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    Re-creation of someone else's post because the original was removed and I found it funny when I first saw it

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    [–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 258 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    The duck can't actually say anything because his sound drivers randomly stopped working.

    [–] __dev@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    In recent memory I've had both a microphone driver bug in Linux and one in macOS with specific hardware. Only one of them was fixed with an update.

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    [–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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    [–] HeyMrDeadMan@lemmy.world 120 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    I'm really triggered by the idea that Linux makes running old software easy. The bane of my existence is finding an application that depends on libButts.5.1, but my distro ships with libButts.5.3, which isn't backward compatible for some reason, and trying to install libButts.5.1 bricks the desktop environment for some reason.

    [–] eumesmo@lemmings.world 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I just searched for that lib, in an attempt to help you with the supposed problem. I won't deny, you got me there.

    [–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    And this is what is actually good about Linux. :)

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    [–] HKayn@dormi.zone 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    No time for actual facts, only circlejerking /s

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    [–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Appimage, Snap, Flatpak, Docker, Podman, Distrobox, Toolbox...

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    [–] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    The last character: I can make you spend an entire day trying to install some software or configuring something specific

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    [–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Windows also doesn't let you remove system apps.

    [–] Delta_44@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You can totally remove them, but it'll just reinstall them back, or worst case scenario, you'll break a part of your system, because Windows is a giant monolith of decades of built-up stupidity

    [–] demonquark@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Tbf, every moderately old software product is a collection of built-up stupidity.

    [–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] RespectfullyNo@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

    Checkmate, atheists

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    [–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 38 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Linux: I can't install steam without breaking my system

    [–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Steam Deck: am I a joke to you?

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    [–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    Unpopular opinion: flatpaks enable lazy developers to keep old versions of required Python dependencies working longer.

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    [–] the_q@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Maybe you and Linus can't...

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    [–] eee@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year ago (29 children)

    Linux: "my users spend half their time troubleshooting"

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    [–] Crow@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    I think we should stop trying to figure out what operating system is superior, and just focus on shitting on Microsoft windows.

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    [–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    I don't have a printer.

    I don't like open ports.

    Decides to remove CUPS.

    "apt list -i *cups*"

    There are like 7 CUPS packages and dependencies.

    for each package "apt remove cups --simulate"

    Get to package 6 and decide 'Ok. No major issues, looks fine.'

    For the first 6 packages "sudo apt remove CUPS"

    This is easy and painless!

    On 7th ...

    Removing cups-pk or some shit.... Removing mint-common... Removing cinnamon-desktop...

    Oh, fuck

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    [–] Nobsi@feddit.de 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "I can't build a steady userbase"

    [–] 257m@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago

    There is a difference between steady and small.

    [–] markon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    Actually.... The Steam Deck runs on Valve's custom Arch Linux. To say there is no steady userbase is simply not true.

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    [–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yeah, you can run old app on Linux, as long as you compile it manually while solving a shitton of dependency problems.

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    [–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm predominantly a Windows user. However I dual boot with Mint as I am trying to get away from Windows. It's really not easy but I'm trying.

    I gotta say though these types of posts make me cringe. I really don't know why some Linux users put themselves on a pedestal all the time. You make these sorts of smug posts making out that Linux is perfect. I have never installed Linux and had it just work. There is always something that requires searching the web for a fix and firing up the terminal to start changing something in /etc/.

    I get it. You're proud of your technology. But vegans are proud they don't eat animal products. We don't need to keep selling it to the rest of the world.

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    [–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    All three lines are incorrect, Amazing.

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    [–] frezik@midwest.social 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If I want to dd /dev/zero to my bootsector, goddammit, let me do it.

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    [–] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Re-creation of someone else's post because the original was removed and I found it funny when I first saw it

    If the original was removed, there's probably a reason.

    This "meme" chooses the dumbest reasons Linux is better when there are so many other options than "updates" and "old app"

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    [–] BlueDwaggin@pawb.social 16 points 1 year ago

    I had the opposite problem with Windows 11.

    My typical way of shutting down my machine was Alt-D, Show Desktop, then Alt-F4, which brings up a shutdown menu.

    For whatever reason in Win 11, they made this menu unable to trigger updates. So for the first several months of my Win 11 install it was quietly never receiving any updates at all.

    [–] macrocephalic@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Funny, what kernel does android run?

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    [–] atyaz@reddthat.com 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I think it's humorous how many people are getting offended at such a silly post

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    [–] Romanmir@lemmy.today 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It’s always entertaining when people complain about not being able to stop Windows updates.

    Like, has it occurred to you that you are the reason the MS had to prevent you from being able to update your system?!

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    [–] eochaid@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

    No, obnoxious elitism breeds controversy - or more likely, indifference.

    [–] Pyro@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Isn't Android just Linux under the hood? You are free to brick your device with root access.

    [–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Yes, but a lot of devices don't support getting root access, or come with caveats from doing so (I remember at least on Sony devices in the past, doing so permanently erased the proprietary camera blobs which resulted in forever low quality pictures).

    That being said, you can disable system apps in Android (with exceptions, can't disable SystemUI obviously) which is about as good as deleting them. Since they're on the system partition which is separate from the user data partition, it doesn't actually grant you any usable free space anyways AFAIK.

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    [–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    You can stop unnecessary update on windows by using LTSC, on Android you can delete system app with adb or root

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    [–] SickPanda@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Linux users are like Vegans. No one likes them and they won't stop bratting about being a Linux user.

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    [–] red@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

    Today I spent 50 minutes figuring out why my app could not set itself as default for www.instagram.com links. I don't have IG installed.

    Turns out the latest Samsung OTA update re-enabled Meta App Manager, Meta App Installer and Meta Services. Any of which, while enabled, will result in the user setting an app to handle certain domain links, only for the users action to be instantly reversed without notification.

    Edit: that's a gif if it doesn't show up correctly. I had an app advertise itself as IG but Meta kept hijacking the link handler. An uninstallable Samsung forced Meta app, that enables itself back after each OTA update.

    If this was on desktop, someone would already be sued. But android? "Sorry can't uninstall system app"

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