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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Having to use windows at work makes me appreciate my desktop Linux experience at home. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago by maxprime@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I’m a teacher and our division just “upgraded” to W11 with a new version of outlook that is basically a web app on desktop. Several times a day my laptop comes to a complete crawl while Teams decides to open itself. Can’t open or close programs, Firefox won’t register mouse clicks, nothing. Graphical glitches appear al the time with menu bars and task bars disappearing regularly, requiring force quitting the app or logging out of the desktop.

When I first switched to Linux I assumed my experience would be like this. But now it’s the other way around.

Rant over.

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[–] Bogasse@lemmy.ml 130 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (16 children)

What a big pile of shit software, I swear I'm just gonna quit because of this ass smelling garbage.

Today I discovered that C:/Users/MyUser was silently an alias of C:/Users/OneDriveBullshit/MyUser only in the explorer. So I just figured out why some documents were often disappearing for months, I'm just working on a multiverse were depending on the application the same path don't lead to the same folder.

Earlier this week I unzipped a file and couldn't remove resulting files without administrator privileges.

I've never lost so much time for any fucking software, let alone a paid one. And don't even get me starting on the fucking ads they put everywhere even if you unchecked the 154 options in 42 different menus.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Earlier this week I unzipped a file and couldn't remove resulting files without administrator privileges.

To be fair, this kind of stuff happened to me when I first switched to Linux, before I got a better grasp on file permissions.

[–] Bogasse@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I can totally see that happening 🫣

Here it was especially infuriating because it's mixed with all the company policies, like the 1 month process it took me to have administrator privilege in the first place.

These process also make some sense as I'm in a company of several hundred thousand employees, but all of this mixed together is exhaustingly anoying.

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