• Julian@lemm.eeEnglish
    72·
    11 days ago

    I think the real thing we need to do to attract windows users is have tuxkart installed by default.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
      121·
      11 days ago

      The key is to have that infinite money glitch, aka be born rich and have parents that stay rich

  • IHeartBadCode@fedia.io
    23·
    11 days ago

    In all fairness paranoia is important in things like finding someone trying to slip a backdoor into xz. Going by the most recent Windows 11 update, Microsoft seems to be “we’ll fix it in production”.

    • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
      15·
      11 days ago

      Well it wasn’t so much paranoia as obsession. The person who found it wasn’t paranoid, they just went “Why is my connection taking a quarter of a second longer than it used to? This is unacceptable!!!”

      • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        11 days ago

        Technically they thought they might have introduced a bug that caused the delay / a regression and set about investigating it. Pretty sure it was a Microsoft developer too.

        • Evkob@lemmy.ca
          6·
          11 days ago

          Pretty sure it was a Microsoft developer too.

          Indeed it was, a PostgreSQL dev by the name of Andres Freund.

    • madthumbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      182·
      11 days ago

      There are much better kart games out there like Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed, or Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled. Tuxkart does have a lot of user created tracks and you can make your own, so there is somewhat a draw for that.

        • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 days ago

          Nightmare Kart is like playing Mario Kart for the first time again, or Chocobo Racing. Gave me nostalgia for a game I never played before.

      • leopold@lemmy.kde.social
        2·
        11 days ago

        Eh, even with track creation, I prefer Modnation Racers and its spiritual successor LittleBigPlanet Karting. Shame both games are stuck on the PS3, but then SuperTuxKart still looks like it came out of the PS2. They run well in RPCS3 and online still works for track sharing through fan servers.

        Also, I wasn’t that impressed by Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled. It does have tons of content, certainly worth the price. Never played the originals and the remake sure does look pretty, but the track design feels pretty simple, probably because they’re from a PS1 game. Simple track layouts, few gimmicks. Some people might prefer that, but not me. I’m sure CTR beat the socks off Mario Kart 64 back in the day, but the tracks in modern Mario Kart are to me far more interesting. I expected more out of it given all the hype. Plus, for some unfathomable reason despite being multiplatform the game was only released on consoles, not PC, so that’s another game you have to emulate to play on PC. And if you do have a console to play it on, it’s locked at 30fps regardless of platform, which is disappointing for a racing game. There’s a 60fps mod if you emulate tho, thankfully.

        All-Stars Racing Transformed does have my glowing recommendation, though.

      • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
        1·
        11 days ago

        Sonic all stars racong transformed is so peak, i played it on me moms ipad when i was little.

    • jqubed@lemmy.world
      3·
      11 days ago

      Mario Kart can be fun depending on how your partner is with video games in general and how you are as a couple competitively. Overcooked can also be a good franchise as a coop game but I’ve also heard in some languages it’s referred to as “divorce kitchen” so your mileage may vary.

  • kbal@fedia.io
    7·
    11 days ago

    Windows users have regrets

    Mac users have stockholm syndrome

    Linux users have a computer

    • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
      71·
      11 days ago

      If you’ve consistently only bought products from one company rather than buying the best product available, and never even bothered trying something else, then yes, you do seem to.

  • abbadon420@lemm.ee
    2·
    11 days ago

    I’m a windows user and I don’t deny anything. I’m just too lazy to switch to Linux and I need the full functionality of Teams for my job.

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      1·
      11 days ago

      The Linux Teams app works. I’m not sure what is missing other than MS abandoning dev on it

      • abbadon420@lemm.ee
        2·
        11 days ago

        For one thing, you can’t make break-out rooms in Linux, which is something I need to do all the time.

        • BCsven@lemmy.ca
          4·
          11 days ago

          Hmm, that sucks. I was disappointed they trashed it almost as soon as it started…like a Killed By Googke thing

        • Petter1@lemm.ee
          4·
          11 days ago

          Crazy, that the web app is missing this, when the windows app is just webView as well…

  • Dicska@lemmy.world
    1·
    11 days ago

    And then there are the (multiplayer) gamers. It’s great that I can play SO many more offline/single player games than I used to on Linux, but I can’t help if the ones I like to play are all unsupported (and probably will be for a looong time).

    I would have switched to Linux about 20 years ago if it was possible, but unfortunately, developing exploit free, stable anti cheats for competitive multiplayers on multiple OS’s is a nightmare, and I get why most developers resort to picking the currently most widely used one. It’s just a shame because otherwise I prefer Linux over Windows in many aspects.

    • lefaucet@slrpnk.net
      4·
      11 days ago

      I’m really rooting for SteamOS :D

      More OS competition the better. As both a windows and Linux user I can tell you 100% Microsoft has been prioritizing data collection over productivity, ease of use and hardware longevity.

      Their OS has become more cluttered and awkward than ever

      It takes days to clear out all the pop-ups and disable all the things you don’t want. I find the ways of configuring networks and hardware is becoming more convoluted yet no more capable than window XP; nor any simpler.

      To disable copilot AI assistant it took IT over a day to figure out. In our business we are legally not permitted to share client data with third parties for any reason. It required doing some obscure command line situation not documented outside of a forum post on Microsoft’s support forums. Same with installing without a Microsoft account and disabling one drive.

      Unfortunately we also need to be able to use commercial software that isn’t supported under Linux and sometimes need more obscure software that is Windows only, so we are a bit stuck.

      At home I use a couple Linux OSes on my workstation and servers. They are genuinely programmed to operate in as efficient and clean way as possible and I can build from there. It runs just as reliably on 15 year old hardware as it does on my latest rig. I also have a MacBook that runs really well, works seamlessly with my servers, offers the same terminal experience I have on my *nix workstations and never crashes.

      *Nixes are more straight-forward, better documented and starts with most addons turned off. If you want, you can install an AI assistant. You certainly won’t have to choose to waste a day figuring out how to disable a pre-installed AI assistant or paying someone hundreds of dollars to disable it.

      And I shouldn’t even start on how much a pain in the ass drive letters and fucking backslashes that need to be escaped/unescaped and translated to/from OS-X/*nix paths in data stores… And what the fuck they can’t get a proper sym-link implementation going?

      They shoulda done what Apple did with OSX. Recognize OS-9 was saddled with too much complicated under-structure and start over with a clean, mature, standardized, optimized and extensible *nix. NT was a huge improvement over the OG windows, but it’s time for another refresh and what they got cooking with power Shell, Linux subsystem and their obsession with data collection and forcefeeding one cloud/copilot/accounts is not good.

      Ah hell, you got me going. I’m ramblin again.

      Point is, I’ve daily driven Win, OSX and *nix for decades. Hell, I started with MS-DOS 'cause Windows took too much space on my state-of-the-art 286 with 1 meg of RAM and have been a windows user for the majority of my life. Windows is the most convoluted and bloated and least secure of all the OSes. They’ve only kept their dominance through educating a generation of engineers on .net/direct-x, locking companies in with Office/outlook and promising corporations to spy on employees…

      …The end.

  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee
    45·
    11 days ago

    Linux

    Have time to make everything work before doing anything

    Also I live in a river in Egypt bitch, guess which one first one guess doesn’t count and you can’t repeat guesses and only possible answers allowed…

    Also there’s a camera recording everything I’m doing at all times that’s somewhat accessible to hackers.

    • edinbruh@feddit.it
      41·
      11 days ago

      First guess is “the Nile” second guess is “denial” , third guess is Sinai. Also, what the hell is that, an AI catcher?

      • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee
        1·
        11 days ago

        I don’t know man. I was really bored and being silly and sucking at it.

        The idea is that there’s only one river in Egypt. The Nile and denial was what I was going for, yes obviously, but that’s not a river in Egypt. Egypt the denial isn’t just play on words and then I kept on going because that’s how I communicate