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    Win95 to Vista destroyed our logic of solving software problems (lemmy.ml)
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    [–] sirico@feddit.uk 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    One of the things I noticed when I first switched, was the difference of advice on forums. Linux users would ask for reports and pinpoint errors giving a fix. Windows forums would be wild random often unrelated guesses ultimately leading to "just reformat".

    [–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    Until you find the answer on a Windows forum posted by some Indian dude performing unpaid labor.

    [–] sirico@feddit.uk 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Or the "don't worry I fixed it" one time poster

    [–] michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    "Just Google it," they said. So, you Google it. You find one result. It's a forum post. From you.

    [–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 days ago

    I'd like to make a law that anyone who says "just google it" and doesn't also provide the very first link they found on google that solves the problem should be castrated.

    [–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

    There's a special place in hell for those people.