so I started to see stuff on O&O ShutUp10++ that help disable most intrusive windows features, but it’s closed sorce, wondering if they are any open source alternatives? Shutup10 ++

  • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10027·
    2 years ago

    How does this answer the question?

    I’m a little tired of this platform constantly shouting 24/7 about how we should all use Linux all the time, everything else is terrible, etc. Yes Linux is great, I use it a lot, I love it.

    I don’t need it constantly shoved down my throat this way though. I especially don’t need it’s users to act all high and mighty and shame me for daring to still use Windows.

    I know the pros and cons of using both and I use both for various different tasks. When somebody asks a question about Windows, just telling them to switch their entire operating system to Linux without knowing anything about their situation or why they use the OS they use isn’t answering the question, it’s not even trying to answer the question.

    It’s just saying “you’re stupid for using Windows at all for any reason, and I refuse to engage with your actual question or try to help you at all, I’m just here to tell you you’re wrong, your personal life choices are bad and you should do what I do instead”.

    I appreciate how great Linux is, but let’s not try to convert everybody to your way of life at every opportunity. Let people live their own lives and make their own choices, whether you agree with them or not, and if they ask a question, seek to answer it without shoehorning your own agenda in. That’s all I ask <3

    • Zekas@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
      3314·
      2 years ago

      Vegans, Atheists, Linux… Fourth horseman is what?

        • aStonedSanta@lemm.eeEnglish
          121·
          2 years ago

          This has been my experience also. It takes work for me to find out someone else is atheist like me. But it’s fucking easy to know they are anything else quickly due to context usually lol

        • Danitos@reddthat.comEnglish
          12·
          2 years ago

          Agree, but there’s a big chunk of atheist that like jerking each other off, vocally telling themselves how superior and smart they are. That’s the point being made

            • Danitos@reddthat.comEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              I still disagree. Majority of topical subreddits and people are nowhere near as obnoxious. Although, granted, Reddit is a bad place to set bars on quality of discussion.

        • Zekas@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
          721·
          2 years ago

          Not what I mean. Check out r/Atheism. It’s a particular brand of holier than thou, ironically, that I find insufferable.

          edit: For those not excelling in reading comprehension, it’s about sanctimonity, being holier than thou, an insufferable asshole. Not unlike the way in which I am writing this.

          • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
            192·
            2 years ago

            “Why are Linux users constantly shoving Linux down my throat?”

            “Lol yeah, just like atheists, they keep forcing me to go to r/atheism and read their arrogant smug attitude.”

                • Zekas@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
                  37·
                  2 years ago

                  I’m sure there’s a fight club or something where we can engage in the most useful discussion to rock this planet all the while pelted by peanuts.

            • Zekas@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
              111·
              2 years ago

              Are you trying to miss my point? It’s not the when and where, it’s the verbiage.

            • Zekas@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
              24·
              2 years ago

              Literally not what I mean. Read again until you get it or give up, I don’t give a shit anymore.

                • Zekas@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
                  14·
                  2 years ago

                  If missing the point was a sport, I crown you the winner. Congratulations on missing all of my points or rhetorical devices or deliberate uses of the very thing I’m trying to highlight. Applause.

                  I am a fucking atheist.

      • Kirca@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        2 years ago

        I don’t know how true it is these days, but it used to be Crossfit

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      912·
      2 years ago

      It’s just saying “you’re stupid for using Windows at all for any reason, and I refuse to engage with your actual question or try to help you at all, I’m just here to tell you you’re wrong, your personal life choices are bad and you should do what I do instead”.

      It’s a two-word response. Where is all the rest of this coming from? Do you need a cookie, a hug, a pinata, and maybe a nap?

      • fiercekitten@lemm.eedeleted by creatorEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Yeah but most people aren’t lemmy users, meaning that the people who are here and have tech questions probably do more with their computers.

        I have windows-only software i use that interfaces with hardware and the only way it all works is using an actual windows PC – not a VM.