Lolnix

>old laptop died
>dude, I'm getting a Dell
>amazon page clearly says this thing has Win 8.1 on it
>arrives with Windows: Big Brother Edition
>fuck it, I guess we're doing Mint
>most satisfying hard drive reformat ever, followed by that sinking feeling when you have to use Linux
>Won't allow no password, because you never know when russian hackers might break into my apartment to try and steal my porn
>use single apostrophe as password to minimize the number of hours per day I'll be spending just typing the fucking root password
>Doesn't recognize wifi card and laptop doesn't have ethernet port, have to manually download drivers on another machine and copy them to the right folder
>Touchpad doesn't function, have to manually edit a config file and c&p a string of terminal commands that I don't understand at all that I randomly found after half an hour on google
>Default system font is giving me eye cancer, download Comic Sans and set everything to that.
>Package manager only has Firefox 28 and Firefox 46, not the version I need. Install 46, copy my profile, and spend 5 minutes fixing all the broken extensions and shit.
>No way to lock desktop icons to a grid in any decent way. Recent forum post from the dev in charge of Nero says he's working on it but his REAL job is eating up too much of his time at the moment.
>Spend rest of the day trying to customize UI
>Changing titlebar colors etc. involves downloading entire new themes and/or manually editing .css files.
>Removing logoff button from the menu involves opening up a javascript file and commenting out a bunch of shit.
>Other annoyances only seem to be fixable by directly editing the OS' c source, which random forum people were actually doing.
>finally get it to a point where at least it will run most of my shit

Final verdict: Meh. Buggy and amateurish, but it's functional I guess and it's not Windows 10. I'll try it for a week or two before deciding whether to buy a W8 dvd.

wasn't it fun, though.

you should have try arch. seriously. not memeing or anything. i know you can do it because i was you five years ago.

also arch is less retarded than mint, and if you use the AUR, most shit that people had trouble, like your "no drivers" is probably already there, plus all the archwiki explaining what to do, and the forums that have almost every problem already solved.

truth. you will find some bumps, but is worth it.

>buy a W8 dvd
>buy
>>>/alt.paid.for.windows/

>Windows: Big Brother Edition
It's entertaining how you dipshits get your panties in a wad over this.
>I don't want people to know I look at dragon dildos on Amazon when I have parties at my hou...oh wait

I'm usually in the arch hate shitposting crowd but

>he's clueless
>wants to rice
>spends hours customising pointless shit and colours
>have to manually edit shit
>special snowflake

Arch is going to sate your autism (just kidding kill yourself)

>genuinely wanting people to exploit this, revealing personal information like bank accts, ssn, etc
>genuinely wanting the jews to turn you into a product to sell to the highest bidding advertiser
>genuinely wanting whistleblowers and journalists to have no legal protection whatsoever

It's like you hate being a good person, user.

You have to expect something other than Windows.
Research baby duck syndrome. If you expect everything to be like Windows, you will never like anything except Windows.

arch is love. arch is life.

arch is whatever you want it to be.

Yeah, I mean who likes personal privacy, right?

Your rupees are on the way pajeet, Good job.

>Install OS
>spend hours trying to rice

> comic sans
> replacing cancer font with AIDS font

>Buggy
What bugs did you encounter? Mint is a slow distro in terms of software release cycle so all of the software you'll encounter should generally be on its stable release. Well used open source software is also very frequently searched through by neckbeards and enthusiasts and picked apart, so I find it unlikely you encountered more than 1 or 2 minor bugs.

>arch is whatever you want it to be.

You don't actually believe this and you're kidding right? Not the guy you replied to but that's just blatant misinformation. Arch barely even supports any init system but systemd and only has the single repo cycle.

I'm assuming the laptop must either have very new or unusual hardware because I've never had an issue putting mint on anything. Have you tried updating the kernel?

If the item you paid for is not as described why would you pay money to fix that? Contact the seller stating it clearly says Win 8.1 but has Win 10, please fix or replace. Even if you live in a country with shitty consumer protection laws 99.9% chance Amazon will side with you if y state you bought it because it said it has a specific OS and it came with a different one.

Yeah it's pretty pathetic. Most of Sup Forums fell for the meme, which gives you an idea of the average Sup Forums-tard tech knowledge and intelligence (like that Wireshark capture session of someone that doesn't even know how TCP/IP works). Anyway, let them enjoy deprecated Windows versions and Ganoo Loonix.

>not installing fedora
it's like you want to be miserable

>implying there is any init system other than systemd worth using

enjoy you're botnet

Of all your complaints only non-working wifi and touchpad are valid. Both are common on winblows as well though.
Rest of your complaints is just ricing and personal preferences. At least on linux you CAN change it any way you want.

POO IN LOO

OpenRC.

Not if he complains about editing config files

>Spend rest of the day trying to customize UI
That's all on you buddy. Normal people don't spend time on this and just use the default looks. This is what you're forced to do in Windows anyway.

install OS X

>fixing all the broken extensions and shit
That's not true.

> I once had XP with the neweset firefox,
> switched to lubuntu + installed firefox
> copied entire firefox profile folder
> it just werx

> Other annoyances only seem to be fixable by directly editing the OS' c source,
Waht kind of "annoyances" would that be? Bugs?

You are a troll

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Stopped reading after
>comic sans
Nice bait though made me reply