Maybe We Should Switch To Linux Already

Content 4.074 Kids these days will never know the struggle 0 4996 of cc32e17.exe Completed Saving: cc from ito netscape.com 00000000000000 Estimated time left 39 years 889 MB of 180 MB copied) Download to D MOther stuffDownload:cc32e47. exe Transfer tale: 4.61 KBSec Close this dialog bow when download completes Open Open Folder cancel spiletta42 This is not an exaggeration. Your download speed would slow down to the point where Windows would make this kind of absurd estimate, and you'd sigh and leave the room for a while (because you couldn't use the computer while it was doing this for fear it would crash and lose all your progress) and then you'd come back in 40 minutes and maybe it would now say 52 years or maybe it would say 3 minutes, who knew, not Windows.

The digital equivalent of an ambush. You're innocently typing away, make one tiny spelling mistake in the Windows search bar, and BAM—Microsoft Edge swoops in like that relative who shows up uninvited when they hear you're cooking dinner. It's Microsoft's desperate cry for attention: "Please use me instead of Chrome! I'm right here! LOOK AT ME!" Meanwhile, Tom's face perfectly captures that mix of horror and betrayal we all feel when our computer makes decisions without our consent. The real irony? You were probably trying to search "how to permanently disable Edge browser" when it happened.

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When your GPU straight-up roasts you instead of itself for once! That error message is basically your AMD Radeon card looking at your specs, judging your life choices, and deciding to commit software seppuku rather than attempt to render those sweet, sweet Borderlands textures. Even with 16GB of RAM, your graphics card just went "nope, I choose emotional damage." The fact that it's an official error message makes it 10x better - some AMD developer sneaking that brutal honesty into production code deserves a raise and therapy.

OH. MY. GOD. The EMOTIONAL DAMAGE of C++ development laid bare! 💅 On Linux? It's all sunshine, rainbows, and "teehee, I compiled successfully on the first try!" Pure unbridled JOY. The compiler practically THROWS CONFETTI when your code works! Meanwhile, Windows C++ developers are basically living in a film noir NIGHTMARE. They've seen things. TERRIBLE things. Like 500 linker errors before breakfast. Their souls have been crushed by Visual Studio's cryptic error messages that might as well be written in ancient Sumerian. The contrast is so DRAMATIC I'm getting heart palpitations! The duality of developer existence has never been so savagely portrayed!

The rarest creature in the digital universe: someone who actually wants to pay for WinRAR. The robot, personified as WinRAR, is so shocked it's practically having an existential crisis. For those uninitiated, WinRAR is that compression software that's been asking for payment after its 40-day trial since the dawn of computing, yet somehow continues to function perfectly when you click "remind me later" for the 500th time. It's basically the software equivalent of that friend who keeps saying "you'll pay me back next time" knowing full well it's never happening.