• dansity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1302·
    11 months ago

    I have been to some shady pubs and nightclubs in my life, non of them had so much violent people as a linux bugreport thread.

      • Perroboc@lemmy.world
        925·
        11 months ago

        Oh, for sure. Windows marketshare never drops only because of its friendly community.

          • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
            174·
            11 months ago

            Your original comment is equally as asinine, bud.

            You literally suggested Linux has not grown because of the community, as if to say every single day thousands of Windows users are booting up their first distros only to be chased away by a toxic community. The only thing holding it back from a boom in users is, what, discord channels?

            Because most people actually want to learn from people not a 10,000 word man page written by a robot

            So…users don’t want to read, and that’s somehow the Linux community’s fault? Nevermind the fact there’s plenty of very simple and short video guides to help with this.

            Look, I’m not going to convince you of anything, you’ve got your mind made up, so whatever. But you’re really reaching here to make a point without any actual evidence. At least have the decency to make some bullshit up like “I’ve spoken with a lot of people that say” or something.

          • pathief@lemmy.world
            61·
            11 months ago

            Even the most basic actions, like walking, require time to learn. Linux has some very user friendly distributions like Ubuntu or Linux Mint where you can basically auto-learn really fast. You don’t have to start with Arch Linux nor should you.

            Linux will never compete with Windows because most people will never bother to change whatever OS came with their laptop. That had nothing to do with the community.

      • HEISENBERG@lemmy.worldOP
        25·
        11 months ago

        But it’s on your phone, it’s powering most websites including this very lemmy instance, it’s on Steam Decks. Linux is everywhere. But if you want to narrow it down to desktop computers then sure, it doesn’t have anywhere near the marketshare windows has.

        • DreamButt@lemmy.worldEnglish
          77·
          11 months ago

          People generally mean consumer facing products when they talk about market share. In particular I was commenting on how many Linux communities are still obsessed with the idea that desktop Linux will win out over Windows

          • HEISENBERG@lemmy.worldOP
            15·
            11 months ago

            Android is basically Linux. But I don’t see many communities obsessing over it, the ‘year of the linux desktop’ thing has been a meme for decades.

            • DreamButt@lemmy.worldEnglish
              41·
              11 months ago

              Ya know that’s a fair point about the phones. But as far as desktop I still see lots of posts about how Linux is “taking over” the (desktop) gaming space. Most of which ignore the real reasons people don’t use Linux (again, on desktop) (the community, the difficulty of setup, the inertia, etc)

          • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            11 months ago

            Most Linux fanboys don’t think Linux will ever truly overtake Windows, just that it has the potential to cut into their market share.

        • dansity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          27·
          11 months ago

          This is only true for webservers. If you check all the servers in the world windows server is leading. There are industries that work with windows mostly like factories, banking, any office business in the world.

      • MiDaBa@lemmy.ml
        15·
        11 months ago

        I use Arch and only use Vim or Emacs for config files. That’s Linux flex culture right there. 🙂

      • librechad@lemm.ee
        7·
        11 months ago

        I use Debian with the Linux-libre kernel and OpenRC, relatively the same experience but without the AUR.

          • librechad@lemm.ee
            5·
            11 months ago

            Tbh, I haven’t experienced too many issues other then modifying a couple prgrams to be compatible with OpenRC. On my main desktop I use Debian 12 and Systemd with my 2080 SUPER and haven’t encountered any issues.

            Although, when I tried to install the open kernel version of the NVIDIA driver, my system didn’t like it, so I ended up installing the full proprietary driver and it works well. Will be switching to AMD once I need to buy another graphics card.

            (I use Gnome as my DE with two 1440p 144hz monitors)

            • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
              7·
              11 months ago

              Wait, you use Unstable? My favorite DM still does, but basically noone is both tech savvy enough, and crazy enough to use Unstable Debian. That’s just a Sisyphean task.

              The guys that run Unstable Debian end up creating bug reports like this:

              https://xkcd.com/1172/

  • Urist@lemmy.mlEnglish
    61·
    11 months ago

    Queue any discussion of Wayland/Xorg, Systemd, flatpacks, snaps, distro choice, Pipewire/Pulseaudio (last one is easy, Pipewire ftw), Vim/Emacs, GPL/MIT, immutability, etc…

        • jeremyparker@programming.dev
          28·
          11 months ago

          It’s so easy for you young people. Back in my day, in order to hate Microsoft, we had to understand the virus risks of Windows, we hand to have needed to go into the registry to make some minor customization change; we had to know about Microsoft’s nefarious dealings bribing game dev companies to use Directx when they saw the threat of opengl. We had to know about Bill Gates’s dark side (which he did, really well - but we have Behind the Bastards now). We had to be mad about crap like how they locked down gui customization, killing litestep and bb4win. We had to deeply care about the deep innards of your computing experience (read: ricing) to understand why Microsoft sucked so bad.

          Today, you kids have it so easy - they’re putting ads in the operating system, their core software is all subscription, they’re talking about making the OS itself subscription based. These days they make it so obvious that we’re not their priority, making good software isn’t their priority; their priority is getting our money.

          (I feel like I made the joke already - Microsoft’s really easy to hate these days, you get it - but I’m having fun, so I’m going to keep going.)

          They used to put freecell right on your computer - I’m telling you, we had to go seriously digging to find reasons to hate M$. Freecell, minesweeper, solitaire, that weird pinball game my dad liked - we had to be seriously ungrateful shits to head over to Ubuntu dot com.

          And now, with one click installers, active discord help channels, eager, excited, and friendly people all over, just happy to see the FOSS community grow - engaging in a healthy relationship with computing has never been so easy - 3 or 4 clicks! Asserting your self respect and aligning your daily experience with your ethics was never like this when I was young.

          We used to have to ask on the arch forums where 99% of the time we were told to rtfm (because we hadn’t); we had to be super careful not to let on that we were asking the arch forums about our Ubuntu issues. We had to search for random forum threads that inevitably ended with “nvm i fixed it” - if there was any follow-up at all. We had men whose back sweat trickled down through their unkempt back hair before disappearing into their plumber crack; you guys today have stunningly beautiful men and women who are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to be “developer advocates” - there are twitch streamers who are getting paid super well at their fancy Netflix jobs but still spend hours and hours of their day sharing their knowledge with newcomers - literally just because they enjoy helping people learn about computers.

          Kidding aside Linux is pretty ok, I hope you enjoy it.

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
          9·
          11 months ago

          You can install it onto a USB key. A search for it gives a lot of results. That’s, ah, about as far as I’ve gotten into the process (oh and I’ve bought a couple of usb flash drives), but it’s looking promising. I might even make some progress and click one of those links tonight, though not sure if I’m feeling that ambitious today.

          • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            You can try it out before you install. Most Linux distro offer a “live USB” for install where it will boot a full copy of the distribution that you can verify all of your hardware is recognized and even try out the OS without touching your disk

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      6·
      11 months ago

      Here’s a pro tip for a newbie. Debian unstable. You’ll hate your life, but you’ll know more about how Linux really works than the rest of us.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      121·
      11 months ago

      As someone who has Windows on the majority of their computers… OSX > Windows any day, easily, and by far. Windows is basically its own advertising spyware rootkit.

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        Depends on your needs, I guess. I despise Microsoft with every fiber of my being, and OSX’s certainly less openly annoying, but many of the things I hate about the current trajectory of windows are straight out of Apple’s playbook.

        To put it simply, I won’t accept any platform that doesn’t respect that I’m the admin of the device. And I’m more than willing to suffer less “clean” experiences to retain this.

    • constantturtleaction@lemmy.world
      76·
      11 months ago

      Mac is my favorite software development OS. Linux has too many issues with related software like Slack and doesn’t have good Office software. Windows on the other hand is fucking dog shit for development.

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
    201·
    11 months ago

    I was deep into linux once, in the 2000s, but then I got out.

    And yet, the void still calls to me.

  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    212·
    11 months ago

    I’m so glad I can mostly just ask my Linux questions to AI now instead of hoping I can find someone who will tell me how to do what I want instead of berating my choices and attitude.

  • thorbot@lemmy.world
    18·
    11 months ago

    I bust out kali linux when I need to get into weird places for my clients but usually just windows as that is most of what I have to support.

    i miss you linux

  • Ashyr@sh.itjust.works
    16·
    11 months ago

    This may not be the place to ask, but is there a guide you’d recommend for a lifelong windows user to try out Linux?

    I’ve had a Steam Deck for a while now and love it and feel I could probably make the leap.

    I have no idea why this comic in particular motivated me to finally ask.

    Edit: I just want to say an incredible thank you to everyone and your advice. I was just looking for a link to a guide and ya’ll wrote them yourselves.

    I think the prevailing advice of creating a virtual machine to play around in seems like a very good place to start.

    • jarfil@lemmy.world
      141·
      11 months ago

      recommend for a lifelong windows user to try out Linux?

      Try out, what of Linux?

      • Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 - you get the full command line 🔧, and can kind of run some desktops. Thanks to HyperX, it runs in a “sister” VM to Windows, so zero performance penalty (compared to Windows). Easiest, fastest, not necessarily the best.
      • Cygwin - no Linux kernel, just userland software, that is command line, some desktop, some software. Quick to start 🐇, but somewhat limited.
      • OSBoxes - pick any distro, download a preinstalled image, fire it up in either VirtualBox or VMware. Great for a quick first contact. Great to mess things up and not care 💥, including if you try to manually rebuild the kernel and it refuses to boot. Hardware is partially emulated, so not 100% like the real thing, but it comes really close. But look at the beautiful desktops! Pretty pictures! 🤩 (this is what most people think they want, judging by most distro reviews and comparisons).
      • Android - it’s Linux, it lacks most of the userland but it can be added (see Termux), and you’re likely to find a cheap smartphone/tablet to mess with.
      • Cloud virtual private server / Bare hardware hosting - if you’re going to mess up a system, why mess up your own? Rent a cheap option, and mess it up.
      • THE MAXIMUM GAMING PERFORMANCE 🚀 - …try some of the previous ones first, you’ll need the experience. Then look into how to dual-boot, or better yet, get a second PC and install your favorite Linux distro (which you’ll know which one it is by now) as the only OS. Tweak, fix, patch, etc. until your eyes bleed out, and you get those extra 2 fps you never knew you needed to make your life complete!
      • ROCK SOLID WORKHORSE 💪 - try all the above, then pick two distros: dual boot, mess the partitions, recover them, go into one distro, login as root and delete half the files at random, shut down the computer, power it up and recover the messed up distro from the second working one without reinstalling, reboot again into the first distro, “upgrade” it to the second one without reinstalling, clean it up so it looks like it was freshly installed… then delete it, reinstall, and see what you should have backed up in order not to lose stuff, make your backup, delete the distro, recover from backup. Practice until you lose zero data in the process, now automate the process. Finally, install and fully customize Gentoo. After that… whatever you pick, you’ll be fine 🙂
    • HEISENBERG@lemmy.worldOP
      11·
      11 months ago

      If you want to check out some linux distributions, I would suggest you use Ventoy. You can then copy the ISO’s to your USB drive and boot from them without having to reformat your usb drive all the time. It’s a really cool tool and I can highly recommend it. I always carry ventoy with me for work with rescue disks, clonezilla, etc.

      Personally I would recommend either Ubuntu or Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE - it’s what I use). It’s a one of the most popular distributions and well-documented and supported.

      If you want to have a look at what’s available, check out https://distrowatch.com/

      Edit: If you’re not ready to install on your own hardware, try playing around with Virtual Machines - like Virtualbox.

    • Fungah@lemmy.world
      71·
      11 months ago

      I’ve been on Linux for about a year and a half. So just passing the newbie phase I guess.

      My advice is to dive right in. Don’t know what that file does? Delete it. Punch in cd /; rm -rf, try to us ethe find command, think you understand the find command. Then avoid the find command like your creepy uncle. Open up vim, have no idea what vim is, and restart your computer because there’s a snowballs chance in hell of figuring it out once you’re already in vim. Fuck the install of your first distro beyond recognition, download a new one and do it again. That last one isn’t advice, it’s going to happen so you might as well embrace it.

      Just try shit. Say: I wonder how I… And then figure it out. Look into what all the symbols on the bash scripts do. Be curious and brave and remember that as long as you back up the important shit you may fuck something badly enough that it’s not worth fixing but a reinstall doesn’t take very long and it gives you a chance to try another distro anyway.

      I’m telling you when the terminal “clicks” it’s such a good feeling. When you write a short bash script that works the first time without looking for help it feels GOOD. But nothing as good as peeling back layer after layer of abstraction and seeing there right in front of you all the shit Microsoft keeps from you. Sure most of an s trace is total fucking jibberish and probably always will be because I don’t have myself enough to learn C but just look at all the stuff my computer does! Boy, look at it go.

      Bottom Line is that you can read all the books and how to guides in the world but none of them will do more to carry you forward into the perplexing and frustrating world of computers like a wild-eyed sense of curiosity and a bottle full of Xanax

    • EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world
      5·
      11 months ago

      Honestly, depends what helps you learn the best. I would recommend at first use Linux Mint, it’s ubuntu without the bullshit, will look familiar to you and use that as a way to learn more. Or Pop_OS if you want something a little bit more different from the windows interface. I would also recommend YT channels like The Linux Experiment, DistroTube and Chris Tech Tips. I will also recommend the Arch wiki (even though Linux Mint is not based on Arch it can still be helpful), install tldr for short descriptions of terminal commands, use man for long descriptions, and so on.

      In general the best way is fuck around and find out (keep regular backups). Don’t be scared of messing around or fixing stuff, it can be easy and of it isn’t an OS reinstall will take about 15 minutes anyways so you’re good.

      Also depends on what you wanna do. If you justbwant to browse the web and use a few common programs you can just install Linux Mint and remember to install programs via the package manager (app store) and you’re generally good. Gaming? Use Steam (enable the proton compatibility mode) whenever possible, lutris should be able to handle the rest. And lastly also look at AlternativeTo when you find programs that aren’t available or you don’t like.

    • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
      4·
      11 months ago

      Just start with a beginner distro and work from there. Check guides and get in the habit to read documentation, you’ll be fine.

    • NakedGardenGnome@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      11 months ago

      Approach it more like a hobby than like anything else. Test out true waters with a virtual machine (Google is your friend) and YouTube/any other guides. If it’s not for you, so be it.

      If it piques your interest, keep going on down the rabbit hole, and continue exploring. And even then, if you get the feeling you know enough, or are satisfied, you will at least have a workable environment to your liking or have the knowledge to change it so.