• dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 years ago

    Don’t know about email, but windows 8 would create dynamic tiles out of pictures on your computer and pin them in the start menu.

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      2 years ago

      Ya during video calls at my work it’s always the entire room waiting for the Linux users to troubleshoot their sound and video. Usually they give up and join the call from their iPhone

      Windows for workstations and Linux for servers imo.

      • WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyi
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        2 years ago

        As a former helldesk minion I can assure you that linux users are not even on my radar of people that waste everyone’s time with troubleshooting simple things.

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          2 years ago

          Yeah, mac-tards are the worst. “I want this to do all the exact same things as windows but I refuse to use windows”

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      2 years ago

      I did that. Unironically, I just said fuck it, I’ll give it a shot.

      And… it just works. Like updates kinda fuck up a bit after not using it for a bit (I didn’t have time to use my desktop lately), but everything works great.

      I’m sure I could get mostly the same experience with Arch, but it’s just fun to flag off entire parts of software from even compiling. Also OpenRC is great.

      I can stream Steam games, which works much better on Gentoo than Ubuntu with the same hardware.

      Gentoo is not a meme, the compiles on modern CPUs are fast, software is wonderfully packaged, and I will not use anything else on my desktop ever.

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        2 years ago

        I know, my dad used gentoo in his glory days on pentium machines probably spending days compiling Firefox. Gentoo is way less of a meme now than what it was then. It’s actually a good distro if you want control.