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Content Janis Kluge jakluge 17h Due to sanctions, Russia is switching from Windows to Linux. The government wants to force domestic programmers to convert their software. But there are doubts: Many systems will have to be rebuilt from scratch, and there are few Linux experts around. kommersant.rudoc5570730 48 17 237 740 8 Kait i airenni Replying to jakluge You can't throw a political enemy out a fourth-floor Linux, though. 11:09 AM 20 Sep 22 Twitter for Android ProdrammerHumor.io

Content When you struggle to write a simple Minecraft clone Notch was able to build this in a cave. With a Windows Vista

Remember when upgrading from 8GB to 16GB of RAM made you feel like tech royalty? Now your Chrome tabs laugh as they consume 63.9GB of your 64GB memory while you sleep peacefully on your pile of cash that could've been spent on more sensible things... like more RAM. The task manager doesn't lie—your computer is one YouTube video away from spontaneous combustion.

Content You've seen Arch elitists, now get ready for Windows elitists Literally anything in POSIX is absolute garbage. While it's not clear what problem you are trying to solve, you can rest assured, that Windows offers something that's way better than what you have asked for. But then, you'd have to explain the problem (not your solution). 2 days ago Are you trying to solve a particular issue with the remote procedure call infrastructure that's already provided by the system? 2 days ago That's Windows specific, I'm trying for something portable. - itzjackyscode yesterday Just so that I understand: You (potentially) have a solution that's (potentially) optimal, but now you wish to depart from that solution, and implement one that's shitty, because it has to be implementable on shitty systems that run on shitty kernels. Is that approximately correct? yesterday My project is cross-platform because it's meant to work with a cross-platform emulator. Making it Windows-only would exclude a significant number of MacOS and Linux users. - itzjackyscode yesterday

Oh, the face of pure existential pain when someone casually mentions Windows in a room with a Linux user! That neck vein about to pop as they physically restrain themselves from launching into their rehearsed 47-minute TED talk about how they compiled their own kernel just to browse Reddit. Meanwhile, everyone else is just trying to talk about normal human things like weather and sports, but our Linux friend is sitting there, twitching, desperately waiting for someone to ask "so what OS do you use?" Nobody will ask. Nobody ever asks. But they're ready. They're always ready.