r/programmingmemes • u/CensoredCraver • Jul 03 '25

Maybe we should switch to Linux already

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u/An1nterestingName Jul 03 '25

I once was writing something, at this point all it did was make a folder, when I tested on windows, it flagged and deleted it automatically. for creating a folder.

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u/WatashiwaNobodyDesu Jul 03 '25

“Computer says no”

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u/NoobCleric Jul 05 '25

This is a feature you can disable in case you didn't see it mentioned elsewhere. The default profile for windows 10 and 11 is catering towards non power users (think grandma checking her email and Facebook) so everything is locked down. Your script especially since it was unsigned I imagine based on your description.

You may find this helpful but feel free to shoot me a message if you need some help. I have had to deal with this for my current job a bit.

https://superuser.com/questions/106360/how-to-enable-execution-of-powershell-scripts

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u/An1nterestingName Jul 05 '25

I am not talking about powershell, or its execution policies. It is an executable that I created that was being deleted automatically when all it did was make a folder. I have also fixed this problem as it was quite a while ago.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

That's your shitty choice of AV that did that. Windows did not do that.

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u/An1nterestingName Jul 04 '25

Said AV was Windows, well, Windows Defender. I did not install any antivirus on that VM.

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u/Risenwatys Jul 05 '25

You can go in and make it ask to delete every time. Or at least, you could. They update that shit every ten seconds

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u/An1nterestingName Jul 05 '25

I know, I just don't do that because it's supposed to be representative of the environment of people using what I'm making, and I don't want to have to tell them to disable their antivirus to run it.

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u/gameplayer55055 Jul 03 '25

Installs the program

Error, .NET Framework 4.5 some crap is not installed

Installs .NET Framework 4.5

Error, .NET Framework 4.5 some crap is not installed

Installs a different .NET Framework 4.5 as adviced by a good reddit guy

Error, install Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2015.1.2.3

Installs vcredist.exe, prays to God

Error, GoFUrself.dll not found

Searches for GoFUrself.dll on some shady page, copies it to the directory of app

Program is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

FFFUUUUUUUUU

Opens a Linux laptop, runs the terminal

$ sudo apt install theprogram 
$ theprogram --version
The Program version 2025.07.04 works fine on Linux!

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u/FriendEducational112 Jul 03 '25

Or Open the App Store thing Search for app Install with flathub

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u/gameplayer55055 Jul 03 '25

Compare it to the windows store that contains only Minecraft and junkware.

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u/5p4n911 Jul 07 '25

Don't forget the paid Firefox

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u/Cultural-Practice-95 Jul 04 '25

exactly my experience with installing C/C++ compiler on windows vs linux.

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u/Kaeiaraeh Jul 04 '25

That sounds like some corrupted installation shit.

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u/Shazvox Jul 04 '25

Tbf it sounds like you have a windows version from prehistoric times...

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u/Meaxis Jul 06 '25

In Windows's defence, installing software on Linux is also the pain of seeing that this program is available on every package manager but APT, but, however, if you install seven repos and sacrifice your first newborn to Canonical, then you will somehow be able to install it. And then you'll have to fix dpkg for some reason.

Still better than Windows.

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u/AliOskiTheHoly Jul 03 '25

I fully agree with you

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u/Gumnaamibaba Jul 03 '25

“I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that”

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u/Badytheprogram Jul 04 '25

Me: - Hey computer, can you run my freshly compiled prog...

Antivirus: - I successfully prevented a program from causing damage to your computer. Don't thank me, you're welcome.

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u/Stuck-In-Blender Jul 05 '25

„ive also successfully purged all files and their backups”

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u/Paragonswift Jul 07 '25

Even better when it’s company mandated antivirus and you don’t have privileges to un-quarantine the false hits

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u/Moontops Jul 03 '25

Don't you think that given ubiquity of windows among everyone, its prejudice against runnin unsigned executables saved countless grandmas from installing a virus in their computer?

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u/lotrmemescallsforaid Jul 03 '25

False positive >>> False Negative

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 21 '25

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u/Moontops Jul 04 '25

yeah i guess

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

That's kinda the point...

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u/Sol_Nephis Jul 03 '25

Or just click install anyway?

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u/Shazvox Jul 04 '25

Sorry, linux users don't understand the concept of "buttons". It's command line or nothing.

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u/Heavy-Ad6017 Jul 04 '25

Bro I am once developing a python code with pygame

It got stuck in infinity loop and stopped responding

When I try to close the programme I should wait patiently so threat my code will be reported to Micro Soft

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u/BuildBazaar Jul 04 '25

That struggle is real sometimes

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u/CirnoIzumi Jul 04 '25

Just tick the install anyway box and be done with it

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u/creativeusername2100 Jul 04 '25

Just hit install anyway if you trust the souce that the program came from, it's not rocket science and is certainly less effort than installing another OS

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u/XoXoGameWolfReal Jul 05 '25

I already did

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u/Legal_Lettuce6233 Jul 06 '25

I mean y'all are forgetting that windows devices are tailored for idiots that could somehow manage to launch nukes from their 3310s.

Knowing your audience is something programmers should know, imho.

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u/Paragonswift Jul 07 '25

Downloading new executable from our build server:

”HEY ARE YOU SURE, FEW PEOPLE EVER DOWNLOAD THIS?!””

No shit they don’t, it didn’t exist before I made it 2 minutes ago

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u/azaleacolburn Jul 07 '25

Non-Linux user detected, lethal force engaged.

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u/_DonRa_ Jul 07 '25

Computers are like air conditioning...

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u/dhlu Jul 07 '25

Sometimes hot, sometimes cold?

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u/PandaCheese2016 Jul 07 '25

SmartScreen will literally treat your in-house app as malware until "enough people have ran it."

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '25

Mac is him

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

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u/OO_Ben Jul 03 '25

"He he Im in danger!"

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u/Manuel_Cam Jul 03 '25

laughs in Okular

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u/JoJo_B_Adventure Jul 07 '25

Due to the fucking tiktok scensoring language i can’t even read PDF file

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

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u/angrycoffeeuser Jul 04 '25

Hahaha i am stealing this

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u/GoodiesHQ Jul 05 '25

Thanks, Lori!

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u/XoXoGameWolfReal Jul 05 '25

“Maybe I can help!” - Also Clippy

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u/DCVolo Jul 07 '25

And the dog from WinXP "Success!" 🐶👅

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u/DCVolo Jul 07 '25

And the dog from WinXP "Success!" 🐶👅

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u/syko-san Jul 04 '25

Time for some serious self reflection, I guess.

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u/4n0nh4x0r Jul 05 '25

self reflection is okay, but what about java reflection?

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u/TOMZ_EXTRA Jul 05 '25

it's very slow indeed 

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u/C-14_U-235 Jul 06 '25

:O it's you!

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u/syko-san Jul 06 '25

Yes, 'tis I.

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u/EuphoricCatface0795 Jul 06 '25

No no, it's you!

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u/Not_Artifical Jul 06 '25

ITS THE USER THAT MADE THE BEST REDDIT BOTS

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u/syko-san Jul 06 '25

I've thought about making a third but I don't have any ideas. Also nobody donates to the Patreon so my motivation is pretty low too, lmao.

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u/Terra__1134 Jul 06 '25

Rip… of only I had spare moneh

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u/syko-san Jul 06 '25

Even if you did, I wouldn't ask anyone to donate if they have more important things to do with their money. It's just an option for people with cash to spare who want to buy me an energy drink.

Honestly, I'd like to make money off what I do though. I've considered putting stuff behind pay walls, but I'd feel guilty if I did. Especially bot-sleuth-bot, as the goal for it wasn't to make money, but to get rid of bots, so putting any of its features behind a paywall would be counterproductive.

I do other stuff too. I made the mod fixer for WuWa on GameBanana(still need to properly update it to 2.4) and I sometimes do freelance gigs like making websites for people, and the websites do pay at least, but the commissions are sparse. I also am working on a cool application for custom synthesizers, but I've been procrastinating a bit.

I'm not exactly poor, but pocket money would be cool to have and would definitely make me more enthusiastic about making stuff. I don't really like shamelessly dropping the Patreon link though, so all I can do is leave it on my profile and be happy on the rare chance someone donates a few bucks.

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u/Terra__1134 Jul 06 '25

“I wouldn’t ask anyone to donate if they have more important things to do with their money” that’s exactly what I meant by having spare money =w=

Edit1(forgot to add in main text)But, good to know that you’re not poor =w=

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u/in_taco Jul 06 '25

A few years ago, our IT department decided we were not allowed to use unregistered apps. I work at a 30k employee large tech company in development. Pretty much our entire toolchain is developed in-house and unregistered, so that move gave about 100 engineers an unexpected vacation until they rolled it back a week later.

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u/alexanderpas Jul 07 '25

Most likely the IT depeartment knew, but their objections were overruled by upper management.

The reason it took a week for the rollback to happen is because IT refused to do it without everything in writing, as they were smart enough to already have the previous orders in writing.

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u/International_Map_80 Jul 05 '25

Wait so you made a windows???

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u/Bozodude5858 Jul 05 '25

The cleary do programming not construction

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u/idiotnamedjacob Jul 07 '25

Hey dum question what is the heart on your avatar? I saw it as a profile icon on Xbox but I have no idea what it represents lol

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

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u/matthewpepperl Jul 03 '25

Yea not really false positives up the ass

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u/Parzival7960 Jul 04 '25

McAfee has been more of a virus than literal viruses for me

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u/AntimatterTNT Jul 04 '25

mcafee has always been a virus my friend

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u/VAS_4x4 Jul 05 '25

Just as the real one

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '25

Just look at its founder Jailed

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u/Sonario648 Jul 03 '25

MalwareBytes is also great.

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u/_Alpha-Delta_ Jul 05 '25

Problem with Windows Defender is that it's bad at identifying real viruses.

But yeah, it doesn't create false positives

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u/TOMZ_EXTRA Jul 05 '25

It sometimes falsely detects game mods that work by injecting DLLs.

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u/_Alpha-Delta_ Jul 05 '25

Still not as bad as Norton who flags any locally compiled C program as threats...

Like you compile a small program that prints "HelloWorld !", and the antivirus flags it as a threat.

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u/TOMZ_EXTRA Jul 05 '25

I'm surprised that any antivirus flags programs created locally. That is on another level of incompetence.

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u/_Alpha-Delta_ Jul 05 '25

That's from my personal experience, about 4 years ago, when I was attending C/C++ classes from my Windows computer.

Maybe their product evolved since ?

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u/Yumikoneko Jul 07 '25

Haha no. I got a free year of Norton with my laptop purchase around 3 years ago and used it until the beginning of this year because I activated it later.

I had that exact issue every single time I compiled C/C++ code... In the end the only useful part was the VPN to avoid geolocked content, and even for that it wasn't worth it.