chrisFeb 9
Magnus Manske
Can we start calling the act of leaving Windows for Linux "defenestration" please?
Feb 7 at 3:52pmWeb
Show threadKerplunkFeb 7

@magnusmanske

Can we start calling the act of leaving Windows for Linux
"defenestration" please?

NO, why,

DEFENESTRATION definition: the act of throwing a person or thing out of a window

That has nothing at all in common with the act of moving to Linux.

Show threadHarryFeb 7
@Kerplunk @magnusmanske "leaving windows"
Show thread2xfoFeb 7
@hbond @Kerplunk @magnusmanske
I'll take that plunge
Show threadAccordionBruceFeb 7
@Kerplunk @magnusmanske
It’s more what Microsoft is doing to their customers
Show threadKerplunkFeb 7

@AccordionBruce @magnusmanske

It’s more what Microsoft is doing to their customers

You are a data cow getting milked, not a customer if you use windoze or any other ms products.

Pay and pay for frustration and crap products, at long last more people seem to be waking up at last.

Linux was already ok for desktop use about 20 years ago, now it shows what total trash windoze really is and allows users to own the hardware they paid good money for.

Show threadMorgan ⚧️Feb 7
@Kerplunk @AccordionBruce @magnusmanske fine, it's what Microsoft is doing to their data cows
Show thread🪨Feb 9
@Kerplunk @magnusmanske Leaving Windows... Throwing someone out of Windows... Pretty much the same thing, no?
Show threadALFFeb 7
@magnusmanske Brindows
Show threadTorf und SchneeFeb 7

@magnusmanske

No.

Defenestration is forcible and isn't normally good for its object.

(And it would be a cultural appropriation of Czech history, btw.)

Show threadKorma ChameleonFeb 7
@magnusmanske that would be grammatically incorrect. In defenestration the windows stay where they are, and you move. Usually downwards at terminal velocity
Show threadtxtx 🇪🇺Feb 7
@magnusmanske Defenestration? There's a logo for this.
Show threadCrystalFeb 7

@magnusmanske Yes, certainly so and already I told this to many people in 2023 when I had "defenestrated my laptop!" One college graduate exclaimed to me, "You threw your laptop out the window?" I smiled and clarified to him, "No, I threw Windows out of my laptop!"

I'm unsure why so many comments refer to defenestration as solely involving people when very obviously the root of the word is so similar to the word for window in other languages, French and German have similar-looking words for window.

Show threadJimFeb 7
@magnusmanske
Well played sir!
Show threadSpace HoboFeb 7
@magnusmanske Been doing this since the 90s.
Show threadAntonyFeb 7
@magnusmanske Meanwhile I'm sleeping with the fishes (on OpenBSD)
Show threadGeoWendFeb 7
@magnusmanske proper pun-ishment there.
Show threadStoneBear Feb 7
@magnusmanske I've been doing that for very close to a quarter century. Please, continue....
Show threadsnowyfoxFeb 8
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Show threadSkean Harshly KC1WKVFeb 8
@magnusmanske so posting Linux desktop screenshots on Fridays would be tagged #DeFensterFriday ?
Show threadJames 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺Feb 8
@magnusmanske Defenefenestration? (If that means yeeting windows out the window?)
Show threadAndrew RockFeb 8
@magnusmanske @chrismarquardt Doesn't really work. At the end of defenestration you still have the window.
Show threadOlm-eFeb 8
@magnusmanske agreed !!
it's the same in french where I already proposed that some times ago (in a joke) and some ppl even made a real window to crash in a street demo in france somewhere ... ;p
Show threadRachel RawlingsFeb 8
@magnusmanske It's a quarter century of Linux on the Desktop and also
Show threadPseudoFeb 8
@magnusmanske Yes. I'll start right now. Thank you for making my day better.
Show threadSuperdave!Feb 8
@magnusmanske I like it! I've long been defenestrated!
Show threadfafaFeb 8
@magnusmanske 😂