Getting told that technology is bullshit and that humans have forgotten how to interact with each other (meaning being social) by people from the same age bracket that throw a fit because they can't use said technology is both hilarious and infuriating.

Seriously, aren't these old farts more concerned with things such as starbucks not putting "merry Christmas" on their fucking red cups? Am I supposed to take their shit seriously? No the fuck I am not, and neither should you.

If your old ass can't work how your fucking smartphone works, or have a haaaaard time trying to select Netflix from your smart tv app selection then the problem is not my generation. Its your dumbass for not keeping up.

Its fine if you don't want to use technology, fuck if I care. But you ain't winning this shit because of your preferences regarding technology.

Also, telling me that I am wrong for wearing my headphones at the gym to shut people off. Wtf dude, not everyone wants to fucking talk to others all the time, specially during gym time. I am there to work out and get sexy af, not to ask you how your fucking day went, I don't know u, i don't want to know you, you already showed me how fucking close minded and uninteresting you can be, why the fuck should I give that shit a chance?

Fuck outta here with that shit. He went on to tell me that software is made by people with 0 social skills. Booooooy I would have your granddaughter(she is my age) any day of the fucking week and you can tell me if we lack "social skills"

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Hi everyone, long time no see.

Today I want to tell you a story about Linux, and its acceptance on the desktop.

Long ago I found myself a girlfriend, a wonderful woman who is an engineer too but who couldn't be further from CS. For those in the know, she absolutely despises architects. She doesn't know the size units of computers, i.e. the multiples of the byte. Breaks cables on the regular, and so on. For all intents and purposes, she's a user. She has written some code for a college project before, but she is by no means a developer.

She has seen me using Linux quite passionately for the last year or so, and a few weeks ago she got so fed up with how Windows refused to work on both her computers (on one of them literally failing to run exe's, go figure), that she allowed me to reinstall both systems, with one of them being dualbooted Windows 10 + Linux.

The computer that runs Linux is not one she uses very often, but for gaming (The Sims) it's her platform to go. On it I installed Debian KDE, for the following reasons:
- It had to be stable as I didn't want another box to maintain.
- It had to be pretty OOTB, as first impressions are crucial.
- It had to be easy to use, given her skill level.
- It had to have a GUI abstraction to apt, the KDE team built Discover which looks gorgeous.

She had the following things to say about Linux, when she went to download The Sims from a torrent (I installed qBittorrent for her iirc).

"Linux is better, there's no need to download anything"
"Still figuring things out, but I'm liking it"
"I'm scared of using Windows again, it's so laggy"
"Linux works fine, I'm becoming a Linux user"

Which you can imagine, it filled me with pride. We've done it boys. We've built a superior system that even regular users can use, if the system is set up to be user-friendly.

There are a few gripes I still have, and pitfalls I want to address. There's still too many options, users can drown in the sheer amount of distro's to choose from. For us that's extremely important but they need to have a guide there. However, don't do remote administration for them! That's even worse than Microsoft's tracking! Whenever you install Linux on someone else's computer, don't be all about efficiency, they are coming from Windows and just want it to be easy to use. I use Mate myself, but it is not the thing I would recommend to others. In other words, put your own preferences aside in favor of objective usability. You're trying to sell people on a product, not to impose your own point of view. Dualboot with Windows is fine, gaming still sucks on Linux for the most part. Lots of people don't have their games on Steam. CAD software and such is still nonexistent (OpenSCAD is very interesting but don't tell me it's user-friendly). People are familiar with Windows. If you were to be swimming for the first time in the deep water, would you go without aids? I don't think so.

So, Linux can be shown and be actually usable by regular people. Just pitch it in the right way.

Is it weird to be one of those people who prefer to use open source software, but will use proprietary software if I have to?

Is there anyone else on devRant like this?!

Super trivial but who ships a laptop to a new employee with random software on that is clearly for their own preferences? I don't use classic shell, I don't like classic shell, and it hugely fucked with both my opinion of the new place (an IT company, ffs) and my estimation of the person who configured it. Do whatever shit you must on your own machine but get out of my way and let me use the fucking os without more pointless shit! I wouldn't do this to you, no matter how much I might love some obscure additional layer for primarily nostalgic reasons. Raging!

Woke up feeling like shit. 2 of my kids were puking their guts out. I had stuffy nose and didn't want to exist. So I slept until 1:30pm. Woke up to work on setting up my new computer. I have been working on it since Sunday.

I finally got my old computer backed up to an external 8GB drive. I use Aomei and I like it. I needed backup software for the new computer. I thought about getting Aomei pro again. I went looking through my emails from them and saw I can buy a license for 5 computers forever for like $50 or something. The retail is about $300 or something. The cost of 1 license on page with deals was like $70 forever. I say forever as they have yearly fee model I don't want. The others are a single price once forever. Free updates too. So anyway I get the 5 license thing. Now I have 2 licenses so I can outfit 6 computers. Nice deal. The $50 was better than their general sale price of like $90.

Anyway so I am working on the new computer finding all the shit I hate about Windows 11. I am confronted with a fucking default setting for every folder to sort by date grouping on the files. This is the single worse default I have ever seen in a file manager. So I figured out how to apply a default to all folders to turn grouping to None. Yeah. Then I go download stuff using Firefox and it is fucking grouping things by date in the Save dialogs! WTF is this shit?!

I search about Firefox and they said its a Windows default setting. I find I can right click in dialog to set grouping to None again. But I have to do this on every fucking directory! Fuck you windows. I finally break down I use this third party tool called WinSetView. I am kind of not wanting to have to use third party shit. But I have been staring at this POS problem for like 2 hours. Oh, yeah, even as admin I cannot change the registry key that would set the default to None. Fuck you windows.

So I use WinSetView and it works very fast. I check and it seems to have done the job. Time will tell on this. I cannot tell 100% because all my folders were tweaked every time I right clicked in the save dialog. I also learned these tweaks might be limited to 5000 total in the registry. What a shit show. At some point during this I submitted feedback to Microfsoft to fix this. We shouldn't be editing the registry to fix preferences.

Another issue I had was right clicking a file brings some shitty ass new dialog. It requires another click to be able to do thing like create a shortcut or scan a file with av. It also makes it so I have to either click again or hold down shift to unzip with 7z. I was already tired of this shit. I was going to try tweaking it with registry, but figured I would learn how to shift click. Best of both world? However WinSetView after I ran it fixed this shit show too! Happy surprise!

Friends don't let friends run Windows. But if you have to friends don't let friends run Windows 11 without WinSetView.

I am sure I will have things to complain about. Like firefox having a skinny scrollbar by default. Fuck you Firefox!

I think I want to hop distro's.
Been using Manjaro xfce for like 6 months now. It's been really good(especially the AUR and software repos) but every now and then I found myself tinkering with weird probelms, especially when it comes to Nvidia drivers.

I need an easy to use, fire-and forget(auto hardware detection) distro with the newest software possible(I develop in Android and Node, and the most recent versions of IDE's and software are important.

I also don't want too much bloatware. I don't mind that much about customizability, as long as the default UI isn't ugly and hard to use.

Which diatro and DE you guys can recommend according to my preferences?

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