Polar @ Polar @lemmy.ca

Insufferable FOSS/Linux nerds are ruining Lemmy.

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Notice how I didn't call you names once? Grow up.

Here's Windows today downloading at 1.1Gbps. Keep in mind, the download finished so quickly, it didn't have time to reach 1.9Gbps.

Here's Linux reaching a max of 125Mbps, as of RIGHT NOW.

Continue to be insufferable and make excuses for your terrible OS.

I've been Googling for hours, and people say to disable IPv6 and install DNSMASQ. Neither fixed it.

Honestly might just go back to Windows. I can't continue to waste my life troubleshooting the most basic shit in the world. It's not like my entire PC is slow, it's just Steam.

Perhaps I will try Linux again for the 80th time in a few months to see where it sits then.

You're mad at me because I said Linux doesn't just work, and I followed it with proof.

You're hostile and gross. Enjoy coping.

You probably fucked something up and are blaming Linux not “just working.” I’ve installed many distros on many machines, my servers, my laptops, my desktop I’m on right now… they all connected at full speeds. In other words, it just works.

I literally clicked "install". But yes, please, blame me. That's how you push away new users, by blaming them, instead of understanding things don't "just work" on Linux.

My browser getting the full speed shows that it's not my connection being set to half duplex.

My web browser gets the full 1900Mbps.

I don't expect you to help me. The Linux community doesn't help, they just sit there and attack people, and then wonder why their OS gains 0.000001% market share every year.

Also I didn't talk like a moron. I said Linux doesn't "just work", and the irony is that you refuse to help me fix something on linux that should "just work".

I am literally using Linux right now. Busy spending all my hours trying to fix it and make it work.

Why does Steam only download at 100Mbps max, when Windows downloads at 1500Mbps? Would appreciate any help trying to make basic functions work. Thanks.

You know you can use multiple operating systems and stop shilling for one, right?

Or Windows just works on so much different hardware. You can build a PC with the weirdest mix and match of hardware, and Windows will just.. work. Also I bought a Microsoft sidewinder wheel from 1998 from a thrift store for $8, plugged it into my Windows 10 PC, and it just worked. Nothing special was needed. 1998 hardware literally plug and play on Windows 10 (and I've tested it on 11, and it works the same).

You can install MacOS on non-Apple hardware, but you need to buy very specific hardware, and download very specific hacks, to make it work.

Even Linux only works on specific hardware. This entire thread has people talking about how broken Linux is on their setups. The suggestions are to buy specific hardware and run very specific versions of Linux.

Can't wait for Linux to be mainstream in 2085!

So Linux doesn't "just work". People in here with PC hardware and claiming they have issues. The "solution" is to buy different hardware.

Guess what? Both of those pieces of hardware just work on Windows.

Cope, though.

They also push their VPN a lot. Every week or two I open Firefox and they send me to their VPN page on their website telling me to try it.

Like no. I'm not interested in paying for a rebranded mullvad.

That's an extremely small minority, and you can turn it off if you want.

Affinity

I love this thread.

Linux users constantly talk about how Linux just works and Windows is garbage, but then half these comments are talking about how you should buy an entirely different computer to make Linux run with FEWER issues.

Windows may have it's problems, but I don't need to buy an entirely new PC to make it work. AMD, Nvidia, Intel, doesn't matter. It just works.

Ubuntu is the best bet for a distro to just work well out of the box.

Granted I have still had a fuck ton of issues, errors, etc, but Ubuntu is the only distro that has worked the best out of the box. Fedora was a broken mess, and Mint was in between.

So if you want anyone to not give up on Linux, direct them towards Ubuntu first. You can always switch distros later, but spending 3 days trying to fix issues on a different distro isn't fun.

Already was.

I didn't get butt hurt. I simply stated why I have Bluetooth on, and the devices I use require it, and knowing that information you told me it was a security concern.

Ok? And am I just supposed to sell my devices? Do you want me to turn my Bluetooth off so my device become useless? I don't understand the point of your comment.

Hey guys, eating can cause you to choke, it's a health concern. Better stop eating.

I want to keep it, otherwise all of my everyday devices become paperweights. Thanks.

DId somEbOdy SaY yOu sHouLd?

If you're not implying that, then your reply was pointless.

I didn't know what to do. I was being threatened with a ban, even after explaining myself and my edits.

At the end of the day the Wikipedia page didn't matter to me that much. Who cares if people get misinformation about an OS update. I quite literally didn't get paid enough to deal with that.

It just really changed my perspective on Wikipedia. Unless you look at the history and check out profiles of people who get in edit battles, you really don't know what's going on behind the scenes.

At the end of the day the Wikipedia page I was trying to edit ended up being corrected by someone else (who completely disregarded all of my effort), but it took a month, and someone else to do it, before the page wasn't full of misinformation anymore. RIP to anyone who visited that page within that month and never returned, because they were fed 80% misinformation.

That's the problem, there isn't even enough for everyone to have one. There are no left overs.

This is why pretty much everyone I know at 25-32 years old, now live at home with their parents. Not only is it unaffordable thanks to landlords profiting off them, but there aren't enough to even go around.