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Global Windows outage leaves Mac user even more smug than usual (chaser.com.au)

submitted 3 months ago by DxK@lemmy.world to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 63 points 3 months ago

Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This describes me - I definitely prefer things that just work over things that do not:-P.

But we all know that the real division is ~~Trump~~ Windows vs. not-Windows, so Linux users looking pretty smug today as well, with the machines that actually function rather than those that do not:-P.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

My MacBook is really good for web browsing and SSHing into my Linux boxes.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That is precisely what they are for.:-) That and they natively handle Office apps without needing Wine - bc when boss sends you tracked changes, you don't ask them to switch apps, you do instead.

I do like the anti aliasing too, and the Preview program is legit one of the better ones of all time. I doubt it can take the place of ImageMagick entirely, but it does work so very often:-).

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Preview and ImageMagick serve entirely different purposes.

Notably, as a PDF viewer, Preview is vastly superior to all Adobe products.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 3 months ago

^anything^ ^is^ ^better^ ^than^ ^Adobe...^

Preview and ImageMagick can both be used to view, modify, and convert a range of image formats, among ofc so very many other things.:-)

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Don't worry, CrowdStrike fucked up their Linux customers a bit ago in a separate bad update. It just wasn't as large of an install base. This is why everyone migrating to one cloud solution or one security solution has always left a bad taste in my mouth. Don't put all your eggs in one basket, corps.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 3 points 3 months ago

If it's not too annoying, I feel like this might be the proper time for one of these...

(indicating hard agree!)

[–] Aphelion@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Crowdstrike Falcon is the real issue.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Use LibreOffice or other open source office suites.

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Google docs it is /s

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is the onion flavor I'm looking for.

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Sour cream and onion!

[–] AnIntenseMoist@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Onion was quick on this one

[–] No1@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago

Bruh, I'm smug. I'm super smug.

I'm so smug I didn't know what CrowdStrike was until 5 minutes ago. And I'm still laughing 🤣