jfx

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[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 2 months ago

Actually, if Linux/BSD/... doesn't work the way I want it to, I can always tweak it. Win or Mac? Tough luck. So Linux's usability is always there, whereas the proprietary OS's quickly hits a very hard, annoying wall.

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 173 points 4 months ago (30 children)

Soo, booting your computer from someone else's computer?

I mean we've had thin clients and PXE for ages?

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

DDG has also gotten much worse since the introduction of AI features.

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

It used to be somewhat better: Corel Linux and Creative apps existed...

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

Thank you for the info! Otherwise I would have missed the deal. The affinity suite is the best thing since Photoshop 5.0

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I'm still consulting my venerable encyclopaedia britannica dvd until this day. It works great under wine and actually does not work under a current version of windows anymore.

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

I had the Mandrake Powerpack that came with two books. I basically memorized the entire console handbook while on the loo...

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

Gretlat that they're making progress! aTM windows still flicker or fail to show content. I'd love to use it in production later this year maybe ...

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I am dependent on a couple of programs I run via wine - and wine still isn't directly compatible with wayland and buggy with xwayland...

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 8 months ago

It's actually worse! Last jan Microsoft bricked the entire fleet of laptops in my company with a borked generic driver update. It overwrote the sd reader's vendor driver blocking all storage access from working whatsoever. From one week to another more or less all devices refused to boot. They basically killed our entire company for half a week, until IT could walk people through efi-disabling the sd reader in every laptop (recent industrial models mind you) just because windows had pulled in the wrong driver. So... no - it's not great at all with automatic driver installation in windows ...

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 47 points 8 months ago (32 children)

How on earth can people stand using Windows full time? Everything I'm on a Microsoft product I feel claustrophobic!

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