From fe944f0058fe5972115b3df70327f775db1bb85a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Youwen Wu Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 23:57:13 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "fix: md link syntax" This reverts commit a49d25a1da39dfeced2716eb527f7b7f1c634728. --- src/posts/2024-05-25-i-hate-you-microsoft.md | 63 -------------------- 1 file changed, 63 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 src/posts/2024-05-25-i-hate-you-microsoft.md diff --git a/src/posts/2024-05-25-i-hate-you-microsoft.md b/src/posts/2024-05-25-i-hate-you-microsoft.md deleted file mode 100644 index 31bb69b..0000000 --- a/src/posts/2024-05-25-i-hate-you-microsoft.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,63 +0,0 @@ ---- -author: "Youwen Wu" -authorTwitter: "@youwen" -desc: "why we can't have nice things" -image: "./images/i-hate-you-microsoft-torvalds.jpg" -keywords: "microsoft, linux, windows, trash software" -lang: "en" -title: "i hate you microsoft" ---- - -## two terrible mistakes - -recently i decided to try valorant again after a 6 month hiatus (mistake 1). -this, of course, meant rebooting into my slowly dying windows OS that remained -dual booted and barely touched (mistake 2). i exclusively use windows for gaming -now as it's the last frontier that linux hasn't conquered. this has actually -been a great productivity boost for me as windows is so terrible that i _don't -even want to boot it just for games_. - -## spoiled by linux - -at the risk of sounding too much like i have a neckbeard and fedora, linux truly -helped me _enjoy computers_ again, after macOS and windows took that from me. -following a brief period of time configuring [hyprland](https://hyprland.org/), -i really felt comfortable with my desktop. i could switch around desktops, -launch applications, and shuffle windows like an extension of my mind. without -all of the baby-proofing and bloat designed for "casual users", everything was -instantly snappy and responsive (even compared to apple's famous UIs). - -immediately upon booting back into windows and being greeted with the ridiculous -ad billboard login screen, i immediately remembered why i despised it. even the -login screen was janky when i seemed to overload it with quick inputs. the -desktop stayed barely responsive for several seconds after and every single ui -action seemed to require me to slow down and walk it through each step, lest it -fail and refuse to register inputs altogether. it's astonishing how the biggest -companies seem to make the most terrible sh\*t. - -## but this isn't a post comparing linux and windows - -linux vs windows has been done to death, so i won't say more. the point of this -post is to vent my frustration with the _most basic things_ being so hard to fix -on windows. - -the first thing that happened when i tried to play valorant was a vanguard -(their ring 0 malware anti-cheat) error telling me that i needed to enable -"secure boot", whatever that did. i vaguely remember having to disable that to -get GRUB and arch to work. according to google, it basically forces you to sign -all of your efi boot partitions for dubious security benefits -- in other words, -make it harder to install free operating systems. - -ok, fine. i'll just re-enable this thing. surely it can't be that hard? - -the glorious arch linux wiki of course had an -[entire page](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secure_Boot) -dedicated to enabling secure boot. while it was fairly straightforward, i ended -up lost in what i call "linux limbo", and so after an hour of trying, i gave up. - -> linux limbo: a stage of troubleshooting something on linux where every command -> seems to succeed, yet nothing actually works, and you're left without an error -> log to work with. - -whatever, i'll just enable secure boot, then boot directly into windows and -bypass GRUB.