never liked it anyway

  • Pope-King Joe@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s seriously hilarious to me that something like Linux will literally let you uninstall the bootloader and reboot without installing a new one and won’t say shit about it. :D

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        You can’t even put /Users fully onto a second drive without hacks that potentially break Windows Update because they can’t even be arsed to use their own environment variables or follow mounts.

        “Reformatting huh? Hope you had a backup of all your documents, lol. Hey why not try OneDrive only $199 a year bro”

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            There used to be a native tool called Windows Easy Transfer, but it was dropped in Windows 10 in favor of third-party tools like PCmover and transwiz. There is still Microsoft’s USMT, but that’s designed as an enterprise tool and I think it depends on MECM.

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            I mean, there’s transfer wiz and profile wiz that’ll do it, but not any builtin tools unfortunately.

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          It’s almost like every OS will have issues if you start fucking up core parts of it, who would have guessed?

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        What hardcore Linux users don’t seem to really get is this: The vast majority of people who need to use computers simply do not care about anything you just said. They absolutely don’t. They simply want to press a button to boot the device, use the apps they need and maybe even play a game and that’s it. That is what Windows does for them.

        The average user is overwhelmed when the desktop icons have been moved.

        I love Linux and it is on a great way to being used by a wider audience and it’s great it provides the freedom it does. But it still has its quirks that makes it too hard to use for 95% of users.

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        Yep I’m well aware. I jumped on the Linux train awhile ago. It’s so freeing.

        I remember when you could uninstall Internet Explorer on your own as a regular ass user. Now? Get rekt idiot you’re stuck with Edge on your system and we’re gonna regularly reset it as your default browser.

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          I’ve not had win 10 default to another browser (edge) one single time in the five or so years I have used it.

          I get the windows hate, but I also hate seeing bs about shit that doesn’t happen.

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            I had it happen on Windows 11 after the last major feature update. :(

            EDIT: I should mention this is on a laptop that isn’t my main PC.