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Screw it, I’m installing Linux (www.theverge.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 22 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

CachyOS has been flawless on my S/O's desktop. From an easy install to plenty of documentation available, I couldn't have asked for much more. During install, there's an entire step dedicated to checking a box if you want to play games. (To enable non-free drivers).

I don't think it was a poor choice.

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  • [+] -27 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Flawless wouldn't require any documentation.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    They didn't say it required documentation, they said it had plenty of documentation should you need it.

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  • [+] -17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    And I'm telling you to grab a dictionary and lookup what flawless means

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Damnit, you're right!

    But for real, I think you misunderstand the point of documentation. Even if something were truly, literally flawless, having documentation would still be a net gain. It isn't only to fix something when it goes wrong, but explains how things are working. If the only way for something to be literally flawless in your world view is for it to be so self explanatory that an idiot seeing it for the first time still understands it perfectly, nothing in computing can be flawless in that way.

    The pedantry on this point is so unhelpful as to be actively harmful to the rest of the discussion.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    There are instructions on your McDonalds coffee that say, "This coffee is hot."

    You might feel as though no documentation is necessary here, but clearly it was a critical miss for someone.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    Yeah, a lady got third degree vagina burns and a fused labia from McDonald's coffee. She needed surgery and skin grafts. She sued them and asked for her surgery bills paid, but the judge noticed that McDonald's had already got a lot of complaints about serving dangerously hot coffee, and he decided to award her one full day's worth of profits to teach them a lesson.

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