Post #675709
2025-10-26 12:10 UTC
Replies (27)
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@ghostrunner@hachyderm.io 2025-10-26 12:42
@angusm@mastodon.social sure do - https://itsfoss.com/install-linux-mint/ #linux #mint
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@Yosoone@mastodon.social 2025-10-26 13:33
@angusm@mastodon.social 🤩 🙏
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@nikatjef@mastodon.acm.org 2025-10-26 13:34
@angusm@mastodon.social Ahh, then you want Windows 11. It will tell you what you want the OS to do. Further it knows that you really want it to track your activities, even if you tell yourself that you don't. /s
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@khzimmer2@literatur.social 2025-10-26 13:39
@angusm@mastodon.social Let me try an educated guess: You're a Windows user?
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@enthusiast101@ieji.de 2025-10-26 14:02
@angusm@mastodon.social It is honestly kind of surreal watching my professors trying to show us things and then have to deal with operating system and browser ads. especially when those ads are displaying news with decidedly controversial political news. Some of my professors have even expressed frustration with all the things they have to click through each time they log in to the computer (not their personal one, the one setup in classroom). Heck I'm annoyed when I need to login to the uni computers too.
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@mnf@mastodon.social 2025-10-26 14:06
@angusm@mastodon.social I recently noticed that the update icon on the taskbar, which used to have a yellow marker indicating a required reboot, now has a blue marker notifying me of an optional update which I can install to make things worse faster.
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@koushiniku@hachyderm.io 2025-10-26 14:08
@angusm@mastodon.social “Fine, I’ll try Linux.” *opens Firefox* “Nooooo!”
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@rejzor@mastodon.social 2025-10-26 14:22
@angusm@mastodon.social Oh my god the dumbass Windows Widgets panel. So stupid and expects me to edit its bullshit in Edge for some reason and not its own settings to a point I just gave up on that shit and disabled it entirely and never touched it again for years.
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@NudelnAlDente@mstdn.social 2025-10-26 14:31
@angusm@mastodon.social "I'm interested in Linux. How do I customise an alert for that?" OS: 😐
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@tsyum@thepit.social 2025-10-26 14:33
@angusm@mastodon.social god yeah some of these big companies have obliterated the “notification” experience, which used to be notifications from people or groups you’ve chosen to interact with. A big reason I hate meta and Microsoft (for linked in). Like I don’t want to get a notification that someone posted ___. I wasn’t tagged or anything. Get outta here! 😡
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@David_Kelly_SF@mstdn.ca 2025-10-26 15:32
It's time to get off the bus...
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@Nick_Stevens_graphics@mastodon.art 2025-10-26 15:42
@angusm@mastodon.social Ha! if only Windows was that kind... "Hi Your OS here! See that red badge demanding your attention?” "Yes" "It's the security software!" "What's the problem?" "Nothing! It didn't find anything! Nothing at all! A complete non-event!"
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@torf@c.im 2025-10-26 15:47
@angusm@mastodon.social it's not your OS.
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@InsertUser@en.osm.town 2025-10-26 17:01
@angusm@mastodon.social I fully disabled Google's Discover on Android for this reason. It was a shame too because it would also do useful things like tell me about exchange rates and appointments and stuff but I don't need additional distraction and clickbait wedged into my homescreen experience.
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@mrflash818@mastodon.social 2025-10-26 18:18
@angusm@mastodon.social "Debian, the producers of the Debian system, have created the Debian Social Contract. The Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) part of the contract, initially designed as a set of commitments that we agree to abide by" #Debian Social Contract. https://www.debian.org/social_contract
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@mattyroses@librarysocialism.social 2025-10-26 18:18
@angusm@mastodon.social a penguin
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@mariellequinton@ottawa.place 2025-10-26 18:24
@angusm@mastodon.social My phone keeps suggesting teams I'm not interested in. I finally gave up and looked through its sports teams section to find the teams I am interested in. Only they didn't have them because they only have men's teams. No women's teams. So it's only promoting men's sports.
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@W6KME@mastodon.radio 2025-10-26 18:35
@angusm@mastodon.social I feel that if I'm aware of the OS, if there is an OS experience, it failed. I just want to run my programs and store my files.
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@Pandya@fosstodon.org 2025-10-26 18:56
@angusm@mastodon.social GNU/Linux has been built with the ethical idea/philosophy of user's freedom, control & empowerment. If the distribution and packages are choosen carefully, it can avoid dependency on unethical corporate strategies by 100%
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@sezamoracl@mastodon.social 2025-10-26 20:30
@angusm@mastodon.social ... then the computer bricked.
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@haui@mastodon.giftedmc.com 2025-10-26 20:47
@angusm@mastodon.social "https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php"
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@gfullerblog@mastodon.social 2025-10-26 20:57
@angusm@mastodon.social Reminds me of the Obnox/OS satire https://youtu.be/d3TXeh_t23o?si=h0nAJOdkJmtqTPWM
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@mast0d0nphan@mastodon.social 2025-10-26 22:43
@angusm@mastodon.social GrapheneOS, /e/OS, VollaOS on Android
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@SuperMoosie@mastodon.au 2025-10-26 23:03
@angusm@mastodon.social Even better when that sport notifications are US based. Everyone on the world wants to be kept up-to-date on that, don't they? Ohh, I see you turned off sports notifications, you must want US politics, US entertainment gossip and US finance news instead.
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@flipsels@mastodon.social 2025-10-27 16:48
@angusm@mastodon.social just add ENABLED=0 to /etc/default/motd-news More info: https://canonical.com/legal/motd
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@randomgeek@masto.hackers.town 2025-11-06 13:21
@angusm@mastodon.social @TCMuffin@toot.wales ah, so you're a waffle man! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
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@woody@pleroma.pch.net 2025-11-06 16:14
@angusm@mastodon.social Would you like intrusive repetitive notifications about things you don't care about? [ Yes! ] [ Not right now, ask me again in thirty seconds! ]