Also the average ‘advanced’ windows user: if you open regedit and add this DWORD entry to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Microsoft/application/windows/something, then you can stop Microsoft from screwing you, but it’ll revert after each update so you gotta keep fixing it
Yeah. I’ve been spoiled by Linux for awhile, but sometime in the last few years, I realized I don’t reach for the terminal on Linux anymore to configure anything (other than crazy bullshit I compiled from source code… I am still me, after all.)
And Windows is still the usual level of pain, not amazing and not the worst… Well, I guess maybe now it really might be the worst, just because everything modern has gotten better.
The fact that I have to do combersome, confusing registry edits for simple changes on Windows sucks shit. I don’t think I’ve ever once intuitively known where to change something, or the way to do it once.
But it’s normalized for the people who have to go find the one fine site out of dozens that will steal your info because they’re afraid of learning something new in an era of ensuring no one learns new useful skills so it can be sold back to you.
Linux user: Hey I made a PowerShell script for you that’ll change the entry so you don’t ha…
“advanced” Windows user: KEEP YOUR HACKER LOONIX AWAY FROM ME
The installation progress is absolutely insane if you think about it.
Oh, so I just go on the internet and download a random executable with the expectation of running it and giving it administrator access and I have to do this every single time I want to install a new piece of software?!
I can’t imagine what could go wrong with such a system…
The average ‘advanced’ window user: CLI is scary!
Also the average ‘advanced’ windows user: if you open regedit and add this DWORD entry to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Microsoft/application/windows/something, then you can stop Microsoft from screwing you, but it’ll revert after each update so you gotta keep fixing it
Yeah. I’ve been spoiled by Linux for awhile, but sometime in the last few years, I realized I don’t reach for the terminal on Linux anymore to configure anything (other than crazy bullshit I compiled from source code… I am still me, after all.)
And Windows is still the usual level of pain, not amazing and not the worst… Well, I guess maybe now it really might be the worst, just because everything modern has gotten better.
The fact that I have to do combersome, confusing registry edits for simple changes on Windows sucks shit. I don’t think I’ve ever once intuitively known where to change something, or the way to do it once.
But it’s normalized for the people who have to go find the one fine site out of dozens that will steal your info because they’re afraid of learning something new in an era of ensuring no one learns new useful skills so it can be sold back to you.
Linux user: Hey I made a PowerShell script for you that’ll change the entry so you don’t ha… “advanced” Windows user: KEEP YOUR HACKER LOONIX AWAY FROM ME
But downloading a .reg file from some rando website is a-okay.
The installation progress is absolutely insane if you think about it.
Oh, so I just go on the internet and download a random executable with the expectation of running it and giving it administrator access and I have to do this every single time I want to install a new piece of software?!
I can’t imagine what could go wrong with such a system…