“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.”
Is spreading.
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otacon239@lemmy.world 1 day ago
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I dare you to prescribe Linux to someone suffering from a headache
Solrac@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Damn dude, that headache is bright to you by your continued use of Windows. That doesn’t happen in Linux.
pennomi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As long as you recommend a basic distro it’s fine, most people will never notice the problems of Linux.
Ubuntu rightfully gets a lot of hate but it’s pretty easy for noobs to use.
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
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”
Katana314@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I 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.
Reisen@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
having installed linux earlier this year this is so true
jaybone@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
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.
Katana314@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
There’s a dumb anime game in Steam next fest called Fate Trigger. It’s not innovative at all, but it runs fine under dwproton, which lets me experience the thrill of battle royale that I’d never been willing to stomach Fortnite to try out.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
And they’re ALL super sure of their answer
JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 1 day ago
And 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.
otacon239@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
I want to but I can’t afford a new hard drive to install it onto.
TrippinMallard@lemmy.ml 20 minutes ago
- Copy files to keep to cloud or other machine.
- Prep usb drive with favorite OS installer (zorin, pop, mint, bazzite, fedora, nix, etc)
- Boot into usb drive and wipe hard drive to put linux on it.
- Copy desired files back onto your linux machine
Autisti4@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
I’m trying my best :(
texture@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
well, maybe you should switch. stare
Agent641@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Ok, what’s the best distro to switch to?
TrippinMallard@lemmy.ml 14 minutes ago
If you come from Windows or Mac and want to keep similar UI familiarity and ease of use then ZorinOS is pretty good. A friend of mine migrated away from Windows and installed Zorin OS core, choosing nvidia drivers during installation. They are very pleased with the experience so far.
texture@lemmy.world 22 minutes ago
the one that best suits your needs :3
cevn@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
My pick is Fedora. Really tho you shouldn’t have a problem as long as you avoid Manjaro. (Sry manjaro bros)
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 10 hours ago
If youre new to Linux I always recommend Linux mint. Rock solid Distros that can even be used by your 80yo grandma.
sonofearth@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Distros are for noobs. Real men just use the kernel.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
One that seems nice to you.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
complains about a thing
Gets a solution suggested that solves issues
Complains about having to hear solution
Okay then, stick with your bullshit Microshit problems
mtpender@piefed.social 1 day ago
I already switched to Mint, it’s great!
TheyKeepOnRising@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Mint is great! I use it for my laptop. Lightweight and responsive, perfect for utility. But for my desktop Bazzite is king 😎
Vesiiiii@nord.pub 1 day ago
what? 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?
TheLastOfHisName@piefed.social 22 hours ago
Would Bazzite work decently on a laptop?
HollowNaught@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I’ve been using Linux mint for over a year now. The only problems I’ve ever needed Windows for is
a) playing obscure Japanese games
b) translating said Japanese games
coracoral@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
I’ve been able to get LunaTranslator to hook into a visual novel by running them both in the same Bottle. Textractor worked in the past too. Not sure about other types of games though, I’ve only tested a few visual novels. And getting the visual novel itself working in the Bottle can be a bit of a crapshoot. So far I’ve had luck using the soda runner for my Bottles, and then in the Bottle settings, add the environment variable
LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8and set the language to “Japanese”.Currently I have a full sentence mining setup with LunaTranslator and a VN running inside a Bottle, and LunaTranslator connecting to RenjiXD texthooker page (running in a browser outside Bottles) using the websocket method (in LunaTranslator enable “network service”, then in RenjiXD texthooker page settings connect to
ws://localhost:2333/api/ws/text/origin, more info here).HollowNaught@lemmy.world 5 minutes ago
I coming back to this, thanks for the quick guide :D
faerbit@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
What about Windoes makes translating easier?
HollowNaught@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I can’t really find any ocr-based local translators for Linux
FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Wine?
HollowNaught@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Doesn’t work. Wine is famously bad at allowing multiple instances to interact within the same container
mlg@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Step 1: Just don’t pick Ubuntu
Step 2: Refer to Step 1
Optional step: Don’t pick GNOME for the Desktop Environment lol
nao@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
if you want something that just works, and don’t have any special requirements, ubuntu is a decent option
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
I honestly don’t understand the Ubuntu hate.
Then again, my computer usage is just a glorified browser now as all my app needs are on the cloud anyways.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 10 hours ago
Idk, Gnome is quite nice. The biggest downside of gnome is the lack of Settings, but apart from that I really like the look and feel.
hOrni@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
So which one should I pick? I have a decent spare pc at the moment and was thinking about trying it out for Linux.
mlg@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Linux Mint if you want something nice and easy out of box.
Fedora if you feel like taking the plunge
Bazzite if you want Fedora’s advantages for gaming but don’t want to mess with a conventional Linux install (kinda more like Android, lots of guardrails)
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 hours ago
My LMDE VM has been excellent for several years now. My laptop with Bazzite that I set up to test out the gaming side of things has also worked well, but that’s only been in use for a few weeks now and I still have a lot of niche stuff to test out before I can really recommend it. As a baseline just being able to play games there’ve been no issues just running the games I tried.
0x0@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Define “decent”.
I tend to recommend Linux Mint, it’s pretty easy to grasp for noobs (i’ve installed on two of my family’s laptops, no complaints). Zorin OS also seems nice.
Hond@piefed.social 1 day ago
Well, i made the final switch to linux myself last year and i’m pretty happy all things considered. But while a lot of things improved over the last 10 years some deal breakers are still around. In my case: just this week an update broke my desktop enviroment entirely for the SECOND time since august. I couldnt even log in. Yeah, i had automatic back ups and the issue was solved in 5 minutes.
But thats not my point. Every single linux install i had going since 2012 fucking died on it itself at some point because of an update. On three different thinkpads, three different tower PCs, running like 6 or 7 different distros. On some of these thinkpads i literally only used the browser to watch youtube and shitpost for months. Nothing else. Didnt touch the console once and never ran some random c&p command i didnt understand. Didnt install anything else. Also i used normie distros like ubuntu and the like. Still every single time at some point an update killed the entire GUI/OS. In the past i just switched back to Windows.
Now Windows is so bad that i learned to deal with this shit. Maybe i’m unlucky. Maybe i’m stupid. But this is just a constant for me in the linux experience. IDK how i could recommend Linux to my normie friends/family. I let massgrave run for them for LTSC or extended support stuff. Done, and i will probably never hear a thing about that OS/PC again. Linux? Nah, i’m good. I dont have the time to do first level support for them if something breaks.
Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 day ago
I’m on Fedora and have upgraded versions since 39. havent had a problem yet. currently on the latest 43.
Hond@piefed.social 23 hours ago
Sweet. Your experience is valid as mine!
TheyKeepOnRising@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve had Linux Mint running on my ThinkPad T430 for a while now and haven’t encountered a single issue. Some distros have awful quality control with their updates (ubuntu) which can cause the issues you’ve encountered. Going with a stable distro is key for a good experience.
Hond@piefed.social 23 hours ago
Happy to hear its working out for you without any issues. Your experience is valid as mine. But hearing that a normie distro like ubuntu has quality issues proofs my point. :D
LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Which distro did you use? Manajro by any chance?
Hond@piefed.social 1 day ago
I dont think so. Maybe once? I dont remember all the distros i tried over the years. As i said it even happened with ubuntu on a thinkpad were i made it a point to do no funky shit at all.
Currently i’m running CachyOS and do lots of funky shit. Fair game. But only because i know i just can roll back if something breaks.
mlg@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Are you using an older NVIDIA card by any chance? I only had my desktop break when using a GTX-1060.
Hond@piefed.social 23 hours ago
Nah, RDNA2.
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I 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
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Sure this few days/weeks switching will be hard. But one day it will click and you realise how much you are doing without worying about what microsoft is doing to your machine.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I made the switch a few years back, and have fucked with zero kernals. I installed Linux mint, and it just works. Every now and the I’m forced to use a windows machine, and every time I go back to my rig, it’s a huge relief. It works so much smoother and faster, no bs. It doesn’t slow down everything because logging my data on my computer through my Internet connection just isn’t a thing Linux does.
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Thanks for the response. I had kinda come to the understanding that kernals and other techno babble would either make more sense once i got started, or was stuff that wouldnt apply to a casual like myself.
0x0@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
I tend to recommend Linux Mint, it’s pretty easy to grasp for noobs (i’ve installed on two of my family’s laptops, no complaints). Zorin OS also seems nice.
You can “flash” the installation disks onto a USB drive and boot from it to test it out without actually installing it. It’ll be slower but you’ll get to test-drive it.peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Yes, mint is where i think im going to start, with the usb load to try it out. I had planned to do this last year, but upheaval in the living situation had me put of off, and im now on week 2 of no home internet, thanks alot crazy winter storms.
Thanks for the advice.
Delphia@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Its like when I talk about cars.
I dont speak in make and model, I speak in chassis and engine codes. Replacing an engine is a 1 weekend job that (back in the day) I can do half drunk.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Meh, that’s tech details that you won’t have to deal with at all
I’ve used Linux on desktop for decades now (started way back at 2002) and the lady time o touched the kernel for normal desktop stuff is literally multiple decades ago
Windows too has a kernel but nobody talks about it because you can’t really do shit with it unless you’re a developer
With Linux you can do whatever the fuck you want and it’s all relatively easy. I can access and modify the Linux kernel in 10 seconds flat if I want to. THAT is why people talk a lot about the Linux kernel, because it’s so easy and powerful to use. Microsoft Windows kernels aren’t even worth talking about.
But as a common user, you don’t HAVE to do stuff with the kernel if you don’t want to. My 70 year old mother doesn’t either and she’s fine using the Linux desktop that I installed for her.
For high intensity gaming you might have to make small modifications here and there in human readable text files, and usually documentation about it is excellent.
Most of Linux is so fucking easy to setup that last time I installed both Linux and Windows, the Linux (Kubuntu) cost 30 minutes to install and that includes the time to download the ISO and burn it on a USB and includes drivers for printers and GPU which were all setup and installed out of the box.
The windows 11 install cost me 7 hours divided over 5 days.
Amongst all the problems I ran into, I had to make BIOS modifications because it refused to install at all, it fucked up badly because I had the gall to burn a standard ISO with a standard ISO burning tool on Linux, completely forgetting that Microsoft always sabotages their software so that it won’t work well with Linux. I had to install windows on a virtual machine install some special fucking Windows ISO burner tool, burn the USB there, then it worked. That cost me hours over multiple days of searching the Internet on why the frack such a basic thing failed, plus the time required to set all that shit up just to be able to START the installation.
Then during the installation I got so many questions, so many questions… So many… Please sign up here, please pay more money, please rent our services, please please fracking please! The install itself took a bloody hour to finish
What I’m trying to say is: Linux is friggin easy. Windows is hell. Windows costs money, spies on you, serves you unwanted ads and your computer is no longer yours.
Why does anyone even use windows to begin with? I don’t get it.
nickiwest@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I did it last year, and I’ve been very happy with the results.
I’m reasonably tech-savvy for a user. I can follow instructions, but I don’t understand the super technical stuff. I watched a few YouTube videos and read a few tutorials, and it was all pretty easy.
The system updates are easier than Windows. I don’t have to understand what a kernel is; I just have to click the update button.
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Thanks, im probably in a similar boat.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Linux Mint with Cinnamon is the easy one with good, widespread adoption. Been good for me.
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 9 hours ago
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
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I’ve written a microkernel for an embedded device before and enjoy that kind of thing. I haven’t had to use any of my kernel experience in the year or so I’ve been on linux.
My linux install (Fedora) took a while because I was reading up on a bunch of the options instead of just taking the defaults. Ended up mostly just using the defaults and the ones I did change, I kinda regret because the snapshots that I wanted to save disk space by avoiding would probably come in handy if I break something and don’t know how to fix it.
sirico@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Ignore it’s just either passion or online flexing. You can use any of the main well supported distros in full chill mode. Power on use shut down.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Having an office job means I can do both, since I can’t make my work machine run linux
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I suppose they just want commiseration?
We’re just trying to help, but whatever.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Penguin noises intensifies
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Except 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.
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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”.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
It’s more work than the people saying that give thought to. I’m I’m the process of switching but finding replacements for the apps I rely on is no easy task.
PixelatedCleric@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I’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.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 day ago
If they want to complain for venting purposes, they should state as such; otherwise the innate urge to help someones situation can’t be helped.
Killer57@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
As someone who switched to Linux over a year ago. Quit bitching, and switch.