That excitement is real 😂 Switching can be refreshing, but I always tell people to try it on a spare drive first. The best OS is the one that actually fits your workflow.
Switched to linux this year and I would NEVER go back to windows.
Me when my friend started talking about how he wanted to buy a steam machine as his first entry into pc gaming, and considered installing linux on his laptop cause windows ran like ass on it.
That picture is so unsettling and idk why
Because it is a perfect 50% cute and 50% scary af
Mouth to face ratio, and eye to face ratio. It hits a kind of uncanny valley
That’s an analog horror face without the filter
Because you never had someone look at you like that IRL.
Are they sitting on the loo??
that particular combination of face expression and the top-down yellow lighting being the first thing I see when I open lemmy, I got jumpscared.
I got something else. It seems that psychotic looking conventionally attractive women are my thing.
I can fix her.
She’s perfect already.
Me after years in IT and decades of Linux:
If you need help, bother somebody else
I use Mac btw (more to the point, I use whatever you do not use).
That’s why I daily drive Haiku OS.
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
You’re doing the Lord’s work. And by “the Lord” I mean Tux the penguin.
Blessed be His webby feet and adorable flippers.
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 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’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
I’m in the same boat. I started with Ubuntu partly because I wanted to start learning ROS (robot operating system) and the documentation for that at the time mentioned Ubuntu. I’ve heard great things about Mint, which I’ll probably try soon, and when I “upgrade” my gaming desktop to Win 11 I’m partly expecting it to try and fuck with Grub and my Ubuntu partition so I’m going to probably install Bazzite once Win 11 is set up. Hopefully Bazzite is good enough for gaming that I rarely will have a need to use Windows. Sadly there is windows-only software I need. I tried Wine once and it didn’t work.
Try Winboat.
Hopefully Bazzite is good enough for gaming that I rarely will have a need to use Windows
I have been using it for a while now, and unless the software just doesn’t work, it works perfectly on bazzite
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.
Kubuntu users rise up!
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.
Mint is actually one of the ones I tried before. It did not like my multi-GPU setup, though. Could only use one GPU at a time, which means I could only use a maximum of 4 monitors.
Maybe I’ll try it again, though, when I upgrade to a more sensible monitor/GPU setup.
For me, I started with Ubuntu then Parrot Os then MX Linux
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. 🫠
Nailed it
happy cake day
would you like to yap at me about linux (any distro, curious about ubuntu now tho)
I started using Linux last week. And now I’m looking at your memes!
Welcome!
One of us one of us gooble gobble
Please reach out if you have trouble. Make a buddy if you don’t have one!
Same! Put bazzite on my desktop.
Took you a week to get your graphics working, eh?
we can be buddies in how bad we are at it lol
welcome to the master race
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!
If I could I would upvote this twice 😄
You can, but you have to de-upvote it once.
Got it for you.
Do we need the socks?
UnixSocks is leaking
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.
For some hardware you might have to install drivers or firmware yourself. Not all are included in all Linux distributions for complex reason.
Btw you can check your laptop model in https://linux-hardware.org/
As another person had suggested, test with a live image first before installing it to an SSD/HDD, however Linux is very well maintained by the community and even if there aren’t native drivers from your hardwares manufacturer, for example Corsair Keyboard Drivers, there usually is Open Sourced alternatives for these things like CKB-Next.
I say this to everyone, once you get a grasp on BASH (Bourne Again Shell) and package managers & repositories (edit: and the filesystem structure) you’ll essentially be able to use any Linux distro, it just comes down to the nitty gritty of things.
edit: and the filesystem structure
This is what I’ve definitely struggled the most with mint so far. It’s extremely difficult to find anything and I’ve needed to manually search for the file paths multiple times already, since I always manage to do something I need them for, and I haven’t gotten locate to work etc… Though this is probably just me being stoopid since I never find anything on windows either lmao
I’d say that downloading drivers from the manufacturer is the absolute outlier and things working better with integrated open source drivers out of the box is the norm.
Try before you
buydownload proprietary cruft.
Yes. In general - it’s called live cd. Some distros ship with that in their installed image. {K,X,}ubuntu come to mind. Mint might do as well. You can boot into it and look around, see if basic stuff - network, audio, etc - works.
And you can do this with a USB, it doesn’t need to be a CD/DVD.
If only there were a distro as lazy as using an Android device.
Every time I mention this, someone comes along and mentions one or another distro, and then the caveats that keep it from being as lazy as using an Android device.What exactly do you mean? Like a distro that just works well on a phone? Yeah proper Linux phones aren’t quite there yet.
But any of the commonly recommended distros work out of the box on PC at this point, there’s less fiddling than with windows at this point in my experience
What exactly do you mean? Like a distro that just works well on a phone? Yeah proper Linux phones aren’t quite there yet.
I think they meant distros that are for desktop but as easy, convenient, simple, to use as android, ios or even maybe macos
Work out of the box with some asterisks.
I did some distro hopping over the last couple of months and there were only a few that installed drivers and firmware for my Broadcom WiFi. Several had severe issues with Bluetooth audio. Keyboard backlight worked out of the box in less than half. Laptop speakers sound like crap without a lot of tweaking. Hardware acceleration for video doesn’t work out of the box on any distro I tried using the nouveau drivers for NVIDIA. Battery life is meh. No distro put the computer to sleep automatically on low battery by default. Websites can look like ass before installing Microsoft fonts. HDR support for screens is still limited.
Depending on your hardware, you can be lucky, need additional configuration, and will have to accept some limitations.
I think he means, Android runs Linux and doesn’t/can’t be tweaked for the most part. Because you don’t have root. So yes it’s opposite of what most Linux users seek, but it sure seems to be stable for years. So you can be lazy “admin’ing” it
Things have gotten MUCH better than they ever have been.
But unfortunately, it is still not as easy as just using an android phone.
But then again, it’s a hard metric to judge by, because while some things are harder than they should be on Linux, other things are just… Different, than what people are used to (Windows, Mac).
I use Linux, I use Android, but I still get frustrated when I need to use my wife’s iPhone for pretty much anything, because I’ve never owned one and I never use it. Does that mean iPhone is inherently bad design? Many people would argue no, it’s a good design in most cases. Just different. You’ve gotta learn the different ways of doing what you need to do. Although iPhone definitely has a few design flaws, in my opinion.
Likewise with Linux. Many modern distros are very user friendly. But no matter how good it is, people will always struggle when starting for the first time, because many things are just plain different. And also there are design holes/flaws.
You can say the same thing about any modern operating system you aren’t familiar with.
My sister in law has a MacBook, and every time I need to use it, which is maybe once or twice a year, I struggle. Things aren’t where I expect them to be. Things don’t work the way I expect. Heck, some “standard” keyboard shortcuts are different. Does that mean it’s a bad operating system? No, I just need to put the time and effort in to learn it, if I wanted to use it daily.
Linux has come a long way, and gets a bad rap. Yes it has a learning curve, and it might be more difficult because of all the different distros, but it’s pretty similar to everything else.
This is exactly what I’m going to do in about 14 days. Fuck Microsoft.
Out of curiosity, why in 14 days?
That’s when I finish my thesis. Migrating OS + thesis just begs for disaster.
Latex hell? Good luck
Really slow download speeds?
Even like 30 years ago it took under a week to download an ISO.
Leaving a job wit two weeks after an announcement probably.
Good on ya! 🫡
sauce
I don’t know the context of the pic, but that’s Elizabeth Olsen.
i had to hold in my excitement when someone asked me what linux distro they should use as a beginner
Arch my beloved!
Oh, and remember to
sudo rm -rf //j, don’t do that, it’ll delete your whole system (for any newbies)
