In case you're not being silly, here -- More vintage memes from someone who's been online for too long.
In case you are, then -- e-hem So, you like to play Castlevania?
That.
I'll add that a lot of the issues people have with the registry have less to do with the registry itself (it's just -- A database of settings. Nothing shocking about that) and a lot to do with Windows' philosophy and the problems that creates.
Like yes, the registry of a computer that has been running windows for a few years is a bloated mess which creates a bunch of problems of its own -- But that's not in and of itself because the registry is a centralised binary database.
Rather it is because -- Well. Microsoft. Tech corporations in general. Want computers to behave like magic boxes. Not machines you have to learn to operate. This means that whenever you install something or modify something on windows, you are left in the dark as to a lot of the stuff going on under the hood. Windows error messages are very obscure and nonspecific. When you install something, do you know what it has added to your registry? What dlls it has dropped around your machine? And with so many third party programmes and utilities dropping into the system, that shit builds up, and not even an experienced user will fully know what has built up unless they've been making a deliberate effort to keep track.
Compare that to Linux, which is made by nerds FOR nerds... And so everything is thoroughly documented. With the general unspoken understanding that a. You will sooner or later go under the hood and mess about in there; and b. If something fucks up, whether it is directly your fault or not, you're the one who will have to fix it, so here's ALL the receipts on how shit works so you CAN do that.
People who don't like Glass Themes can't be my friends. Frutiger Aero looks like happiness and a better time when technology was exciting instead of alarming.
You are otherwise entitled to your opinion (fwiw I never used those libraries and still don't know what they were FOR) and I entirely believe your experience of having instability. Windows just be like that sometimes. No pooping here.
Nothing wrong with the Registry
It's a different way of handling things compared to how Linux (and most unixes) does it with 18391823 text files
But it's a perfectly functional and sensible solution for storing system configurations.
Not really
Windows 7 was pretty, it was customisable, it was stable. And microshaft had yet to start fucking about with ads everywhere and invasive "features". Peak windows right there.
XP was also pretty good for its time. At that point Linux and OSX had caught up and surpassed it in many ways, but it did what it had to without getting in the way.
95 was an innovator if anything, ahead of pretty much anything else on desktop at the time, even if it DID fart and die whenever someone looked at it funny.
It was always a proprietary creation by an anticompetitive tech megacorp, and therefore bad from THAT angle, but it didn't start being truly shite from a pure user experience angle until like. 8.
Perhaps, but what I do know is modern NVidia GPUs do work on Linux. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My friend has a laptop with -- Some low-tier mobile RTX-2000 series card, idfk -- And games on it on Linux.
Hence "seems more likely that cards older than the 500 series are still borked since no one cares"
I think only up FROM the 570 is more likely.
Calling Linux's version of DVR a "viable video editor" is rich given that a. It doesn't work on most distros (it's designed for Rocky Linux. It throws a fit on any other distro. You need to jerry-rig it), requiring a whole thang to get it to play nice; and that b. It doesn't support any of the video formats and codecs people actually want to use, for seemingly no reason, since the Windows version supports those formats just fine.
KDENLiVe is like, fine for a simple project, but you quickly start hitting your head on its limitations. Plus its UI sucks just in general.
Video editing is the reason I keep a small Windows install, because sometimes I need to do video stuff for work and -- Sorry. No. No Linux video editor even compares to the likes of Premiere and Vegas. They're still barely above Windows Movie Maker.
GIMP is a perfectly serviceable image editor, and yes, GIMP 3 is a major improvement -- But it's kinda missing a lot of things Photoshop users take for granted, and its UI and hotkeys are very idiosyncratic, which makes migrating very hard (... I sorta have the opposite problem though. I learned image editing on GIMP and all my muscle memory is GIMP oriented, so even when I'm on my 'time to work' windows install, I only really open PS if I desperately need one of its exclusive functions)
Who replaces a car over a shitstain? You just go to the car wash.
The car owner replacing it is exactly the scenario we are trying to avoid here, as a Tesla owner is very likely to buy another Tesla and put more money on Musk's pocket.
No this is an act of bullying. At most an inconvenience, but will make the day of a Tesla owner slightly worse. If enough people do it to enough Teslas, maybe people will link "owns a Tesla" with "social pariah".
"Oh yeah, it's tail time"
Anything from Supergiant Games
I just make a point to remove the songs with lyrics because lyrics distract me.
Y'know.
The people doing the Ash Coma theory for Pokeymen are really sleeping on a much cooler and equally dark theory.
Ash did die in the first episode. Not a coma, but a straight up death.
... And then he was brought back to life. As he wakes up from Pikachu's sacrifice, he sees Ho-Oh. A lot of ado is made in the first few serieses of the Anime about how Ho-Oh appears before trainers that are earmarked for greatness.
Ho-Oh brought Ash and Pikachu back to life after both of them showed they were willing to give their lives for their newly met friend -- It IS a literal Phoenix. It presumably liked what these two idiots were going for, and decided to give them another chance at life.
The reason Ash doesn't age -- And the reason he seems to cartoonishly shake off danger in every episode after Pokémon I Choose You -- is because when Ho-Oh revived him it made him immortal like itself, time-freezing the young boy.
And in exchange, every time something went wrong in the Pokémon anime world, Ash was the one who was always coincidentally nearby and ready for adventure (see: Every movie)
Of course, our boy doesn't mind, he mostly enjoys adventures. And he got basically infinite tries at his dream of becoming League Champion -- Which eventually stuck.