I just don’t know why I keep clicking on the memes. I don’t know anything about Linux, I know I’m not gonna get it, but I keep opening them and being confused. It’s like when I try to understand the code in programmer humor like it’s suddenly gonna click. Or ich_iel. I don’t speak German. What was up with all the noodles? I still don’t know!
I stg, 80% of my time on this site is just clicking stuff I know will confuse me but I can’t stop.
The path to enlightenment seems clear. All aboard the Linux train.
Choo Choo!
I’ve thought about it and then I remember that I’m pretty dumb about stuff that doesn’t interest me much, so it would have to be a situation where someone else was like, “here’s your linux computer, I already set up all your stuff and your games all work.”
Ah yeah I was only messing really. There is no reason for 90% of people to switch to Linux if they’re happy with Windows or MacOs and I say this as someone who’s solely been using Linux for nearly 20 years now.
Sure, it’s a great operating system but honestly most people just don’t…give a shit.
Give it a year or so. I may give more of a shit when Win10 hits EOL because I really don’t want 11.
Thankfully, I didn’t have to switch.
I’d like to see the market share of Windows today if no PCs were sold with OS. Or at least if it was a separate opt-in purchase. I am pretty sure quite a few people would rather not pay the Windows license.
There would also likely be some more interesting OSs, and most likely even Windows would be better due to the competition.
Your new game is making the linux computer work.
It’s actually super easy now. If you can install Windows, you can install Linux (distro dependent obviously). You’ll have to learn to do power user things, but that’s true for Windows as well. Any issues are just a web search away. If you have to use the terminal, you’ll be given the commands to copy-paste.
I’ve never installed windows either. 🙂 I picked all the parts for my current computer, but I paid a guy to do the assembly because I wasn’t confident in my ability, so he did all that. My ex husband did it on the previous build, and everything prior was a pre-built.
If you want to try it, you can use a VM like VirtualBox, unless you have an ancient potato PC.
You’re scaring yourself away from these experiences. If you managed to pick the parts out for a computer then you can assemble it. Picking them out and making sure they’re compatible is the hard part. Assembly is just putting them into slots that only they can fit into and plugging in some wires.
Installing an OS is also (usually) trivial. You download the software online and put it on a USB drive and follow the instructions. Dual booting takes a little more effort because you have to set up partitions, but it usually isn’t that bad. I’m 100% Linux though because when I dual booted starting from Windows it eventually destroyed things after a Windows update (because Windows sucks), so I just removed the Windows partition and redid everything with just Linux.
you’ll be given the commands to copy-paste.
No. Terrible advice. NEVER COPY-PASTE COMMANDS YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND! That’s also true for Windows.
I understand the sentiment, but if it’s coming from a reputable source I’d disagree. I think it’s ideal to understand the commands, but most users occasionally need to do some things that they’ll never learn what the commands do but they need to use them. It’s like saying never to run an application you download from somewhere. Sure, ideally you don’t unless you’ve read through the source-code and double checked it’s the same thing, but no one’s doing that.
Steam Deck?
Freedom is a confusing emotion.
I use Linux since 2008 and I don’t get most of the Linix Memes as well. :) I also know German as a native language and don’t get most of the ich_iel stuff. You are not alone.
I thought that was a sub for people who didn’t like that they were eels or something.
That describes 80% of my path to becoming a Linux admin.
Meme is a lie. Linux is tofu. It absorbs whatever flavor you hope, but only after performing tasks and you still want the other thing sometimes.
I had a conversation with a friend last night and he was talking about something Linux related and I accidentally contributed to the conversation. I immediately thought “god dammit Lemmy”.
Also, let’s not forget…
Best Linux Distro: Arch
Worst Linux Distro: Believe it or not, also Arch
Most Popular Linux Distro: MX Linux
Hannah Montana Linux by far
Hannah Montana Linux
This is a thing I now know exists. Thank you for making it possible.
AmogOS
Nu uh… Too sus.
TempleOS
Not Linux!
I loved running Arch, but I run mint because I don’t have the time for Arch.
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Nah the worst is either manjaro or ubuntu for ideological reasons
why is manjaro bad?
You shouldn’t use Ubuntu.
That way there’s more Ubuntu for me!
You shouldn’t use Ubuntu
Yeah use UwUntu instead
a man of culture i see
TIL
You WILL eat your vegetables. It’s good for you. One day you will install it and you will be grateful.
Look I use all 3 OSes almost daily. I just don’t like talking about them. They are just tools. No I don’t want to spend my weekend configuring a window manager. No I don’t want to talk about the latest OSX update. I just want to do stuff and the OS is just something I have to use sometimes to do that stuff.
All three? Linux, FreeBSD, and TempleOS?
Um actually it’s macOS now
What is this image and umm where does it come from?
Yeah we need to know. For science of course for science
Talk about expensive collection of porn
It’s just 1 ETH Hiro, how much could that be, $10?
If I had ten bucks to throw away I would’ve donated to some FOSS project and pirated the porn
You can’t download an NFT, that’s illegal!
This is NFT, you can just view it lol…
Added to bookmarks
Are you not entertained?
The Jehovah’s witness of lemmy
Hey have you heard about Arch?
Did you read the sign on my front door? No distro solicitors. Get off my lawn.
How many of us get to go to Linux heaven?
After much dedicated and persistent blocking of communities, I don’t see much Linux on lemmy anymore. But I don’t see much on lemmy anymore.
Posting on an open-source platform and being surprised by the amount of people who talk about an open-source operating system is something.
It is definitely a thing. I would categorize it as such. I’d dare say it is one of the things of all time.
more evidence that we do live in a society…
You can block instances and communities on a lot of lemmy apps now.
Cleans things up very nicely.
You can’t block it. It has spread everywhere, in every post.
4% baby. 4%.
Even in this one
It is the world you see when you look outside Windows. When you upvote memes. When you read your inbox. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
One could argue that memes and having a sense of humor is reflection of our society
Trying to prove it by contributing to it here?
OP made a Lemmy app
Maybe they should ask other developers how they managed to do the block instance/comminity feature.
God damn. I was murdered in public.
Et tu, Mastengwe?
just create an embedding for every community name and if any are anywhere close to the embedding for “linux” you just autoblock it
The app supports extremely fine grain blocking. I can block posts and comments using regex. But if I block Linux stuff my content feed would be empty :^)
Even better, you can filter in certain apps (Like Sync, please don’t beat me to death, FOSSies) so anything mentioning GNU, Linux, whatever is removed.
Yup. I have everything anime, Linux, Unix, etc filtered out.
Clearly it didn’t work if you’re here
Do you see Linux/unix/anime in the title of the post?
Ubuntu has been added though, if that makes you happy.
I want to be her. Where can I find someone to spoon-feed me Linux?
Try Ubuntu. I switched to it from Windows. It worked on my laptop with no issues or needing to install (or learn how to install) any extra stuff
I already did all that. I had a Lenovo ThinkPad from 2018-2024 (RIP it died) completely Linux/Ubuntu but I really didn’t know how to use it. I just used it like windows. Didn’t know how to maximize its linux capabilities.
Try doing an installation of Arch, following the guide and searching how to do things as you go. It teaches a lot of things.
It is amazing how much you can learn when the only way to get OpenOffice working is to troubleshoot outdated C syntax errors in the output generated while compiling with clang. Time solves even the most abstruse problems, whether you planned for it or not.
jk
*GNU/Linux
I use GNU/Linux btw
… or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux
I like to break with tradition and just call it “that FOSS GLussy”
I can sing you a song about free software
SuSE has the best songs.
I installed my first slackware from a dozen 3.5" floppies
I bought a RedHat Unleashed book as a kid back in the late 90s simply because it came with an iso for RH 5 already burned to CD. I didn’t have a cd-r drive, and I couldn’t figure out how to boot from my external Zip Disk drive. I kinda miss Zip Disk, those were pretty cool.
have a 1T usb drive for backups the last 10 years. machines come and go. backups persist and you only need one good copy
I hope you’re joking.
You definitely need more than one copy of your backup and hopefully you’re not relying on 10 year old hardware to backup anything important.
Right on man, hope that dinosaur external doesn’t die on you… What does this have to do with anything though?
It’s the experience x
This is me with my wife
