• Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml
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    “Okay, I switched to Linux, now I’m getting this error message: _______.”

    “Install ______.”

    “It gives me this error now: ______.”

    “You have to update the _____ library first.”

    “It won’t let me.”

    “You have to use sudo.”

    “It tells me to clone the git via the command line, but git says verifying login from command line isn’t supported any more.”

    “You’re following seven year old instructions.”

    “They’re the only instructions I can find.”

    “You should switch to this other flavor of Linux.”

  • Holyginz@lemmy.world
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    Switch to Linux and spend way more time making sure everything is updated and having to jump through hoops installing things.

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      No idea what you mean. I just quickly wanted to update before calling it a night, got a grub update and now it neither boots the default nor the fallback image. I use Arch BTW.

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        Lol, I’m not hating. I’ve had Linux before but it took more time then I had at that point learning and I mainly use my personal computers for gaming. Which is less of a headache on windows. That’s just me though.

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    About the same when you ask for a good GUI replacement for X and someone replies “just use the command line”, like cheers for that men, not what I’m asking for.

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      AMEN! I asked recently if there was a good Linux alternative to this program I used in Windows called “Bulk Rename Utility” and i was flooded by people telling me how easy it was to set up a script to do what I want.

      Turns out the best alternative is running BRU in Wine.

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        I’d have recommended KRename personally. It uses some programming-esque stuff (format specifiers for stuff), but it’s not exactly difficult to do advanced stuff with it.

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        There almost always powerful existing utilities that can do what you want in linux.

        But you have to find them and they have a learning curve. Sometimes that “curve” is a cliff.

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    I remember I had a date with a girl back in the’10s. We hit it off and got back to her place. Wanted to show her a funny Internet video.

    She brought out an ancient laptop that refused to boot and said her Ex had tried to fix it with Linux.

    I got it pointed at the right dependencies, she fellated me as it updated.

    I think this is my only sexy story that includes Linux.

    Well, I guess there was this one time I loaned a lonely neighbor DOS 6 disks.

    But, that does not include Linux.

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    No, you don’t say “switch to Linux”. This is an opportunity to be free from the shackles of being the go-to IT support person! If they say they are having computer problems, ask “Is it Linux? No? Sorry, can’t help you”

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    The ones that make me laugh uncontrollably are those Windows disk encryption issues for which the solution is…wait for it… run Linux from a LiveISO, fix the disk with Linux, then reinstall Windows. Because Windows is incapable of fixing its own issues that it itself caused.

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    50% of the time the Microsoft forum help solution for any Windows problem is “Have you tried Re-installing Windows?”

    • source, my ass