the real world vs loonix users

Linux
Everything works out of the box in comparison to dindows ( no driver search, no go to installer page x, no installer page z, no search for updates, everything in one place )
Gets in all games 10+fps more because of reduced bloat
Distro hops back and forth with no data or functionality loss and almost 1 click "restoration" of apps etc.

Is it just me?

But i can understand if artists really need photoshop they cant do that on linux because adobe explicitly gives no f*ck about any linux compatibility.

I must say if an app doesnt work, mostly its intentionally by the devs, and that sucks. Especially on games with Kernel level spy.... i mean anti cheat.

It's not just you.
Having an all-AMD system certaintly helps.
- Ohh yeah i have an nvidia gpu and for some games i have to switch to an oldeer/newer driver, but thats nvidia
Is it just me?
Getting Linux to work correctly the first time straight "out of the box?"
Yes.
- Idk man, when i started using linux with PopOS as my first distro 5 years ago, i don't remember anything not working as it should. It wasn't until i started using arch that i had to do more things myself, which makes sense cause it's a diy distro.
- The same with windows tho, you always have to find solutions.
  I was on linux mint, kde plasma and another rather odd distro with a window manager. All worked out of the box. But i saw hell let loose with someone with cameras and just the cameras, the rest seemed fine and in working condition.
- I also have always had everything just work, I don't understand how everything is always broken for everyone else. Maybe I just buy good hardware?
- Depends on the distro.
- False, it's also going smooth for me. The only prick is you.

Lots of linux users just use steam and play games.

And AFAIK Linux is way better for games now than MAC.
- In case you are interested in actual numbers:
  Using the latest months recorded share (Apr-2025 - 2.27%): 2,996,400 estimated "monthly active users" for Linux+Steam.
  https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/

Mac

Playing games

How the times have turned.

Maybe the Linux god just loves me but back on Windows I always had technical issues. From driver problems to blue screens. And since I switched to Linux in 2021 its all literally a perfect out of the box experience. Everything works. No problems. Much more stable. ¯(ツ)_/¯

you dropped this:
- The backwards root directory is not real, it can't hurt you Backwards root directory:
- Thanks :)
No, nobody loves you (except Nudeline). You just made a good choice with Linux.
- Oke...

I'd understand getting Windows instead of Linux... But MacOS? That things has the usability of a bent spoon.

Mac has a decent terminal (even defaults to zsh IIRC), homebrew for package needs, no obnoxious ads in the desktop UI, great (although pricey) hardware. I am an avid Linux user forced to use Windows at work. I would much rather use a Mac.
osx showed me that windows sucked ass. It showed me that the terminal could be useful. It's at least UNIX like.
It really just comes down to what you know. Moving from MacOS (from OS9 through like 10.12 or something) to Windows made me feel like Windows was the bent spoon. So many small things that to this day infuriate me. Just a couple that really stuck with me even after ditching both for Linux.
if you have highlighted text to select it, and hit the right arrow, where should your cursor end up? MacOS decided the cursor will be after the last character within the highlight. Windows places the cursor after the first character outside of the highlight. Why does this matter? The reason I noticed it was trying to edit file names quickly. I would like to right click, select rename from the context menu, which selects the text in the editing field, tap the right arrow once to move my cursor to the end of the string, and begin deleting whatever amount of text I need. If I try to do this on windows I end up deleting part of the file extension unless I tap an additional time. Not a huge deal but it legitimately messed with my muscle memory in just basic typing on windows.
the other aspect of MacOS that really is far and above anything windows has is ‘Preview’. Not QuickLook, which is a detail view of a file triggered by tapping space with it selected. I mean ‘Preview’ the graphics viewer utility. It’s one of those pieces of software that “just works”. It can import from pretty much any scanner, print to any printer, do basic image editing, open and edit PDFs. It’s really a phenomenal piece of software that feels like such a basic set of features that should exist in a default install of a flagship OS. Even the best free option of anything similar on windows doesn’t hold a candle to it.
These are two VERY cherry picked examples, but I also feel they exemplify the “what you already know is more comfortable” dichotomy. Like having to find a functional PDF tool is kind of just “normal” for windows. Few windows only users I know actively miss the inclusion of that by default, and a whole industry has formed around the need for PDF editing, and yet humble Preview still puts Adobe Acrobat to absolute shame.
It runs the web browser thats all you need
- For 3k€

We never say "reinstall the OS".

sudo chown user:user -R / will get me to reinstall.
- The fix is to chmod it all to 777.
Yeah even when my desktop broke I fixed it via command line narrowing down which file in .config/ was causing the desktop environment to fail to load

This meme needs to be updated, Gimp has CMYK support now.

Krita has a full-blown animation suite. And yes, the sound does work.
Still needs 10 million clicks to draw a circle
- Circle selection tool, fill selected area/stroke selection with brush, boom done.
- Hehe, that's true. Though it also takes 5 million clicks to draw a circle in Adobe Photoshop, or have things changed since I last used it?

why are you here.

ragebait much?

Username checks out

Wow. But I mean who needs Photoshop and Office anyway? I heard kids these days do everything on their phones?!

"What's a computer?"

How old is this meme? Steam just works.

Users like you are the ones that enjoy getting spoonfed and beat by mother Apple. "I have to buy an new 2k computer because a ribbon cable broke? It's okay mommy I'll do what you say ❤️" "You don't let me install every app I want? Oh I'm sure you do this for my safety (non because you are a greedy ahole, no I'd never think that) ❤️

Umm... How old is this meme? You haven't (really) able to play PC/Steam games on Mac for a while... Also, XFCE hasn't been a serious contender for a DE (save for a lower end hardware spec) for quite a while now.

This meme might have made more sense if it was comparing to Windows. Comparing it to a Mac now is comical, especially since a lot of Adobe software doesn't work quite right yet on M* series Mac's yet (though it is better than at launch).

stk and luanti are the only real games

There are some peculiar machines out there that can misbehave in weird ways when you take windows off them. Unless you bought your computer from Walmart you are probably fine though. Linux has dramatically improved over the years while windows got so much worse. It’s just better now.

Windows is for stupid people at this point who don’t want to learn anymore.

Her and her girl gonna be pissed when they don't have no gaming. No cap, that what girls like.

this is technically a linux meme, so it fits the sub

No this is an anti linux meme, so it doesn't fit sub.
I'll leave it up because it's technically about Linux and technically contains a meme, and somehow I didn't suffer any spinal damage with that stretch.
This is prime linuxsucks material, yes offense.
but who is it for
- Windows admins who are sad they didn't learn Linux when they were younger
- For us. To test us