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dudes, I am linux pilled (lemmy.today)
submitted 3 days ago by Darbage@lemmy.today to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I was a poor young man, I refused to pay $100 to put windows on a hard drive I had installed into a hand-me-down desktop.

I found linux and made it work, through thick and thin. As a lazy jackass i somehow got skyrim to work through wine via copied and pasted terminal commands. wintetricks and all, i found it wildly difficult. Playing was almost as thrilling as seeing it work.

I have only ever attempted to make a linux ISO bootable drive through windows that one time, more than ten years ago. My wife was given a laptop with windows 11 installed and I wanted to install firefox.

what, the actual fuck, is "S" mode?

ctrl-alt-t "install that shit"!

A computer should not come with a subscription baked in. That's trash. The issues i get through linux come from my failure to understand it and/or the walled gardens it hasn't found its way into yet. The issues I experienced this evening on windows were there by design.

Thank you to all of the homies that make the weird and sometimes uncomfortable linux/ open-source community work. You guys are the shit.

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[–] Darbage@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I guess I just didn't have the patience enough to even get that far with it haha All I could think of was the Netscape thing. It was sooo obvious when i opened edge and got halfway into typing "google chrome" when a giant banner pops up and says "you don't have to install another browser! please bro! Don't do it!"

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah, Microsoft has really leaned into the dark patterns.

You don't ever need to launch edge, you can just use winget now:

winget install Mozilla.Firefox

or

winget install Google.Chrome
[–] Darbage@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

well man, I was scrambling looking for a terminal to actually do something and It was disabled in S mode O.o I will keep that in mind though should I ever be called to mess with another windows machine.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, you gotta get rid of S mode before you can do essentially anything.

I've only dealt with one laptop that came with that 'feature' so I just ignored all of the warnings that they've posted around the official way of disabling it (I mean "Enabling Developer Mode", i.e. regular Windows)

[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

I remember being stressed when I deactivated the S mode on my Surface Go 1 as if I was about to make a big mistake😅

That was way before (re)discovering Linux and installing Fedora on it.