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Don't Be Mean Guys. It Can Backfire.

5 hours ago 92.1K views 0 shares

You know you've crossed a line when someone goes from Ubuntu to Windows. That's not just switching distros—that's a full nuclear option. Imagine being so insufferable about your "btw I use Arch" superiority complex that you literally drove someone to install an OS that comes with Candy Crush pre-installed. That's a war crime in the Linux community. The clown makeup is appropriate because you played yourself. You didn't just lose a friend—you lost them to Windows . They'd rather deal with forced updates, telemetry, and the occasional blue screen than hear one more word from you. That's the kind of damage control you can't undo with a simple sudo apt-get install friendship . Let this be a lesson: gatekeeping is a hell of a drug. Sometimes people just want their computer to work without compiling their own kernel.

Are You This Old??

Networking Security Windows

6 hours ago 104.0K views 0 shares

Dial-up internet connection dialogs were the loading screens of the ancient times. You'd literally have to input a phone number, hear the modem screech like a dying robot, and pray nobody picked up the landline while you were downloading a 2MB file. The best part? That "Save password for anyone who uses this computer" option was basically the original zero-trust security model... except backwards. Nothing says "cybersecurity" like storing ISP credentials in plaintext for the entire household to accidentally nuke your connection mid-download. If you remember this screen, you also remember the existential dread of someone yelling "I NEED TO USE THE PHONE" while you were 95% done downloading a Winamp skin.

One Drive Supremacy

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11 hours ago 175.7K views 0 shares

You just want a simple local folder structure. Maybe some sensible naming conventions. Perhaps the radical idea of knowing exactly where your files are without an internet connection. But OneDrive has other plans for you. It'll hijack your Desktop, Documents, and Pictures folders before you can say "wait, I didn't agree to this." Suddenly everything's syncing to the cloud whether you like it or not, your disk space is a mystery, and you're getting passive-aggressive notifications about storage limits you never asked about. The knife in OneDrive's hand? That's the "helpful" feature where it moves your files without asking and then acts like it did you a favor. Classic Microsoft energy right there.

This Year Will Be Different Right?......Right?

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13 hours ago 154.1K views 0 shares

This Year Will Be Different Right?......Right?

The Linux community has been declaring "the year of Linux desktop" since approximately 1999, and here we are in 2026, still making the same proclamation. It's become the tech world's equivalent of "next year is our year" from sports fans of perpetually losing teams. The socially awkward penguin format nails it perfectly—optimistically announcing 2026 as Linux's breakthrough year while conveniently ignoring the two decades of identical predictions that came before. Desktop Linux market share has been hovering around 2-4% for ages, but hope springs eternal in the hearts of distro-hoppers everywhere. Sure, Linux dominates servers, powers Android, runs the cloud, and basically keeps the internet alive... but getting grandma to switch from Windows? That's the final boss fight Linux just can't seem to win. Maybe 2027 will be different though? 🐧

A Couple Of Things May Not Be Accurate But Still Funny

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1 day ago 162.0K views 0 shares

A Couple Of Things May Not Be Accurate But Still Funny

The corporate version of "things that don't matter" except they absolutely do matter and we're all lying to ourselves. AMD's driver situation has gotten way better over the years, but let's be real—we all know someone who still has PTSD from Catalyst Control Center. Windows bloatware is basically a feature at this point (looking at you, Candy Crush pre-installed on a $2000 machine). Intel's NM (nanometer) naming was already confusing before they switched to "Intel 7" because marketing > physics. And Sony/MacBook gaming? Sure, if you enjoy playing Solitaire at 4K. The NVIDIA VRAM one hits different though—12GB in 2024 for a $1200 GPU? Generous. And Ubisoft's game optimization is so legendary that your RTX 4090 will still stutter in their open-world games because they spent the budget on towers you can climb instead of performance. Crucial's "consumers don't matter" is just accurate business strategy—they're too busy selling to data centers to care about your gaming rig.

PC Magic Trick

Windows Microsoft Debugging

2 days ago 280.5K views 0 shares

The forbidden knowledge that separates IT wizards from mere mortals. While everyone's frantically clicking around trying to figure out why Task Manager is frozen, you're sitting there with the secret: just hold CTRL and the process list stops jumping around like a caffeinated squirrel. It's the digital equivalent of knowing you can pause a microwave by opening the door—technically obvious once you know it, but absolutely mind-blowing to witness for the first time. The real power move is casually dropping this knowledge at family gatherings when someone asks you to "fix the computer." You become the Gandalf of Windows troubleshooting. Bonus points if you combine it with other Task Manager sorcery like Ctrl+Shift+Esc to summon it directly, or sorting by memory usage to identify which Chrome tab has achieved sentience.

When You Turn On Your PC I Want You To See This

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4 days ago 229.9K views 0 shares

When You Turn On Your PC I Want You To See This

Nothing says "good morning" quite like a Windows lock screen that's been absolutely demolished by graphics driver corruption. That beautiful beach scene has been transformed into a Picasso painting that nobody asked for, with chunks of the screen deciding to take a vacation to different coordinates. The GPU is basically having an existential crisis, rendering artifacts like it's trying to open a portal to another dimension. Could be a dying graphics card, corrupted VRAM, or maybe Windows Update decided to "helpfully" install the wrong driver at 3 AM last night. Either way, your display is serving major glitch art vibes. The Gru reaction perfectly captures that moment of pure disgust when you realize your day is starting with troubleshooting instead of coffee. Time to boot into safe mode, DDU that driver, and pray to the silicon gods that it's just software and not a $500 GPU replacement situation.

Truth

Linux Windows Programming

5 days ago 186.5K views 0 shares

Windows politely asks your programs if they'd like to shut down, waits patiently, sends reminders, checks if they saved their work, and basically treats shutdown like a diplomatic negotiation. Meanwhile, Linux just yeeted Firefox into the stratosphere with zero hesitation. No questions asked, no survivors. The contrast is beautiful: Windows with its "graceful shutdown process" that sometimes takes longer than your actual work session, versus Linux's kill -9 energy. One treats processes like valued guests, the other treats them like they're trespassing. Guess which one actually shuts down faster?

Finally Got Sick Of Windows 11 Bloatware And Got Ram Usage Down To 2.5 GiB...

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6 days ago 167.5K views 0 shares

Finally Got Sick Of Windows 11 Bloatware And Got Ram Usage Down To 2.5 GiB...

So you got tired of Windows eating 8GB of RAM just to show you ads in the Start menu and switched to Linux. Now you're flexing that sweet 2.5GB RAM usage with Arch btw (yes, they run Arch, of course they do). The real plot twist? They've got an RTX 3080 and a Ryzen 9 5900X with 32GB of RAM. Dude could run a small datacenter but is celebrating saving 5GB like they just discovered fire. Classic Linux convert energy—spending three days configuring everything to save resources they weren't even running out of. But hey, at least neofetch looks pretty and you can finally see your anime wallpaper without Microsoft Edge randomly launching itself.

Triple E Or Something

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7 days ago 258.6K views 0 shares

Microsoft's product strategy in a nutshell: throw everything at the wall, see what sticks, then pretend the blood puddles were part of the plan all along. Windows Phone? Dead. Skype? Somehow still technically alive but nobody's checking for a pulse. Windows 10? They promised it would be the "last version of Windows" then immediately started working on Windows 11. Meanwhile GitHub is just chilling in the corner, the golden child acquisition that actually worked out. Probably because Microsoft learned their lesson: buy successful things and don't touch them too much. Revolutionary strategy, really. The "EEE" reference is *chef's kiss* - that's "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish," Microsoft's infamous strategy from the 90s where they'd adopt open standards, add proprietary features, then kill the competition. Now they're just extinguishing their own products. Character development, I guess?

Real

Linux Microsoft Windows

8 days ago 166.3K views 0 shares

You know that feeling when you boot into Windows for "just one thing" and suddenly you're confronted with forced updates, driver issues, the sheer audacity of Candy Crush being pre-installed again, and a UI that can't decide if it's from 2001 or 2023? Yeah, Linux users last about 10 minutes before they're literally kissing the ground in relief to be back home. It's like leaving your perfectly configured i3wm setup with your custom dotfiles to use an OS that thinks you need Cortana. The psychological damage is immediate and severe. We tell ourselves "I'll just test this one thing in Windows" and end up speedrunning back to the terminal where everything makes sense and you don't need to restart for every single update. The grass isn't greener on the other side when you've spent years cultivating your own perfect Linux garden. Windows is just a reminder of why you left in the first place.

We Read Between The Lines

Rust AI C++ Microsoft Windows

9 days ago 236.5K views 0 shares

When a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft posts about a "research project" involving Rust and language migration tooling, the entire tech community immediately assumes Windows is getting rewritten in Rust with AI. Because obviously that's the only logical conclusion, right? The poor guy had to issue a clarification that basically reads like a panicked "GUYS NO STOP" after the internet collectively decided his innocent recruitment post was secretly announcing the death of C++ at Microsoft. He's literally just trying to hire some engineers for a multi-year research project, but developers have become so good at reading corporate tea leaves that they've evolved into full-blown conspiracy theorists. The funniest part? He had to explicitly state that Rust is NOT an endpoint. Like, imagine having to clarify that your experimental tooling project isn't going to replace the entire Windows kernel. That's the level of speculation we're dealing with here. The developer community saw "Microsoft + Rust + AI" and immediately started planning their C++ funeral arrangements. Pro tip: When your LinkedIn post needs an "Update" section longer than the original post to walk back assumptions you never made, you've successfully triggered the tech hivemind.

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