MattW03Is spreading.
Having an office job means I can do both, since I can’t make my work machine run linux
TrackinDaKrakenI suppose they just want commiseration?
We’re just trying to help, but whatever.
Ricky Rigatonican’t help people who don’t want to be helped
“Man, I’ve had a headache for a long as I can remember.”
“Here, try some aspirin. At least give it a shot.”
“No thanks, I need the headache. It lets me play Fortnite.”
I dare you to prescribe Linux to someone suffering from a headache
Damn dude, that headache is bright to you by your continued use of Windows. That doesn’t happen in Linux.
da_cow (she/her)More like installing a subcutaneous implant
“It’s easy, man. You just need to inject this needle under your skin. What do you mean you’re uncomfortable doing that? Anybody can do it. And if you don’t like it, you can just use the same needle to pull the pill back out and you’ll be back where you started, no harm done. Now, there’s about 48 different pills you can choose from that vary in performance and legitimacy. I use Grafff (yes, with 3 Fs, two Fs is the legacy version), but you could start with NBOSC or RBOSC or LBOSC. But you could also try Flan or Yellow Welly. You could try Trim, but it takes some getting used to not having eyes. Honestly, its not that bad though. Anyway, once you have QBOSC (I mentioned QBOSC, right? It meant replace RBOSC but they split and are just two different things now) you’ll need to find this thing called DaemonFlare to make your legs work so you can play games and stuff. The whole thing should take like 20 minutes… or 9 days to work out the issues”
This is funny. You’re getting heavily downvoted because it’s criticizing Linux. I don’t actually agree with the sentiment. Though I get how people might have that perception. Still, this is funny.
But what part is inaccurate? Its easy if you know how to do it and daunting if you don’t.
ReisenI feel like so many Linux advocates would get more interest if they were at least a little honest about the upfront friction, and recognized how obtrusive so many acronyms and half-names (or “hames!”) become.
Main thing I want to work out is a reliable path for reinstalling Windows, so people know they have a safety net. Licensing is often complicated since it came with people’s computers.
Then you open the bottle and find it’s filled with different types of pills of various sizes, colors, and markings.
“Umm… So which one of these do I take?”
And then you get 20 different answers.
It’s almost like people have several unique sets of needs for an operating system and the community works to fill those voids as best as possible with no expectation of financial gain and so things aren’t as polished because of it.
But the company with near unlimited budget can’t figure out how to keep their OS from deleting people’s files and crashing.
JensSpahnpastaAnd that is correct. Headaches are different. Some people are helped by aspirin. Aspirin comes in different forms, as pill, powder, stick, in different doses. Other people maybe need Ibuprofen or Paracetamol or even harder pain medications. Those also come in different forms and doses. So every of those 20 answers is correct and you need to find out what works for you.
The world is complex and you need to find out what works for you. The idea that one OS or one distro is perfect for everyone on this planet is wrong just as the idea that one medication in one specific dose can be perfect for a complex illness like headaches for every of those 8.5 billion people on this planet. You have to be willing to find what works for you - or just keep suffering from headaches.
And they’re ALL super sure of their answer
Mint is great! I use it for my laptop. Lightweight and responsive, perfect for utility.
But for my desktop Bazzite is king 😎
Vesiiiiiwhat? I sit in the Linux ecosystem for years - Literally my first PC as a child was on Ubuntu - and never heared of ”Bazzite”? Can you elaborate?
‹Hexa«Back›bazzite.gg will explain
simplest explanation is that it’s for people who want to game on Linux and use Linux with minimal configuration and tinkering. It just has a lot of sane defaults like:
- Nvidia drivers and Steam pre-installed
- Flatpak for apps (installing packages is discouraged since doing so recklessly can break your system)
- “immutable” core (this is harder to explain but basically it makes it very hard to break your system)
- background updates with easy rollback in case something goes wrong (just be warned that by default you can only rollback to the previous state, nothing older than that)
- Wayland
- advanced tools in case you need them (podman, distrobox, ujust scripts, brew, DX mode)
- active community to provide help and support
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macnielI’m scared of screwing up the install and not being able to play my current vice videogame (Marvel Rivals).
My laptop is a MSI Cyborg 15 A13V.
Eh, the install for most distros is pretty hard to screw up, just be careful about your Nvidia drivers. I’ve had bad luck with laptops with Nvidia in past, but actually running the game in Linux (at least from steam/proton) should be pretty seamless.
Yeah, my laptop’s drivers is what makes me nervous.
Actually learning a new OS? Nah, I can get around that.
Same way I been learning to use Matrix/set it up for friends.
Marvel Rivals has a gold rating on ProtonDB (meaning it works usually without tinkering).
If you’re concerned about drivers, use Bazzite as your distro. It manages drivers automatically and comes preinstalled with support for pretty much anything on Steam. In addition to being a highly polished distro with strong gamer presentation.
hoshikarakitaridiaAdding to that, drivers are basically a non-issue in 99% of the cases by now. Linux has really outdone themselves on that.
Case and point, I plugged in an audio interface into Linux after installing a DAW and pipewire and it just worked out of the box.
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tux0rIt is well possible (and even encouraged) to actively despise both Microsoft's enshittification of its software and the harassments by the Stockholm syndrome'd Linux community.
oh no! help me! I’m trapped on an operating system I chose that I can configure however I want and that I can leave whenever I want!
unlike Windows, the default OS on 99% of machines, that people keep using despite the constant enshitification because of 1 or 2 softwares won’t run elsewhere and are thus trapped, no Stockholm syndrom here.
that I can configure however I want
systemd disagrees.
that I can leave whenever I want!
All operating systems, except (maybe) iOS, do that.
systemd disagrees.
that I can leave whenever I want!
All operating systems, except (maybe) iOS, do that.
There are (a few) distros that don’t even uses systemd and anyway you can still tinker with systemd.
And by leaving, I meant I’m not stuck (like the Stockholm syndrome of your comment implied) on linux and can actually leave to BSD or other (or even back to windows if I ever get brain damage, who knows), so basicaly I don’t know where you get your “Stockholm syndrome” from.
As opposed to the MS Stockholm syndrome going on here?
Is that a thing? I don’t think I have ever heard someone defend microslop on here and you can bet it’s different for Linux.
I meant more the comment I was replying to rather than Lemmy as a whole.
It’s a bit Stockholmy to say “I know it’s completely entitling and awful but I don’t want to switch to a free alternative “
I’m kind of in the same boat though. Compatibility still breaks lots of things people don’t think about.
- music production (that’s me)
- video editing & pp
- architecture software & planning software
- legally compliant software for taxes, etc.
- various GIS software
- very specific closed source hardware
There’s quite a few people I can confidently recommend Linux to, but there’s also a bunch I can’t.
I tried setting up my DAW setup with external plugins and even with huge limitations I couldn’t get it to work. I tried 8 times, with 5 different configurations. This is not feasible.
Penguin noises intensifies
Dozzi92Except they’re the same person. The people who complain most about Microsoft here also go on to add “That’s why I switched to my Linux high horse” nine times out of ten.
Well I wouldn’t have switched if Microsoft didn’t suck… so yeah. If I had nothing to complain about, I would have just stayed on Windows.
“Can anyone recommend a good distr-”
Man if they figure out stable alternatives to Premiere Pro and Ableton I’m on board, but for now all of that is not easy to do and the setup can be extremely janky.
I’m talking actually usable, not “it runs”.
been pointing people to this Windows as an augment for just one or two programs:
“Looking Glass does not support audio routing. The preferred solution is to pass through QEMU’s audio to your host’s audio system.”
That eliminates Ableton ofc (because that pushes you out of the vm for audio and then you have to deal with additional jank and you’re back to dealing with your Linux distro for better or for worse.
Premiere pro that could work though of course for audio you’re also back to square one.
BlueFootedPeteyI want to make the swtich, and I have been looking into it, seems pretty simple.
But then I read the comment section in any post on linux, and they talk about kernals and other super techinal stuff.
Any day now tho, ill take the plunge
Edit: never had so many responses before, guess linux is the magic word. Even if i didnt respond to your replies, i appreciate and have updooted them.
The only difficult part as a newcommer is the installation process, partitioning and choosing between different things you pretty much know shit about.
Anything debian or debian based is a good start KDE plasma for that windows feel Learn how your particular package manager works and thats it.
Unless you have some compatibility issue, it’s pretty much straight forward.
Gaming has its things, but it is super doable. I have been a debian usdr for 14 years, but kept a winfows partition for gaming. 2 months ago switched to arch for gaming. So far, i have played +10 games with no issues, steam pretty much just works and lutris (think of it as a foss game launcher) needed some tweaks, but is pretty good.
If you have doubts, you can always try it on a virtual machine, meaning, you dont risk anything.
Linux Mint with Cinnamon is the easy one with good, widespread adoption. Been good for me.
Unfortunately:
- outdated packages as hell
- X11 causes performance issues and low frame rate when having more than 1 monitor
- KDE is just more sexy but hey, it is what it is
- all Ubuntu based distros have problem with the new kernel and compatibility problem with virtualbox?
- outdated stuff, again
Apart from that, yea, works pretty well, I use it on my desktop
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