#2 gave it away because you'd have to royally screw something up in Arch to get KDE to lag like that lol.
It might be minimalist but it's not unperformant out of box.
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The only time i had issues with KDE when i was using a PC with 384 MB RAM (plasma 4)
I wouldnt blame that on kde
Tldr I use Arch btw
I'm sitting here reading these comments as the low-end Dell laptop I just picked up for software testing is booting up and updating Windows. For logistic reasons, had to pick one up today, so had the pleasure of dealing with Best Buy sales staff π
From powering it up, it's been 1.5 hours with updates and multiple restarts. Half of it was spent showing a progress indicator with a carousel slideshow of all the great AI tools I have no interest in using. Then it insisted on signing in with a Microsoft cloud account.
It's been eons since I actually ran a fresh copy of Windows. Amazed people still put up with all this nonsense.
Seriously, dealing with Windows OOBE is like walking through a used car lot.
"Decline offer" "Decline offer" "Not right now" <hey, we need to update! See you in 30 minutes!> "Remind me in three days" "Turn off cloud backup" "Yes, I'm really sure" "Decline offer" "Share minimum telemetry" (oh, you thought you could turn that off? Lol. Lmao, even)
I don't know how anyone finds that mess easier than linux.
The best buy sales staff are interesting because they practically make you beg for the thing you already had your mind made up about when you walked in the store.
I love this copypasta, I love my linux, I hate my windows. But let's be honest with ourselves for a second and completely ignore the punchline of this meme.
Those ARE valid criticisms of linux distros. Arch is not for casuals so you should be aware what you're getting into before stepping in, however your everyday-consumer-facing distros like Mint are still far from providing a fully comfortable day to day experience.
I love my Mint, I'm never going back to windows, I'm a technical person and I had to use AI to help me run my nonograms game without it injecting cocaine into my CPU.
Mint was providing a comfy day to day experience 15 years ago. I never can figure out why everyone says it's so hard.
Hardcore users are already on linux. Casual users are only left on windows.
Man that subreddit is a trip. Really funny to actively hate FOSS on ideological grounds because you just love corporations and markets so much.
Thereβs one here on Lemmy too. I got banned this morning for sharing this post lol.
Hereβs a post from it defending Telemetry of all things.
Man that madthumbs guy is really trying to make that a thing and it's kind of sad and lonely that he's off by himself pretending he has a community...
Lol it's an LLM post too
Please please please don't brigade/harass that community!
I love it! It's like watching flat earthers. I NEED this popcorn.
I'm not quite sure it's a "community" as such - it looks like just one guy having a bit of a nervous breakdown on his own.
Yeah I was just about to edit my comment to mention that. Like bro why are you here it's built on the same ethos you hate in linux.
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Lol the guy talks about linux like it's his job or special interest.
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The performance comments were a dead giveaway.
Nobody's complaints with setting Linux up are that it runs slowly.
It may not run much of anything until you sort out your drivers properly, but it will do everything incorrectly LIGHTNING fast, compared to Windows.
I thought Debian was as sluggish as Windows until I was forced to use the LXQt desktop environment instead of the default GNOME on an old Compaq laptop since that's all it could handle. Turns out, GNOME looks nice but it kept my old laptop's mid-2000s i386 CPU churning at 50% 24/7. LXQt? Barely a blip. Sure, it couldn't run Firefox quickly, but at least its fan was silent when idling or when I was simply using the laptop as a dumb SSH client into a much more powerful remote server.
I now use LXQt on my main workstation because I don't need fancy tilΓng windows or Wayland.
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Haha, definitely had me. I'm still new to linux and so far bazzite kde has been great. Very few issues, small learning curve. Hard to mess anything up too bad.
I think we should also have a community with name bigtechsuck
The most obvious bait to be was 1 hour install time. Windows 11 took 2 hours to install, CachyOS took like 5 minutes. I imagine Arch is similar, there is simply no way. Lol
The biggest fucking lie
"...in geological terms."
Updating. Do not turn of computer.
100% complete
Also: "Update and shut down"
Did you say "update and shutdown while also rebooting?"
Coming back to my PC and it being on when I expect it off, along with the notification that I hadn't used notifications in a while, is what pushed me over the edge to running linux for everything.
That's apparently fixed now. I have to use windows for work and they finally fixed that stupid issue in one of the last couple of updates. It's still extremely painful to use though.
Solidworks/PDM at work. π
No it won't be changing until Win11 actually breaks or dassault scraps PDM(actually as much or more of a trashfire as windows). I'll just find a new career eventually.
It took me a bit to figure out, but winapps might work for you. A couple of applications I use at work require me to have a windows VM, which is still way less of a headache than straight windows.
I use win only at work anymore, no choice. Update and shut down is the biggest fucking lie. I press it every time, it never did shut down.
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I remember installing Arch on an ancient MacBook I've got. Set the installer going then put it to one side knowing it was going to take a while.
It took about 7 minutes.
Of course, I then spent two hours trying to get the fucking Broadcom drivers to work, but that's by the by.
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I'm a basic Linux Mint/ZorinOS guyβI sometimes switch between the twoβand even I know that it's dumb to install Arch unless you're REALLY good with computers.
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