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Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by einat2346@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I've been trying to switch to linux on my daily driver for years, and every time I come to a critical issue, I can't find useful help for it anywhere on the web and I give up and try again next year.

And this isn't a skill issue, I'm a 30 year greybeard IT vet that has administered to linux servers since the late 90s. Linux is simply not ready for daily use by your average computer user, and that's mainly the fault of its fucktastically fragmented environment designed by insular egotists.

And don't even get me fucking started on the elitism of people who actually respond to help requests with instructions to read several hundred pages of documents before they'll even tell you what's wrong with your question.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What average users would need to convert is access to sympathetic and patient support... what they get is obtuse gatekeepers. People who on the one hand think that everyone should use Linux but on the other hand insist that using it means that you're hyper intelligent, and by extension requires you to be.

[–] mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Exactly this, but their argument fails because even hyper intelligent people get shit on by the linux community.

They don't want new adherents, they want people to recognize their decades of reeking basement skillz.

[–] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social 1 points 9 months ago

the gnu kind communication guidelines helped chill this for a short while, but it's back even in #emacs on libera.chat