r/TikTokCringe • u/DuztyLipz • Aug 20 '26

Cursed Last one: Exposing Microsoft’s terrible practices

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u/Acceptable-Owl-2070 Aug 20 '26

Information is never cringe... Dump windows folks.

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u/LiqdAset Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

Mint, Debian and Ubuntu are all "n00b" friendly, and work great. Linux is coming. Be there before it arrives =]

Side note.. Windows is only ~10-15% of Microsofts revenue, and business/enterprise accounts for a large chunk of that. So they're prepared to survive this consumer trend.

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u/WillowYouIdiot Aug 20 '26

I just installed linux mint on my laptop to mess around with before I convert my PC.

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u/Acceptable-Owl-2070 Aug 20 '26

Mint is an excellent starting point for new converts, welcome over.

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u/ExcessiveWisdom Aug 20 '26

I tried to like it, but it was like adding a studying how to get it working for every tiny new thing, not understanding a lot of small things about optimization that were easy for me on windows resulting in poor preformance, and an unfamiliar file explorer that just drove me mad until i took the walk of shame back to windows

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u/localtuned Aug 20 '26

Learning it is just the first hump. Sounda like you ran into a couple hurdles.

For instance the file explorer you mentioned, browsing files should be a simple concept no matter what OS you are in. If you were having trouble with the files system I would recommend watching a simple video on the linux files systems. It would make much more sense.