both.

and being more aware is the first step to fixing.

no I’m saying weirdshit that made me fudge things in Linux. and I could. it was easy.

in windows my issues were all ‘this isn’t supposed to work, this isn’t allowed’ and I had to fight the system rather than finding the right config file and changing a couple lines.

so my windows problems were much simpler shit. things like getting the taskbar to to what I want, or getting windows to not explode on top edge of screen (literally a checkbox in KDE plasma)

that was the conclusion I came to, yeah.

oh yeah that could happen, but just to be sure…

try cinnamon with mint on a ‘live USB’ so you can try before installing. and see if your ram is broken, or if windows is fucking you for cheaping out on the license.

its a fork of, downstream, tears out a bunch of the annoying shit and has different ux.

…burned out?

lots of versions of windows limit the amount of memory they recognize.

me?

okay so sometimes you need to run a twenty year old game made for another OS or cpu architecture

which… weirdly, easier in Linux than win7; Linux has better backward compatibility with windows than windows. was like three clicks to install.

but sometimes that game uses broadcast UDP packets for LAN multiplayer.

and this is where our problem comes from, because broadcast UDP packets are deprecated, and also most modern routers don’t love them, I don’t think.

so, I needed to find a way to manually readdress outgoing UDP packets from broadcast to a specific set of multicast addresses, which…

also, some issues running USB as serial for some exotic peripherals. and by ‘exotic’ I mean ‘I don’t know for sure the PC is the problem; I might have soldered this wrong’.

also some issues in qubes, but that’s literally all virtualization, and not a distro for anyone who hasn’t both been using Linux for a while and considered the cost of making their apartment a Faraday cage.

a few issues with bare arch, which is the ‘do everything from scratch 0 automation bleeding edge tech nerd, no, seriously you need to manually download a file system’ distro. don’t use arch if you don’t know what youre doing.

fuck I almost made that joke. now I’m angry you got to.

Might be right; most of what ive done on pi was in terminal, so I very much could have missed the difference.

Is it available in package manager?

Isnt it the default for raspbian? Kind of the default pi distro?

Removed by mod

Same

You can customize shit you didn’t even know existed.

To a genuinely disturbing and annoying degree.

The default customization is ~windows levels, but radical Linux desktops have some completely insane shit going on, customizing things you didnt even notice existing in truly weird ways. Anybody want to post some?

I absolutely would.

Make them spend that money at least.

and never will

Dude have you been in a coma this past decade?

I dunno, 80 for a Hitachi seems a little low, but not too good.

Not sure I’d buy one used tho.

Then why are they enshittifying so hard?