Who will fuck up the settings, control panel, registry, etc. interfaces now? The person who keeps putting Candy Crush on the start menu like it’s their life mission?
It’s so funny going through the control panel, getting to more and more esoteric settings, and seeing the UI getting older and older. I ditched Windows after Windows 7 but remember seeing menu themes that looked like they haven’t been updated since Windows NT
The Windows Webcam camera settings, when I finally find them on Windows 11 to control pan and zoom, have been the same for 25 years, maybe 30. The thing is, it used to be easy to find the controls, but they keep making Windows slower & harder to use. It’s such a rat nest.
I had pretty much the same experience finding the virtual memory settings on a win11 machine the other day. Same 20 year old dialog, now buried 5 more layers deep.
windows reminds me of the upper and lower facilities in Portal 2. once I somehow managed to trigger a warning window about the memory usage of 16 bit applications on windows 10, even though I think support was removed for them long ago
“Removed”
Dude a senior manager needs to get promoted somehow
Hey, they spent billions on their acquisition of ActiVivendiBethesdaBlizzArcaneKing and they’re gonna Get. Their. ROI.
It’s probably just another layer of “quality control” that’s gone now.
There has never been a better time to switch to Mint, Pop_OS, or Bazzite.
You could just say Linux, lol.
We gotta stop upvoting distro-shilling.
They are probably the best distros for newcomers. I think its an absolutely valid comment.
You could just say Linux, lol.
Yeah, but which one? There are hundreds of distros. There’s nothing wrong giving some pointers to begginers out there.
GNU / Linux :)
Or GNU plus Linux, as I’ve recently taken to calling it
I find that’s very unhelpful to potential Linux converts. They will quickly find out that there are infinite flavors of Linux, become overwhelmed, and give up.
When you are introducing newcomers to Linux, it’s best to make specific suggestions.
Already on the way babayyy. Ubuntu gang here we gooooo I know, i know. There are other popular distros but I wanted to start there
Ubuntu is perfectly valid, feels very mac os
Ubuntu is great for begginers, go for it
I will be looking into these, thanks for sharing! Any top recommendations from the three??
Pop!_OS is my top recommendation for Windows expats, followed by Mint (Cinnamon Edition), and then Bazzite (KDE Plasma desktop). Bazzite is so, so, so good, but it has some unique features that make it a little more frustrating for Windows power users who are new to Linux. But honestly they are all good. Pick one, and if you aren’t vibing with it, try something else.
Also, keep in mind that “distro” and “desktop environment (DTE)” are two different things. Sometimes a distro has a default DTE and sometimes it gives you a choice. The DTE makes the biggest difference to your experience. There are many different DTEs, but the two biggest are GNOME (MacOS-like and moderately customizable) and KDE Plasma (Windows-like by default, but very customizable).
I started with pop os 5 years ago and haven’t found a reason to change. I’m not hugely techy and just wanted something to play games on. Had very few issues overall.
Sorry to sound absolutely dumb, but does it work well with things like steam?
I primarily only use Adobe (learning Affinity) and Steam. I’m a pretty basic bitch ngl lmao! Pop_OS looks CLEAN on their website
Works great with steam. I went back on my ethics and played wow classic for a while though and battle.net was a little tricky for me to get going. But yeah steam works perfectly.
Every issue I’ve had has been easily fixable with searching and following instructions. There’s not been many issues, and I can do it anyone can.
Of course we need three flavor so we don’t have a single majority and each of them have their own nuisance. Same as JavaScript libraries.
openSUSE is also pretty great, and doesn’t get the attention it deserves.
There really is a Linux for everyone.
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Try from India or wherever they’re outsourcing work to
I work in games. Its fucking incredible looking at my linkedin. I would say about 80% of my coworkers throughout my career are out of work right now. I started my own company because I was sick of it.
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Nice try fbi
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Nice try interpol
Its a 2 person game studio with my buddy. you would have never heard of it because we haven’t announced anything. We only started work a few months ago after a whole bunch of planning.
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thanks!🤞
I started my own company because I was sick of it.
I’m genuinely curious to hear how you’ve found it easier to land clients than employers. In my experience, you really need a good in with a bigger firm if you’re going to have any hope of launching a business. Unless your old employer is jettisoning their contracts as quickly as they jettison their staff, that can be tricky.
i’m not trying to land clients.
Traditionally, a business without clients is called a hobby.
this is where i block you because you’re annoying.
Is it a cooperative one? Or are you on the road to becoming the next shitty owner?
look at my user name.
I once joined a company because literally everyone in the company had the same salary. i took a 30k loss of salary to join that project. I believed in the company though and its founders. it turned out to be the best place i ever worked.
Great! 🙂
Well, shit. Here we go again.
Is there an over/under going on for the rest of the tech sectors 's layoffs this year?
The beatings will continue until tech workers unionize.
I have no idea but I’m definitely going to say the tone of rolling big tech layoffs doesn’t stop here.
Dell just quietly laid off a bunch of people last week
Can’t wait for windows updates to get even buggier ! Seriously though I’m building an all amd gaming rig in november and never using windows again.
How is gaming on linux? I really don’t want to “upgrade” to windows 11 but I also barely have any time to game in the first place let alone fool around with settings and drivers for several hours every time I install a new game or update and existing one.
Thanks to Valve, Linux compatibility has become industry standard.
The only teal obstacle is some anti cheat software, mostly kernel level anti cheat.
So if you want to play shooters like fortnite, pubg, valorant or rainbow six siege, you are out of luck.
Otherwise, you probably won’t have any issues.
Also mod support is hit or miss
Lutris and steam do most of the heavy lifting for you. Driver side should work with no fiddling required for AMD atleast, somebody with Nvidia can chime in if it’s the same for them too.
You may need to add a couple Launch options for certain games on steam here and there or swap proton versions.
Games do sometimes break but then you wait a day or two and it’s usually fixed.
Question is what games are you playing? If it’s CoD and Fortnite I’d say stick with Windows, they won’t work.
On my 3070 when I tried it was fine. Vulkan and DX11 or lower games were great but DX12 saw a performance hit pretty much across the board. For example ive been playing through the last of us part 1 on steam and it ran ultra no issues under windows but under linux it had to be set to low to maintain 60. Uncharted and spiderman were great on both windows and linux so maybe it was just that game. Anti cheat also wont work most of the time. If you play things like cod, siege, apex, fortnite, gta online or anything like that its a no go but you could also dual boot just for those games if you wanna play them that bad. Seeing as you dont play many games and dont like messing with drivers Id say go for it. Drivers are less of a hassle on linux than windows imo since linux will get everything automatically and will auto update them along with the system.
I mean if I laid off %25 of my dev team we would see a boat in productivity. They leech time from one of my senior devs and don’t get any better. Def getting rid of 2/4 useless guys and giving 1 of them as much of an opportunity I’ve given any body and one is going to be next to go of he doesn’t shape up.
Attitude like that You sound like you would be a horrible manager. No wonder they don’t have the motivation or support to perform better
I’m really laid back and have given them a long time to learn our code base and how to contribute. When I have to pull multiple all nighters and the end of a long release cycle to fix or finish what they worked on it’s not worth it. I basically can only code at night because I spend my day in meetings, planning or next release or helping people with their stuff.
We work remote so either they are really dumb and won’t ever get it or they slack off all the time and wait till the last min to slap shit together and it isn’t right.
And the good ones run away as fast as they can. Good luck with it!
I have a bunch of good developers, and my best guys have been around for years. I have newer people that have been on the project that have been around for the same amount of time as the problem people who get their work done and learn and get better consistently.
They didn’t do that. They went “Eenie meenie meiney moe” in the general direction of various PMs.
This would LITERALLY Not have Happened if we just CUT THEIR TAXES! LITERALLY that’s the ONLY Reason Companies LAYOFF Staff!
We should have given Elon another billion! Then, we would truly live in utopia. Alas, it was not so.
now its going to be run by none other than VOUGHT, which is also the evil nazi corporation in the BOYZ.
Don’t worry sounds like they are setting up sweat shops to keep these people busy.
Don’t worry sounds like they are setting up sweat shops to keep these people busy.
Sounds great!
Yeah, Trump’s making America great by killing white collar industries
True(ish).
and offering factory jobs
Flatly false.
Offering. Not actually delivering. It’s a key attribute of the GOP, make shit up that appeals to the lower educated and fleece the ignorant twats.
But I suppose I need to spell that out to all types.
Haha. Yeah. Stupid Republican voters.
shuffles feet through the tattered remains of all the liberal broken promises
What’s this? Someone said that one was perfect and the other was shit? My gosh!
I agree, let’s say fuck it, throw our hands up and just let what happens happen.
They’re both just as bad as each other.
Or some equal stupid shit.
pre-empting the AI non existent returns
The tech industry is about to become a total shit show. Mark my words
About to? It’s been brutal for the past 3 years.
It’s been a total shit show for quite some time now…
its been bad since it started in 2023. i shudder to think about stem labs though.
I hope they lay off the world of warcraft class balancing team those fuckers have no idea what they are doing
Did they ever ?
Not really lol. Great time for m$ to get some new blood in there
They know what’s coming and That’s going to make America grate again.
Microsoft has 200,000 employees? Dang
And when they start going down financially, they might invade Madagascar or Guyana or something like that as a last resort and turn into a pirate republic, having enough troops. Yes.
arr me hearties, batten down the customer support, load the software cannons!
It is very vague and it says it is not for performance reasons. I wonder if early retirement packages are being offered too. If they are getting rid of some management layers they are looking to remove some of the higher paid staff so they can bring in younger folks who will be making less to start and also opening up opportunities for advancement. Over time those management layers get overfilled and no one below them can move up and that incentive is lost.
I used to work for a west coast tech giant. Their early retirement package was: “you are retiring now, goodbye” along with a severance just large enough to disqualify me from unemployment. At least I didn’t have to spend months pretending to look for work.
Absolutely no sympathy from me.
They like the abuse and attack anyone who doesn’t.
