#LInux

[manjaro-official]

'oh boy I sure wish there were a fast, free and private alternative to microsoft windows'

the humble gnu/linux:

"oh boy I sure wish there were a fast, free and private alternative to google chrome"

the humble mozilla firefox:

[regularsystemdeez]

Not gay or straight but a secret third thing. A Linux user.

[ubuntu-official]

Not a windows user or a Mac user but a secret third thing. Bisexual.

[cool-retro-term-official]

apple fucked up technology desgins forever !! WHAT DO I PUT MY FLOPY IN NOW ? no floppy disk reader 😔... how are u even supposed to install anything ? with the internet ? saying no to your privacy ? in this economy ?

[mutter-official]

should i switch to jetbrains ides

they are a) not electron, b) either open-source or based on an open-source codebase, and c) look really powerful

don't get me wrong i love neovim but the constant terminal-wrangling is starting to be a bit much + i want features like code completion and doc peeking that just work out of the box

[fedora-official]

Fedora distro update: Oops! No longer a binary distro! 🟨⬜🟪⬛ Binary packages will still be available and we're committed to support all your favorite architectures: he/she/they/any

[mipseb]

hi

none of you know what you're talking about

the were called apps in the 80s but just to poke fun at you all here is jobs in '92 using the term

https://youtu.be/Gk-9Fd2mEnI

not to enforce gender roles but a computer should NOT fucking have apps okay. if I wanted an app I'd go on my phone my laptop is for Programs. I mean this.

[nixcraft]

Email: Why are Linux commands so cryptic? Me: Unix and Linux have so many obscure commands because the developers were big fans of Dungeons & Dragons. Each command is a magic spell with a cryptic name and unpredictable effects. Next question, please?

[verycrowindeed]

"chrome is like the Linux for windows"

Real thing that a guy that has been studying IT for two years said to me yesterday

[spell-bloom]

I asked my Linux nerd boyfriend what Linux distros he would recommend to the average TS2 user looking to move, and he recommended Fedora. Fedora is an easy install that has a desktop environment (Gnome) that takes a bit to get used to, but you can uninstall that for KDE Plasma for a streamlined Windows-esque experience.

Arch is not recommended at all unless you know what you're doing. Fullstop. It's for hardcore users.

He also does not recommend Ubuntu despite it's ease of use. It is radically different compared to Windows and other distros. Installing programs on Ubuntu is difficult because it sorts files in a different way than what installers expect so you need to do a ton of tweaking and troubleshooting.

[tlakative]

"Recall" is a dependency in windows 11 filemanager, newer versions of paint and notepad are planned to contain AI, it's downhill and they will not allow you to "uninstall" anymore some. almost everything you can think of (except AI bs) is possible on linux nowadays, gaming has been simplified by wine and proton (it's what the steamdeck uses) MAKE THE SWITCH!!!! LINUX IS NOT WHAT IT ONCE WAS AND THERE IS NO CORPO BS WHEN THERE ARE NO CORPOS INVOLVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I believe everything should be offline, I believe that every time something that is not your internet browser (and I'm being generous here) should have a big red alert that says THIS PIECE OF SHIT PROGRAM NEEDS TO CONNECT TO THE INTERNET AND REQUESTS YOUR CONSENT TO DO THIS SPECIFIC THING, and you had to touch a big red button and it would disconnect as soon as you close it.

[emulationarea]

What version of windows do you have on the computer

IT'S.... NOT WINDOWNS... BUT THIS GUY IS HERE IN CHARGE APPARENTLY. IT'S NAME IS LINUX. HOWEVER THE COMPUTER ITSELF IS QUITE OLD.

[regularsystemdeez]

*shaking crying and pissing my pants* I'm thinking about dual booting two Linux distros.

[rilo-kiley]

He's literally right tho. Anybody who can follow a tutorial can install Linux, which is a lot of people. The real barrier for most tech-minded people is software support. And even many UE issues (like over-dependence on the terminal) are secretly just software support issues.

I swear to god computer people talking online about how easy computers/linux are are just that xkcd comic about experts in a field overestimating a layperson’s knowledge (“surely the average person must only know 2-3 feldspars”), over and over again. I felt this firsthand back when I was asking for advice when buying my desktop PC. When a casual computer user reads something like this, at least speaking from personal experience, it is nearly incomprehensible. It is wonderful to want to help the less technologically-fortunate, but you have to break things down more than this. You are speaking wingdings at people.

[mitchipedia]