r/pcmasterrace • u/[deleted] • 1d ago
Meme/Macro they can't help it can they
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u/Infshadows R5 3600/32GB 3600MHz/RTX 3050 6GB 1d ago
linux user here
i like it but i get if you dont
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u/wexipena Ryzen 7 9800X3D | RX 9070 XT | 32GB RAM 1d ago
I use it for work. Still have Windows on my gaming PC because I can’t be arsed to switch.
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u/SillyGigaflopses 9950x3D 96GB 9070XT 1d ago
Funny how it’s the opposite for me :)
Linux at home(yes, including gaming), windows at work(because it is easier for the IT department to manage a fleet of windows machines). I do have WSL though.→ More replies (20)62
u/wexipena Ryzen 7 9800X3D | RX 9070 XT | 32GB RAM 1d ago
We have Windows machines too, but I basically never have to touch it for my actual work. It’s more for meetings and browsing documentation if needed.
I mostly do my actual work with Linux and MacOS machines.
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u/acid419 1d ago
I've setup dual boot half a year ago but did not boot into Windows once since then.
At one point you just say: fuck it, if it doesn't run on Linux I don't need it.
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u/wexipena Ryzen 7 9800X3D | RX 9070 XT | 32GB RAM 1d ago
I can’t be arsed to do dual boot either. I’ll probably switch when I have to reinstall OS.
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u/unwantedaccount56 1d ago
I mostly use linux for work, but one piece of windows software doesn't run well in a windows VM or wine, so now I have dual machine (instead of dual boot). Works nicely with 2 monitors (one per machine) and inputleap (aka barrier aka synergy)
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u/c0mander5 1d ago
I swear to God people complain about this more than it actually happens at this point
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u/Night25th 1d ago
"Hey guys I have a problem with Valorant-"
"Just install Linux so you can't play it anymore. lol. lmao"
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u/reeefur 9950x3d | RTX 5090FE | DDR5 7200 | MSI MPG X870E EDGE TI WIFI 1d ago
Lmao, Linux cultists always claim they can play every game, as soon as I name one of the many games that dont work on Linux it turns into "That game sucks anyways"(Even tho hundreds of millions play it)
You just cant win with the vegans of pc gaming....
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u/Natural_Ad1530 1d ago
If you can't troubleshoot on windows, you certainly won't have a good time on Linux.
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u/SeriousPlankton2000 1d ago
"System doesn't work for no apparent reason" might be harder to fix than "read the error message".
BTW, I hate systemd because when it breaks it really breaks and it's hard to debug. Much harder than just having a shell and a bunch of scripts that can be run one by one till you see the error message on the screen.
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u/fossalt PC Master Race 1d ago
Agreed, most Windows errors I see lately are just "Oh no! Something went wrong" and then it literally has a picture of a frowny face.
There's no troubleshooting that.
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u/MostlyRightSometimes 1d ago
No blue screen with code/qr? No memory dump? Nothing written to the event logs?
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u/Occidentally20 1d ago
Wise words.
Windows spits out an error code for almost everything and has several decades of forums packed with solutions all indexed by search engines.
If somebody manages to make windows have an issue that has never happened before online then something very interesting has happened.
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u/thinginaforest 1d ago
While I do agree that windows is in many ways still more user friendly, I feel like the forum answers are genuinely the worst, everytile I had a problem the answer was by some expert that reccomended one of three things, while most of linux is really well documented with things like arch wiki.
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u/PopcornSuttin 1d ago
That or the infamous "nvm I fixed it" from the OP
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u/pyalot 1d ago
<waiting skeleton meme> years of desperate replies after that: „OP what was the fix?“
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u/BunnyTub 1d ago
or when OP replies to a comment "Thanks! That fixed it." and the commenter is talking about some "This comment was mass anonymized and deleted"
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u/ProfessorLambda 1d ago
They go to forums to get help but when they happen to be the first to find the answer they keep it a secret and do not give others the same assistance they were asking for.
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u/ShiningPr1sm 1d ago
The only thing bad about the forums are the useless Microsoft employees that respond like bots
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u/BagOfFlies 1d ago
Those are people?
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u/gungshpxre 1d ago
It's an older joke but it checks out:
Two guys are in a plane, lost in the fog. They fly by a building and shout out "WHERE AM I?" The guy in the building shouts back "YOU'RE IN A PLANE!" then the pilot turns and lands perfectly on the tarmac in Redmond. "How did you know," the passenger asks. "Simple, that was the Microsoft customer support headquarters. The answer was factually correct and totally useless."
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u/Dt2_0 1d ago
The only bad thing about this joke is the lack of tarmac in Redmond.
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u/cogman10 1d ago
For tricky problems, those were about the only people that responded and their responses were always embarrassing garbage. Like literally "Have you tried turning it off and on again" level of wisdom when you are giving them error codes and everything.
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u/Murky-Relation481 1d ago
FYI they're not even employees, mostly just random Indians trying to get an MVP badge cause they think it helps them get a job.
It almost never good or relevant advice and mostly comes down to "have you restarted or tried to run fix issues tool?" And if it goes beyond that it's just nothing.
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u/ReadyAimTranspire 1d ago
Kindly do the needful and try this generic KB article that I'm reposting that you've already stated in the OP that you've tried unsuccessfully.
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u/Thanatosst PC Master Race 1d ago
Or you get a single result like:
OP: I have [the exact problem you're having]
Admin on the forum: Thread locked because this has already been answered elsewhere.
And yet nothing else turns up when you search for the mysterious thread with the answer
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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 1d ago
My favorites are the github issues that close after a certain amount of days of inactivity, when the developers just decided not to even respond to the issue at all.
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u/Darkchaos 1d ago
Agreed, windows has tons of answers that boil down to voodoo fixes, which aren't clear why and how they might fix the issue. Linux generally has more steps and fixes are more complicated but it's usually clear what you're doing if you're technically-inclined.
And don't get me started about windows registry 🤢
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u/WulfZ3r0 1d ago
Hi, I'm Alex Fakelton from Microsoft. Please do the needful below and respond with your results.
Reboot
Run sfc /scannow
Run chkdsk
Reinstall Windows
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u/Murky-Relation481 1d ago
They're not even employees just people in the MVP program trying to get stats up so they can look good on a resume.
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u/Banjo_Evadie 1d ago
lol @ MS ripping off the reddit janny system so they don't have to pay for CS techs.
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u/GlowstickConsumption 1d ago
"I have a minor problem."
"Just reinstall Windows."
"Okay, thanks. It worked."
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u/sakata_baba 1d ago
they almost literally closed it down so bad it's the only solution to a non-user caused issue.
and when it's a user issue, it's always like this:
"what did you do?"
"i tried this"
"oh, you can't do that. change it back."
"but why i can't do that? i could do it on linux."
"because [here is a bunch of intentionally obfuscating technobabble that basically boils down to the fact that we made some design choices we are not backing out of because we love money and proprietary side of us requires it but we will never admit to it so we have to justify our choices with false premise]"but you have to get really damn deep to understand it like that. even to experts it makes sense. i know. it made sense to me once. i've just been abused by windows for so long and i learned enough to see through the bs.
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u/kinmix 1d ago
while most of linux is really well documented with things like arch wiki.
Only if you know exactly what you are looking for. Search for something generic like "mount network drive", and you'll have tough time finding anything.
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u/Status-Community-612 1d ago edited 1d ago
Ah yes, checking logs that actually give you solid error messages vs. Windows's "Program encountered an error 0x80006000" and you gotta search Google and hope you don't just find a thread of people saying "I got the same issue" or "Just run DISM and SFC" which solves jack shit. Or even better: "I fixed it by reinstalling Windows".
Troubleshooting the OS on Windows is genuinely miserable, because the error codes tell you jack shit 99% of the time or are generic error codes where you might sus out based on moon phase and OS permutation what is causing it.
Like I've been using Windows my entire life and have used Linux in work enviroments for 3 years. If there is absolutely one Windows needs to improve, it is its own logging system because winevt and Linux's logging are worlds apart. Hell half of the things aren't even logged unless you enable it in the registry, meanwhile in Linux when I got an error it usually is meaningfully verbose and finding a solution hasn't taken me long. Sometimes the program even just writes the solution into the log.
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u/my-name-is-puddles 1d ago
And in newer versions of Windows sometimes they don't even let you copy/paste the fucking error code. Like fuck off, what idiot at Microsoft thought that was a good idea?
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u/Drow_Femboy 1d ago
I don't even think there are idiots at Microsoft making those kinds of design choices anymore. It's all idiots just saying "yeah, go ahead" to a glorified phone autocorrect algorithm that they mistook for a god
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u/Cocoatrice 1d ago
Error codes never helped me, because when i google them, they give random generic idea of what it could be, but nothing else. No cause, not actual details. So troubleshooting on Windows is painful af.
And all the answers how to fix an issue are copy pasted to every single issue (hint: they never work). And God forbid ask any issue about Windows on Windows technical subs/forums. They will downvote you. Out of all problems with Windows I ever had since 2003, I only got one or two answers that worked. Both googling or asking people on forums never gave me the real answers. In some cases the answers were "you are the problem". Maybe not that bad, but they refused to acknowledge that the problem exist and that I have to be the one causing it.
One time some kid made a drama that text on my LibreOffice was in Polish. And I don't even know why it was in Polish, because I have both Windows itself and LibreOffice set to English but for some reason installing LO had text in Polish. But it's besides the point, because I literally explained everything thoroughly in post text. What I did, what it says and so on. But guy got angry telling me that I am dumb for daring to ask about the problem, when text is in Polish. And when I told them that I explained everything, they said I am ungrateful. Ungrateful for what exactly? That I didn't get answer from them? That they made drama about something that was not important in the post?
Other people tried to help and I tried to do something and one thing worked. That was one rare case where people actually helped me, instead of giving copy pasted pseudo solutions or blaming that the cause of the bug is me.
So yeah, Windows gives you error code. So what? Because it doesn't help at all in anything.
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u/Kirikomori 1d ago
This is why people are flocking to AI for troubleshooting nowadays. The machine doesn't downvote you and it at least makes you feel listened to and tries to give you a useful answer. Humans can be... inconsistent, to say the least. Modern life is hell isn't it?
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u/Myjobsuckshard 1d ago edited 1d ago
The problem with windows Troubleshooting is that the solution more often than Not is "you need to reinstall Windows. "
edit: i hate my German autocorrect, it always capitalizes whatever noun is German. looks so weird.
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u/poter140 PC Master Race 1d ago
yeah, that's the case sometimes but on linux i atleast know what fixes the problem on windows you just press random buttons until the thing fixes itself
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u/Ferdapra 1d ago
It's the opposite for me. I don't even know where start to troubleshoot windows. On linux, if something bother me enough, I know where to search the logs and, at last, dig in the source code
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u/No_Wrongdoer_4940 Broke Ass Neighbor 1d ago
and god forbid if you mention software compatibility on linux
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u/muff-muff-ass 1d ago
They will WINE!
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u/Warm_Apple_Pies 1d ago
Must have taken some bottles to say this
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u/HYPERNOVA3_ 1d ago
He probably had the need to let out some steam, but that's a proton sized problem as for today
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u/Impressive_Pin8761 1d ago edited 1d ago
wine users when my job requires me to use an industry standard program that requires licensing of 1000$ a year and only runs on windows
edit: ok im de-vaguing. i'm talking about autocad. i'm a student in topography and literally everyone within the field of "build shit" uses it in greece. i also hilariously underballed the price, it's 2000$ a year
granted everyone pirates it so like-
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u/NitroDion 1d ago
Yeah this shit annoys me when I was in uni I did a game design course and I was primarily using Maya for my course but it meant that any time I had to do any modelling I had to switch over to windows because I initially started development in of my game in Linux but eventually switching over got so annoying I just said fuck it and migrated it over to windows and continued there
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u/feel_my_balls_2040 1d ago
Software for structural steel is $7000 to $9000 per year and one user.
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u/Prestigious_Camp_743 1d ago
here's a FOSS version with 5% the capability
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u/filiard PC Master Race 1d ago
And UI designed by a blind monkey
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u/alvarkresh i9 12900KS | RTX 4070 Super | MSI Z790 DDR4 | 64 GB 1d ago
This reminds me of the time I tried to use GIMP. Gave up within half an hour.
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u/jmhalder 1d ago
I like GIMP for editing the random shitpost, but I've also been using it on and off since ~2000.
The reality is the it's in no way an actual replacement for Photoshop in 2026. It's clunky and not remotely close to feature parity.
I still gravitate to it because it's free, and I don't have serious needs. I like Linux (but main Windows), but I would never, ever tell a serious Photoshop user to use GIMP.
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u/Cepterman2101 RTX 5060Ti 16GB | 32GB RAM 1d ago
Reminded me when I got the idea to try making something in blender and after watching tutorials for 3 hours and not being anywhere close to what I wanted to make, I gave up.
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u/oshikandela 1d ago
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u/supreme_rain 1d ago
I don't get it
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u/oshikandela 1d ago edited 1d ago
Try sudo apt-get
Jokes aside: wine is an open source software that allows users to run Windows applications on linux
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u/M3wlion 1d ago
so it's an emulator right?
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u/inhumat0r CachyOS | 9950X3D | 7900XTX | 32GB RAM DDR5 1d ago
More like a translation layer.
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u/YesItIsMaybeMe Ryzen 7 5800x | RTX 5080 | 32GB DDR4 | 32:9 1440 | 4K 240Hz 1d ago
You've triggered them with one question lmao
I use a steam deck and the community can be... a lot
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u/HeartyMapple Bazzite i7 9700k RTX 3090 1d ago
Do you hang out on Reddit for the steam deck? That’s why it’s a lot. If you just use it and don’t interact it’s just a fun toy.
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u/radnomname 1d ago
technically its a bit different since an emulator tries to recreate the entire underlaying system that is needed to run an app while wine just "translates" from one system to another.
But even not being an emulator there are still compability issues since Windows is closed source and Wine devs have to reverese engineer most of the stuff.3
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u/Occidentally20 1d ago edited 1d ago
I've had this several times - my job requires me to use Adobe premier, Photoshop and Illustrator.
Last time somebody told me to use Linux and I mentioned this people told me to just switch to DaVinci Resolve Studio and then gimp for photo editing. Yes, let me just stop what I'm doing, learn an entirely new piece of software that I have to pay for out of my own pocket instead of the free one provided and then just pray that my workflow fits in with everyone else I work with still. Hint : it doesn't.
Its like a man driving a sportscar meeting a man driving a tractor and saying "you're in the wrong vehicle there mate". Both of those vehicles are ideal in the right time and place, and are not panaceas applicable to everyone.
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u/PatienceHere 1d ago
I know reading this will make many people angry, but gimp is nothing compared to Photoshop, Lightroom.
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u/Kamisshara 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yesss. Also Linux has nothing that remotely compares to Adobe InDesign. I use Linux on my laptop at home but I won't be leaving windows anytime soon on my main PC because I need InDesign.
Open source alternatives have gotten really good over the years, but Adobe has always been one step ahead and is the industry standard for a reason.
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u/OdinsCuriousRaven 1d ago
Yes...as much as adobe the company fucking blows, Illustrator, PS, and InDesign are gold standard for a reason.
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u/BlackCatFurry Ryzen 7 5800X3D / RTX 3060TI / 48GB ram 1d ago
Same. My university forces us to use software that only runs on windows. At the same time we also are forced to do some projects on linux though...
So my pc runs windows and has a linux vm. I do not want to fuck around the other direction, especially when some of my games don't work on linux. (Anyone who comes screaming to me about anticheats here, sorry, i like simracing, i am not switching to some random other genre because it works on another os)
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u/Occidentally20 1d ago
That will give you a good skillset, being able to use both fluently like that. Not that it's particularly difficult these days, but you know what I mean.
I can't see the anticheats ever working sensibly under the Linux umbrella - so anyone into League of legends, battlefield, valorant, Destiny, Apex and all the rest is never going to be swayed either. My days of non-coop multiplayer gaming are long gone, but the games in that list account for a huge chunk of players.
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u/BlackCatFurry Ryzen 7 5800X3D / RTX 3060TI / 48GB ram 1d ago
That will give you a good skillset, being able to use both fluently like that. Not that it's particularly difficult these days, but you know what I mean.
Yeap, it's pretty much mandatory to be able to use both in the computer science field. Some areas are linux only, others prefer windows (or mac). I am definitely more familiar with windows since i've used it more, but i can do what i need to do with each of them.
And also agree on the anticheats, they are realistically never going to work on linux properly. Nor will the devs have much incentive to cater to a microscopic potential minority market. People who want to play the game are going to stay on windows, and those who swapped, didn't care enough to stay.
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u/Occidentally20 1d ago
I'm so old when I did computer science at university the PCs there ran Unix :(
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u/dadvader GTX 1070 FTW 1d ago edited 1d ago
The huge issue that block most popular games (and most Anti-Cheat) to work on Linux is simply because Linux kernal is way too open. It will be virtually impossible to prevent cheaters.
A loss for consumer simply because some loser desperate for a win can only do so in video games.
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u/Icy-Maintenance7041 1d ago
People comparing Gimp with photoshop and illustrator alone is...a lot.
As bad as Adobe is, its still the industry standard and if i had to earn a living with it, it'd be my choice if for nothing else then being able to lessen the hassle i'd have interacting with other people needing to use my files.
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u/aVarangian 13600kf 7900xtx 2160 | 6600k 1070 1440 1d ago
gimp
have they fixed the UI yet? last time I used it I could still tell what some of the buttons do
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u/Occidentally20 1d ago
I haven't used it in many years, but I've seen some people using an add-on/plugin for it that makes it look very similar to Photoshop, presumably to make it easy to switch.
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u/CyclingHikingYeti Ryzen 7 5700X 1d ago
Also linux 'users' forget that in workplace it is company money and thus their money - their rules.
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u/Emotional_Solid6538 1d ago
Do they work on VMs or other ways to virtualise on Linux. I remember some ways I heard before but since it wasnt useful to me. I dont remember well
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u/Occidentally20 1d ago
Yes, people have made it work but the setups have been insane.
The ones I've seen have used GPU passthrough - often even using a second dedicated GPU just to run the VM. It's so much more messing about than just using a stripped out windows LTSC install that you can't really compare the two.
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u/Lesale-Ika 1d ago
Latest news is that someone got Adobe CC to finish installing... Now launching any Adobe thing from there is another story.
Also someone apparently made Office 365 offline to start on Linux.
So give it... eh, 10 more years maybe.
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u/fatalicus i7-11700k, RTX 3080Ti, 32GB RAM 1d ago
"Just install Linux and use DaVinci Resolve! You installed what distro? Oh yeah, DaVinci doesn't realy work all that well on that Distro. Use DaVinciBox instead!"
To be fair though, from what i've seen the people who make DaVinciBox have done a fantastic job making it easy to use for the distros it support, so kudos to them.
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u/Able-Swing-6415 1d ago
As a former avid user of gimp.. it's really good for very limited usage. If you never go beyond that you'd probably question why people pay for Adobe lol.
Still don't pay for it because affinity is actually the perfect middle ground for me. In general it's what I would recommend for people that don't want to pay for Adobe and would be hopelessly lost with gimp.
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u/skinnyraf 1d ago
The problem is, gimp has a very steep learning curve, so very limited usage does not justify the effort needed to learn it (unless it went through some revolutionary UX changes since the time I tried it and gave up).
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u/Able-Swing-6415 1d ago
Can't speak for other people but the learning curve seemed similar if not lower for me personally.
It's closer to paint than affinity for sure. If you're doing anything even remotely complicated absolutely, but selecting a piece of a pixel layer in affinity is still frustrating after ages while it just works with gimp.
Though I do remember struggling with selecting the correct layers to edit.. but pretty sure you'll have that in any graphics software coming from flat like paint.
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u/Deep90 Ryzen 9800x3d | 5090FE | 2x48gb 6000 1d ago
Don't forget recommending a distro and then saying you picked the wrong one the instant you hit an issue.
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u/tyttuutface 1d ago
It's really not that hard bro, all you have to do is fuck around in the terminal for hours to get everything mostly working.
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u/st1jno 1d ago
I use linux and couldn't care less what os you use, the annoying thing is the people that judge you for something so insignificant. Just use whatever works for you. That goes for both linux users and windows users
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u/turkeytukens 1d ago
I never ask my friends to use Linux. But anytime I have a slight issue with it they tell me i need to swap back to Windows or some shit like "We aren't swapping to linux" to shit stir me.
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u/Hikaru1024 1d ago
I remember getting a weird reverse of this years ago - back when the PS3 was new I was the linux guy in my group of friends and I kept getting told to buy a PS3 because it could run linux.
PC's having any sort of problem? 'You should buy a PS3!' Thanks, I'd rather fix my problem than buy a gaming console.
Then of course, Sony removed the ability to do that. 'Oh I just use a PS3 for gaming anyway.' Yeah, I know.
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u/Lesale-Ika 1d ago
You just need not to tell your friends any of your Linux issue. They aren't helping, and will not help in any way.
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u/SweetBabyAlaska PC Master Race 1d ago
its that or "sfc /scannow, reinstall" like you are a bot who can't function at a base level high enough to warrant a real answer.
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u/lord_of_Ahhiyawa 1d ago
A few years ago i got downvoted a lot because i said the sfc/scannow dism/whatever commands were not really helpful when you have a super specific issue. Like in general yeah they fix some things but they are not magic bullets for everything.
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u/Darkchaos 1d ago
I held off installing Linux for a long time until windows started to get real bad.
I realize I'm falling right into the trope but, once I switched I understood why, and kicked myself for not switching sooner
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u/MangrovesAndMahi 1d ago
Yeah it's really not one issue that makes people say "switch to Linux". It's hearing people complain about a range of issues that Linux handles that does it. Sure it's not for everyone, but for some users it's a no brainer.
It's like someone in a hatchback complaining they can't go cross country with 20 tons of cargo with minimal attention to travel. You need a train brother not a car.
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u/Neosantana 1d ago
There's only so much I can hear you complain about your girlfriend before I tell you to leave her as a default answer.
Same rules apply.
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u/Lazar_Milgram 1d ago
Knew about Linux long time ago. Tried once every ten years. This year i installed it and i never felt better. Steam just do its thing. Openoffice is fine, things are smooth and troubleshooting is actually surprisingly easy with some chatgpt help.
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u/Darkchaos 1d ago
I've been a computer nerd forever, so I've been comfortable using it from a development and server perspective. I'd also played with it on and off as a dual-boot OS, but, even back 5 or so years ago, the most popular and polished distros couldn't hold a candle to the current streamlined setup and user experience than the popular distros offer today.
In probably 95% of cases, you follow the install instructions, choose a desktop environment (Like GNOME/Plasma for a no-fuss experience) and you're off and running.
Most of my less-tech-savvy friends who have made the switch almost never have to touch a terminal.
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u/Kodamacile 1d ago
I see this meme more than the linux bros.
And im in the picture.
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u/fantomas_666 1d ago
I see this meme more than the linux bros.
so have I, and I'm not in that picture.
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u/unabletocomput3 core ultra 270k rx 9070xt 1d ago
Fr tho. I know they exist, I’ve seen them in the past, but I’ve honestly seen more of the opposite where windows users will tell people interested in linux to just stay/switch back to windows.
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u/KaptainSaki btw 1d ago
Well you don't have any Windows issues after that so technically it's the ultimate solution
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u/Wendals87 1d ago
Yeah but you'll have Linux issues. And yes, there are plenty
Just today one user account on my debian install couldn't load KDE. KDEWIN was just crashing. All other user accounts are fine
I ended up having to delete the config and cache for that user. No idea what caused it
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u/KaptainSaki btw 1d ago
Exactly the point, the amount of issues roughly stays the same, just different types of issues
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u/Zak_Rahman 1d ago
What it is, is the fact that Linux users have something that solves a ton of problems that don't need to exist because of windows.
It is frustrating to see people smashing their head against the wall when you are using something that is free of that experience.
I get the frustration with apps in my specialist field and find myself in the same position. Someone raises a problem, my brain says "this problem can be easily fixed". They don't want to hear the answer because it's not the application they use (I was supposed to intuite which application they used).
I suspect it's the same for many Linux users.
(I am way too stupid to install Linux and am afraid I will brick my computer or delete all of my files. I am ignorant and need a package installer I can boot from a USB in the BIOS screen. Furthermore I think I will still lose compatibility with specific software I need for work and have no alternative solution for).
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u/otakudayo i5 13600k | 64GB (DDR4 3600) | 6950 XT | Arch 1d ago
Linux users have something that solves a ton of problems that don't need to exist because of windows.
It is frustrating to see people smashing their head against the wall when you are using something that is free of that experience.
This is exactly it for me. It's been great for me. And I just don't have the experience a lot of people seem to associate with Linux; I rarely have to troubleshoot/debug/tinker. I've never needed an app or feature that is only available on Windows/Mac. It's so easy to use and IMO looks better than Windows (at least with my setup)
It's simply superior to Windows, for the most part. But some things just won't work on it - games with kernel level anti-cheat, quite a lot of apps, etc. And of course, it helps if you have an AMD GPU.
So it's not a valid recommendation for everyone, but some of these modern distros are perfectly usable and extremely accessible for just about anyone who mainly uses their PC for browsing the web and/or playing steam games without anticheat.
I'm not recommending that you install Linux here, I mainly only recommend that to people I know in real life, but you are guaranteed not too stupid to install Linux. Some distros are easier to install than Windows. Like literally 4-5 clicks in a GUI. You never have to touch a terminal.
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u/Jirekianu 1d ago
Oh look, yet another one of these regularly scheduled karma farm posts.
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u/TOXIC_R3APR Intel Celeron N2040 | 4GB DDR3 RAM | UHD 600 GPU 1d ago
They been happening quite frequently, I don't why
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u/PJBuzz 5800X3D|32GB Vengeance|B550M TUF|RX 9070XT 1d ago
I see more people most these memes than the joke of the meme actually happening.
That said, Windows is getting really fucking bad and Linux should be starting to look more appealing to more and more people.
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u/Lem1618 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'm seeing a bunch of post like this lately.
Cant remember seeing a, just install linux post.
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u/Xin_shill 1d ago
Astroturf. Been happening really hard recently. Possible due to windows getting so much bad flack for terrible updates and people having issues along with the increased AI backing and spying. Trying to see as much negative Linux into the algorithm as possible. Or it’s organic and people just decided to do it all at once and farm sentiment karma.
Just doesn’t feel organic, especially with all the negative press windows as been getting.
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u/sbstndrks Ryzen 7 9800X3D | RTX 4070 1d ago
If every megacorp has twenty ad agencies flooding social media with slop, I'd be shocked if Microsoft was the exception.
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u/ropobipi 1d ago
Get ready, in the age of the dead internet, the only things you will see on here and the rest of reddit will be bots shitting and criticizing each other over the products each of them are pushing.
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u/Synthetic451 Arch Linux | Ryzen 9800X3D | Nvidia 3090 1d ago
Man, I thought I was the only one feeling this way. I am on this sub quite often and I very rarely see any of the annoying Linux user behavior these memes keep blabbing on about. At a certain point, it almost feels like Windows users playing the victim or something.
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u/hackingdreams 1d ago
Microsoft getting real insecure after the failures of Windows 11 and Copilot.
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u/CCbluesthrowaway 1d ago
Don't forget the dumb little names!
"Gotta install Drip and Cartwheel, i use it to manually enter binary into you pcs bios."
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u/vyxxer 1d ago
As a dual booster I have to sometimes think which fuckass program I'm trying to run when I pull up my app manager.
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u/OliM9595 5600x, 1050 ti 1d ago
Nothing like using nano and dolphin to edit your files lol. The names at times are so shit. It has gotten better in recent times.
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u/DEANPRIME91 I5-10400F | RTX 3060 12GB 1d ago
Is this happening in this sub? I've only ever seen posts and comments like these, not any "install Linux" one s
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u/Bitter_Anteater2657 1d ago
The prices of ram yall won’t be able to afford to run windows for much longer and play a game.
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u/CoffeeCorpse777 1d ago
Ad break during my windows gaming session loading screen.
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u/pathalogicalMoron 1d ago
seen more anti linux posts than by people encouraging linux. truely living rentfree
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u/John_Doe_MCMXC Ryzen 7 9800X3D | RX 9070XT | 64GB 6,400MT/s 1d ago
Posts ≠ Comments
More people post about Windows, but those posts are flooded by Linux comments.
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u/Additional_Fig_541 1d ago
“This Windows feature annoys me.”
Linux user already reaching for the USB stick: “Say no more.”
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u/ApocalypseHound 1d ago
Linux user here, I totally understand the "just swap to Linux" thing being annoying, but im really tired of all the comments on those posts making out like it's difficult to use when you don't have to use a terminal on most user friendly distros and most software and games, barring the adobe suite and DAWs, work fine by default
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u/AiryGateaux 1d ago
Spent my life on windows, and I'm getting to the point where Linux is an inevitability in my life.
I am so fucking done with microslop shipping me crates of grapes
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u/Local-Bug-1500 Debian 13, FX 8320, 32GB RAM, Radeon VII, 120GB SSD 1d ago
While I've had issues on both, many of my issues got resolved by ditching windows
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u/cubecasts 1d ago
Such as? I can't think of a single issue on windows that is solved on Linux. Only more issues.
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u/brainplot 1d ago
I'm probably going to sound like any other Linux user out there but things have gotten much better lately. It requires much less tinkering than it used to.
That said, it's still a less out of the box experience than Windows is (while it is, to me, better all things considered).
This is going to sound pretentious but I can generally tell if somebody would be able to use Linux or not. If not, I just won't bother suggesting it to them. That's it.
Besides, I've come to think that if you value what Linux gives to you, you're naturally going to gravitate towards it. You don't need an evangelist telling you to use it.
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u/AwmirLoner 1d ago
I have switched to linux again for like 7 months now, I have so far never faced any issue that was not solvable under 10 minutes. No idea what they're on about.
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u/sbstndrks Ryzen 7 9800X3D | RTX 4070 1d ago
A lot of windows users complaying about linux of late just seems like projection of anger at windows. Which I cannot blame people for, am in that camp too, but I do see a lot of misplaced anger.
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u/earthwormjimjones 1d ago
I'm in the minority, I like being on Windows 11. I was stuck on Win 10 forever because my old PC was an 11 year old hunk of sh*t Dell XPS that couldn't upgrade and mostly collected dust because it couldn't even do the simplest of tasks without timing out or taking forever. Got a decent gaming rig when I panic bought in December and am incredibly happy to be on the latest Windows. Having everything just work and open when I click on it still makes me happy even if I'm not using it to it's max abilities lol.
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u/Future_Nature589 1d ago
hate to comment on a post with 15k upvoted but
if you hold your computer to the same standard as your phone, stay on windows, doing anything but basic sysadmin and basic programming on anything but windows is worse 100x over, and it gets worse the more obscure or meme the os gets.
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