Windows “just works” the way Microsoft wants you to just work it.
macOS is the same way, but they also haven’t made stupid sweeping changes that break decades of muscle memory, solely for aesthetic purposes…Like whatever the fuck they call paintbrush now, taking away the Alt+F and Ctrl+S keyboard shortcuts. Ugh.
That’s why I like Linux, really. It feels kinda…idk…hostile(?)…using Windows lately. Like there’s a tension in the air between me and my computer. As in, Linux behaves the way I tell it to behave. It knows the rules and so do I. The computer is subservient to me. Windows (and macOS…but to a lesser extent, because I’m not nearly as strong in it as I am the other two) act like they are in charge.
And even if I don’t want to customize it, there’s a thousand different OOBE’s out there for Linux, surely one will work the way that I want it to.
Gnome is a great example. The Meta+LeftClick+Drag operation for moving windows, and Meta+MiddleClick+Drag for resizing? Chef’s kiss. Lot’s of DE’s incorporate some variant of that now. Workspace view (or whatever it is called you get when you press Meta in Gnome) is another feature sorely missing from Windows.
Get used to using that and then go back to Windows.
Hell even Tiling WM’s. How long did it take Windows to get (modern) tiling, and how ass-poor is it? Seriously, Hyprland (at least on CachyOS) has got to be the absolute slickest out-of-the-box-experience I’ve had with a DE. Tiling in Windows feels like it hasn’t seen an improvement since probably Windows 3.1…and even in 11, it’s only halfway decent if you install PowerToys.
It blows my mind that Windows is the default OS for general business/productivity tasks. Absolutely the worst of the (major) three in every aspect of productivity.
It was literally my first foray into Linux, circa 1997, I think…I was definitely in middle school, maybe 7th grade.
I’d just gotten my RedHat CD in the mail from some website I had found that accepted COD and charged scantly more than the cost of time & materials to produce.
I installed it on my PC alongside windows and learned how to use fstab to mount my Windows Partition automatically when I boot into it! Sweet! Next I wanted to figure out how to start X-Windows and couldn’t find instructions in the Linux book I’d gotten from the library.
Naturally I booted into Windows, hopped on EFnet #Linux, and asked in there. One guy answered me and I wrote it down so I could boot into Linux and try it out.
I should also add that at this point in time, I had not yet learned about the value of not using root for everything.
Once in Linux, I typed it out…rm -rf /. Logged in as root. Windows partition automatically mounted. Seems to be taking a lot longer than I thought it would…maybe I can see what the rm command says in the book?
Oh…Oh no…
(The correct answer was startx. startx.)
I will say that I’ve distrohopped quite a bit and it was just this past week that I decided to try out CachyOS (and Hyprland), after being very well settled into Fedora…and the installation was probably the most difficult of any I’d done recently, but that was almost entirely on me…I’ve used Arch-based distros before, I’ve used calamares before…this was different. It was because I wanted to preserve my old /var partition, or at least my /var/lib/libvirt…and the installer kept freaking out about it. Ultimately I ended up just deleting everything except /var/lib/libvirt out of the partition before running the installer and it went fine. The time prior to that, I thought I’d try Cachy in a VM, and it refused to install several times. I think that actually might’ve just been my computer’s first signs that I had a failing stick of RAM, because it wasn’t long after that that the whole system started to decline…
Windows “just works” the way Microsoft wants you to just work it.
macOS is the same way, but they also haven’t made stupid sweeping changes that break decades of muscle memory, solely for aesthetic purposes…Like whatever the fuck they call paintbrush now, taking away the Alt+F and Ctrl+S keyboard shortcuts. Ugh.
That’s why I like Linux, really. It feels kinda…idk…hostile(?)…using Windows lately. Like there’s a tension in the air between me and my computer. As in, Linux behaves the way I tell it to behave. It knows the rules and so do I. The computer is subservient to me. Windows (and macOS…but to a lesser extent, because I’m not nearly as strong in it as I am the other two) act like they are in charge.
And even if I don’t want to customize it, there’s a thousand different OOBE’s out there for Linux, surely one will work the way that I want it to.
Gnome is a great example. The Meta+LeftClick+Drag operation for moving windows, and Meta+MiddleClick+Drag for resizing? Chef’s kiss. Lot’s of DE’s incorporate some variant of that now. Workspace view (or whatever it is called you get when you press Meta in Gnome) is another feature sorely missing from Windows.
Get used to using that and then go back to Windows.
Hell even Tiling WM’s. How long did it take Windows to get (modern) tiling, and how ass-poor is it? Seriously, Hyprland (at least on CachyOS) has got to be the absolute slickest out-of-the-box-experience I’ve had with a DE. Tiling in Windows feels like it hasn’t seen an improvement since probably Windows 3.1…and even in 11, it’s only halfway decent if you install PowerToys.
It blows my mind that Windows is the default OS for general business/productivity tasks. Absolutely the worst of the (major) three in every aspect of productivity.
My magic desk rocks should not be telling ME what to do. I should tell THEM to delete my root partition.
Haven’t quite done that yet, but i did need to reinstall arch about 3 times before i got it right. About 5 years with no 15 minute+ issues thus far.
I’ve done that, and thensome…
It was literally my first foray into Linux, circa 1997, I think…I was definitely in middle school, maybe 7th grade.
I’d just gotten my RedHat CD in the mail from some website I had found that accepted COD and charged scantly more than the cost of time & materials to produce.
I installed it on my PC alongside windows and learned how to use fstab to mount my Windows Partition automatically when I boot into it! Sweet! Next I wanted to figure out how to start X-Windows and couldn’t find instructions in the Linux book I’d gotten from the library.
Naturally I booted into Windows, hopped on EFnet #Linux, and asked in there. One guy answered me and I wrote it down so I could boot into Linux and try it out.
I should also add that at this point in time, I had not yet learned about the value of not using root for everything.
Once in Linux, I typed it out…
rm -rf /. Logged in as root. Windows partition automatically mounted. Seems to be taking a lot longer than I thought it would…maybe I can see what thermcommand says in the book?Oh…Oh no…
(The correct answer was
startx.startx.)I will say that I’ve distrohopped quite a bit and it was just this past week that I decided to try out CachyOS (and Hyprland), after being very well settled into Fedora…and the installation was probably the most difficult of any I’d done recently, but that was almost entirely on me…I’ve used Arch-based distros before, I’ve used calamares before…this was different. It was because I wanted to preserve my old /var partition, or at least my /var/lib/libvirt…and the installer kept freaking out about it. Ultimately I ended up just deleting everything except /var/lib/libvirt out of the partition before running the installer and it went fine. The time prior to that, I thought I’d try Cachy in a VM, and it refused to install several times. I think that actually might’ve just been my computer’s first signs that I had a failing stick of RAM, because it wasn’t long after that that the whole system started to decline…