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I find it funny that on website called hacker news, it's still assumed that anyone who customizes their system must also be an idiot that knows nothing about be

• decremental 2y ago
  You'd think a bunch of javascript programmers I mean hackers would know better.
• ZunarJ5 2y ago
  I like to live dangerously and with my riced up little Linux setup. It makes me feel cool and edgy.
• sunaookami 2y ago
  Those that describe themselves as "pro users" or "hackers" are mostly the users that don't actually know better. It's kinda cringy reading blatant false information from tech people and then people not in tech believe this "misinformation" and it spreads like wildfire and can never be contained.
  • wvenable 2y ago
    There is misinformation out there, for sure, but I fail to see your point. People will happily recommend installing Linux over Windows but then suggest you shouldn't dare to touch the registry! That makes no sense. Windows 10 basically unusable on my GPD Pocket 1 without about as many tweaks as I can make to it. However, once properly tweaked it's actually pretty usable for pretty heavy coding tasks. It has a good amount of RAM but a pretty slow drive. I don't bother tweaking my Windows 11 machine so heavily except to turn off everything that makes sense to turn off. These are all settings that Microsoft provides themselves but are only available via group policy or registry keys. Thankfully there are tools that not only make it easy to change but also explain the consequences and provide recommendations. If I were to describe myself as "Pro user" or "hacker" would you assume I don't actually know better? That seems pretty uncharitable.