#god i missed linux

[youre-where-i-wanna-go]

did you guys know it's possible to have entire super mario clones installed that take up only 1-5 MEGAbytes?? did you guys know?

[visualmemoryunit]

im not fucking switching to linux good lord

[sludge-life-daily]

i would like to apologize, to endeavourOS, for leading you on. you looked pretty and i thought you could solve my problems but i’m still in love with arch.. we can still be friends!!

listening to sad songs and mourning the loss my my beloved arch linux install.

[endlessnebula]

I beat google and Microsoft a while ago, and have no regrets.

No more Gmail, now I use Mailbox.org.

Outlook? (GOD I miss Outlook the least) Thunderbird, Firefox's lesser-known sibling.

YouTube? Piped.video. (least reliable of the bunch)

Google search? Ecosia.

Google photos? Ente.

iOS? Android? Graphene OS, a version of Android made by the community, not google.

Windows? Linux mint is Queen.

While I don't use them as much, I can also recommend the Proton suite, as well as filen.io

It is possible to move away from them without moving to the opt-out village

[yokowan]

got my desktop working so i'm porting my 3d engine to linux. god it feels so good to be home. everything works. gcc i missed you.

[vostasky]

miss bookie so much i been drawing him………… linux gods please bless my computer and make it better!!!! i need to give him his quartzes!!!!!😫😫😢

[guiltiest-gear]

God Bless my Laptop

I fear she is not much longer for this world, after her years of service.

Her keyboard has been through the wringer, with many times I have accidentally spilled my drinks onto her, and my control key has gone completely missing, unable to be properly replaced.

I've encountered weird bugs, run many ill advised expiriments on her, and overwrote her native Windows 10 installation with Linux Mint.

Just recently 2 of her 3 USB A ports have given out, meaning her peripheral capabilities are extremely limited.

She's dirty and grimy, with deep running stains and grime that I have given up hope of washing out without completely destroying her.

Each passing day I grow more fearful of that fateful crash which she will never wake up. I find it hard to let her go.

I've plastered her cover with stickers, played many games out and about with her, completed many late night homework assignments, and formed a close personal bond deeper than I would ever think possible.

Please, offer her your blessings; my bravest, forever loyal soldier.

May your laptop pass peacefully in the night, and may your memories of her forever last, so that her will is passed to the next of this burden

It is truly a sad moment when her passing will come, but let her be remembered for her perseverance, and let her be remembered for the irreplaceable memories she has given you

May her CPU rest easy, and may her body and soul move forth to computer heaven

[madamepestilence]

I swear to god I genuinely think Windows 11 should be reclassified as malware and banned internationally.

I have an extremely low-level economy laptop. I'm aware it's falling apart. My GPU is pretty bad, I only have 8 GB of RAM, last winter fucked up the fan, and the CPU is regularly hitting 92C now.

Unfortunately, that means that I get to experience shitty Windows 11 updates the hardest.

Over the past few weeks, multiple Windows updates have made my laptop increasingly worse. I used to be able to run Firefox, Steam, Discord, a Steam game, and even open Minecraft or GIMP and maybe have files open. I could watch Twitch streams or YouTube videos in the background of everything.

Then, suddenly, my computer starts freezing. Firefox is suddenly taking up 800 MB to 1.5 GB of RAM. For reference, I can only use 7.78 GB of my 8 GB RAM, and Windows 11 natively uses 4.5 to 5 GB of that at all times.

That means I actually have ~2.78 GB of RAM. This rendered me unable to watch Twitch streams or YouTube videos in the background while I have a game open.

Firefox updates. Windows updates twice. Suddenly it runs a bit smoother, and everything is using about 200 MB less RAM.

Then, suddenly, I can't have Firefox open at all in the background. It causes everything to freeze. I think it's the CPU temperature, of course, that would be causing issues.

Now, today, 22 May 2024, without any Windows updates, I suddenly cannot have even so much as Steam, Discord, and Team Fortress 2 open at the same time.

It uses 90-100% of my RAM at all times.

Windows 11 is malware. It is behaving as though it's a crypto miner or as though it's got an insidious AI creeping through it scraping data from my files.

On the off chance some fucker at Microsoft sees this, move to Windows 12 and remove all your bloatware. Don't think I haven't seen that thread on Microsoft Answers where a fuckton of people call out Windows 11 for being significantly worse than Windows 10.

To those of you who are itching to say Just buy a new laptop/buy a computer!, feel free to donate me several thousand dollars. I am in extreme poverty, I am currently a NEET, my phone is not currently able to text or call (meaning I can't get a job right now), and I cannot afford it.

To those of you who are itching to say Just use Linux instead!, the vast majority of people I talk to automatically assume I'm unfamiliar with Linux. Everybody knows what the fuck Linux is.

I miss using Linux Mint KDE, but again, I'm in extreme poverty, and I have a history of bricking computers trying to build them or install a new OS. This is my only laptop and I can't afford to replace it.

[bakersfield-row]

Am a Windows user, have never used anything but windows, am comfortable with windows.

Convince me to linux. Explain

I’m going to keep this short because I could make this infinitely long.

In a world where you really cannot trust big companies, windows has gotten very self conscious that they could track and sell every piece of data from their customer and add unnecessary features and no one would notice it, even though it actually makes the user experience worse. If you don’t have a key, you probably also have to over a hundred dollars just for some basic amenities, like changing a wallpaper.

Linux, in the other hand, is free and open source software (FOSS), which, in its simplest form, means that all the code is there for you to change and revise. Because of this openness, most Linux distros usually never have features to sell your data, and if they do, someone’s bound to make a patch to have that not happen. This means that Linux is much more safe and secure than windows by a long shot, and you really don’t have to worry about your information being sold to dubious companies.

Linux, with all its FOSS-ness, also allows anyone to make theirs distro look anyway you want. For instance, I personally prefer the look of MacOS to Windows (I know, probs controversial opinion). On windows, it’s be a pain in the ass to get it that way, especially without a key, while in Linux you can easily do that with relative ease, as long as you have a guide. Linux is just more freedom, something probably over said but still very true.

There’s other reasons why people would want to switch to Linux to. I didn’t really note that it’s less “bloated” than windows, which means that it has a lot less unnecessary features and thus will run way faster on any computer, especially old ones. Bloat has been kinda a controversial word in the community, since people like to argue that some distros are worse because they have more features. However, no matter what you choose, it’ll probably be better than windows.

The biggest drawback to Linux, in my opinion, is obviously app compatibility. I’ve mentioned gaming before, but that’s something that’s seedy vastly improved over the years. However, some popular apps are just incomparable with Linux, most notably the entire adobe suite and (unsurprisingly) Microsoft office. There’s a couple other things you can do to circumnavigate this.

You can try to find alternatives. GIMP works as a nice alternative to photoshop, Davinci Resolve has native Linux versions, and libreoffice is probably capable enough to replace word or PowerPoint.

You can try to install wine and pray to god it’ll work (though it probably won’t).

You can run a virtual machine and run windows with that, thought that’s not GPU accelerated and thus might be laggy.

OR, and this is the best option in my opinion, you can dual boot windows along side linux, so if you really need to use it, it’s there as an option. If you’re going to do this option, make sure to install windows first before Linux (because of some stupid thing where it erases it in grub or smtn) and that the two operating systems are on separate drives. Also try to debloat windows though guides on YouTube, but know that it won’t be as private as Linux.

Honestly, that’s as much as I have to say about the subject matter. Others are free to add on, since I probably missed a few things. You might not like it at first, but I do encourage you to at least try it. Hell, you might even like it so much that using windows is now alien to you (like me, lmfao).

Hope this helped, and remember, never type “sudo rm -rf /” in the terminal. (Aw fuck, I forgot to explain the terminal. Oh well, I hope someone can explain it to you, and if you get stuck on it there’s always guides online)

[eartheats]

[pictures: there are. so many damn selfies today. dear god--be it ones by some of the parade floats or with some other people attending the parade. even with some of the facetime guests--there's just an air of fun and merriment all around, and everyone seems to be having a delightful time.

there is a few shots of ren riding around on kevin's shoulders that's hilarious, though. as well as...linux having gotten their hand on what arceus can only hope is a replica version of a labrys axe, done up in lesbian pride colors. they seem intrigued by it, and the very buff woman seems to be talking to linux about it, if her hand gestures are anything to go by]

day 2: pride zippy zap boogaloo! maaaaan, i am BEAT after today, but it's been an absolute blast meetin' some of the people renny calls their homeslices!

I can agree with that. Not many people I've shared interest with, but it was nice to talk to other people and show them around. I think that makes it worth it.

yo, you seen renny at all though? i think they darted off a bit back but...

Let's go looking for them. We do need to cap this night off properly after all, and I can't imagine they'd want to miss it...

[linuxgamenews]

Announcing Dawn of Defiance: Mix of Survival, Crafting, and Mythology

Dawn of Defiance is a new Geek crafting survival game is due to evolve onto Linux with Windows PC. Thanks to the skilled team at Traega Entertainment for making this happen. Due to make its way onto Steam Early Access this year. Exciting news from Traega Entertainment! They've just announced Dawn of Defiance, a new adventure that mixes survival and crafting elements with a dash of ancient Greek mythology. Due to release the game in early access later this year on Steam, this adventure promises to be a unique title. Plus there are also plans to expand platform support as well.

I do not believe we will be supporting Linux when releasing into early access, but ideally during that period of development we will expand our support for different platforms. As for which engine, we’re on UE5.

Although a Linux version won't be released immediately, there's promising news: the developers are already considering support for it. Plus, there's a great chance it will work well with Proton, especially since it's being developed with Unreal Engine 5.

Dawn of Defiance - Official Announcement Trailer

In Dawn of Defiance, you step into the shoes of the Defier of Gods, starting as a mere soldier and growing into a powerful force against the divine. You'll explore the barren Isles, build grand temples, and defeat followers of the gods to harness their mythical powers. So whether you're gathering resources, crafting gear, or facing legendary challenges, there's plenty to do either solo or with up to three friends. The plan is for Dawn of Defiance to stay in early access for about two years. During which the team will roll out new features and upgrades. They're also keen on using feedback from players, which could extend the timeline to three years. If needed, they might speed up the process to polish what's already available and move out of early access sooner. Here are some of the key things you can look forward to:

Survive the Isles: Starting with nothing, you’ll need to search for resources and defend yourself against numerous threats.

Explore the Ruins: Travel across the Isles, uncover hidden treasures, tackle divine challenges, and grow stronger with each victory.

Customized Crafting: Design your weapons and create a variety of items. In Dawn of Defiance, build structures that are as grand as the halls of Olympus.

Defy the Gods: Confront the fierce followers of the gods and overcome altar challenges to prove your mettle.

Band Together: Take on this tough journey alone or bring along three friends to help in online co-op multiplayer.

Dawn of Defiance crafting survival game is available to add to your Wishlist on Steam. Since its early access release coming up later this year. Don’t miss the chance to embark on this epic journey of survival and defiance

[lucisevofficial]

whew ok linux up and running again. god bless i missed having a proper os

[happyk44]

[ID:

1: Tweet from Tage Erlinger @/TageErlinger: Haha, what a wicked and ironic comment bro. Now try saying something true and beautiful.

2: Tweet from Coffee Lovers and Fans @/tonyhawktruther: NASA just revealed a heaven-like planet where you can drink a beer at the lake. And they're calling it Earth.

3: Tweet from Theo Fanning @/TheoFanning: After 50 years, Guitar Center finally makes the correct decision to stop using a guitar as a 'G' in their logo. Why it took that long is still anyone's guess.

A before and after image of the Guitar Center logo. The before image shows red text on a white background that reads "Guitar Center". The 'G' is a guitar, with the neck of the guitar overlapping the 'u' and 'i'. The after image shows white text on a red background that reads "Guitar Center". Before the word "Guitar" is a white outline of a guitar.

Quote tweet from frog "Kid Omelas" kosaric @/yurirando responding to the previous tweet: when they burned the library of Alexandria the crowd cheered in horrible joy. They understood that there was something older than wisdom, and it was fire, and something truer than words, and it was ashes

4: Tweet from miss en abyme @/saturnalreturn: Standing in front of the sun and doing shadow puppet shows on the moon

5: Tweet from Linux @/linux: When I kill God I will find the spigot from which he meters out grace and smash it permanently open.

6: Tweet from tania [russion nesting doll emoji] @/boywaif: I had a french professor who once said if you did something like goinng to the supermarket and experienced it fully without the goggles of habit and categories you would go grazy with pure sense and joy. I think about it all the time. In a way this is all for him.

7: Tweet from sand ghost @/moutheaters: Me: Is the natural state of the soul quiet or chaos

Taco Bell cashier: Look buddy, it's transient, shifting like water

8: Tweet from lil stinker @/superlameballs: guys will make something called "the ultimate treat" and it's just a meatball sub [laughing with joy emoji] it's just a meatball sub made on toasted garlic bread with cheese, homemade sauce, and all the love in their heart - their heart so filled to bursting will love you can taste it in the sandwich

9: Tweet from kat, your DM @/kazzbotz: Whenever you're obsessed with stopping a prophecy you gotta ask yourself: am I enacting the prophecy's will? Is my obsession the mechanism by which the prophecy comes to pass?

10: Tweet from Matthew @/CrowsFault: People speak of hope as if it is this delicate, ephemeral thing made of whispers and spider's webs. It's not. Hope has dirt on her face, blood on her knuckles, the grit of the cobblestones in her hair, and just spat out a tooth as she rises for another go.

11: Tweet from fembot @/__femb0t: It's always "why did you not sleep" or "how many coffys did you have" and never "was the night dark and endless and full of promise"

12: Tweet from John @/logicalpathos: This dog looks like my dog from my teenage years, Daisy. God I miss Daisy.

Reply tweet from aro @/Arolexion: I miss daisy too [prayer hands emoji]

Reply tweet from dais @/daisdNDconfused: It's okay... I was reincarnated into a real girl

Reply tweet from John @/logicalpathos: Do you remember how we used to run

13: Tweet from jims @/bubberdunkus: i'd tickle a fish if the wet chime of its laughter could heal us

14: Tweet from lilies abounded @/petfurniture: i hope death is like being carried to your bedroom when you were a child and fell asleep on the couch during a family party. i hope you can hear the laughter form the next room

15: Tweet from Linux @/linux: We cracked open the skulls of our masters and found nothing but flesh and blood

16: Tweet from azhar @/emokendallroy: is there anyone even named sheldon irl?

Reply tweet from creature from the black leagoon [drink with a straw emoji] @/bigfatmoosepssy: my class turtle from 6th Grade :)

Reply tweet from erin m. brady @/erinmartina: that's a turtle

Reply tweet from creature from the black leagoon [drink with a straw emoji] @/bigfatmoosepssy: When God sings with his creations, will a turtle not be part of the choir?

17: Tweet from sio @/bestinsio: subway rat made eye contact with me and said "join us. when the train comes we slide under the tracks and feel it rumble over us like a warm thunderstorm. we live forever and we love to live" I said no thank you I am too large he turned away from me I cried

18: Tweet from NOT A WOLF @/SICKOFWOLVES: [all caps] I hope this e-mail does not find you

I hope your chair has grown over with moss

I hope a pleasant but unobserved beam of light hits your desk perfectly through the collapsed ceiling

I hope the silence is deafening [end all caps]

/end ID]

an incomplete collection of tweets i consider to be short poems

[flat-assembler]

The way I got into Linux is hilarious. At least, to me it is.

I've only ever truly used two distros: Linux Mint, and Arch Linux.

Nowadays, I opt for the latter being my main operating system, but I'd rather eat my laptop than try to set Arch up for what would probably be the fifteenth time.

I digress. I had this old laptop with Windows Vista on it. That thing could've killed someone. It probably did.

So me, as the rather naïve beginner to computers I was at the time, just shoved a flash drive in there and hoped it would work better on a new OS.

I did this on perhaps a dozen distros of Linux, but for some reason the only one that actually worked was Linux Mint: Cinnamon Edition.

Quite frankly, I hated LMCE. Yes, it worked better than the Vista that was on there before, but by god, not only was it still so slow, but the interface just felt so uncanny to me.

Somewhere along this path, I heard of Arch Linux. I had been told it was about as good of performance as you could get, since you had to build the system to be whatever you wanted it to be.

Funny enough, I couldn't ever even get into the bootable USB of Arch. Even after tinkering with the BIOS settings, that old laptop just didn't like Arch.

So anyway I tore the laptop apart and trashed its ancient case.

A bit later, I found a somewhat newer desktop that originally ran Windows 10. It probably shouldn't have, seeing as the system was going haywire everytime I turned it on.

So I tried the Arch Linux boot on that, and it worked.

Three days, and a collective maybe 12 hours of work later, I got a basic KDE Plasma install on my Arch Linux system.

Nowadays I can do an Arch Linux install in like 15 minutes. I'd do it faster, but I still fear missing a step, so I recheck everything I do multiple times.

Eventually I put Arch on my main laptop because I found it to be a better experience than Windows.

So yeah, I've basically never dealt with any Linux distro for an extended period of time other than Arch. That Linux Mint time lasted for all of maybe a week, in which I could not for the life of me get the old machine to open a terminal in less than a good 30 seconds.

[wonderfulpileofdust]

What is man? By Beniamin Kis

Who am I?

No, this is not the Linux terminal command which tells the user, his/her username. (That’s spelled “whoami”). But it’s a question which we have to answer to ourselves sooner or later. Rather sooner than later.

All my life I liked to think of myself as an emotionally stable, always positive, always optimistic individual, who doesn’t really care about other people’s opinions or thoughts about him. I have never experienced depression, or excessive sadness, or dark thoughts, or loneliness… That is, until a few months ago, when the love of my life (or so I thought) has decided that after 11 years of being together and married for 5 years, it was time to move on. To what? I don’t know. Maybe she doesn’t know either.

So how did this happen? How did the love transform into hatred and bitterness? How did we get so lost from each other, that we could not find the way back?

Well, it’s simple: when you take out God from a relationship, it almost always falls apart. Our story, although it started beautiful, has ended crashing and burning, because we were not watching. Jesus says to his disciples: “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Oh, how right was He!

We started our relationship well, with prayer and Bible study, meaningful discussions (we’ve met on a christian forum, for cryin’ out loud). It was one of the things which attracted me about her, that she seemed to be so close to God, and had such an amazing knowledge of the Bible and other books, that I felt almost stupid around her.

Somewhere, along the way, we have shifted the focus of our relationship to a more… earthlyperspective, thus opening the door to temptation and sin.

I got addicted to video games, she got addicted to social media and movies, we stopped praying together, we stopped having a healthy spiritual life, she cut off all her relationships with people from the church, got involved in toxic relationships, I started being angry all the time and pouring out all my frustrations to her, often shouting and using an inadequate tone. The presence of God was slowly replaced with anger, lies, absence of communication, resentment and, in the end, with hatred. The love, which was supposed to unite us and keep us together, you know, the one from 1 Corinthians 13, was transformed to resentment and repulsion and set lightyears of distance between us.

So, one day, she told me: “I’m leaving…”

I said: “Where?”

“I don’t know” she said.. “away…”

That was the moment I knew she was not coming back. A few months later we sat in the notary’s office, signing the divorce papers.

Inevitably, questions started to flood my mind, I started to doubt myself, my identity, which led me to these questions: Who am I, really? What did I accomplish in almost 30 years of my life? Am I still the same person she married? What’s my purpose? What is the purpose of life, in general? Where did I do wrong? Why did this happen to me? Why can’t I be happy like others of my age? Why did I miss the signs? Why couldn’t we repair things? Why did it end this way? Here I am, 30 and divorced, who’s gonna even look at me?

…and soooo many other questions. Most of them unanswered.

But returning to one question: who am I? I have found my answer. And it’s written in God’s holy Word:

- “I will give thanks and praise to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.” [Ps. 139:14]

- “for dust you are and to dust you will return.” [Gen. 3:19]

I am a wonderful pile of dust, which means I am precious in the eyes of God, so precious that He won’t allow me to live on this earth filled with selfishness, materialism, pride, abuse, disobedience, ungratefulness, unholiness, hatred, unforgivingness, slander, lack of self-control, violence, betrayal, rashness, hedonism, duplicity, in this daily-degrading body, forever. He has promised me that He’ll go and prepare a place for me:

- “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.” [John 14:1-3]

So, every time I forget who I am in Christ, I’d always return to these Scripture references:

- I am God’s workmanship, created in Christ unto good works. (Ephesians 2:10)

- I am an ambassador for Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:20)

- I am part of a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people. (1 Peter 2:9)

- I am greatly loved by God. (Romans 1:7; Ephesians 2:4; Colossians 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 1:4)

- I am born of God, and the evil one does not touch me. (1 John 5:18)

- I am complete in Him Who is the Head of all principality and power. (Colossians 2:10)

Ending this blogpost with a song, dear to my heart:

“Who the Son sets free Oh is free indeed I’m a child of God Yes I am In my Father’s house There’s a place for me I’m a child of God Yes I am

I am chosen Not forsaken I am who You say I am You are for me Not against me I am who You say I am”

(Youtube Link to the song)

That’s who I am, a child of the almighty God, King of heaven and earth, who gives life and made all things out of nothing!

I have no more doubts, as a christian who has accepted His sacrifice and declared with my lips that I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, who has died for my sins and saved me from eternal death, and neither should you, if you did all these things.

[mybrainproblems]

okay but like internet of things. i used to be very into linux in college and had friends who were too and we would joke about running arch linux on fridges (since the developers joked that you could run it on a cheese grater bc it was so lightweight). the purpose of a networked fridge being so you could monitor the temp and have a camera inside so you could see if you wanted anything on your laptop from your couch (first android wouldn't launch for another year).

it's just so weird to see it become a commercial reality in such a horrifying way. like you could absolutely rig up a smart fridge that does what you want open source and is SECURE. bc let's be real. what the fuck is anyone using the smart features on a fridge for that can't be replicated with a locally networked tablet running a lightweight version of linux.

no this is not accessible to the average person who doesn't have experience with linux but my point is that the internet of things can be cool and useful and NOT dystopian. we have ceded SO MUCH control over our lives to corporations.