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    [–] foggy@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

    I gotta say I might dislike Microsoft more than Apple...

    But I kiss ground returning to Linux or Windows after being stuck on Mac OS.

    Windows is an old comfort. I know all the shortcuts. I hate their brand, ethos, etc.

    But when I am stuck using an Apple product I want to rip off my fucking skin. Fuck your command key, stop trying to be special. Your system tray is obnoxious. I hate your unified application menu bar, it makes no sense with un-maximized windows. You got rid of the single button mouse because yeah obviously that was stupid, why not get rid of the rest? Firewire? Fuck off. Those fucking charging cables. Fuck. Off.

    Fuck Microsoft, but Apple don't catch enough hate. Fuck them too for their benign prison of an ecosystem.

    ...

    Sorry. I get way more bent out of shape having to use macos or ios for work than I do windows. Way more. Fuck em both. I can handle powershell. I cannot handle a fucking circus of bullshit.

    Every Mac I must use at work gets a Linux VM. I will not tolerate their operating systems. I don't do the same for windows at work. I tolerate it.

    [–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    I feel this post in my heart and just wanted to say I support you 100%.

    What I really hate about macOS (and iOS) is Apple prioritizing fancy design over functionality. Liquid Glass is just bad UI with shitty contrast, to the point where they had to dial it down before the final release to make it somewhat useable. And doing things like hiding the username field in Apple Mail so you have to enter a fail state first before it gets shown to you is absolute garbage. Apps don't have to look as clean as possible, they have to be fucking functional.

    ...and why are we still including .DS_Store files when zipping a directory and creating them on network drives? What is this? 2001 Windows XP with its useless Thumbs.db files? Even Microsoft has long moved on from storing thumbnails in this way.

    [–] BurgerBaron@quokk.au 3 points 1 week ago

    Thumbs.db is still a thing it's just a hidden file by default.

    [–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Mac OS is just NeXTStep (i.e. UNIX) with a candy coating. It's annoyingly proprietary (especially these days, compared to the early OS X era) but it's fine for a work machine.

    [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    It vaguely looks like Unix until you start to look at the directories (which aren't standard any more), try to read the logs (which are fucking useless and look like what Windows outputs), or dig at anything beyond the shell. Then you see that they've completely scrambled the system. It's infuriating.
    I once got an Apple laptop around the time they switched away from Intel chips, I lasted about four months with it before running back to KDE. I hated that thing with a passion. And don't get me started on the Apple software.

    Maybe it got better since, maybe not, doesn't matter, I won't get near one of those things again.

    [–] ricdeh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Just a little fun fact: POSIX does not specify any standard filesystem directories in the way that the FreeDesktop Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) does for Linux and Unix-likes. MacOS remains a fully POSIX-certified Unix system.

    [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Wasn't windows NT posix at one point?

    [–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    They had a really bad POSIX subsystem that was coded by an intern, so they could say "We're compliant" and get some sweet government contracts.

    NCommander made a lot of videos about it on YouTube and had to patch the hell out of it to even get the most basic programs to run.

    [–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I once got an Apple laptop around the time they switched away from Intel chips, I lasted about four months with it before running back to KDE.

    That's well into the time that they were getting worse. They were good in the PowerPC G3/4/5 era, when they were doing things like making laptops that could have the RAM upgraded without even needing a tool. They were also trying to be taken more seriously for business, so they had stuff like the XServe and cared about scripting (putting effort into Applescript/Automator APIs for their apps) and such.

    [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

    The hardware was kind of ok, it's really with the software that I had issues.

    As an aside I tried to configure their email client for a friend a year or so ago and I've never seen such a convoluted piece of software. I thought accessibility was their thing, this was astoundingly Byzantine. Never seen anything like it before or since (in that class of software).

    [–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

    I honestly wish there was a way to consistently do something like the command key on linux, it's so nice to have desktop shortcuts not conflict with your terminal. Haiku does it as well, they use alt.

    [–] nil@piefed.ca 0 points 1 week ago

    Everything just works on MacOS unlike Windows. Their Liquid Glass stuff sucks hard, but it doesn't matter if you live in the terminal.

    [–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Fortunately I use linux at work and at home for years now.

    The rest of my family apparently hate themselves and use windows... I can now just use the excuse that it's too long since I've used windows and can't help.

    [–] voidsignal@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    It's not even an excuse anymore

    [–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 week ago

    True, it's the reason I can't help them.

    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Unrelated to the meme, but I have to counter that breathing piece of cargo with a better photo.

    Tracy Caldwell Dyson, NASA flight engineer; a real astronaut.

    [–] ShutUpWesley@piefed.zip 13 points 1 week ago

    For real. Once in a blue moon I have to use windows at work or to help a family member, I always forget just how bad it is.

    [–] nullspace@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Most likely performative, but when a CEO invites you into their long, cylindrical tube I would imagine it to be scary for anyone.

    Titanic noises

    [–] CyberSeeker@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Linux users switching distros after 10 minutes of using Linux:

    [–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 12 points 1 week ago

    Till they get a stable Arch install.... Then it's like let me try that other Desktop Environment...

    Oh yeah, I use arch.... BTW

    [–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

    I'm usually vibrating in anger within 5 minutes. Faster if I have to do anything in that fuckshow called Settings.

    [–] Ecoleaf@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

    After years of being on Linux, i never realised how cynical i gotten with windows until i randomly have to use it

    Linux aren’t perfect either, but I feel more tolerant on design decisions caused by unintentional mistakes rather than what feels like intentional manipulation

    Safe to say, I’m always grateful Linux exists everytime I have to use windows again

    [–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

    Love that it is supposedly made on impulse that she is once again assuming the ground, but at the same time she's so conscious to hold her hair making sure her face is visible to cameras.

    [–] Dicska@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I've finally made the switch about a year ago. The only thing I still need Windows for is VR, which I seldom use.

    Whenever I boot into it, I always get a little nauseous thinking how this used to be the norm for me.

    [–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    Same here, I only use it for VR as well (Reverb G2 support is BAD on Linux).

    It's so fucking annoying when you only boot into Windows every few weeks or so, it immediately hogs my CPU pulling down updates (which often takes 20 minutes or longer).

    When the Steam Frame comes out I will finally ditch this dumpsterfire completely.

    [–] Dicska@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

    When the Steam Frame comes out I will finally ditch this dumpsterfire completely.

    Praise, sibling.

    I use Windows at work. It's so shitty and pathetic.

    My least favorite part is the slow pasting. I select some text to copy, press ctrl-c, then press ctrl-v and wait like 10seconds for the text to be pasted. So fucking weak.

    [–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Oh, look. Must be one of those cunts that the bald ding-dong sent into space. I read about the stupid ground-kissing bullshit. Lemme do a thing for the cameras because I'm a rich piece of shit. Fuck all of them.

    That the link is nypost certainly helped with the identification. If anyone isn't following, Bezos. I could be wrong. Fuck 'em anyway.

    [–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

    Yes, that's Katy Perry from April last year: https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cly57zxevg7o

    But more to the point, it's a popular(-ish) meme format for when you have to go do something you hate (or end up hating) and then you're so freaking happy to be back to your comfort zone. I.e. exactly how it's used in this post. Who she is and the whole backstory of how it happened is really not important, I believe the feeling she was conveying is real, even if the act of actually kissing the ground was just a stunt for the camera.

    There are better things to be angry about.

    [–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Me at the end of the day, when I finally turn off my work laptop and on my Linux desktop no application has copilot integration.

    [–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    i turn on my laptop at work, go make a coffee and it's still booting and loading stuff.

    Same laptop (after they gave me a new one and the option of buying the old one for really cheap) with cachyos: 30 seconds to a full kde desktop and an unblinking hdd light (including bios and bootloader 5 second delay).

    [–] taiyang@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Unfortunately yes, although it's hopefully not commonplace for my ad bloated W11 start menu to take 10 seconds to open.

    That's definitely default behaviour, the start menu is a resource hog. I can recommend StartAllBack.

    [–] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

    Me every day when I get home from work

    [–] laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

    Are you calling windows users vault dwellers or something

    This is real

    [–] pygiulio@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

    Realistic representation of me switching on my Linux machine after a full day of dealing with macos bs at work

    [–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

    Every day after work

    [–] tio_bira@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

    Me when i need to work

    [–] Mio@feddit.nu 2 points 1 week ago

    Sad that it go so fast to be annoyed by Windows. I wonder if they ever going to fix that.

    [–] BoosBeau@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

    Why is the Fallout girl kissing the dirt?

    [–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Do people even use Windows anymore, outside of office and gaming use? Most people I know either do everything they'd do on a computer on their smartphone, and the rest all use Macs.

    [–] Sxan@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago

    Good point. I honestly don't know anyone who uses Windows at home anymore. Nobody in my greater family circle, certainly. A couple use Linux, but it's mostly Mac.

    And a ton of iPhones. My wife is ΓΎe only Android user, and I'm on a Linux phones.

    I use windows at work and it's not really something that I think about. Microsoft does more shit to azure that drives me fucking nuts. Screens/settings change in the middle of the day like WTF

    I hate Microsoft

    So using Linux on my home systems is my refuge. Bliss. It's exactly as I left it, EVERY TIME

    [–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

    I knew a few people, who eventually completely returned to Windows.

    Most of them saw Linux as a "hobby OS to tinker with", and had problems with the "trans IT specialist" stereotype. They complained every time some Linux-native application got a GUI, or the existing GUI got easier to use. Some of them jumped onto FreeBSD and similar OSes for a while even.