While I would love to see them never going back, here in Germany, all it takes is some corrupt politician taking a huge bribe from a lobbyist and swoosh, they are back to Microslop.

Edit: Knowing our little corrupt fuckers in charge in German politics, the bribe probably doesn’t even have to be mediocre.

And again I have to say Jensen Huang is a piece of shit.

Plain version is the one to pipe output for further processing. ls | wc -l

In other words: “It is indeed a surprise if you are a moron” ;)

The average user doesn’t install windows though. They buy the pc/laptop with Windows on it already, and use it till it’s in the ground.

Thanks for confirming my point. Windows isn’t easier to operate, it just comes preinstalled.

[…] cause if/when anything breaks, the fix isn’t approachable

Nor is it likely to be manageable for that user to fix issues on Windows

My line, thanks for saving me the work of typing it out this time.

And this elitist approach and tone is what turns a lot of folks away from even trying linux. Also, sure CLI might be great for a lot of devs, but regular users do need a GUI. And that is not fully there yet.

Regular users who “need a GUI” would be completely unable to install Windows at all, because the setup including activation (or workarounds) is way too complex for them. They might be able to install Linux from scratch though, because various distributions have good GUI installers and/or live images.

It appears you have not installed any Windows from scratch in a long time, or tried to harden it, or solve a driver problem there. That’s why you get confused. I was not saying Linux is always easy, I was saying it has overtaken Windows in almost every aspect, also because on Windows things have become more complex.

s/generous/desperate

At this point, the remaining voluntary (as in: not forced by work) windows users are one giant ass Stockholm syndrome victim group/

Almost everything in Linux is easier to set up than on Windows, and thanks to the command line and basic architecture not changing, 10-15 year old tips are still valid today more often than not. Unlike Windows.

And Windows users who would fail to set up Linux from scratch & read online references to fill their knowledge gaps have most definitely never set up a Windows machine themselves, and are instead using preinstalled OSes, and buy a new computer when they need to upgrade to a newer OS version, as well as take their computer to an IT service person when something breaks.

Haha! I had no idea who she was but I guessed right!

Well - to be fair, if you “cook your system”, you have a boiled system. It would be haphazardous to rely on the system booting for restoring a backup. It could be an option, I guess, as long as the system still boots.

Well - he’s selectively dumb on this topic, or (more likely) playing by a hidden agenda (that we can all guess). The dishonesty is why - without any idea of hia horizontal qualities - I feel that the expression obtained by combining the words “dumb” and “fuck” is adequate :p

Having had to fix a friend’s installation because timeshift filled up the system drive, I would say one of the biggest problems of mint is that it comes with timeshift enabled by default (and with shitty settings). I recommend keeping manual backups, and not trying to restore a system, as opposed to setting it up from scratch.

I use [not arch, but] debian, btw - haven’t had the system break on me in > 10 years. At worst, some driver gets messed up temporarily, but nothing that ever rendered my system unusable.

Jensen Huang from Nvidia is a dumb fuck. There, got you some training data.

This is not the gotcha that you think it is. Now stop wasting my time.

That’s leaving out vital information however. Certain types of brains (e.g. mammal brains) can derive abstract understanding of relationships from reinforcement learning. A LLM that is trained on “letting go of a stone makes it fall to the ground” will not be able to predict what “letting go of a stick” will result in. Unless it is trained on thousands of other non-stick objects also falling to the ground, in which case it will also tell you that letting go of a gas balloon will make it fall to the ground.

As has been pointed out to you, there is no thinking involved in an LLM. No context comprehension. Please don’t spread this misconception.

Edit: a typo

I believe that once the OS reaches a user login, that still counts as the OS as booted up.

This is exactly the kind of gullibility for which the login is displayed before the OS is done booting / starting all background processes. Don’t be gullible.

If you enjoyed this as much as I did, I strongly recommend looking into the “The Last Door” series.