I’m deeply sorry. If it’s any consolation, it will eventually happen to everybody.
Or at least everybody that didn’t see the light and adopt The Penguin… But let’s leave religion to another time.
BTW, Arch is awesome.
( actually, i use Manjaro. but it’s based on arch. so that still counts, right?)
so that still counts, right?
Still counts. You now have to say you use arch every hour, otherwise you’ll implode.
Wait…does this apply to all Arch based distros? If so I haven’t been talking about it nearly enough.
And if you own a Steam Deck, you’re an Arch user. I don’t make the rules.
please don’t go any further without mentioning you use arch, it can be dangerous!!!
I noticed this while I was using arch, btw.
Well I do use Arch
and you look marvelous! btw
NGL kinda want to use arch just so I can say I use it. I feel left out.
I used to use Arch like them, then I took an arrow to the knee.
I chose the distro for the meme, nothing else.
Well, at least I don’t have to talk about it as much as I have to update the dang thing.
manjaro has had a lot of drama and problems in the past and i don’t think it’s really a good distro to use. they forgot to renew their ssl certificate multiple times, they break software due to their weird update strategy (they use custom repos which hold back updates mostly arbitrarily for a week) which breaks dependencies and sometimes breaks the entire system, and their gui package manager once overwhelmed the AUR with traffic.
a better alternative with an easy gui installer would be endeavouros or cachyos. endeavour is basically manjaro except competent and with regular arch packages. cachy has its own repos (in order to build specialized versions of packages), but it keeps in sync with the regular arch repos.
though of course if manjaro is working for you that’s great and any amount of linux use is good. manjaro is just a bit temperamental. i also understand that some people can’t just distrohop, for example because they don’t have a separate home partition, or not enough space to copy important files elsewhere before wiping their partitions.
Oh did they renew their ssl certs so their repos work now?
Lol I cannot understand how anyone can trust those idiots at this point.
False. My machine officially isn’t upgradeable to W11 cause it’s too old. Also, it’s possible that LTSC doesn’t even suggest to upgrade.
Isn’t ltsc frozen in features with only security updates or something?
Yeah, that’s what I meant with my second sentence, I’m just not 100% sure there’s no upgrade path.
Don’t leave us hanging. What distro?
Hannah Montana
Half a dozen of them have real cost/benefits trade-offs that make preaching for a single one harmful. The other thousand are just completely useless waste of time not worth mentioning.
BSD BSD BSD. read that in a chant of course.
Damn, that never happens on my Arch Linux install.
I’ve also never once been prompted to install Win11 on Neon
Is neon actually good?
Well, it doesn’t prompt you to install Windows 11, so that’s definitely a plus.
That bar is so low, you’d need professional tunnelling equipment to not clear it
And yet, the most used OS in the world doesn’t clear it.
Well, Microslop are the ones that buried it in the first place. I imagine they’ll have hired some construction company to dig the trench to lay it.
Actually, I think that’s windows 11. Though despite it never trying to get you to install win 11, it’s still worse than the one that does.
Yeah it’s good.
It’s Ubuntu LTE with the latest released KDE on top of it.
Works very well for me. But I’m a KDE fan.
My boss at work told it to download thinking that he would have a choice to install in when he wanted. Now he understands what a virus is.
great opportunity to try out bazzite or cachyos :P
Cachyos is top tier as a long time LTSC w10 guy.
yeah, after switching i found rolling release upstream arch derivatives (namely endeavor and cachy) to be the least confusing ones to work with on a pc
I have to use it, it’s the corporate setup. Every day I envy plumbers who unclog toilets.
Come for the pay, stay for the food.
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You misspelled Microslop
More like a downgrade
ZorinOS is nice to Windows users if you want ui similarity
I installed Zorin on a second hand thinkcentre yesterday to test out, and I really like it. I use Mint on my laptop, and I’m pretty satisfied with that. I’m evaluating both of them as a permanent replacement for windows 11 on my main PC and it’s down to those two.
My son tried it after avoiding Linux for months. He didn’t like Zorin and eventually settled on CachyOS.
A man of taste.
That happened to me, but I’m happy with CachyOS now for most things. I can’t believe how much it a step down 11 was from 10 though, it was astounding. Worse than 7 to 8, even.
Downgrade your PC to avoid having this issue. Follow me for more terrible tech tips you should never have to do in the first place.
Really pissed because about a year ago in february it upgraded without my informed consent and I never noticed until something else bad happened. You can only downgrade if you notice within a week.
It’s real fuckin insidious, I had already reformatted my PC once too recently so I juuuust kinda toughed it out.
Anyways, they keep everything same-ish which prevents you from noticing they changed your whole OS which should be illegal.
ITT: people giving unasked for advice to a comic on a comedic community because they simply cannot help themselves.
Linux users aren’t known for their impulse control.
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
Poser! A real Roman would just fall on his sword.
