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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago (39 children)

the thumbnail is just cringe. more of a script kiddie vibe than a real programmer.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"DON'T UPLOAD TO VIRUS TOTAL"

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Windows 11 may be the king of operating systems

In what world? I've just started using it at work, and I swear the other day it tried to sell me an XBox controller. Not like I was on the Web and an ad popped up, no. It was part of the operating system!

Can you imagine going back in time 10 years and telling somebody "In the future, Microsoft is going to put pop-up ads in Windows." People would think you were crazy!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. The phrase "Windows 11 may be the king of operating systems" brings to my mind an image of a malformed non-functional decadent brat, the result of generations of might makes right and cousin fucking, given absolute power by sheer force of habit because it's utterly incapable of achieving anything under its own merit. Either this one or his son will be so preoccupied with throwing opulent parties that he won't bother securing the army's loyalty, then we can overthrow him and ratify a constitution.

  2. 10 years ago was 2013. Windows 8.1 was their then-current product. If you told me they were going to put ads in Tile Hell, I would have 100% believed you and/or asked "Are you sure they don't already?" I think you have to reach back to the XP era or earlier for users to be actually incredulous that the OS itself would serve commercials.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

10 years ago was 2013. Microsoft already had ads baked into Windows in 2013.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I recall a time when Windows 10 was going to be the last release of windows. It's was just going to be updated forever. I'm glad that they have returned to the usual every second or so release is going to be a unfinished half baked turd until we can really get things right in the following release.

RIP Bob, ME, Vista, 8/8.1, and hopefully sooner than later 11...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, schnaps! I remember that.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

A listicle? What is this, 2008? Get with the times. Give us a TikTok video with recycled ideas.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It's the best for a primary OS, but unfortunately you if you make apps or desktop programmes you will probably still need a windows machine, or a Mac, or both. For me I have a windows VM and an old modded mac for those OS's.

Though interestingly probably the best machine for cross platform development would be a new-ish tri booted intel Mac with Linux as your main OS.

Edit: just for the record I use a Thinkpad T430 as my main work computer.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

But yeah the way development tools like git just integrate perfectly into the OS is amazing, and the way you can get tools and libraries just by asking your package manager for them is invaluable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do you need Windows VM for developing GUI apps? Last time I used Visual Studio to make GUI app I almost gave up programming, because of how code-generation dependent it was.

For C# you have AvaloniaUI. For cpp you have countless multi-platform GUI toolkits, same for rust, Java has its own toolkits (multi-platform), and finally you can make an Electron/Tauri app.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You still have to test it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

My point exactly. Even a website can behave differently on different operating systems

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Kali has become so stereotypical in my region to the point where it has become cringe therefore I can't click the thumbnail which has Kali logo stamped on it

No hate for Kali itself, just the npc's in my region

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eh, I get your point, but I think that Kali's edgelord "cool" distro factor has pulled a lot of folks into Linux who otherwise wouldn't have bothered. And any win's a win in my book.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

They don't even mention the invasive tracking in windows. Guess they dont want to upset Microsoft. :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Freedom and Unix-like

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

real fwds from FOSS grandma hours, huh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good ole xda site. Haven't messed with it for a long, long time. It is a good writeup, I enjoyed reading it, but why does the writer list RPM as a package manager? Isn't it a package format, or am I crazy?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not a Fedora user, but I'm pretty sure that rpm is for Fedora like dpkg is for Debian. AIW?

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