• Rustmilian
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    10 months ago

    inevitably run into a problem with Linux

    This has nothing to do with any of kind of Linux problem.
    It’s just Luddites crying because Linux is moving on from outdated flawed software that has a bunch of unfixable problems.
    Same shit happens with windows, my guy. “WHAAAAAAAA MY WINDOWS XP/98 WHAAAAAA”, at least it’s often partially valid for windows…
    Luddites are not exclusive to any particular OS.

    If someone is having a Linux issue, they just need to ask. Literally just ask me, or the vast major of other users, we’ll literally provide better tech support than Windows will ever have.

    • Kaity
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      310 months ago

      yeah I’ve seen the windows support forums, every official response either misses the point of the question or the answer is straight up wrong.

      • Rustmilian
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        10 months ago

        What gets me is the replies like “just wipe it & reinstall the whole thing”.
        Yeah right, like I’mma spend an entire hour wiping, reformatting and reinstalling Windows, then varying additional time reconfiguring everything for a problem that likely has an extremely simple solution but they’re too lazy to gather the necessary information to actually solve it.
        Assuming that the Windows installer doesn’t fuck up and I have to restart the install process again, which has happened to me several times.
        At least Linux takes 5-10m tops to install for the user friendly distros.
        Even I, a Linux user who’s spent hours upon days debugging kernel issues for my hardware can see how fuckin stupid that shit copout advice is.