• SilverShark@lemmy.world
    34·
    7 days ago

    I one time left a job where everyone had Linux workstations and went into a finance job where developers were using windows. It was the strangest thing I’ve ever seen.

    To begin with, the PCs were highly restrictive. You either had to rely on a shitty service to request software to be installed, or had to beg for an admin account to install anything. This took days if not weeks already on onboard.

    One works with interfaces that hide the actual process. No one actually understood git. They just know a few sequences of buttons. They ask me all the time when they want to do something other then add,commit,push and have no idea about even the status command. They pull up some shitty cli tool, usually within an IDE, and they act as if I’m some sort of genni or know some black magic when I type “git status”, or do things like stash, or solve a conflict.

    The lack of automation possibilities, or scripting, or the fact that so many things have to be done by clicking around interfaces means that everything is super slow. There is friction everywhere! On top of this you get apps freezing or crashing randomly with no information of what happened. Somehow the PCs are so incredibly bloated with company spywares that despite the fact that they are suppose to be Lenovo Ultrabooks with a lot of RAM, SSDs, and a good CPU, they run like a 15 years old laptop with a half broken hard drive.

    Horrible, just horrible.

  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
    161·
    7 days ago

    My new job issued me with a sweet ass workstation laptop… With W11

    Upside is that the IT dept has about zero awareness of the governance part of cyber security. The laptop has an unlocked bios and coworkers have had no questions asked when their domain joined machines didn’t check in for years.

    So guess who’s about to swap the ssd and roll the machine for a debian based distro. Just need to figure out drivers for the nvidia rtx 1000 ada GPU

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    7 days ago

    I can feel this image as I’ve been working on macos due to regulations for years and then going back to linux full time was orgasmic. Its crazy how much better dev experience on Linux is.

  • frozen_flaps@lemmy.world
    4·
    7 days ago

    Winderp has unskippable ads and begging for paid subscriptions even in their card games now. Can’t even play Solitaire in peace. It’s just a deeply enshittified OS.

  • Drigo@sopuli.xyz
    4·
    7 days ago

    I can’t watch Disney plus in the browser on Linux, which kinda sucks. Fuck Disney, but also, anybody knows how to fix it? I tried changing the user agent override, but that didn’t work.

  • Dragaliona@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    21·
    6 days ago

    An unpopular opinion (and a bit of a rant), but honestly I actually like Win11’s design, it is to me better than Win10, and I would actually enjoy using Windows. Too bad it’s a slow and unstable piece of garabage even on my
    M I C R O S O F T S U R F A C E.

    I have Garuda Linux on my main laptop which works completely fine, and the whole point of the Surface was to be able to use Windows at university while avoiding fragmenting my setup with dualboot (because surely Windows will Just Work™ on Microsoft’s own hardware, right? /s), but Micro$oft is tempting me so hard to install Linux to the damm thing. Another point of the Surface was to actually have a full fledged computer instead of an overpriced digital notebook like the iPad is.

    I also enjoy OneNote (my uni gives me acces to Office 365), which I genuenly prefer over Xournal++, but Office 365 is a completely stupid piece of unstable garbage which keeps randomly stopping working in the middle of the lecture, right when I should be annotating what the teacher is saying.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
      60·
      7 days ago

      I mean, it kinda is to me, the base meme image isn’t of them being in space or doing any of the “tourism” parts, but of them being “so grateful to be on the ground” because they couldn’t “handle it”

      • call_me_xale@lemmy.zip
        72·
        7 days ago

        Looks to me like the reader (the Linux user) is identifying with the subject of the image, which would appear to put them in a sympathetic light.

        • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
          11·
          7 days ago

          This is attention whore activity. There were people stuck on the ISS for what like nine months, did they kiss the earth when they returned? These people willingly go to barely the edge of the atmosphere for like two minutes and this is their response when they returned?

          OTOH Windows does suck. Though again I’m guessing no one is switch back for ten minutes by choice.

          • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            7 days ago

            tbh 9 months on iss isn’t too long, they’re experienced astronauts and they had their ride back docked to the iss for a long while anyway. it’s probably way more miserable having to hang out with dumbass celebrities for the rest of your life

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
      16·
      7 days ago

      They were not space tourists.

      They were cargo. Marketing material for Jeff’s rocket-powered overcompensation that just happened to need oxygen to stay fresh.

      • percent@infosec.pub
        11·
        7 days ago

        Passengers*, I think. I’m pretty sure passenger vehicles are subject to higher quality standards than vehicles meant only for cargo (ISS supplies, for example).

        (I could be wrong. I’m an internet comment, not a rocket surgeon 🤷🏻‍♂️)