The terminal all of a sudden isn't so scary when you're jonesing to play games with kernel level anticheat. Desperate times call for desperate measures, huh?
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It amazes me how quickly the average user locks up the second the terminal opens.
But then again, I get called a wizard because I know keyboard shortcuts and don't have to constantly switch my mouse hand back and forth while doing stuff.
probably because the windows terminal is dogshit ugly
Depends on if you're talking about cmd (agree) or powershell (you're wrong). I don't see a big UX difference between bash and cmd, but something like powershell has native syntax highlighting and I enjoy the default blue theme.
I miss having powershell available, and I haven't figured out how to get pwsh working on my Bazzite box.
I kinda liked the w11 terminal but stopped missing it after switching to linux and seeing most terminals being set up in a similar way
Yeah, I'm not a fan of terminal myself, but at least you can make it use pwsh as the default shell.
I'm more tech-savvy than the average person, and the terminal still is scary to me
Linux users overestimate how tech savvy average person is. They know 5 GNU utils at most
And nano of course.
You meant vim (let the holy war commence)
I've been coding in Vim for over a decade, and I'm way faster than IDE colleagues.
Vim may have a steep learning curve, but is very rewarding.
I think the biggest scare comes from the only time people ever see the terminal is if a virus or some kind of hacker brings it up, but I still love the idea of never touching a terminal(stupid mpv player)
Wait, what game was this? The new Battleslop?
Many competitive games, but yeah the new battleslop even has TPM 2.0 (and secure boot) requirement besides the kernel level anticheat.
Kernel level Saudi spyware, you mean?
True, that is a recent development. Well, it's not like I've given them much money over the years, I think the last game I bought was Battlefield 2 so I could play Project Reality back in 2013.
My brother got a new laptop and was interested in Linux, so I offered to help him set up a dual boot
He didn't want to connect a Microsoft account, so we tried to make a local one
After 15 minutes, he said "to hell with Windows" and he's been a Linux main ever since XD
I got my laptop about 4 years ago and the first year I stuck with the windows it came with. Then I started trying out dual booting for 2 years with more and more just not bothering with booting windows at all. Until a windows update fucked up my bootloader and also literally deleted my linux partition. Immediately nuked any traces of windows off the disk and now it runs in a VM in case I need to use an app that does not like WINE
Sending this to multiple friends who claim the terminal is bad
It really do be like that sometimes.
Ugly mockering!
All we casually-happy windowers do, is to download magical_local_account_setup_totally_not_a_virus.exe and do pray!
And if black popup of terminal do happen and self closes, we do pray more!
True windows user do not know magic, but very single spell of fckgwrhqq2...
"You don't get it it's really easy you just have to open Windows Ter-"
I am at the backing up my harddrive stage of purging ny last computer of Windows. Windows 11 at work is too much.
For sake of update: had no real issues. Couple hangups after installation with waking up after sleep mode and an initial glitch with steam: smooth sailing.
Bazzite does its job well. Gets you up and running, linked to Steam and running games. That was 99% of my gaming rig's purpose anymore.
Only functionality apparently lost to me is the ability to run Stable Diffusion which I could give a shit less about and haven't really run since 2023 when I wanted to figure out wtf was going on with AI.
Huh. What happened to all the Linux-will-not-be-mainstream-as-long-as-you-need-terminal folks
THANK YOU OMG
Back in the day I played on windows, most software companies troubleshoots and M$ MPVs recommendations were:
- reinstall the game
- reinstall the EA/Ubi launcher
- reinstall windows.
Since I had to reinstall windows a lot, I set my user folder & friends in another drive during installation. This gif is just about the steps to get it done.
Of course now that is the same thing. Because without a local account all user folders are forced into onedrive, and then CAN NOT be moved to a different drive.
Remember: most Windows users don't know or care what a Microsoft account is, they'll just make one as part of the setup process.
And then you switch to Mint and it is like you lived in a cave for years and finally walked outside and life is beautiful and the sun is shining