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PaperclipPerfector  2mo ago (text post)   3062 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for June 12, 2026

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I installed Linux Mint around Jan 2024, and I don't think I've booted into my windows partition in about a year. So I finally deleted it entirely and repurposed the space as a dedicated /home/ directory because steam games take up a lot of space.

Good riddance.

I have to use Windows 11 at work, and the little things that are bafflingly worse astound me. I tried to set an alarm, but the fucking alarm app refused to start without an update off the app store which it couldn't get because closed network. When I type in directories directly into the location bar of file explorer, the fucking autocomplete suggestion popups never go away after I hit enter. When I try to right click on a file, different menus pop up depending on whether it's the first or second time I've tried it, and they show different options entirely!

I just... what the fucking fuck is going on with Windows?

This is just what 10 years of no QA department and any new development being considered a cost center does to you.

I can't switch out from Windows because the window management behavior hasn't been destroyed yet. KDE has stupid defaults and limits which made window snapping flat out not work on high-resolution screens, so it was an instant non-starter (sure, I could go and edit the config... until it gets erased or moved in the next update, then you have to chase the setting down again). And GNOME is just worse OS X.

It's fortunate that StartAllBack exists to fix the menu (and a couple of Explorer issues that I just haven't noticed are likely alleviated by this software as well); I've just accepted that I need to pay to fix issues now just like Mac users generally have to add things Apple refuses to implement (famously, window-snapping).

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