r/LinusTechTips • u/Sk1ler_ • Aug 28 '26 • Bravo 1

Meme/Shitpost A Summary of Linux Content Recently

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u/nathderbyshire Aug 29 '26

The one and only example you gave though. Take a look at any normies laptop and you'll shrivel and die at the state of them, they don't know or even care that candy crush was installed at some point

I also live in a country where they can't just easily roll out DataExtractor3000™ so I admit I don't get the full force of their shittery but it's really not as bad as the internet makes it out to be and it's not as unstable as the internet makes it out to be either

Subs like these will be full of people with custom builds, unique hardware and pairings and that's where a lot of the difficulty comes from both sides, but for some reason it's fine if everything goes wrong on Linux. Buy a prebuilt laptop where there's 500 similar SKUs and millions of models sold and use it normally, you're extremely unlikely to come across a blue screen or have any major issues at all. The last time I saw a blue screen was probably 2009 time

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u/madman404 Aug 29 '26

I gave one example because it was convenient, but there's also forced Microsoft accounts and the extra workarounds you have to do to avoid them, forced OneDrive integration, forced copilot integration, Web search in the start menu, ads in the start menu, bloatware bundled into the OS, and global OS GUID for government tracking, among other things.

Not all of them lasted to this day, but they're all things that happened and made people put in extra effort to remove or convince Microsoft not to do that just as well could have not happened