I draft almost everything I write in some variant of Notepad because I like tiling my screen with raw no-frills textboxes. I also like full control.
I was just writing on a windows box in literal Notepad and it just autocorrected the spelling of a word in front of my eyes. As in it *rewrote* the word already typed.
It's impossible to describe how much of a lovecraftian nightmare this is.
I'm so fucking mad.
It's NOTEPAD. It should not have fucking AI textprediction nonsense. It should not even have highlights for mispelled words.
HOW FUCKING DARE A *COMPUTER* HAVE THE AUDACITY TO INTERVENE AND CHANGE THE LETTERS I TYPED WITH MY OWN DIVINE HANDS.
I'm so deeply offended and betrayed, it's hard to describe. The whole point of using Notepad is to have FULL control in what appears on my screen. The bastards took even that away!
Yes, yes, yes, I've run linux machines for decades, but I also like playing videogames. It's offensive as all hell that they added it.
@jherazob @rechelon i second that. don't know what kind of games you are playing, but for me linux hardly ever got in the way of playing anything the only two exception i can think of were a Sonic CD port and AoE Remastered (i know, weird, but i also didn't try very hard).
maybe some games are harder to get to work without Steam 🤷.
there is lot's of people trying to jump off the Windows train right now. gotta use the momentum 😉!
I know I doom myself by bringing up this topic on the fediverse but I've run linux for two decades and know intimately what gaming is possible or not possible and with what levels of frustration. I am pro liniux and despise windows, but
It is absolutely not possible to play most AAA games on release using linux, don't lie. So I have windows on one of my laptops and I will continue to run windows on it.
Also, I ran linux exclusively, across all my devices, for well over a decade. But this is actually a problem, because it leaves you completely useless to most people when they need tech support or security training and you have no fucking idea how the latest windows works. So you're googling while teaching...
@rechelon @sofia
Things have changed recently, SPECIALLY after the launch of the Steam Deck, getting a green Verified check is something companies have started to chase. These days the chances of a new AAA game running at least OK, or even perfect on Linux on day 1 are MUCH higher (except for games with anti-cheat).
That said you do you.
@rechelon
Well that's a fun new fresh hell.
The fuck.
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