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“This is america, why are there more than two choices”
The big advantage of Linux it’s fully customizable The big disadvantage of Linux, it’s fully customizable
When you start you go with mint and then you either arch if you want high maintain rolling updates or debian if you want stable distro thats just as good as arch! (Debian hates nvidia drivers for some reson so you need to update those if you have nvidia gpu tho).
Ventoy and go, try a bunch.
But the correct answer is Mint with XFCE
Ventoy is one of the wonders of the modern world. That said, probably easier to use Virtual Machine Manager if they just wanna explore options.
Eh, VMs are heavy and my usual assumption when people are switching to Linux is that they’re on anemic hardware that wasn’t designed for virtualization; that’s also where my preference for XFCE comes from
I don’t think the hardware is an issue; If it can run Windows it can
dodge a ballrun a few VMs. The average consumer grade laptop pooped out in the last decade can easily handle Mint (or Zorin, MX, etc) with one or two VMs running at a time if it’s just to explore different distros or DEs. Even Qubes can run on something from that era.
The wrong assumption is that you have to pick the best of all possible everything the first time. People agonize less about choosing a type of car to spend $30,000 on knowing that if you sell it used its instantly worth 5000 less.
Meanwhile you can switch everything about your computer in 2 hours for free.
Instant depreciation of a new car is worth it with the knowledge of newness with warranty. Buying used is a huge gamble. But yeah, I mostly agree that we need to encourage people like how I was encouraged: oh yeah just try it out!
Buying used is a huge gamble
What’s up in North America? Like seriously?
I keep driving depreciated old shitboxes, literally the German makes and models known for being the absolute worst offenders when it comes to destroying your wallet. Yet even with one bought at 400k km, one at 500k km and one with 380k km on the clock but electronic modules showing 600k km… None have yet catastrophically failed. BTW 400k km was Audi, 500k km was BMW and the one with 380k km that almost certainly had the odometer rewound when it made a stop in Lithuania before being imported to Estonia, was a Mercedes-Benz. All mid-00s models, the era where they were known to be the LEAST reliable of all the eras of these cars. Okay the BMW ended up having major issues, but it was the only one - and that’s because it’s the only one of those super high-mileage shitboxes that I owned when I was together with my ex, the car destroyer. She never let me bleed the cooling system after replacing the radiator (which I don’t consider a catastrophic failure, it was a slow leak and a 3-4 hour DIY job to replace). The moment the cooling system SEEMED to work after the radiator replacement, she needed to drive again, and of course any time I got home from work, she took the car and left. Hence never finding an hour or so to bleed the system.
But that rant aside - I do get wanting peace of mind! It’s why I drove a 2019 till my ex put me in so much debt I had to go back to the shitboxes. Get low mileage cars at 2 or 3 years, ideally certified pre-owned so you get an extended warranty from the dealer. I got a 50-60k EUR Mercedes for under 30k that way. Not a single fault in the 2 years I drove it, despite the serious neglect it incurred when I got together my ex and she instantly got pregnant and had me spend all of my money on useless shit and drive her to places at a rate of like 300-400 km per day. 60k km between oil changes at one point because I couldn’t afford the minuscule expense, nor could I find the hour it takes to do it.
Just ask your favourite slop generator to shit a suggestion for you, it already replaced your ability to draw stick figures, something every person knows hownto do by the age of 7. Or better yet, google a list of active distros and throw a fucking dice. Same amount of precision and intelligence, less wasted electricity and water.
OP is posting AI slop and plagiarizing other people’s work. Lead image seems a cyanide and happiness cartoon, but it’s a blatent ripoff, and they watermarked it with their own username to boot. And no communication out transparency around any of that as well
“not again” as a punchline is the level of creativity I’d expect from a slopper
I think there needs to be proof given when you accuse people of ai slop, this is not to say it’s not a slop mime of course it is: it’s I think people tend to forget why AI slop is not so great: the average person it trained on is not that great.
Now sure if you find a Loading artist with the frames the same we know what it was lifted from vs it just being a mimic of style, sure AI or not we could say it’s a bit too close in style to be a independent derivative.
But let’s be real you were not going to ever be paid for some off the top random meme the question is should op have bothered posting… Honestly likely not.
Their profile banner has LLM and a heart spray painted on a wall. Its ai slop
Maybe your intention with this comment was more noble, but it’s full of typos/autocorrect and odd tense (I wasnt going to be paid?) that make it very difficult to follow?
But from what I can read, your position is that the burden of proof for fraud is on the audience and not the person creating the deceptive work? I don’t agree. And if I start a business, I need to hold trademark for my logo and patents for my novel designs and utilities - SO THAT I DEFEND MYSELF WHEN CHALLENGED.
Why isn’t your assertion that OP should need to provide proof that their work is original OR openly label it as AI (theft). Again, in this case OP is working to pass this off as original work (as you can see by them literally taking extra time to watermark their counterfeit work).
Lead image seems a cyanide and happiness cartoon,
It doesn’t claim to be a Cyanide and Happiness cartoon anywhere in the cartoon.
You’re an unserious person
Just ask your favourite slop generator to shit a suggestion for you, it already replaced your ability to draw stick figures, something every person knows hownto do by the age of 7.
Or better yet, google a list of active distros and throw a fucking dice. Same amount of precision and intelligence, less wasted electricity and water.AI trash aside, I think the default recommendation for newbies should be Linux Mint with Cinnamon environment. It’s familiar, simple, and fully functional. Lots of people use it as their go-to for general purposes, myself included.
How do you know it’s AI?
What kind of ports does that laptop have?
And what’s going on with the speech bubbles in the fourth panel?
Idk how to explain exactly, but the font + style of the comic + how it’s written all give off “AI” vibes. Someone smarter than me could elaborate better, but there’s an unmistakable quality to it.
For first-timers: pick at random and use it until it annoys you. Then you can make an informed decision second (third, fourth, …, nth) time around
Holy sneaky AI image, Batman!
Fuck this is getting hard.
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Red shirt guy’s eyebrow is a bit weird
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Ports on the laptop change every frame.
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Scrollbars are a bit weird
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Text in computer window doesn’t line up with grey windows in the vertical direction.
Biggest giveaway are the fake compression artefacts.
And here I thought everything in this comic was just sweating profusely, including the words on the laptop screen.
I was wondering if those compression artifacts were real.
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I love Lemmy. I hate AI posters.
Glad I’m not the only one that thought this was an AI comic.
EDIT: and had that thought confirmed.
Thought? This IS an AI comic.
Wasn’t trying to imply it wasn’t. My bad.
It’s okay, I’m the one who misunderstood ya, I’m the one who should apologize.
doesn’t seem like AI, what makes you think so?
Some of them you need to open the image in a new tab/full-screen it to see.
The ports on the laptop are different in each image.
The resolution of the ports is much, much higher than other parts of the image.The image has a bunch of fake compression artifacts.
One character in the second panel has an eyebrow, the others don’t. The line-weight on the eyebrow doesn’t match the rest of the comic. That character has its mouth open, but the speech bubble isn’t connected.
I see
I’ve seen enough AI generated media to know when one is AI.
I’m a Linux > Ubuntu > Gnome type of girl. I don’t know what any of that means but those are how I use my linux.
I used to dislike Gnome because just not for me.
Then I found out they ban AI generated code from extensions.
And may sraight up ask the programmers to explain logic behind how they came up with suspicious looking parts of the code to confirm.
That’s like a stamp of quality. I respect that.
You will make someone a happy Linux wife some day. :)
All you need to know is that, whatever you pick, you made the wrong choice and you will be roasted if you ever attempt to explain your decision.
Unless you use Arch, then you have chosen correctly.
You’re obviously not using NixOS. I clearly don’t even need to try to use such a subpar stateful system such as Arch, you absolute pleb.
Am I out-jerking you already?
I use NixOS, obviously.
I use NixOS btw
You mispelt gentoo
Screams in Debian…
Urgh! Why did you choose Arch? It is just the worst!
Actual reenactment:
Choice is good when you can make an informed choice. Choice is bad if you are forced to make a decisions where you have no idea of the consequences.
Worst when the newcomers chose Arch because they’ve heard is very configurable.
Then complain that Linux is hard.
I had a coworker once boasting about his blazing fast Arch desktop, had him going on about how it’s the best operating system, how lightweight it was, etc.
He never once tried another distro and insisted he didn’t choose Arch because of the meme. But he did recompile fastfetch to say ‘I use arch btw’. The guy was a living breathing shitpost
I kinda have the reverse problem.
I started with arch and when I was making a beginner friendly linux laptop for my parents, I chose Mint and later switched to Zorin, and wanted to make everything as windows like as possible.
My problem that I felt like wrestling and constantly having to look what is in my system etc etc. Felt really frustrating and like I knew way less than I thought.
So IMO, distro hoppers are way more knowledgeable than many Arch users, merely from knowing how to wrestle with the system, where in contrast, all I do is install what I want and when I want to do something, I already know exactly and precisely what to look into.
