Talked about Linux so much my 14 year old niece installed Fedora by herself on her computer and loves it.
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That's quite different from what I learned from my uncles growing up....
This is how you pour a beer!
If I were still drinking, I'd have tought mine both skills.
Drunken linux installs are always the best. It's the side effect of installing gentoo while drinking some wine.
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No matter how bad the content is, I don't think anything deserves the terrible fate of being put on Facebook.
I tend not to recommended Linux to anyone because I always end up their tech support.
Quite. Oh you are using Windows? Sorry, I don't know anything about that.
That's an improvement over always being the dedicated tech support anyway, no matter how often you explain to them that you have not bothered to take a look at Windows and all its specific issues for a decade or more...
And then I get called in to diagnose why they're locked out of their Facebook account...
It's an unspoken rule: if you're a Linux user, you're obligated to mention it in every conversation, even if it's not about Linux. I use Debian, btw. :3
Yes darling, we may have a cocktail; but may I suggest rather than a gin tonic we take a mojito? It's made with mint, which is also the name of a Linux distribution.
It's so hot outside, I wish I could go to Antarctica to cool off with penguins... Did you know Linux logo is a penguin?
Smooth, like the way she left.
someone recommended to me the other day to try FreeBSD. After spending multiple hours this morning trying to get the Wifi to work I now want to punch them in the throat.
Ethernet/phone tethering works like a charm though.
Honestly, OpenBSD often works better out of the box on laptops and workstations.
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I only suggest it when someone is complaining about windows.
Exactly.
It's not "randomly recommending an operating system"
It's noticing when people have problems, and providing a solution.
Have you heard of the gospel of our lord and savior, Linus torvalds? Do you have a minute to discuss salvation from the eternal fires of surveillance capitalism? /j
Bro we get that you're joking.
Maybe it's because the survey respondent hasn't used an OS worth recommending.
Fucking hilarious because just recommended Linux to a customer over the phone. This 100% spot on.
Iβm willing to recommend Windows 10 to someone who considers βupgradingβ to Windows 11.
I talk about Linux with a lot of people. Anywhere from non-technical users, to technical users.
I have gotten a few people to try it. But ultimately in my real life circle I am the only competent Linux user. And I can't get non tech people to try it.
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Since Linux transformed my 8gb Lenovo 11th gen laptop from e-waste to daily use I became like a jw, I need to convert everyone
Somewhat related but does anyone know the backstory on the linuxsucks guy? He's the sole poster in that community and has a massive rage boner for Linux but seems to know way too much about it?
Man, idk, but I think the guy is also the one running the Reddit community by the same name. The usernames are different, but the Reddit sidebar links to the Lemmy community and the description and rules are almost word for word.
Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but anyone who promotes telemetry as some sort of good thing and hates on makes it their lifeβs work to dissuade people from Linux is either someone with too much time of their hands or an op.
That was my suspicion too but sometimes people just have hate boners for things like an autistic fixation on hating something. A good example is that CPU benchmark website where the owner has a rock hard hate boner for AMD no matter how well they do. When they kicked the crap out of Intel they used every disingenuous reason to score it lower because Intel should always be better.
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I hate that we can now recommend win10 over win11 because win11 now has AI in your fucking notepad.
I fired up an old Win7 box this weekend, and by the end of the day Microslop had force installed copilot onto the system.
ITT:
Win 10 user not realizing they are self-reporting how unenthusiastic / unimpressed they are by their OS, to the extent that they literally cannot even imagine being excited by any OS.
I have been using Linux for 30 years. Never recommend anything to anyone. It's their decision to make. I will answer questions if asked but I try and be conservative. Lots of people don't need computers and would be better off without them or only need something simple to do their jobs or play games. Also my experience doesn't translate to normies. Inlaw was asking around for laptop recommendations and I just shut my trap. They can buy a Mac or a box store Windows laptop and it will do the job and I won't be on the hook for support.
I am not a preacher and Linux is not a religion. It is an effective tool for technically minded people to get shit done. Nothing more. If companies want to turn it into a product and an experience like Valve or Google then it will end up in more or less polished consumer ready products but that is nothing to do with why I use it.
My friends want me to shut the fuck up
Hey, it's this meme again!
This seems as good a place as any to ask. I have a shitty old laptop that ran Arch pretty good, but I'm not good enough at Linux and I managed to fuck it up. Something about the root partition being full, and discussions about the fix went over my head. So I pulled all my stuff off of it and installed Mint like my other computer has, because it's braindead easy to use. But even Mint Xfce runs like doo doo on this machine.
Is there any good middle ground that's more beginner friendly than Arch, and runs on weaker machines than Mint?
Is it actually your drive slowing you down? Do you have a hard drive or SSD? You could run ReadSpeed to see the speed at different segment of your drive. If it's slow across the whole thing, that's probably why it's so sluggish. If it's just the beginning and end of the drive on an SSD, you might be able fix it.
Lubuntu is a smaller install and will run well on a toaster. It is made for older computers. When no os runs well chose Lubuntu.
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it-it's happening- SOMEONE HELP M-i use arch btw :3
Yeah you got me
I used to like treyarch btw
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