• AnonTwo
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    831 year ago

    This meme shows up here way too often…like every other day…

    • @hansl
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      321 year ago

      Obviously there’s a need for people in this comm to uninstall their boot loaders, and a frustration that Windows won’t let them.

    • genoxidedev1
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      71 year ago

      Noticed that too, my memory is absolute godshit and even I remember having seen it at least twice now in the current recency.

    • @MJBrune
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      11 year ago

      We are really mimicking Reddit.

    • Eochaid
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      And it’s not even that great of a flex too. “My OS lets me sudo commands that will break my system.” Great, so your system lets you accidentally break the system with a fat finger mistake? Why would I want that?

      Windows is geared towards a general audience that includes some of the dumbest and least technically literate people to ever walk the earth. And they have to support it. Of course they’re going to limit your permissions.

      • @[email protected]
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        Using that argument as a basis for why it’s ok for MS to disallow uninstallation of Edge: 🤡

        • Eochaid
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          Did I say I was defending MS’ restrictions on Edge? No. I think it’s dumb, but not for the reason you think.

          MS prevents you from uninstalling edge because for some stupid reason a bunch of system processes and their store all require and use edge as a dependency. Removing edge would actually break a lot of things in windows. Is it stupid? Absolutely. But the reason they don’t want to do that is because MS implements a lot of restrictions like this to prevent their end users from breaking windows with stupid mistakes.

          But this meme isn’t about allowing people to removing edge. Its trying to flex on the capabilities of linux vs. windows but using the laziest smooth brained way to do that. There are a lot of benefits to linux over windows. But the ability to sudo fuck your bootloader isn’t one of them.

          • @thedeadwalking4242
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            51 year ago

            The reason they don’t is because of the antitrust suit they had back in the day. The tried to argue internet explorer was a integrated part of the OS so they didn’t have to remove it. Now they are forcing edge to be just that so they do their old anti trust shit again

          • @[email protected]
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            Are those lot of things actually useful? I forcibly removed edge or most of its files anyway and had no issue. The links won’t work obviously but that’s a feature to me. Fuck edge and windows.

            • Eochaid
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              21 year ago

              Look I’m not going to defend windows or Microsoft. Personally I doubt its useful at all but it doesn’t really matter. A broken dependency is a broken dependency.

              Even if it’s a pet project from a bing exec that’s completely unnecessary - if removing it will break things, an os geared towards a general public should prevent it from being removed.

          • @voidMainVoid
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            11 year ago

            One of the things that people like about Linux is how configurable it is. This meme is alluding to the power that Linux gives users through a technique known as “humor”.

            • Eochaid
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              Oh duh, you’re absolutely right, I forgot about the oft used configuration option of “sudo fuck my boot loader = enabled”

              If linuxmemes thinks this meme is humor, it explains a lot.

        • AnonTwo
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          11 year ago

          It could be said that while there’s a million good reasons to allow uninstallation of edge, this is taking one of the weakest ones.

          You could easily vouch for it and still think it’s not really that great to point out something that would easily break the PC for a lot of inexperienced users.