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@Alice lol, probably.
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@py2js yeah, not really Linux's fault. It's my spare laptop so I don't work with it much, hadn't gotten around to fixing that WiFi thing.
I'm not condemning anything, I just thought it was a really bad (and hilarious) turn of events. -
This is why I use a Mac for a Unix like environment rather than Linux. I hate fighting with WiFi modules just to have working WiFi. You can call me a n00b all you want, but something as simple as Network access shouldn’t be that complicated. Taking pride in being able to configure something overly complicated is like bragging that you built your house using one tool and that one tool was an empty cereal box even though there was a shed full of tools right next door.
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@fun2code back when I worked at Rackspace we were trying to get Fedora running on our laptops, and it was always something. First the WiFi didn’t work. We got that working. A few updates later and our keyboard and touchpad stopped responding. Eventually after several iterations of this, we gave up.
I know how to use Unix like OS’s, but lately it has just been Mac OSX and Centos VM’s. -
@nik123 well LaTeX for more complex documents, and web pages for presentation. On the other hand, excel is outpassed by libre office because of wider programming language (VBScript is nothing compared to python in that field)
For the love of Arch Linux 😍😍😍
Halloween is right around the corner and I'm getting ready for the trick or treating kids 😂
!rant
So it turns out that my dad accidentally took my spare laptop on a work trip. He's about as non-tech as you can get, and that laptop runs...Arch Linux. Yeah.
(call from dad)
M: hi dad
D: what's your desktop password?
M: (confused) {Password}
D: okay.
(cuts the call)
M: *shrug*
(call from dad)
M: hi dad
D: so where is PowerPoint?! where's the Windows button?! I've been at this for half an hour now and I have to edit a presentation for tomorrow!!
M: (realizes what's happened) oh...uh...dad...that's.. Linux...
D: don't you people do anything the way it's supposed to be done?
M: uh...
D: ugh! So you can't edit PPTs on this?
M: (processing...LibreOffice isn't installed on the laptop, and he will have to use the command line to connect to the internet to use Office Online or Google Slides since the Deepin WiFi module keeps fucking up for some reason)
D: well?
M: (internal sigh) No, you can't edit PPTs on that.
D: wow.
(cuts the call)
He either thinks we're all useless or that we have godlike computer skills to be able to edit PPTs on Linux. Oh well.
(He managed to use the hotel's "workstation" to get it done, so all is well. I should tell him to change his password though, hotel computers have rubbish security.)
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