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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Recently I installed Linux mint on my laptop, and then my main PC died so I replaced it with windows 11. I've had the unique experience of setting them both up from scratch alongside each other.

Windows 11 took longer to set up (4 days), but was 80% via GUI, and the 20% I did in PowerShell was mostly using winget with very few failures. I used ChatGPT for some planning and checklist and also used it to craft a PowerShell script that would silently install about 35 applications that I was too lazy to do manually by downloading the exe's, but I could have gotten there without it.

Mint took 2 days to set up but was 80% terminal, and I would not have been able to install half the things I wanted without the help of ChatGPT crafting baffling workarounds for me that I would not have found on my own.

In the end, both systems are 95% how I want them, with 5% unattainable due to their own unique issues.

I'll continue to use both for now, and see how I go in a year or so.

Edit: I must add that I am extraordinarily fussy about my OS configuration, it needs to look, act, and respond exactly how I want it to or I'm dissatisfied

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

Figure it out.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've been using windows my entire life and have never run into any of the issues Linux users talk about all the time.

[–] Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I just had to use my job's OEM device to connect to our new contactor's site since it doesn't work with my machines for some reason (standard deb stable and a popos machine). When I boot into it the lock screen was so overwhelming with weather info, news and other junk I just had to laugh. Its crazy how much junk you need to disable to have a usable device. I haven't really seen vanilla windows for awhile, but it seemed like Vegas slot machine with how many notifications I was getting.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

I have a Win11 ThinkPad for work, so I get MS ads, Lenovo ads, and 2 or 3 versions each of Teams and Outlook. We use SharePoint, so when I open a file from there via the web interface, I don't want to deal with that BS for printing. Depending if it's Word or Excel, the button/link for opening in the desktop app will be located differently (or maybe it's based on editing permissions), but it never fails to throw a dialog saying it couldn't open the file in desktop mode and asking if i want to cancel or try again...just before the desktop app opens.

Some of these things don't happen every day, but they all happen every week, and anyone who doesn't see a problem with that hasn't used a half-decent OS (and I'm willing to include early-release Win10 in that group, telemetry and Cortana notwithstanding).

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I dont think annon is a Linux user

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't know of anyone who uses any other OS that complain about windows the way Linux users do

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Have you seen Windows users? Most of them here Windows

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