#Gnu/Linux

[alpine-official]

"I use Linux as my operating system," I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. "Actually", he says with a grin, "Linux is just the kernel. You use GNU+Linux!' I don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "I use Alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU Coreutils, or any other GNU code. It's Linux, but it's not GNU+Linux." The smile quickly drops from the man's face. His body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth and drops to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!" Coolly, I reply "If windows were compiled with GCC, would that make it GNU?" I interrupt his response with "-and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even if you were correct, you won't be for long." With a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. I've womansplained him to death.

[greekie-via-linux]

this is my computers login screen, wallpaper, and lock screen

[go-learn-esperanto]

Honestly I don't know why people are so hellbent on staying with Windows when Linux has distributions like

AmogOS

Hannah Montana Linux

Ubuntu Satanic Edition (comes with free metal music)

UwUntu (Annoyingly a really good OS and one of the funniest too. The guys who make it recommend you anime movies every time you install a new version)

[distrochooser]

Operate your entire system as the root user. The world is ending anyways.

[cryptbb]

[tamara-kama]

This also includes most home arcades.. from what I know they tend to run either on Armbian Linux or Android

[ubuntu-official]

GNUwU

[sslushpup]

Drew Xenia without reference

Program: Tux Paint

[r0se1337]

Put together a rice for my Thinkpad

[lenovo-real]

I'd like to interject for a moment. What you a referencing to as "linux" is actually GNU/Linux, or as I have recently taken to calling it, DEEZ+NUTZ

[bleghablah]

girl are you copy_debug_sparse_string(COPY_DEBUG_EXTERNAL) within copy.c written by Jim Meyering for the GNU coreutils?

cause I've returned, and girl, I'm "SEEK_HOLE"

is this anything?

[zomgbomb]

hot take on linux but imo telling people who want to use learn linux to just use the easiest distro imaginable isn't good advice. sure if they want to just use linux, then yeah the path of least resistance is the way to go. However when someone actually wants to learn, picking a more challenging distribution can force a new user to learn more about linux than they would by using an easy distro. obviously it isnt universal for everyone but i see people completely reject the idea of someone using a distro like arch or gentoo as their first distro because they are "hard". but these distros are really a great learning opportunity especially when following their respective wikis.

[greekie-via-linux]

new wallpaper since you guys liked the last one

[nerdychildqueen]

Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.

[squaduck]

My mom's laptop is old and can't run Windows 11.

I ran a few DEs past her and KDE Plasma passed the vibe check if that helps.

(Joke poll aside, this is somewhat of a genuine question. A lot of the beginner-friendly distros I can think of off the top of my head don't have KDE as an option. [I'll admit the only beginner-friendly distro I really know is Linux Mint, but a lot of the other ones I've heard of don't have KDE either. {Elementary OS, PopOS, etc.} She also outright said no to Cinnamon.])

Maybe OpenSUSE Slowroll? Debian stable?

She doesn't actually use her laptop that often so I don't think the actual distro will matter that much. She certainly doesn't care about the latest features.

But as an OpenSUSE Tumbleweed enjoyer, I know that libzypp doesn't (didn't?) play nicely with Discover for some updates. It'd probably be fine with any more traditionally package managed distro though.

But Debian Bookworm doesn't have KDE 6...

Even still, I'll probably just go with Debian stable unless any of you have a better idea.

Some specs below the cut if it matters to y'all

The laptop is a Dell XPS L702X

It has a 2 core 4 thread Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2450M CPU @ 2.50GHz

It has 8 GiB of fully replaceable ram. (4 DDR3 SODIMMs. 2 Currently populated) (We are considering upgrading it.)

It has a dedicated Nvidia GeForce GT 550M

But the cpu also has an iGPU. It doesn't identify itself as anything in particular.

For wifi, it has an Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6230 (Since it's Intel I don't think it'll be an issue, but ya never know. It didn't work in Clonezilla, but that might not even consider WiFi.)

It has a 500 GB SSD and a 500 GB hard drive. Both are supposedly healthy according to SMART.

I've already cloned everything with Clonezilla. (All the specs except the wifi are from the Clonezilla image.)

I don't think these specs matter too much. Windows 10 runs... fine. (I don't think the Nvidia drivers are even installed?) I can't imagine any particular Linux distro will run any worse. It's mostly needed for taxes and stuff anyway.

(As I was checking what the wifi card was, windows gave an ad notification for Flight Sim 2024. I don't think this laptop could even install it. Staying on Windows 10 isn't really an option.)

[electricmeatorchestra]

When I finally get Disco Elysium working on my Debian machine it’s over for these hoes