Windows 11

I came here hoping to see gnome and X11 memes. You know, actual Linux memes.

Instead I found "Windows bad" circlejerking.

No, I'm on All, but a far higher percentage than most other content is just the same message in slightly different words on repeat, "Linux good, Binbows bad."

There's like 6 of em hah

Why do so many memes seem to be about windows then? 🤔

It's kind of hard to tell since the Linux memes are in all the other communities as well.

They could use some memes making fun of our community instead of making fun of the rest.

Let's be honest, Linux isn't a viable option for a big portion of society. I love working in Linux but it's not perfect for those that aren't techsavy and need more than a browser.

You're talking to the deity of jokes himself. You think he's out of touch? No, it is linuxmemes who are wrong

I mean, I've got a 75% upvote ratio right now, so perhaps I'm not alone in thinking it's a bit excessive?

Is TempleOS a joke to you?

Then why are there so many Windows memes? :^)

I'm browsing all.

Yeah, MacOS has way more bugs than Windows 10. It's kind of hard to believe that it has been this bad for the past several years. They keep pushing features, but they need a 1-2 year pause on features to fix the existing features they have.

I mean, I had to do some weird dragging to install an application!?

Ah yes, the notoriously unintuitive feature known as… drag and drop.

An aside, You can make KDE feel like that, but youd know every hairbrain behavor because you did it yourself.

People who have ever only used one operating system, and tried to apply everything how they use that exactly to a different one are awful. Yeah, different OSs are different, that's the point of it. That you don't do everything exactly how you are used on it, doesn't make the OS bad, you just need some time to get accustomed to some things being different.
The people here are the most biased possible.

Windows is far more customizable by comparison. Still nothing next to Linux but trying to put them on the same field at least in an enterprise environment is ludicrous.

7 downvotes but I don't get where you're wrong. Maybe the fact that Windows 11 requires TPM and some other security features? But the rest of the OS pretty much went down in terms of quality.

Damn tell that to literally every single Linux WM lol

Lemme get this straight. Microsoft successfully got a patent for a feature that KDE had before Windows did?

Rectangle Pro for me, 100%. I bought the paid version too as I loved it.

I like my windows organized and macOS has this penchant for chaos. Windoze at least has FancyZones in PowerToys which is chef's kiss perfectly done, and I can't live without it.

I had to use MacOS for 2 years after using Windows for 20. The copious amounts of energy suddenly releasing when thousands of dying stars start to explode in unison can't compare to the deep, burning hate I feel for MacOS.

But I know there are people who like or love it. No problem with that. It's just a personal feeling.

You do you, but I just hate MacOS way of tilling. When I'm tilling windows I'm generally multi-tasking and I need my dock to look at a third window from time to time. Having it in full screen renders this impossible and the animation for switching is sooooooooo slooooooow😅

I'm not even sure full screen tiling can be called tiling at all.

I mean, I'm never gonna tile my kitchen floor with one GIANT tile.

Technically that's still tiling, but it completely misses the point lol

Don't get me started on encountering a 'feature' by accident, I'm looking at you hot corners 🤮

Everything wrong with that lol, also that's just weird. If I want to have two windows side by side, I'm going to want to drag them to simply the edges of the left/right of the screen.

You can format quotes better by starting each quoted line with a >

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Also windows 10 updates has twice deleted all my files, I am now no longer on windows.

Please tell me you had backups

You need scale

Can't scale. Hard drive full.

I was supporting MacOS and Windows systems in an extremely vertical stability situation and I honestly never had to touch the Windows machines that were cobbled together parts computers. All the Mac's were a constant house of cards waiting to topple. Coming drives constantly for last minute hail Mary solutions, crashing issues that could never be explained without any explanation or hint to what the issues were. Sending systems back and forth for repair. Fuck it, avoid MacOS at all costs

Yeah, the "ease of use" one is complete bullshit. It's "easy to use" if you're accustomed to their "walled garden" model and don't mind everything being automated so as to deepen your dependency on their larger ecosystem.

It's all bullshit.

$350 in hardware sure, hardware that someone had to design and especially nowadays with Apple Silicon, that shit doesn't come cheap

Yeah, the issue is, the laptop is full of photos. She took it to Apple after I failed to figure it out. They said they can wipe it but not recover the photos.

It's just a crap system.

Damn, someone who actually gives GUI instructions and doesn't yell at the person? Keep it up. The Linux community needs people like you.

As far as I remember I tried that but it didn't seem to work and some xdotool script that disabled the wheel click entirely. Then I installed kde, tried a few more things there, and then I tried to go back to gnome but... ...

Just make a Ventoy USB. Why people still bother flashing disk images to thumb drives is beyond me.

And what’s with that name anyway? It’s dumb. Fedoras are a meme for a reason.

I guess that’s because it was a community continuation of red hat linux (not the enterprise one)

And what's with that name anyway? It's dumb. Fedoras are a meme for a reason.

Fedora Linux was thing before fedoras became the meme we know. Also, I would imagine some of the original Fedora Linux guys really did wear fedoras.

It is made by Red Hat, and they went with the hat theme. I used a few distributions, and RedHat was one of the worst. I don't know why it's popular.

Same! dnf upgrade tho for me.

Really? What happened exactly? Hang on. Are you using an Nvidia card? The Nvidia drivers can be finicky sometimes, especially if you have CUDA installed.

A disk? What year is this?

If you install windows 11 from a fresh usb right now, you'll find TikTok, Prime Video, Candy Crush, etc. in the start menu. They're technically not installed, more like "click to install". Iirc, windows 10 was more or less the same, but a bit less.

The only one that doesn't have bloatware for money is MacOS. If Microsoft cared they would ban that.

Before anyone says Linux doesn't have paid bloatware for money, Ubuntu had Amazon baked into for money. Additionally, many distros use Firefox that Google's pays to have Google be the default search engine.

So Windows users are so used to ads on their desktops that they feel smug when someone doesn't recognize them. Weird flex, but okay.

Imagine being so used to ads that you make fun of people who aren't.

Pretty sad actually.

I love Everything. Cannot recommend it enough.

I will look into that. I installed chocolatey and I really appreciate a package manager in windows. Gives me a bit of familarity

Let's not live in the past. Just disable internet searching from the start menu.

I agree, it shouldn't have been built in and on by default and it should be easier to disable.

Personally I think Win10 start was peak Windows start because it was the most customizable.

Well, the thing is that the start menu used to be useful. So the habit is there. Even in Linux, this is the same.

But now in windows, it's a pile of crap riddled with ads.

I have recently been using BloatyNosy at my IT job when setting up new Windows 11 PCs.

It's a lightweight little Windows 11 debloater. It's just a simple UI with checkboxes to modify and run a powershell script. Just in case anyone is looking for a FOSS alternative. The link that you posted looks similar, but it doesn't appear to be open source.

Edit: To all those who downvoted me for my comment, you were right to do so. I downloaded the program and it was truly a genuinely free program with no advertising or anything. While I still am not a fan of O&O for other reasons, in this case you were all right.

I'm sorry.

Hell, that would have been the case 10 years ago. Now that Windows is 'the default' for almost everybody, I can never see Linux taking that crown even if Windows never advertised again.

It’s not about marketing, it’s about trying to turn on surround sound, almost blowing up my speakers with static, and reading through pulse audio or Alsa configs for hours to do what an AppleTV just does innately.

Linux, and especially desktop linux, is a collection of disparate technologies by different groups with different priorities and it will never have a cohesive vision or responsive support.

I’ve had a Linux desktop on and off for over 20 years and it’s always some bullshit or another.

It’s always the year of Linux on the desktop if you’re a masochist.

Signed: a masochist.

Kids and elders in my family get Linux. It's especially easy to sell it to them too, since:

1. They only need email, office suite, browser, games
2. They don't want to buy windows

The main two things I like about start menus is that it keeps all your apps out of the way, and in some resemblence of organizatoin, instead of just barfing them all out in one big cluttered mess, which is part of what turns me away from Apple, or Gnome. However, they're not as easy to use on touchscreens. That said, ads deeply nerf this advantage.

No Surface. Just a dual-boot Lin/Win PC, a flight sim PC, and a driving sim PC. All run Windows. Everything else has Linux, even a Galaxy Book2 360 (which is notoriously hard to get Linux working)!

For a second I though you were talking about xorg. Curse you elon