Watcher,

The company I work at only works with windows Servers

youngGoku,

Same… The principal engineer on this project also referred to me learning C# as my first exposure to a “real programming language”

After already being advanced in Python

And familiar with C, C++, JavaScript.

I think what he meant by “real” is it comes out of the box with proprietary windows components that aren’t going to work anywhere else and don’t have human readable code.

Double_A,
@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Ah yes… it is easy as long as you do something difficult first.

Reminds me of that comment on Dropbox where some guy said it’s going to fail because he can easily build something similar with an ftp server.

AlijahTheMediocre,

Nothing started easy, someone has to figure out the hard part for everyone else to benefit.

master,
@master@lem.serkozh.me avatar

Windows: “We dropped support for that thing you bought brand new 5 years ago”

Linux: “We are considering dropping support for something that has existed for longer than you had”

argv_minus_one,

Linux: “We’re dropping support for this device because we’re fairly sure we had the last one in existence and it just died.”

DrWeevilJammer,
@DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml avatar

Hell, I can get a 30 year old HP LaserJet 4 printer working just fine on almost any version of Linux with the official HPLIP CLI software provided by (shockingly) HP, which was updated 2 months ago with support for over 50 new printers and the following OSes:

  • LinuxMint 21.1
  • MxLinux 21.3
  • Elementary OS 7
  • Ubuntu 22.10
  • RHEL 8.6
  • RHEL 8.7
  • RHEL 9.1
  • Fedora 37

I HATE HP and their printers (PC LOAD LETTER WTF FOR LIFE) but I will admit that this is impressive support.

JackGreenEarth,

I could never go back to Windows, after having tasted the freedom of Linux.

DarkThoughts,

Linux has its flaws, but so does Windows. And for me, the flaws in Windows became much more annoying than the ones in Linux. Game compatibility was the main factor that kept me backt from using it on a desktop, and that's a non issue nowadays.

blackbrook,

Flaws I didn’t pay for piss me off a lot less.

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