Long time Linux YouTuber tries to use Windows.
Determines Windows "not quite ready for average user".
Long time Linux personality, Bryan Lunduke, recently undertook a challenge to use Windows as his “daily driver”.
“Windows HATES me,” stated Lunduke after a particularly frustrating session of attempting to get drivers installed on his Windows 11 PC. “I had to download storage drivers just to run the fargin’ installer. Just to install the stupid thing! Then another billion installers to get sound working. I thought this was suppose to be easy? And, hey! Hey! Who installed all these little little task bar indicator applications? I didn’t ask for any of this!”
“This is NOT going well,” Lunduke declared after trying to install and update applications via the Microsoft Store. “Some updates are via the Microsoft Store. Other updates are buried in a Control Panel. Wait. Do they still call them Control Panels? Who knows. This thing is such a mess. Seems like every attempt to update something results in an error half way through. Then I rebooted three times. I think it’s updated now? Who knows!”
“Trying to do simple tasks on Windows lol,” tweeted Lunduke accompanied by an animated GIF of a guys head exploding. No further information was provided, but all Linux users seemed to immediately understand Lunduke’s pain.
“Gaming on Windows is NOT ready,” Lunduke concluded. “Maybe a few more years of work and Windows will be ready. I mean… Half of the games from more than 10 years ago don’t even run. And nothing from the 90s runs. If a gaming PC can’t play the classic games — let alone games from a few years back — is it even a gaming PC? I mean, shoot. Linux with Wine can even run Windows 3.1 games. Windows 11 just barfs when you try that. The heck with this. I’m going home.”
Is this a work of satire? Is it a serious response to the Linus Tech Tips folks? Is it random snarkiness from a Linux user? Is it… all three? Who knows!
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You just made my day :-D
You are right about the stupidity of the comments of people used to proprietary software regarding GNU. You can reverse those comments and they make more sense. They same applies to Steve Ballmer's argument "Linux is cancer." Proprietary software in your device prevents you not only to use it as you like (playing any DVD for example) if also prevents you from replacing it. The device might not boot anymore when you changed the software. Also there is a system running all the time that the user has no idea of and cannot control (Intel ME and AMD PSP). And they won't sell you parts for your smartphone and tractor. If you mysteriously got hold of a part you need to replace you couldn't exchange the parts as the machine would refuse to work with the perfectly functional new part. To reverse engineer or to offer a service helping those in need is illegal or they are on it to make it illegal. And I didn't even go into the surveillance of proprietary software and the prohibition to sell your device within a certain time span.
Your car now has to report to the government how much fuel you used. Tesla is the worst: not giving you a feature you paid for because they don't like the way you drive. And removing the options you paid for when you sell your car so the new owner has to purchase them again from Tesla. That's outrageous!
So since people are getting used to proprietary software more and more they are willing to accept more and more perversion.