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Using Windows when you're accustomed to Linux is masochism, which is not the opposite of asceticism. I had to install Windows recently, and for all the few hour
by sph 2y ago
Using Windows when you're accustomed to Linux is masochism, which is not the opposite of asceticism. I had to install Windows recently, and for all the few hours I used it I had Marie Kondo's voice in my head saying this does not spark joy.
- binkHN 2y agoMasochism is related to gratification and pleasure; you get none of this with Windows.
- sph 2y agoFair enough. Joy returned when I was done and I ran `blkdiscard` to nuke the entire SSD I installed it in. Excised in one fell swoop.
- DonHopkins 2y agoBill "2^(Year-1984) MIPS" Joy? https://donhopkins.medium.com/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-million-instructions-per-second-3a8c92165cfe https://donhopkins.medium.com/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-mill...
- MaxBarraclough 2y agoNavigating from HackerNews to Medium is exactly the kind of downgrade we're talking about. A bloated ad-filled horror-show of openly hostile design. Firefox tells me it had to download 1.9MB, despite that the only graphic in the article weighs just 60kB. Thankfully modern browsers have 'reader mode'. There's no such simple solution for Windows.
- sevensor 2y agoSure, hate on medium, I’m certainly not here to defend it, but I think you may have missed the joke.
- sevensor 2y agoI love the image of Bill Joy as a masked superhero, who returns from out of nowhere and deletes your Windows partition.
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoSelf-flaggelation? Although I get the idea that's also a kind of self-gratification, martyrdom, whichever.
- Helmut10001 2y agoWindows+WSL (1 and 2) is a viable route these days. Whenever you feel exhausted from Windows, just continue in a nice and clean Linux shell. Sometimes, there are still very good windows oss apps, like np++, sumatrapdf, typora, keypirinha. I enjoy these on windows and ignore the rest, thanks to WSL.
- sevensor 2y agoLinux in a VM is better than no Linux at all, but 60% of my complaints about Windows still apply so long as windows is the host. Network load, fans spinning up for no reason, the start menu ads, arbitrary reboot policies, plus the fact that I can’t bind Hyper. It’s weak tea compared to the real thing.
- Findecanor 2y agoI have to use MS-Windows at work. It feels as if I'm in an abusive relationship with an partner who gaslights me at very turn but I can't leave him because we have kids and I feel I have an obligation to care for them. The partner (i.e. Microsoft) is the sado-masochist.
- fragmede 2y agoIsn't it Microsoft that's the sadist but that you're a masochist for staying after your realization?
- Findecanor 2y agoI never said I was there by choice ...