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Probably commented on the wrong thread

!memes@lemmy.ml has become a dumpster fire. Did you mean to post on !politicalmemes@lemmy.world?

What the fuck are you on about saying “having every behaviour and text sent to Microsoft” and “arguing that Windows should be the number one”. He never said that, nor does anyone say that, get your head out your ass.

He said “Windows suits me”. That’s it, stfu.

I love loved how when Microsoft published docs on how to install and configure Linux on their desktop PCs, everyone was like “wtf??? Do they hate money?” completely missing the fact that home edition Windows is probably bringing them nothing or close to nothing, and that the real money is in B2B.

I love you how specified “as far as I know” even though it’s literally your native language lmao

🤦‍♂️Yes, in that sense, English could be gendered. But what it actually means is that English used to be gendered and retains some gendered words from that time.

Another example, Russian has noun cases, but not the vocative case. However, it does have two words that have a vocative case from when the language as a whole did use to have the vocative case - Бог (Боже) and Господь (Господи) - but that doesn’t mean that Russian has it now.

Also, blond/blonde are pronounced the same so the distinction is lost in speech and probably soon in writing as well, and words like fiancé/fiancée (which are also pronounced the same), widow/widower, actor/actress do not signify grammatical gender by itself.

Lithuanian, you got it right! Though you could’ve guessed any Slavic language too, so it’s weird you picked Lithuanian

This one is missing the “non-stick spray cooking” with an image of a flamethrower

English is not a grammatically gendered language. Otherwise, all languages have gender.

Yeah, there are clueless people everywhere, but I’m still glad that it’s easy to get generic medicine.

To be fair, you cannot force people to buy generic, let people make their own, though preferably informed, decisions.

I know it as “ceet”, but my language pronounces that part as “tset”.

Touché, though I love knowing names like paracetamol or acetaminophen, ibuprofen, diclofenac, acetylsalicylic acid etc.

I can’t come up with many names because I don’t remember every single drug, but when I see a drug, I always read the chemical, never the brand, and I’m glad for my country and my parents for that.

ITT: Americans who can’t fathom generic medicine names

Tylenol isn’t the medicine, paracetamol is. I love having grown up in a European country which mandates pharmacies to very clearly inform you, not just in some fuck ass place, but repeat to you 3 times, that there is a cheaper generic version which does the same thing.

Yeah but he drank himself to death by writing Requiem

…for you.

TL;DR there are good and bad things, positives and drawbacks about all OSes, educate, don’t gatekeep.

I have a laptop that runs Windows fine, then installed Linux on it.

1. The trackpad was not well supported and glitched often, as was the fingerprint sensor. I personally am not going to not use fingerprint because some neck beard says it’s very insecure and blah blah blah, I don’t care. The fingerprint is for me to have any sort of authentication prompt.

2. Often times, the computer would boot up without recognizing the WiFi adapter (classic).

3. The DE that I used, Gnome, was riddled with shitty defaults and random weird behavior, also missing settings from the main settings app in Gnome 43! Not Gnome 1 or 2, 43. Isn’t that a bit embarrassing? I’ve used KDE before, I like that one, though I like the aesthetics and simplicity of Gnome, I wish it just didn’t come with retarded defaults.

4. Bluetooth connectivity was hit-or-miss as well, sometimes not getting my device, sometimes not wanting to pair it, etc.

5. The app store on either Fedora, Manjaro, Ubuntu or PopOS! all had some kind of missing, broken, or unintuitive functionality that seemed quite obvious how it could be fixed, just that I couldn’t be bothered.

6. Screen sharing with audio doesn’t work on Discord, could not find any 1080p60 streaming software that was free or paid or anything. Scoured all of the internet and GitHub, so I’m not switching.

I could go on. Basically there’s many shitty things about it. There are also loads of things I adore about Linux, like fast boot times, lower RAM and swap usage, less background apps, better extensibility and customizability, great development experience etc. I love Linux. However, it feels like work to actually get it to work sometimes, which gets in the way of most people’s intention to just use the God damn computer for stuff they want to use, and it working.

Let people choose what they want, don’t berate people for not choosing what you like, instead educate on what they may be missing out on, but at the end of the day, respect their decision. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

P.S. My laptop wasn’t a DXFGFH Fuckbook 3938WGT or whatever with a Bluetooth adapter from Jupiter, it was a recent, but not bleeding-edge, ASUS VivoBook.

Yeah well it’d been difficult for him to be him and to live to a ripe old age, given that he was a severe alcoholic and overall incredibly crazy

Wow, that must mean that we’re in captivity! /s

Even if animals in captivity did live longer (which @WallEx@feddit.de contradicts), wouldn’t it make more sense to think it’s because of better treatment and healthcare?