I mentioned to my dad how much windows 11 sucks to use and he agreed that he can’t stand it
So naturally, I told him about Linux, which he literally had never heard of before. I told him I’ll show him how to restore one of his old laptops with it, and he can go from there. Knowing him, I can’t wait to see “how cool” he thinks it is that he can just “fix” his own computer
And I’ve already converted my wife, instead of buying a new MacBook cause hers is showing it’s age. She keeps her Mac for backup, but the main computer is Linux Mint. She’s even started to understand the terminal a little, even though she doesn’t really have to
Slowly converting family and friends, simply because computers are expensive and windows sucks so hard now
Is there a program or way to check what parts are covered by Linux? I have an old laptop I want to try Linux on beforehand.
I’m such a nonconformist that I tell people Linux is terrible, and that they should never try it.
Loving Mint but I really wish it was easier to integrate into AD/Exchange/O365 so I could replace all our work machines.
i had to hold in my excitement when someone asked me what linux distro they should use as a beginner
This looks like an ex of mine. It’s creeping me out.
Congrats on dating Elizabeth Olsen!
They said it looks LIKE them … could have easily been another one of the Olsen twins too … 👀
Condolences on dating Elizabeth Olsen!
mommy? sorry. mommy?
Linux is a pyramid scheme. Prove me wrong
It’s penguins all the way down
Its just fun man. Before I tried linux seriously, I thought it was ridiculous. Why would you care so much about doing extra random bull shit? Except thats literally like 99% of the fun. You dont have to do any of it these days. Most stuff runs out of box pretty well. People just do it because its fun to experiment. You learn so much about computers its addicting. I even learned some powershell for windows and zsh for mac because now I understand how they work better after reading books about the linux kernel. I used to be weirdly judgemental about mac and linux users, now I just want people to have a computer that fits their needs.
Its not for everyone, but my wife got so jealous of watching me try Mint/Ubuntu/Debian that she joined linux over a year ago. Her homepage is now the fedora newsletter. She is a normal person who was only mildly interested in computers before and now we talk about Debian/Fedora all the time. If you like computers, its worth giving it a shot. Just dont blame yourself if it isnt your cup of tea.
I don’t really care for Linux at all. I just hate Microsoft.
I hope you find some alternative you really enjoy using.
It’s getting better, no question. I’m hopeful it will continue to get better.
Im really excited for Europes expansion into open source. I think big things could be coming from it in a few years.
You are free to think whatever you like. Have a nice day 👋
Internally: “YESYESYESYESYESYESYES”
Externally: “Cool, let me know if you need any help”
“my friend recommended I use Ubuntu”
me (screaming internally, about canonical, about snaps, about bloat): “That… that’s good. Good choice.”
I’ve been using Ubuntu for years with no desire to switch or learn more. I’ve heard the comments about canonical and snaps, which I barely comprehend. But there’s a chance one day I’ll grow an interest in what you’re talking about, and I know you’ll be there to explain it.
Ignore the haters (me), everyone starts their journey somewhere
Posting this from Kubuntu Studio and … it’s not bad, really. Everything works fine. I even have a couple Snap packages installed … on purpose. (Though, generally, I do try to avoid snaps.) The bloat might be relevant in lighter systems (which is why I have a different distro on my shitty old chromebook), but this is a massive workstation PC that could handle 10x the bloat without noticeably slowing down, so who cares?
(The reason I’m using Ubuntu is because after trying several distros, Ubuntu is for some reason the only one where my stupid, insane, 6-monitor multi-GPU setup worked properly, right out of the box. I eventually intend to go to 4 huge monitors instead of 6 smaller ones, which means I’ll be able to drop down to a reasonable, rational choice of using only one GPU instead of two different ones. At that point, maybe I’ll try distro-hopping again. Though, honestly, “exactly like Ubuntu, but without Canonical and without Snaps” would be what I’m looking for. Would definitely prefer to stick with apt package management, since that’s what I’m used to at this point. Maybe I’ll try straight-up Debian? But I don’t really like the way Debian splits its repositories, where you basically have to choose between “extremely outdated” and “bleeding edge” with no “as up to date as possible, while still being well-tested and stable” option in between. For all of Ubuntu’s faults, I think they actually do a pretty good job of maintaining that balance between stability and being up-to-date.)
Isn’t Mint still effectively Ubuntu with no Canonical, and less worried about open soirce purity? Could be wrong, been a long while.
Nailed it
For me, I started with Ubuntu then Parrot Os then MX Linux
I say better for them to make the jump now to Ubuntu and figure out a distro better suited for their needs later on than to remain on Windows while having choice paralysis about what distro to chose.
I still think it’s a decent entry choice. I won’t touch it myself anymore, personally, but Canonical is still better than Microslop. That bar is set so low that even snap can clear it.
Yeah, a guy recently said that they’d jump into Mint and I could’ve said that I started on that, too (a fucking decade ago, apparently), but I was considering to tell them they could start with $BETTER_DISTRO right away for so long, that I didn’t end up saying much at all. 🫠
This is exactly what I’m going to do in about 14 days. Fuck Microsoft.
Out of curiosity, why in 14 days?
Really slow download speeds?
Leaving a job wit two weeks after an announcement probably.
Good on ya! 🫡
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! It’s gonna be so much fun! We can do each others hair and talk about our favourite distros!
Do we need the socks?
UnixSocks is leaking
If I could I would upvote this twice 😄
You can, but you have to de-upvote it once.
Got it for you.
I started using Linux last week. And now I’m looking at your memes!
Took you a week to get your graphics working, eh?
welcome to the master race
One of us one of us gooble gobble
Same! Put bazzite on my desktop.
Welcome!
Please reach out if you have trouble. Make a buddy if you don’t have one!
Just have a friend who finally decided switching yesterday. She picked my distro recommendation too which makes me feel all validated.
You have to share what this is now.
She wanted something that was an easy transition from Windows without having to learn a new interface. She is competent enough to install her own OS but wants to spend what little spare time she has on the computer gaming and not troubleshooting and maintaining. So I recommended she tries a few but primarily Bazzite with KDE and she liked it.
Heck, I’m running Fedora KDE right now but if I ever had to change I’d probably pick Bazzite too. Immutable sounds great for my purposes. I have zero intentions of messing around with my kernel.
Sounds like a solid rec for her usecase :)
Nice. I’ll have to give Bazzite a try sometime.
Then they use the worst set up you could imagine.
I see no issues here…
You can see the Rust they added to the kernel.
Windows is the worst setup you could imagine and they’re ditching that. Sounds like a win to me.
This laptop came with an onboard intel graphics card AND an NVIDIA graphics card!
Oh fuck
A laptop 😣
I’m on the reverse end. I’m so sick of the “I hate windows, I’m switching to Linux” and then just never make the swap. Like stop bitching about it if you won’t do anything to fix it.
I like it when people talk about how shitty microsoft is.
