• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    5 days ago
    Do you want a working computer? Yes
To play games? Yes -> Windows
 |--- No
 |--- Will you just browse the internet and maybe work with some sort of Office document? Yes
 |------ chromeOS
    • InputZero@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      The Wikipedia page is your best friend here. In short was an operating system written from the ground up by a brilliant, bipolar and occasionally psychotic man who was named named Terry Davis. It is important to mention when talking about Terry Davis to note he stalked several women and he probably took his own life.

      It was Terry’s belief that a way to speak to God was through computers. So he built an operating system from the ground up to act as God’s temple. It’s actually a pretty nifty achievement truth be told and an interesting view into the mind of someone suffering from psychosis. It is not suitable for every day use, but people have taken the foundations of his OS and ran with it making equally interesting operating systems.

      • bay400@thelemmy.club
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        4 days ago

        people have taken the foundations of his OS and ran with it making equally interesting operating systems.

        Do you have some examples? I’m curious

  • _stranger_@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Don’t worry everyone, it’s like the Sorting Hat, it takes your preference into account. Just say “not TempleOS” and you’ll get into Linux.

  • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    cope and seethe. Haven’t had an issue with either my laptop desktop nor my debian laptop in the 5 years I’ve been running it on them. Sounds like you’re just mad your OS condtantly advertises paid services to you an mine doesn’t

    • Victor@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      Been running Arch for probably ten years now, or soon, too. It’s no work to maintain. Just run the package manager update command and let her rip. Check what packages are updating. If it seems like something you don’t know or understand, or something system critical, check the website if something manual needs to be done.

      It’s honestly no more work than any other distro. More like less work, because the system is improving at a faster rate than more “stable”/stale distros. And I don’t remember how many times I had to reinstall Ubuntu when I was running it. The system upgrade just not finishing as it should for whatever reason.

      Happily using a system that doesn’t run out of space unless I make it so. That does my bidding rather than some company’s.

      Keep feeding the penguin, folks. 👌

      • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
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        5 days ago

        Not unless they want me to be their bull

        Listen, it’s a funny hyperbolic way of saying “stay mad”; don’t let sex-negative reactionaries have all the fun phrases

  • Chef_Boyardee@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    Working computer? Apple? Tell that to my dad. He destroys a Mac in about two years. Bought his house 7 years ago, and three dead macs in the basement.

    Could you imagine if he used a PC?

  • LANIK2000@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    After being forced to use an iMac in collage, I’ll admit it’s fine and definitely better than windows. But it’s still annoying. I wouldn’t call not being able to use the F key row, just because I dare to use a non apple keyboard a “working computer”, just as a most in my face example, there’s much more. It works and it does so looking pretty, as long as you have literally zero personal preferences.

    • Clbull@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 days ago

      If you think that’s bad, look at the LinuxSucks community and how bad they’re being ratio’d.

  • namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev
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    6 days ago

    Once, when I started a new job, I had to use an Apple laptop until my Linux laptop came. While the Apple laptop was better than I expected, it was still one of the most annoying weeks of my life. The most unbearable part was the keyboard. I could never tell which hotkeys used ctrl and what used alt, and it just wasn’t worth the effort of remembering the differences or remapping them.

    But besides that, after using Linux for 15 years, the very basic levels of configurability that the Apple window manager provides just made it look like a child’s toy compared to Linux. In Linux, there are so many different window managers that it becomes very easy to customize an environment that works perfectly for you. With Apple, you just get what you’re given and if it’s bad or doesn’t work well for your habits, then tough luck, you’re stuck with it anyway. So in that respect, Apple computers don’t work at all - you work for the computer, whereas it should be the other way around.

    But at the end of the day, what it really comes down to is the fact that people just like what they’re used to, and it sucks to change. What’s best is a matter of preference; none is better objectively better than the other.

    Except Windows. Fuck Windows.

    • Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 days ago

      Same for me. I can’t stand the weird keyboard combinations and I totally hate that I need to watch a 1 second eyecandy animation when I put a window in full screen.

      • namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev
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        5 days ago

        Oh yeah, I completely forgot about the stupid animations. They also happen when moving a window to another virtual desktop, or when you minimize it. Complete waste of time and they just cause me to forget what I was trying to do or why.

        Also, on the topic of minimizing windows, I also hate the dock concept where all the windows are grouped together. I like having a taskbar with a full list of windows so I can see how many are open. If I see too many that are open, I start closing the old ones that I don’t need anymore, which helps me stay organized. This is much harder to do with a dock instead. But once again, it’s just a matter of preference!

    • HowManyNimons@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      On paper Macs are very good computers. In practice whenever I try to use one I go strict Boomer Mode and can’t get anything done.

      • namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev
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        5 days ago

        Agreed, and it really makes me nervous about changing jobs. If I start a job that requires using something other than Linux, I don’t really know what I’ll do. I’ll probably have to get really good with tmux or zellij or similar because window managers on non-FOSS platforms suck so badly!