Grumpy WebsiteDec 6

How UI degrades over time.

Top (Windows 95): great contrast, obvious shapes. Instantly readable.

Middle (Windows 11): shapes are still self-explanatory, but contrast is gone.

Bottom (Windows 11 Insiders): what am I even looking at? The only shape I can understand here is the Run button. Barely visible, though.

Then, on the left, there’s another something that says Run and has an icon. What is it? A window title? Another button? Why does it have to say Run twice?
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Show threadKevin RussellDec 7

@grumpy_website

250 million laptops.
Two hundred and fifty million win10 laptops have been "made landfill" by windows11.

Windows 11 doesnt work, has handcuffs, is designed to spy and report, is crammed with AI, and rhe CEO saidcrecently all core functions ate broken, its written by AI.

Ram prices ate skyrocketing, malware and viruses exploding.

Nazis taking over government, led by tech Bros.

Its time.

#linux

Show threadAudrey Winter has moved!Dec 7
@kevinrns @grumpy_website It's time to make #Linux Just Fucking Work. There are many, many reasons people will not switch to Linux or don't stick with it if they try it. It's a lot more than just "how do I install it?" and Linux aficionados need to learn to be a lot more fucking helpful to newbies. Documentation needs to be better. Things need to stop requiring arcane command line usage (and don't try to tell me they don't). There's a lot of work to be done for Linux to become popular.
Show threadmilagemayvary

@audreygwinter

This reads like it was posted in 2000s.

It's now more than ever easier to install Linux, it's more simple to maintain, it's easier to install things via package manager.

I would argue it's easier to use than Windows if you grab the right distro.

I don't miss having to faff about in the registry editor & dealing with hidden settings that I have to add to actually change.

The software I left behind in Windows 10 is not missed.

Just reads like a salty salty post from the past.

Dec 8 at 2:36amWeb
Show threadmilagemayvaryDec 8

@audreygwinter

Also, long live the command line.

Show threadAudrey Winter has moved!Dec 8
@milagemayvary Just reads like an ivory tower-blind post from a computer-savvy Linux user who doesn't understand not everybody is him.
Show threadmilagemayvaryDec 8

@audreygwinter

Shouldn't be so hard on your self.

More people should seek knowledge, the computer is the bicycle of the mind.

Now excuse me while I RTFM & DOS for dummies til I 💤

Show threadAudrey Winter has moved!Dec 8
@milagemayvary You... really have no clue, do you? All right, we'll give this round to you... mostly because I don't have the time or patience to shove your face in the blindingly obvious. Lead a horse to water, and all that.
Show threadmilagemayvaryDec 8

@audreygwinter

Its not just the software that I dislike.

I'm Just a rebel without a clue who doesn't care to support oppressive corporations.

Not to mention all the contracts handed by various goverments around the world to MS for infrastructure that helps drones via Azure in surveillance & dropping bombs with minimal latency.

Not only are they not allies, but accomplices to tearing away rights and freedoms from all of us.

So this horse ain't drinking that water.

Show threadAudrey Winter has moved!Dec 8
@milagemayvary You've totally missed the point. You may be a rebel, but you're a computer-savvy one. That means using Linux is easy for you. It is not easy for people who aren't you, and no matter how saintly your crusade, it will not change that. I congratulate you on your stand against Microsoft. I'm sad you don't realize it won't change anything.
Show threadmilagemayvaryDec 8

@audreygwinter

Nothing worthwhile in life is easy.

Take care & be well.