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[–] 112 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The terminal all of a sudden isn't so scary when you're jonesing to play games with kernel level anticheat. Desperate times call for desperate measures, huh?

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

    It amazes me how quickly the average user locks up the second the terminal opens.

    But then again, I get called a wizard because I know keyboard shortcuts and don't have to constantly switch my mouse hand back and forth while doing stuff.

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    probably because the windows terminal is dogshit ugly

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Depends on if you're talking about cmd (agree) or powershell (you're wrong). I don't see a big UX difference between bash and cmd, but something like powershell has native syntax highlighting and I enjoy the default blue theme.

    I miss having powershell available, and I haven't figured out how to get pwsh working on my Bazzite box.

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  • [+] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 33 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Linux users overestimate how tech savvy average person is. They know 5 GNU utils at most

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

    I think the biggest scare comes from the only time people ever see the terminal is if a virus or some kind of hacker brings it up, but I still love the idea of never touching a terminal(stupid mpv player)

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  • [–] 62 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    My brother got a new laptop and was interested in Linux, so I offered to help him set up a dual boot

    He didn't want to connect a Microsoft account, so we tried to make a local one

    After 15 minutes, he said "to hell with Windows" and he's been a Linux main ever since XD

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    I got my laptop about 4 years ago and the first year I stuck with the windows it came with. Then I started trying out dual booting for 2 years with more and more just not bothering with booting windows at all. Until a windows update fucked up my bootloader and also literally deleted my linux partition. Immediately nuked any traces of windows off the disk and now it runs in a VM in case I need to use an app that does not like WINE

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  • [–] 50 points 10 months ago

    Sending this to multiple friends who claim the terminal is bad

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  • [+] 47 points 10 months ago* (2 children)
  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago

    It really do be like that sometimes.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago

    "You don't get it it's really easy you just have to open Windows Ter-"

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago

    Ugly mockering!

    All we casually-happy windowers do, is to download magical_local_account_setup_totally_not_a_virus.exe and do pray!

    And if black popup of terminal do happen and self closes, we do pray more!

    True windows user do not know magic, but very single spell of fckgwrhqq2...

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago

    Huh. What happened to all the Linux-will-not-be-mainstream-as-long-as-you-need-terminal folks

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I am at the backing up my harddrive stage of purging ny last computer of Windows. Windows 11 at work is too much.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    For sake of update: had no real issues. Couple hangups after installation with waking up after sleep mode and an initial glitch with steam: smooth sailing.

    Bazzite does its job well. Gets you up and running, linked to Steam and running games. That was 99% of my gaming rig's purpose anymore.

    Only functionality apparently lost to me is the ability to run Stable Diffusion which I could give a shit less about and haven't really run since 2023 when I wanted to figure out wtf was going on with AI.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    THANK YOU OMG

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Back in the day I played on windows, most software companies troubleshoots and M$ MPVs recommendations were:

    • reinstall the game
    • reinstall the EA/Ubi launcher
    • reinstall windows.

    Since I had to reinstall windows a lot, I set my user folder & friends in another drive during installation. This gif is just about the steps to get it done.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    And then you switch to Mint and it is like you lived in a cave for years and finally walked outside and life is beautiful and the sun is shining

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago
    [+] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
    [+] -10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    @addictedtosongtitles That is just BS. And you know it. Come on. 🙄

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago*

    Lol. Lmao even.

    April 2024 No Microsoft Account Needed: How to Set Up Windows With a Local Account

    June 2024 Door slammed on last remaining easy Windows 11 local account setup workaround

    someone found another more complicated way aaand...

    October 2025 Microsoft just blocked a popular way to set up a local account in Windows 11

    They are literally working as hard as they can to make it impossible for users to set up local accounts. There is even a dedicated Wikipedia section for this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_11#Setup

    The fact that there are still some obscure ways to do it, doesnt make the fact that its absurdly complicated to achieve "BS"

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  • [+] -30 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    I think this is a bit rich coming from what I assume is a Linux user. Creating a new user may be easy enough but the OOTB is so shit on pretty much every distro I’d much sooner grapple with the Windows stuff. I have a Plasma based install and a Gnome one that are like three years old. I also have a single Windows 10 install that I just threw together to get Fusion 360 working; it had zero effort put into it other than setting the wallpaper to use the Bing daily one yet it still looks slicker than both of Linux setups. The problem with customisation on Linux is that it isn’t optional.

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  • [–] 27 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I'm going to have to disagree for example Pop!OS is very, very straightforward I bet my grandma could do it. In those three years there has been a lot of development towards accessibility to provide an alternative to windows and they look NICE. modern windows SHOVES ads down my throat and I'll never go back. I have to use a windows laptop for school and I dread every second of it.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 10 months ago*

    nothing more fun in school than when me and the rest of the class had to constantly deal with slow windows laptops with battery lives that lasted about an hour or sometimes less, locked down so much that you couldn't change a single setting except resolution and i wish i was exaggerating

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