Mastodawn

Der erste Schritt: Kalter Entzug 🚫

Jahrelang war ich im Microsoft-Käfig (Win11, Office365 Familienabo). Bequem, aber fremdbestimmt. Mein Ziel: Echte digitale Souveränität. Also: Kündigung. Alles. Sofort. ✂️

Mein erster Reflex war Ubuntu. Lief gut, fühlte sich "frei" an. Doch die Ernüchterung folgte schnell: Hinter Canonical stecken zu starke US-Einflüsse. Ich wollte keine andere Abhängigkeit, sondern Unabhängigkeit. 🇺🇸❌

Nach tieferer Recherche fiel die Wahl auf openSUSE Tumbleweed. 🦎 Rolling Release, transparent, community-getrieben. Keine US-Cloud-Agenda im Nacken.

Es war ein steiniger Weg, aber ich sage euch: Ich gehe nicht zurück. Die frische Luft schmeckt zu gut.

Fortsetzung folgt...

#Linux #OpenSource #openSUSE #Tumbleweed #DigitalSovereignty #DigitaleSouveränität #Microsoft #Ubuntu #Privacy #ByeByeBigTech #SwitchToLinux #FOSS

Jill Bryant Ryniker 6d ago

LWDW is live on YouTube!!!
Come have some fun and get some #Linux #News along the way!
💖😂🐧🐧🐧

#OpenSource #podcast #technews
#SwitchtoLinux #FOSS
https://shorturl.at/CbBHP

Paolo Amoroso 6d ago

Stuck with a PC that couldn't be upgraded to Windows 11, one year ago @anubiarts Anubi overcame the concerns over technical complexity and switched to Linux. This post tells the experience of the first year with Linux.

https://anubiarts.bearblog.dev/first-year-linux-22

#SwitchToLinux #linux #EndOf10

My First Year on Linux

It's kinda wild to look back on it, but yeah, this month marks my first year using Linux!! So I thought it'd be fun to look back on everything that happened ...

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Kevin Karhan

Dec 4

@snow or even better: Don't use #Windows at all!

#Windows11 #Enshittification #EndOf10 #UseLinux #Linux #SwitchToLinux

Jill Bryant Ryniker Dec 3

LWDW is live on YouTube!!!
Come have some fun and get some #Linux #News along the way!
💖😂🐧🐧🐧

#OpenSource #podcast #technews
#SwitchtoLinux #FOSS
https://shorturl.at/CbBHP

JWcph, Radicalized By Decency Nov 30

RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/115628435843617440

Oh, OK - spoke too soon, we're back to full-on "Fail" mode: Just did what I said I would, went & fiddled a bit & now #Linux is broken & I don't know if I can be bothered to find out what a "Kernel Panic" is or try to recover from it...

For the record, I wasn't trying anything fancy - apparently that single Windows VST I installed just did something the system doesn't like & it decided the proper punishment was my death as a Linux user.

#SwitchToLinux #tech #ux

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Joe Vinegar Nov 29

@ljwrites @jwcph I agree. For the sake of who may read #SwitchToLinux threads I just want to add that it's a more general issue of the #opensource software development and distribution model.
The sentence "the stuff on/with #linux either works from the start like magic, or can require significant effort (and frustration) and not be even granted success in the end" is better framed if one substitutes "linux" with "windows" or "mac os". The main difference is that with opensource we are not paying for any of the development, distribution, maintenance activities of the code base (differently from the other mentioned cases). It's a gift economy. And yet we expect it to work (and it 99% does work!). 1/

JWcph, Radicalized By Decency Nov 28

RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/115605718295742761

To be clear, I am not ready to retract the "fail" status, but fair's fair: Because I had posted on the Reaper forum I didn't want to just go silent & thanks to someone there + some rando tinkering on my own part I now have both audio & MIDI working, as best as I can tell from a brief test at least.

There's still other issues - I shall keep the dual boot on the side & fiddle further occasionally. Like I said, I actually *do* want to #SwitchToLinux at some point...

#tech #linux

JWcph, Radicalized By Decency Nov 24

Please understand that I'm doing this with considerable regret, but I have no choice but to declare my most recent & serious attempt to #SwitchToLinux a failure.

Blame me if you will, but for anyone with my non-trivial computer skills or less, "Just switch to #Linux" is utterly off the table.

I literally had ONE thing that needed to work & it just doesn't. For me. If it was me being unreasonable... but no, it's possible, just not for me. Which is just too random to be acceptable.

#Tech