Most of my time is lost on cloud services that got shittier over time.
My personal computer just works on Linux.
That’s why I only use mentats.
Sounds more like a lot of people could do with some basic computer skills training.
How much time do we waste on car problems? Neighbor problems? Political problems? Grocery problems?
Not much.
Right and how much time do we save by having computers? Fixing the problems is just the cost of doing business
How much time do we waste on first-past-the-post problems?
Do they include “fighting with anti patterns and dark patterns” as broken? It’s pretty insane how much misalignment there is between what most people want their computers to do and what the companies want people to do, which seems to largely be “look at ads literally everywhere”.
Personal computing is badly sick today.
Even for Linux users.
That number was more like 30% with a windows laptop and all the security crap Microsoft convinced my company to install. It was so painfully slow and glitchy. So I went rogue and put Linux on my company laptop 8 months ago and I’m not looking back.
Yep. Over here running Fedora KDE 40 on my desktop, dealing with zero issues. My use case is pretty simple, but everything I use just works, no issues.
If your use case is “pretty simple,” you’re unlikely to have problems with any operating system.
In my case I’m a manager so I don’t do any real work. Linux is great for an Edge browser, ms365 paper pushing wana be engineer.
Am I too millennial to have all these problems with computers? They’ve been in our homes for about forty years now. There’s no excuse not to sit down and learn the basics of how it operates.
My job is to fix computers so I waste 100% of my time with computer problems.
“I’m here to fuck computers and chew bubblegum…”
Those are rookie numbers. Install Linux and pump those numbers up.
You don’t know what you’re talking about
Whatever. I waste probably 20 hours a week on “work”.
Linux users brings the numbers up
All 0.4% of the user base or whatever it is? Unless you mean among the population of server admins.
Hey, all of those problems are entirely because of my own incompetence.
I can’t tell if you are joking. But just in case, my installation worked flawlessly for years.
I mean, that’s fine, but as a Linux user I’ve fucked around a lot and spent a lot of time fixing mistakes that I did not need to make.
I think I’m a pretty average Linux user. Who needs something that “just works” when you can break it by trying to add something you don’t need?
Yaa arch BTW guys!!
Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior Fedora Silverblue?
I spend literally no time at all dealing with my OS.
I recognise the waste in waiting time, but I also think we are still increasing productivity more than enough to make up for it.
Personally I solve it by multitasking harder. Whenever there is a waiting time for a download or other stuff I simply start doing something else. I’m not going to waste my life watching loading bars for a living.
I don’t think increasing user-friendlyness is a good solution. It’s pretty much what caused the issues to begin with. Every time Windows or the apps make something more user-friendly it always results in more buttons to click and more updates to keep up.
I also spend an unreasonable amount of time just rearranging the windows in comparison to back when apps had keyboard-only GUIs with functions layered in different pages or tabs. I obviously don’t think that is a good solution today either, but it goes to show that the bloated operating system has a lot of the blame.
Say you want to do something simple like renaming a file, you’ll need to open an app to show the folders and files and also 100 different functions that are of no use for the specific task, position and scroll it where it’s visible, navigate by mouse or keyboard and then do whatever you wanted. My point is that just operating the operation system is something that requires 10s of seconds over and over again every day. There’s a long way from thought to execution for the simplest task.
The good thing is that it enables a lot of people to do so without any training at all, so maybe that makes up for it in total.
We are wasting up to 20% of our time with bronze problems.
– Some grumpy dude circa 3300 BCThis. We used to waste time repairing the mechanical things when we could have been planting, or wasting time dealing with plant blights and livestock woes when we could have been hunting for wild game.
Some people still do. Fuck Jhon Deere.
Just stop having computer problems
Jokes on you! My whole life is a waste of time
