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[-] QuaffPotions@lemmy.world 71 points 2 years ago

I remember some years ago there was a "malware" going around that would flash OpenWRT onto people's routers, and set them to have more secure default settings.

There should be another thing like that, but one that upgrades Windows into a Linux distro.

[-] RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 years ago

That is absolutely hilarious. Good guy malware swooping in and fixing people's shit? Any chance you have a link?

[-] RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Gemini claims it doesn't exist when I prompted it for finding more info, so for the sake of testing out Gemini's capability of searching I'm doubly interested if this exists.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago

Why would you send an image to gemini instead of just text? Annoy Google?

[-] RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Testing it's ability to transcribe photo and recognize content

[-] ours@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Someone, somewhere is wondering why his CAPTCHAs are getting odly specific.

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Well, the US government has at least twice broken into infected US devices and fixed things. IDK about installing OpenWRT but the stories have some overlap

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah Linux is fun, until it breaks a week or two later. I'll stick with windows, because it never breaks.

[-] QuaffPotions@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

Windows never breaks? Uhhhhh, that's definitely not true. When I have to use Windows, I brace myself every time I have to update.

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

It's been about four years since windows broke on me enough to do a reinstall. Linux lasts a month with me being gentle.

It's a no brainer.

[-] Really_long_toes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I run arch BTW, 7 years throwing it down stairs, running commands that I had no idea what they did, learned linux from scratch deleting chunks of my hdd compiling and installing random software, never once had it break bad enough to reinstall . I bet you love ltt too haha... maby you should stick to a beginner os like Windows, I've heard Apple is even easier... or why don't you just pay someone smarter than you to host and troubleshoot your os while they market your info and habits to the highest bidder... oh wait

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I love when morons out themselves, makes blocking people like you an actual joy.

[-] Really_long_toes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Oh no!... anyway

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

I use windows every day and I've never once seen it do anything wrong, ever.

Maybe it's a skill issue?

[-] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago

Skill issue! How is my mother better at using Linux than you?😆

[-] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He must be deleting all the weird files on the c drive. I better empty the recycle bin sudo rm -rf /bin

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Been running Arch on my work laptop for over a year. Still waiting for the fabled difficulty and update breaks. Starting to think in modern times its perpetuated to keep people on Windows.

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Must be nice. It's been about seven years since I last dove into Linux, so maybe things have changed. But also in that time, windows became even more stable than it was, and it's silky smooth these days.

I don't see any benefits to even trying Linux again.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

"Please sign into your microsoft account to continue." After entering my PIN.
Ads in the greeter.
lightdm-gtk-greeter does neither of these things.

Ads in my menu along "news and interests"
dmenu simply searches my applications.

Don't even get me started on the themes either.

Now that proton has brought steam into the mix windows no longer makes sense for gaming rigs, only office chuds who think computers are magic.

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I never see ads on windows. Maybe The were there once, but once disabled, they never came back.

[-] hips_and_nips@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Oh really, I think you and my Debian server with >10 years of uptime should have a conversation.

[-] MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

You should update your kernel at least once every 10 years

[-] hips_and_nips@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There are some lovely tools that allow kernel updates sans reboot.

[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Name checks out.

[-] laverabe@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I use both. Can confirm windows breaks 10x more than Debian stable.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Linux breaking depends on mostly 2 thing:

  1. The user. Depending on what they try to do, it can easily break Linux. (looking at me somehow breaking KDE Plasma and somehow fixing it without understanding how it broke or how I fixed it)

  2. Updating (from what I understand, mostly a big issue on rolling release distros like Arch or Manjaro). Bleeding edge software with major bugs the stable release don't get can always cause instability.

Though, I will say, that I've never had win10 crash on me unless I have too much stuff open or am being an absolute idiot. Windows always seems to be stable, at least I've never had issues for a long time.

[-] max@feddit.nl 4 points 2 years ago

Let’s be honest though. I’m a big fan of Linux/Unix systems, but if (not saying that’s necessarily the case) a normal user can break their installation by being a normal user, it’s not suited for normal users.
Windows is a pain in the ass imo, but pretty hard for a normal user to break in my experience.

[-] SavvyBeardedFish@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago

Breaking Linux every week or every other week? That's almost impressive!

[-] Tbird83ii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago
[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, and it's been about ten years or more since I last saw one on my PC.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Lol, I see what you did here.

I may start doing this as well... I'm SO tired of every post about Windows being flooded with Linux supremecists.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh cool, I guess I don't need to play all my favorite games... Most is just as good right?

You Linux Uber fans are too much sometimes.

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Sometimes people just don't think about that people can have different wants and needs.

All, literally every game I want to play runs great in Linux, and my hobbies of self hosting, development, homelabbing, and data hoarding are all leagues better on it.

That doesn't make a good choice for my friend that only logs on to play destiny 2. It also doesn't matter why, to my friend, its a bad choice. It could be the devs are chained and lashed by Microsoft for even mentioning Linux in the office, but what matters to someonethatt only wants to play that game with friends is whether it works.

[-] AProfessional@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Steam has ~30 million users per day. Windows has over 1.5 billion installs.

Gamers really over value themselves.

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