Oh, gee. A Microsoft product that worked perfectly locally is about to require a subscription. Who could have possibly guessed that would happen, yet again? (This is sarcasm.)

I really like OneNote, but I decided to learn something else when I realized which way the wind was blowing.

That sounds like a good approach. If you can get the posts into WordPress, there’s so many scripts out there that will export the WordPress database into other formats.

Well sure.

But possible within practical heat and power constraints and all that?

Acting like it’s imminent makes me think Sergei either doesn’t have very reliable advisors, or they just don’t care about the truth.

There’s not even credible evidence, yet, that A.G.I is even possible (edit: as a human designed intentional outcome, to concede the point that nature has accomplished it, lol. Edit 2: Wait, the A stands for Artificial. Not sure I needed edit 1, after all. But I’m gonna leave it.) much less some kind of imminent race. This is some “just in case P=NP” bullshit.

Also, for the love of anything, don’t help fucking “don’t be evil was too hard for us” be the ones to reach AGI first, if you’re able to help.

If Google does achieve AGI first, SkyNet will immediately kill Sergei, anyway, before it kills the rest of us.

It’s like none of these clowns have ever read a book.

This is perfect, because the Fediverse is better than Twitch and Dragon Warrior Monsters is better than Pokemon.

Sweet. Thank you.

so that it looks like you messed up the tiling somehow

I wish more tiling developers understood this. Gaps between windows looks broken. I don’t mind it being an option, but to me it’s such a weird choice for the default.

Yeah. If the whole heating the planet to exterminate all humans gets revealed to be an alien attack on us, I’ll be angry.

But if the aliens simply share a screenshot of Hotdog desktop theme, in explanation of their actions… I’ll probably just nod.

There’s an extension that lets me close and open windows with the Matrix Code Rain so I can pretend I’m cool n shit.

Awesome. Looking into that just got added to my weekend plans. Thanks!

Sounds just like my last dual boot setup, as well.

I believe I said “I’ll just boot back to Windows next time I want to play…this game…that just launched and played perfectly under Proton…or…this other game…which also works…huh…”

while Linux will boot you into broken system and expect you to know what to do.

But…

even if the answer is a simple as selecting a different entry from the GRUB.

Okay. Yeah. It’s often that simple.

I take your point, but I’ve had my Windows blow itself to hell way more than my Linux has, and putting Linux on relatives machines has been by far the least hassle of the big three, for me.

But that’s just my anecdotal experience.

I feel seen. And belittled. But mostly seen.

Then there will just be some other stuff that has been developed that people want ;-)

Yeah. As a “DOS was good enough” person, I honestly didn’t expect so exited for all the updates in Gnome this year. But the Gnome team is on a hot streak. I really may get to eat my “Debian stable is all I need” words again in a few years.

Oh I understand. I’m the person who reaches for a terminal for my Windows user relatives, when they ask nicely.

Lately though, they just live with it, or they go learn some CLI if they care enough, because Windows throws them all kinds (variety) of crap that Linux doesn’t have trouble with anymore.

(Edit: The frequency of Windows issue is fine. But the variety of Windows corner cases makes casual “I’ve seen that” friend support not work as much anymore for me. I used to be able to help my friends more when Windows was a lot worse, ironically.)

I never have to mess with the settings on my Windows boxes once I have them configured the way I want. Like, ever.

Yeah. Same here. For both my Windows and Linux boxes. Though if I’m comparing, my Windows box is the only one that demands technical support every so often.

And that’s genuinely a big change. Us tinkerers are using threads like this one to come to terms with it.

And we realized we should sort of quietly wave the “all clear” for folks who wanted to switch but couldn’t.

Then we give ourselves permission to go back to pretending Windows users are happy and don’t need our help, for another couple of years.

How is the company fucking me, if I enjoy playing the game and get my money’s worth?

If it doesn’t bother you, you do you.

To me, it’s fucking with me when they add software layers that adds no value and just makes my game harder to play, long term.

Note that I’m not as mad at anti-cheat stuff, since it does add value. It’s usually a shitty half-assed solution, but it has a reason to be there. And most of it works better on Linux anyway.

It’s the weird other extra stuff that makes feel like they’re just fucking with me. There’s no remaining technical reasons a new game can’t run on my SteamDeck better than on my Windows laptop. And most games do.

This is a lot safer on Linux than Windows, this year. A lot of engineering has gone into making updates resilient.

And Linux hasn’t done the Windows 10 to Windows 11 - black screen for a couple hours, hope you know not to touch it - that we sometimes see.

Linux now has a stronger default permissions model, so it’s a lot harder for user error to break the machine in serious ways, even if they do reboot during a sensitive update.

Month and a half into using Mint Cinnamon… frankly it’s hard to feel like I’m not still using Win10.

I haven’t used Mint in a minute, but yeah, I think that’s the dream with Mint.

I’ve been digging the vibe of recent stock Gnome and KDE releases, myself.

So I suppose in your eyes I’m basically an old Windows admin brining bad habits to Linux. I’m just not seeing the downside of these ‘bad habits’.

Yeah. Now I get the best of both worlds. First time I need a setting, I do a nice search, instant result, and click toggle.

If I love that setting, as a power user, I can script the change to every future computer I use.

If not, I search settings, instant result, toggle back.

Gnome is amazing lately.

I’m certainly buying one of whatever they release.

A large scale migration would be wild. It would be like the Commodore 64 all over again - where one of the coolest things in gaming also happens to be the most functional personal PC of the year.

I guess it could happen.

Yeah. It’s not that there’s never a surprise on Linux. The interesting thing from about the last year is that the surprises are nicer and less frequent than on Windows.

This user’s mouse issue is a hilarious example - is they gained new compatibility, without any effort, but it took a week to settle in.

I’ve never had something on Windows go wrong that nicely. Lol.