windows phones had that short life.