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Once you really learn GIMP, its the GOAT. It just looks like the top-of-the-line tools did 20 years ago.

Been getting worse every day since XP was shelved.

Microsoft is a cancer.

I find it interesting that the Greedy Old Pedo party is so willing to give up their anonymous gay porn surfing for a quick buck from telecoms. Then again, they have never been good at big picture or predicting completely forseeable outcomes.

that’s desperate measures more like there’s always yarr harr yo ho

Endymion_mallorn’s comment is 8 words. Yours is the tantrum, and is incredibly suspicious, not to mention blind to so many issues re FOSS ideology.

AI chatbots eliminate 78% of the pain in the ass associated with getting a distro working in the real world. I’m off of win11 and on Mint. It wasn’t plug and play and permissions and ownership pisses me off to no end, but it’s working, Bottles is working, it looks great, and isn’t spying on me or constantly trying to sell me shit. My SO just last night said something shitty about how nobody uses Linux and I’m not special. My response was to say that pretty much every computer that isn’t a personal computer uses linux, and Microsoft has gone to absurdity in terms of restriction, spyware, and ads.

I love GIMP, regardless of UI.

Just like the good ol’ days in the Bronze Age.

Don’t look at the Debian website.

I chided someone earlier today for what I thought was a neckbeard superiority complex. It was a cheap shot. It’s a lot better than it used to be. The nerds tolerate you if you use Mint.

On the plus side, you don’t have to m----r the goats to get your money back.

Isn’t EA the company recently making headlines for being a power and money-hungry greed machine pushing the inshittification of the digital world and subscription-based life?

Gosh it sucks when someone with more leverage institutes unreasonable and unprecedented restrictions and demands, huh? The narcissism mind-virus is insane.

The female sims will have a fulfilling existence, just limited to the confines of their home and subject to their husband’s authority. /s

Weird. I think they like them a lot more than they let on (sandy sexy secrets).

To be fair to your point, windows does seem to be biased toward HP products - I have a really nice Canon $100 laser printer that makes any HP look like dogvomit, and windows is awfully forgetful, acting like they haven’t met on the rare occasions I have to use it.

That is literally impossible to say, as you said, “hostile vendors” and all. I’ve had a chance to think about it, and I’m not sure they’re hostile, probably just lazy. At any rate, I sense some willful blindness on your part; exactly the kind of thing I was saying holds back progress. You type some terse retort and push your keyboard away, satisfied you’ve told some stupid normie off- I’m not the one on the wrong side of the philosophical fence here, and my argument is not unique or new.

Those are good points, and accurate. I think my luck may just suck. I would be so happy to leave Nepo-baby Gates and his spyware company in the 20th century where it belongs.

My self-hosted services run on a repurposed thinkstation with a headless Debian install.

I had a Mint VM I loaded up with stuff - bottles, etc. It was all going pretty well, the install was almost as big as winblows which I wasn’t excited about, but I really like Mint. I had a Linux Lite VM i was using for a separate secure connection to my work vnc. I didn’t want my personal computer being legally discoverable just because I used it to connect to the mothership. On both of those, I wasn’t doing a lot of sharing, printing, or other intermediate or hardware tasks.

For what I was doing, it worked pretty mostly fine. There was always a level of tinkering that is beyond what a normie would be willing or able to do. I do get tired of having to manually enter the commands to make the distro display correctly on my ultrawide monitor, but it is understandable.

I don’t hate Linux. I like it. It has gotten a lot better in the last 20 years; I’ve watched it happen. There are just some things that remain frustrating, especially since I’m too dumb to remember CLI along with all the other things I know.