• Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I’m done with Windows and YouTube videos that should have been a written post.

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      Amen! Can we please have more written posts on the internet again? It’s much easier to search and follow along.

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        Nobody has the attention span to read them - as proven by the declining buy-in on YouTube videos longer than a TikTok reel - let alone write them. Written media will continue to rapidly decline.

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          Yes indeed, Sir. Your generation was the only Enlightened one, everyone younger than you is just a reel-addicted monkey incapable of reading.

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            Not sure why you went on the defence, my generation is the reel addicted monkeys that stopped learning anything and instead started spouting off “knowledge” from doomscrolling. We’re the ones that are killing printed media, and we’re the ones either airing or producing worse and worse garbage on TV as well.

            We’re killing our own attention span year by year and none of us want to be uncomfortable for a second by admitting it’s a problem.

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        I feel like a I’m an old dinosaur yelling at the clouds because I can’t stand most video content. There’s a time and place for it but an 8 paragraph op-ed would suffice for content like this.

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      I mean yes, but there’s way better exposure from online videos. Things like this 100% should have an accompanying post though.

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      For me it’s the bloody “video essay” format. Hyper narrated, spoken straight to the camera. Waste of traffic, waste of storage, waste of attention. People think the argument carries more weight, or is just more persuasive, when someone is speaking at you with some vaguely related visual in the background. But really a written piece could be pulled apart so much more quickly.

      Unfortunately OpenAI’s Whisper doesn’t do written transcriptions fast enough on my workstation yet for me to use it full time.

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      I just jumped ship completely (last was dealing with scanner & printer) with windows, where can I find replacements for the 5 people I “follow” on youtube (ukraine war reports & beginner chess)? I mean is there even an alternative?

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        Mastodon for non-traditional journalism and traditional journalism supplemented with blogs and newsletters is what I go with.

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      I couldn’t roll my eyes hard enough. It instantly reminded me of r/atheism titles going “dae religion bad ?😤” 80,000 up votes

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      I mean, kind of … I have file servers, download servers, documentation servers, syncthing servers, backup servers, vaultwarden servers, etc… that are all linux VMs/containers and my main machine is a Macbook, but I do still have a Windows machine in the living room for gaming (yeah, Steam has pushed us far in this regard, but, when I get time to play a game, I just want to play it, I want the best chance it’s going to work the first time and that’s still, sadly, Windows). I have another windows machine running Blue Iris as my NVR because I didn’t have a good experience with Frigate, Shinobi or a few others. I’ve got a few other systems floating around that do various things and some of them are linux based and some are windows based depending on what’s easier/possible.

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        Honestly, being unbeholden to any OS or distro is my eventual goal. Eventually on mobile as well as desktop.

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        Similiar for me. Though i’m at an age where i’m here for building and the story, not the grind and challenge, thus mods are a necessity. Which still doesn’t work as well as on Windows.

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      Ugh, I hate all those people making some compromises to live a healthier lifestyle and are talking about their changes so maybe someone can do it too making the group larger and easier to live for everyone. The worst ones.

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        The point isn’t whether it’s good or bad as a choice. It’s just generally an irrelevant question in this particular community, since it’s a self-selected community of people who are here specifically because we generally agree with the statement, at least in principle, to one degree or another.

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    I stopped caring. When my GF bought a laptop I just installed Linux there and she has no issues using it. Linux is where I always wanted it to be. Now when I see someone using Windows I just think “you poor soul” to myself and move on.

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    Depends on the context.

    Me - Yes. I use Debian 12. No intention any time to go back because of how much I love using Debian. May fire up a VM of Arch so I can run some specific AUR packages I am curious to try out, but we’ll see. I am cautious to go on another distor hopping bender between Debian and Arch as they are my 2 favorite distros and I am easily led to do that.

    Work - No and that is fine me. I have no control over that and I’m still productive with Windows/Microsoft products.

    Family - I am the tech support person of the household. I prefer for people to use what they are comfortable with because that’s less on me to maintain.

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      so I can run some specific AUR packages I am curious to try out

      I think Distrobox might let you do this without spinning up a VM.

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          Because it’s tightly integrated with the host OS and you can use the packages in your daily driver if you like it?

          IDK, use it or don’t. It’s just a suggestion.

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    That was me about 22 years ago already. I’ve had a Linux desktop for 22 years and anytime I see a windows desktop I’m just wondering why anyone would accept such trash…

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    Somehow unrelated to what this video proposes, Linux has taught and gave me so many possibilities that I would never, ever be able to if I (still) were using Windows to this very day. In other words… thanks to Linux, I can now operate and have fun in a under 3W device.

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      I have learned much how the networking works, how programs are made and how computers do stuff. And not because I had to with Linux, but it was actually fun to learn without the roadblocks.

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    There are way way too many testimonials here lately about switching to Linux or installing Arch, etc. These aren’t interesting.

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      I’d be more interested in knowing how many people are sticking with Linux.

      What issues besides insert windows program doesn’t work.

      Places where the average switcher has problems that aren’t just user error or misunderstanding some fundamental difference, but good places that the community can investigate and improve on.

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        Most people will probably give up after a few days. Not because Linux is bad, but because most people don’t wan’t to spend hours to fix an issue they never heard off and never encountered on Windows/Mac

        Windows/Mac are spoon feeding their customers and people tend to forget how important it is to have problem solving skills ! How to search the web, get out of their confort zone and learn new things…

        The tiktok, meta, shorts generation will probably never touch any linux distro, except if during their live time they have some sort of “revelation” on how bad it actually is…

        And some just don’t have time… Job, baby, wife, friends…

        Linux is a full time and never ending experience, the rabbit hole you want/will dig deeper in hope to find a white rabbit !

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          Linux is a full time and never ending experience, the rabbit hole you want/will dig deeper in hope to find a white rabbit !

          While Linux can certainly be such an experience, it doesn’t have to be at all.

          If you have a defined use case for your system, and there’s Linix software to support that, it often just install something like Linux Mint, install the software you need from the repos, and wahoo, you have a computer to do what you need and you just use it.

          Which, for most people, is how they use their computer anyway, a few bits of software they just use to do what they need to do, no need to tinker, problems unlikely to arise.

          But these people are the type that don’t care, they’ll use what comes with the computer they bought, and just be happy, and thus will likely never try Linux.

          For those of us who like to stay in the know and on the bleeding edge, and tinkering and understanding, then it’s a full time thing. But we’re such a small minority.

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      You are lucky. Last night both Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates broke in my house and held me at gunpoint until I made my choice. (Tim Cook would have been there too, but apparently he was guided down the wrong street.)

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    I’m forced to use windows in my career life… But I moved to Linux entirely at home back in 05-06.

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    In the cold and desolation; the mad wizard had been eeking out his existence letting the wild know about the horrors that awaited them in Redmondland.

    But few listened

    Then slowly the kings of Redmondland began to become more crazed in their power; wanting more and more from their subjects. Until a few, a small band of subjects took off their blinders and released the kingdom had spread so far that the mad wizard Linus was in their midst.

    They stopped and listened to him

    They grew tired of telling the king about everything they did and needing his permission to do anything in their own lives.

    The mad wizard wasn’t crazy… he was just upset; it was the king who’d gone mad wanting to control his kingdom…

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    I’m Windows-free for about 18 years.

    Windows is a last resort. If some proprietary apps don’t work under Linux (mainly at a work).

    It’s funny how conservative Windows is, it still has components from the NT.

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      It’s funny how conservative Windows is, it still has components from the NT.

      That calling: ensuring things are compatible with old software and not fucking your users over. Just for fun I tried to install Photoshop 6 from 2000 on Windows 11 and it works just fine. Same goes for MS Office 2003.

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      I’m Windows-free for about 18 years.

      It’s basically the same time I started using Linux somewhat more. I didn’t go Windows-free until 2007 though and then returned to Windows because I needed it for something with my Master’s thesis. I kind of shudder at the thought how my old setups looked under the hood. You learn a lot in 18 years… Probably copy-pasted a lot of shell commands back then. But UT2k4 in its OpenGL glory was worth it

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    I’m not done with it until it is eradicated from all the computers and tablets of this world.

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    I wish. Unfortunately I’m to locked into Ableton to switch. Wish they’d make it compatible with Linux :/