Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@arraybolt3 @ianp5a @Lunatech It's only fast if you've spent a decade memorizing the commands and all their various switches and building up the muscle memory you need.

For most users, it's both *slower* and more frustrating. And that's before they get advice that doesn't apply to the distro they're using.

@arraybolt3 I do use linux, but only for headless servers. I use Windows for everything else (and even use Windows Server pretty often).

The reason is because everything is more difficult and has more "gotcha" catches in Linux.

Want to FTP a file to a directory? You have to set up a bunch of permissions first through the OS (and even then sometimes it won't let you).

Want to edit a text file? Good luck, you're back in the '70s before usability features were invented.

The last major server I built on Linux would fill a system "page file" with 100s of gigabytes and have to be deleted every week or the whole OS would crash.

Now, to be fair, I haven't tried linux desktop since the mid-2000s when it was really janky. I've heard it's gotten better, but linux has bit me in the ass so many times professionally that I don't have any interest in fighting with it just to do basic computer stuff.

Plus, since Windows 10, Windows has just been awesome. I have ease of use, reliability (this computer crashes *maybe* once a year), and I still have the flexibility to do things like overclock or run linux docker containers.

@resuna Sure we do. Pretty much all art is a remix of previously explored techniques mixed with the artist's experiences. It's not that much different than AI mixing trained techniques with human prompts.

@resuna Sure they do. They just do it with biological neurons instead of silicon and copper pathways.

@fakertarians And Amazon is funding him with their ads because of course they are.

@KristinaWKelly Twine has been the standard for a long time now.

I've also been hearing some interesting things about Obsidian, but that's more for organizing your thoughts.

@carnage4life Oh no

@Darryl "Farther from it than we ever have been" is crazy. For much of America's history, we excluded like 3/4 the population from voting.

We've taken a step back in the past few years, but we're still freer and more democratic than 99% of human history, and that's not nothing.

We just have to hold strong against the rising tide of fascism.

@bgrinter @carnage4life @timrichards Sure, but for those jobs that are fun, being on site adds to that fun. For those jobs that aren't fun, we're developing robots.

@Darryl They're right. Biden is running, so get on the anti-fascist train.
I don't like Biden's support of Israel either, but we can quibble about that when our democracy isn't on the verge of collapse.