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    To test a very stubborn program I had to install windows in a VM and use it for 20 minutes yesterday. It felt like I was swimming in a swamp located at the exit pipes of a factory that exclusively produce shit and deadly biohazard material.

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    And rightfully so. They might not know much about Linux itself BUT they did dare try and for that they deserve recognition.

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      I’m getting close to that point. I started playing with it in 1997 or 1998, trying to avoid grad school work… Daily driver at home for many, many years.

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        Loved that guy! Need to rewatch xfiles…

        I actually did rewatch it all a few years ago. Its quite good, but I see now as a older guy that David Duchovny actually wasnt very good playing Moulder. Didnt notice it as a kid but yeah, he is just reading lines with the same facial expression all the time. If you havent noticed, try rewatching with that in mind… :)

        Gillian Anderson is amazing though, really good actress and she was paid much less than Moulder, despite being able to actually act properly.

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          he is just reading lines with the same facial expression all the time. If you havent noticed, try rewatching with that in mind… :)

          That’s basically Duchovny’s whole range, as far as I can tell.

          I think he was in some non-X-Files related movie. I never saw it, but I remember the commercial for it. Duchovny’s character: “Are you here to kill me?” “Yes, are you worried?” “Just trying to plan my day.” All deadpan.

          I got so tired of X-Files stringing me along. It reminded me of some women that I tried to date. I gave up after the first movie (yeah, the one everyone forgets about) - no answers there, either!

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    10 hours ago

    4 days?

    Took me 4 seconds to realize I can actually use the super key and have my start menu pop up instantly and not watch it struggle to load 50 ads and tell me to download candy crush

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      I have a couple of Linux machines, but I also use a MacBook. It’s been a year now, and every time I use the Mac it kinda pisses me off that I have to hit Cmd+Space to bring up a search. It feels like a massive step backwards.

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    I used zorin and pop OS but only use the browser as most of my work is browser based.

    Also I installed Zorin on my Nana’s PC. She keeps clicking on random shit. Her windows machine was infected with all kind of virus but her Linux machine is safe as none of the executable she dowbloads run on it

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      She keeps clicking on random shit.

      Get an ad blocker on that browser.

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        Installed brave browser but dont know whenever i visit her and check the downloads I see lot of .exe files. Lol dont know what she does but I dont have to worry about it.

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          Sounds like it’s still quite a worry, maybe she’s safe from malicious software but sounds very prone to being mislead in to doing things by bad actors through her computer.

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    The first few days is where you realize “holy shit, there is another world I’ve been ignoring and it’s so much more fun.”

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      I’m always somewhat confused by this, I haven’t tried Linux since 2009 so maybe I just need to try it some more to appreciate what people mean by thks. I’d say it was “fun” in so much as it was nice to have a challenge for a little while but that was more sort of incidental to it facilitating my computer being a useful machine for me. In terms of it being a better operating system that does it’s job efficiently without problems, shouldn’t it be sort of… Invisible then? Like how can it be fun? I use my computer to do stuff so for me it’s sort of like an operating system is only noticeable to the extent that it is bad and if it isn’t bad I won’t really be aware of it.

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        Well, invisible is how linux (mostly) is now, as opposed to windows which has become very visible and pushing and annoying by design. It is very refreshing to have an os which works and doesn’t constantly annoy you with unwanted things.

        You should try it again, I am pretty sure your experience will be very different from 2009, because a lot has happened to linux since then.

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        “I’m always somewhat confused by this”

        “I haven’t tried Linux since 2009”

        ok

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    I run Windows and still look at them like this

    Mostly because they aren’t competent enough to remove the bloat.

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      Yeah, but those with the competency to remove the bloat still get this look for not choosing the bloat-free option.

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      Competence will only get you so far in such a closed for.profit ecosystem.