“Microsoft Windows: Why wait? We broke it for you.”

then if you do fix it a damn update breaks it again!

Just fixed a fairly common issue with Windows Update on my wife’s W11 machine. Stuck at 99% forever. All you need to do is terminate the Windows Update process and try it again, or delete a cache somewhere.

Want Windows’ “official” advice if you’re “having trouble”?

Try reinstalling Windows . 😂 ROFL

Plus the bloat and spyware, ick.

I was also quite unnerved when the “location data” task item came up on startup, and listed Windows Explorer as using it for a second. Sorry what? Wtf does Explorer need location data for?

So happy to go back to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I want to convert some family members’ computers too when I finally get a chance for it.

That’s my holdout too! But then Windows forcibly removed support for WMR to paperweight those anyway, so…

What headset do you use? They just ported the Oasis driver to Linux for WMR devices (I have a Sumsung Odyssey+) and I can’t wait to try that!

There’s also the “Envision” project that streamlines getting all the drivers and builds and stuff going for various headset software on Linux. Some have better results than others. :)

Some really good guides here, and there’s also a (hrk 🤢) Discord called “Linux Vr Adventures”

https://vronlinux.org/

Yeaaah, I know exactly what you mean. As someone who works in a public library, I realize despite lofty ideals you can’t just give the masses something awesome and expect them to take care of it. Not with modern attitudes anyway.

It’s a TON of work, expense, and management to deal with misanthropic abuse so others can enjoy it. I hope we can start to see a cultural shift where people actually see shared privileges as a shared responsibility…

For a while Gigabyte boards used this as a selling feature and I thought it was genius! Never had to use it, thankfully, but it brought some piece of mind.

That’s actually pretty reassuring! I was under the impression it was a huge flex haha. I’m curious how much practicsl speed you gain from compiling everything to your specific architecture. 🤔

“As I’ve taken to calling it”

Now I just wanna know whether GNU is Guh-noo or Juh-noo or Gee-en-yoo

Still buffering, give it a minute. It’s gotta squeeze through the tubes.

Honestly as a not-used-Gentoo person recklessly throwing around my opinion on the internet…

It sounds like either it can be “Really optimized and crazy performant if you know what you’re doing.”

Or “It’s a fun hobby because you think operating systems are fun.”

Personally it seems cool except I think I’d start to burn out fast if every package install means having to read compilation instructions and edit configs.

Maybe because my experience compiling stuff is always like “What’s your problem this time?! Okay where do I find that package version?!”

I like making mine look like “XP if I got to make it do what I want and have things like dark mode.”

I just miss the era :)

If we put more spikes on the router, maybe there will be less spikes on the ping graph. 🤔

There is the old adage “Nobody got fired for going with Microsoft”, and it is real.

Unless you’re in game development, or any other industry they invade lol.

Never go with Microsoft to a secondary location. Never get in Microsoft’s car. Don’t even talk to Microsoft.

our IT guys don’t know the first damn thing about Linux.

Well yeah, they went to Microslop school to get Microslop certs so they can work with other people’s Microslop infrastructure and spit out words like “iNdUsTrY sTaNdArD” if you even hint at coloring outside the lines. Lol

Yeah kinda like how I appreciate everyone who reposts actually-funny stuff from tiktok to YouTube shorts. Because I’d never ever use tiktok.

Maybe they’ll do the same on Loops one day.

It’s sad that your “tinfoil hat theory” is… probably not wrong. This is pretty aligned with what these social media giants have been getting caught doing for ages now.

It might not even be “muah hah hah” (although it probably is). It could just be that those things are engagement bait that the spreadsheet/algorithm likes so it keeps pushing it harder.

We definitely need to side-eye all these manufactured conflicts as you say. It’s really irritating how, once the upper classes start feeling the pressure, suddenly everybody is dividing themselves into hair-color tribes, generations, gender factions, tax brackets, whatever.

The bait keeps the heat off where the heat is needed most! The ones doing this to us!

Okay but I also heard this in the sustained high notes of the Trolololo song. 😂

Woo, Tumbleweed! Their support of it is a pretty strong plus. I would get that screen sometimes too but it confused me a lot and I ended up just being like “Accept key I guess? Oh cool it boots.”

What are you supposed to compare the key to? Nvidia’s repo on a website using a different device, or before you update or what? Is it like comparing checksums in Dolphin?

I’m not particularly afraid of Evil Maids vs. my Tumbleweed desktop, as I’m much too poor for hired help (lol), so I just turned it off.

They make compelling points about using it for laptops though.