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Daniel AppelquistThe #Fediverse is not just posts from people who can confidently install Linux. It's full of posts on art, politics, cats, photography, activism, history, gaming, humor, cartoons, creativity and community from people who can confidently install Linux.
Ozzelot 
@torgo Hey, hey... we can confidently install various flavors of BSD, too.
Hugo Mills@torgo Oh, I'm never confident that I can install Linux. They keep changing it from what I remember of it 30 years ago... 👴
Stefan Baur 8 * 💉@darkling @torgo In the old days, you could install Debian by putting a sufficient amount of grain on the enter key and placing a blind hen in front of it. Then they added the safety mechanism that requires you to confirm the partitioning/formatting stage, for which you need to press a different key. I think this came with Debian 3.0 or 3.1?
Joe 
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Radomír Žemlička
mauvedeity@torgo I can only *nervously* install Linux. Hopefully I can stay on here.
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)Give it time, we'll have you kernel hacking in no time.
Meanwhile there are people here who nervously install Windows… trying to avoid it at all costs.
Alexandre B A Villares 🐍@mauvedeity @torgo same here... Quite nervously, and for many years!
(That's why I switched to Manjaro, rolling release)
(That's why I switched to Manjaro, rolling release)
the roamerDidn't see this coming. Nicely done. On stage, we'd call this "perfect timing."
Joakim Fors
MostlyTato@torgo
I saw what was coming there as I read your post. And yes.
I saw what was coming there as I read your post. And yes.
Lars EWhat is this Linux you're talking about? 😉
“Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services?
That sounds preposterous to me. [...]"
(for the uninitiated, this is a quote from what was likely a troll post back in 2007 … see here for a start: https://plethora.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=13191 )
Jenkins@torgo You know what, I think I'm okay with that being the intelligence threshold here 😆
Cosvak@torgo I only use steam os, and I'm here SUDO bros
*I'm trying a Linux joke, does it work?"
Pixel Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺@torgo I can't but that's why I am here; that I got people who I can ask 😅
Flaming Cheeto@torgo oh, I'm confident when I *start* installation
Leiya@torgo I turned my laptop into a mobile brick. But I do a lot of the other stuff tho.
Quaap@torgo I recently explained Mastodon to someone as: twitter, but everyone is a nerd
Eugene@torgo I can't confidently install anything so I'm glad to finally be acknowledged!
Tom Walker@torgo I *can* but I choose not to.
Kevin Granade has moved@torgo if by confidently you mean, "only after 14 backups" sure.
C.S.StrowbridgeI would love more sports, specifically hockey, and more nerd stuff, like Anime, but otherwise I'm happy with what I see here.
Joe Gaffey@torgo 2025 will be the year of Fediverse on the Linux desktop.
anna@torgo i sure damn w8sh i could confidently install linux
Rigo Wenning@torgo so why don’t you finally install Linux? 🙃
ploum@torgo : Mastodon being all about Linux is one of those myths:
ploum (@[email protected])
100 Mastodon myths: 1. Mastodon is hard. FALSE. It’s a "soft"ware. Not hardware. 2. You have to use Linux to post on Mastodon. FALSE. FreeBSD and OpenBSD are also supported. 3. You need to learn to use the Vim editor before posting on Mastodon. FALSE. There’s also an emacs plugin. 4. Mastodon is only for computer nerds. FALSE. As you can see, we sometimes try to make jokes that everyone could understand.
Graham Watt@torgo To be fair its been a minute since I put Ubuntu on a Dell Latitude T2 tablet laptop. Posted about art, cats, politics, gaming, and a little bit of internet history. I particularly like this group of people whom I followed over to here. While I recognize that it is a little echoing, I get enough unpleasant topics via the news, at work, and will have to directly deal with posting new POTUS photos in January at work.
Will pledge to provide more content and less reply-andy churn. Now to find some hardware to install a Linux distro on....
catapult001@torgo I cannot install Linux. lol So much to learn...
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)@torgo Hey now, I can *also* confidently install macOS on a third-party drive!
This isn't helping, is it… 🫣
mirabilos@torgo nah, there are also nōn-techs here.
Also, don’t conflate BSD with Linux, please.
HuggyDave@torgo I wouldn't say I was confident when I installed Linux...
George Girton
Maxilo OveritAnyone can install Mint Cinnamon. I mean, anyone who can understand a multi-step process, do a checksum, install to a thumb drive, and make important decisions about their computers. ;)
Cassandra
Joan Albright@torgo Actually it looks an awful lot like Twitter did back before everyone had to have it. (But with proper boosts/RTs implemented.)
Chris Hayes@torgo it's funny because it's true.
Laz@torgo Exactly!!! Fascinating though
that installing Linux is still a thing after 30 years... #Linux #Slackware
that installing Linux is still a thing after 30 years... #Linux #Slackware
Stephen Dioxide 
@torgo I resemble that remark.
Nuki Raccoon: Fedi's Favorite Furry F***poster@torgo
And porn. Don't forget the porn.
And porn. Don't forget the porn.
My Florida Native Garden@torgo
What the heck is Linux?
What the heck is Linux?
@torgo and Linux is easy nowadays. No one has to fear it.
VulcanTouristI can confidently install Linux. I have done so more than once, starting with Slackware on 70 diskettes circa 1992. I won't be installing it again in the near future until I can "confidently" find equivalents for all the Windows software and games that I use.
Turn the Fediverse into an exclusive hangout for Linux disciples and I will leave and just do without social media entirely.
Tobias Denkinger@VulcanTourist
I don't think games will ever work perfectly on Linux systems. More and more game developing companies move to absurdly intrusive anti-cheat systems. This runs counter to the basic philosophy of all Linux distros I know.
As Microsoft turns itself from a provider of operating systems to a provider of cloud applications I expect the compatibility for "normal" software to improve significantly. Microsoft will eventually stop developing OS kernels and become a Linux distro.
@torgo
I know about the extreme contortions that some anti-cheat software puts systems through. I only play games solo myself, but of course most of those games function as multiplayer as well. I had occasion to examine one game's anti-cheat system after it became obvious it was causing bizarre problems. The lengths to which it went to allegedly prevent cheating were quite shocking.
Their behavior being so intrusive, as you said, means that they are intimately entwined with the host operating system, entwined to such a degree that porting a game using them to another OS becomes anything but trivial. Only developers waist-deep in funding can afford to do it.
Hiker@torgo What a strange idea that the #Fediverse is so linked to Linux. The user's OS (Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, etc.) doesn't matter at all.
Till O'Rly 
@torgo I ran curl <some-shortend-url> | sh to install Linux on my M1 MBP the other day.
I won't say I installed that Linux confidently...
Epistatacadam@torgo I must be an outsider then! I have had Linux installed on my desktop but didn't do it myself. Not sure what to do with my laptop, it's got the Spyware OS installed so I only use it for work, as nothing confidential on that!
Rob Bos@torgo luckily, I can’t install Linux with any confidence 😅
Krazov@torgo I can install Linux with only somewhat confidence.
Clinton Anderson SwordForHireI wouldn't know Linux if it bit me on the face.......
Diabolic Preacher@torgo basically people not occupied with system update reboots.
Eric Cloninger@torgo basically Usenet, circa 1986, only it was System V Unix. Even then, the Internet managed to route around damage, albeit slower.
I can, and do, frequently install Linux on a variety of things, I consider that one of my lesser skills compared to the things I actually enjoy talking about.