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[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The Linux elders warned me about those who would tempt me towards ecosystem damnation... (/s)

In all seriousness, I just don't care. I have a nice, personal DIY desktop, and my work/business laptop is literally a rescued x86 device from an e-waste pile that I replaced the display panel for, installed 32GB of ram, and added an 1TB SSD. I have no value for those "Apple comforts". I've spent enough time in my IT career inside of those damned things to know I hate looking at one or holding one.

My favorite part of my last contract job was to smash an entire school's collection of discarded Macs with a sledgehammer.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah yes. I know you. You didn't swelter under the obnoxious blaring idiocy of Windows long enough. You're either too young to be terrorized by winsock issues or nerdy enough to have bypassed all gravitational social tech support requirements in the 90's/2000's.

Either way, the inevitable troubleshooting still holds appeal of some sort, and that's good. I've got a couple of classic stinkpads running various flavors of (well, I'm sure all Debian really) and they're lots of fun, it's true. But the idea that I can use a single laptop for weeks or even months without ever once encountering an error or odd behavior or required updates or even restarting is wonderful enough for me to be happy with it.

It's like if you ever got an ink-tank printer and suddenly didn't worry about buying printer cartridges anymore. That feeling of enlightenment, like there's a whole level of experience where no one gives a shit how many pages of things they print because it's free. Glorious.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

(You do realize that some Linux distros are quite stable compared to Windows right? I haven't had to troubleshoot my Mint installation in years.)

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Oh sure, sure. But the last time I had to troubleshoot my main system was . . . Probably a decade ago. I troubleshoot rebuilding old ones or some twit friend-or-family that has to run some microsoft garbage but for me, troubleshooting’s like - nothin’ at all! . . . nothin’ at all! . . . nothin’ at all!