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Ahh, well no. I don't think Windows users are idiots. I think they're normal, non-technical people who don't want to drop to a terminal to pair their bluetooth

Ahh, well no. I don't think Windows users are idiots. I think they're normal, non-technical people who don't want to drop to a terminal to pair their bluetooth earbuds because the BlueZ GUI was written in an afternoon by some rando and never worked right. But I do admit that for programmers, I don't understand why they'd want to still use Windows. I mean obviously there's reasons, but they're totally beyond me. Seems like masochism.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
And using Linux Desktop seems like masochism to me. Why would I want to use an OS where I can't install applications to a different disk without recompiling them or otherwise jumping through a bunch of namespacing and filesystem overlay hoops? There are reasons people make the choices they do and to assume that just because those reasons are beyond you that they are not reasonable is silly.
l30n4da5 5y ago
> non-technical people who don't want to drop to a terminal PowerShell exists. and it is LEAPS AND BOUNDS better than bash for pretty much anything related to scripting. so much so that half the time when I needed to write a script on linux, I opted to write it in ruby because bash is just that bad to write anything meaningful with. To assume that people on windows don't use a terminal is STILL coming across as condescending as hell. > But I do admit that for programmers, I don't understand why they'd want to still use Windows. there is an entire development ecosystem built around windows that has been around for decades. Only recently (relatively speaking) has it started to branch out and be OS-agnostic. Are you actually saying you didn't know .NET Framework existed, or are you just being willfully ignorant? I used Linux for years as my daily driver OS. Eventually got fed up with it. Driver support for a lot of USB devices is atrocious, and support for HiDpi monitors was still in its infancy when i switched. these are problems that Windows has fixed _right now_ and I don't get paid to fuck with my desktop settings so I can make my monitor display things correctly. I switched to windows, and if I need anything from linux, there is always the WSL, which is pretty much the best of both worlds for me.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago

And using Linux Desktop seems like masochism to me. Why would I want to use an OS where I can't install applications to a different disk without recompiling them or otherwise jumping through a bunch of namespacing and filesystem overlay hoops? There are reasons people make the choices they do and to assume that just because those reasons are beyond you that they are not reasonable is silly.

l30n4da5 5y ago

> non-technical people who don't want to drop to a terminal PowerShell exists. and it is LEAPS AND BOUNDS better than bash for pretty much anything related to scripting. so much so that half the time when I needed to write a script on linux, I opted to write it in ruby because bash is just that bad to write anything meaningful with. To assume that people on windows don't use a terminal is STILL coming across as condescending as hell. > But I do admit that for programmers, I don't understand why they'd want to still use Windows. there is an entire development ecosystem built around windows that has been around for decades. Only recently (relatively speaking) has it started to branch out and be OS-agnostic. Are you actually saying you didn't know .NET Framework existed, or are you just being willfully ignorant? I used Linux for years as my daily driver OS. Eventually got fed up with it. Driver support for a lot of USB devices is atrocious, and support for HiDpi monitors was still in its infancy when i switched. these are problems that Windows has fixed _right now_ and I don't get paid to fuck with my desktop settings so I can make my monitor display things correctly. I switched to windows, and if I need anything from linux, there is always the WSL, which is pretty much the best of both worlds for me.