• NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
    1972·
    29 days ago

    Yes! then you can have other mental health problems to distract from your existing ones.

    For best results, try Gentoo.

  • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
    1021·
    29 days ago

    Can’t focus on mental problems if you’re too busy reinstalling arch.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      29 days ago

      I’ve never had to reinstall Arch! Never! It’s probably the most stable system I’ve used. Additionally, I didn’t update one for 3 years, and when I ran a system update it worked perfectly.

  • Doomsider@lemmy.world
    682·
    29 days ago

    I used to be all fucked up on drugs, now I am all fucked up on Linux.

    Hooked on Linux worked for me!

      • davidagain@lemmy.world
        5·
        29 days ago

        I have nightmares where the borrow checker is shouting at me incomprehensibly about the literal bugs and I shoot them with the clone laser and the borrow checker stops shouting for ten seconds, but now there are two bugs for each original bug and Tim Berners Lee floats by saying it’s not very idiomatic and I shouldn’t expect to get to work on time if I just keep stopping along the journey to spend all my time cloning the bugs.

        • fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world
          2·
          29 days ago

          Haha. On a more serious note, it gets better over time. I recommend keeping a really functional programming style in Rust and only opt out to imperative programming, when it just makes sense (e.g. to optimize, avoid allocs etc.). I’d say Rust is currently my most productive programming language, because I mostly avoid the time-consuming debugging part due to the strictness.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      293·
      29 days ago

      There’s a fine line between liking something, and obsessing over it to the point you’re evangelizing strangers against their wishes.

      • bluewing@lemm.ee
        51·
        29 days ago

        Every church needs their evangelists and missionaries. And the Church of Tux is no different or better than the churches that have gone before.

        It’s a people thing.

      • marcos@lemmy.world
        41·
        29 days ago

        You mean the people commenting on the Linux communities?

        Not much “against their wishes” if they keep looking there.

      • Shapillon@lemmy.world
        32·
        29 days ago

        Yeah but what if your option is objectively better even if not anyone has your exact usage?

        refrains real hard from proselytizing

    • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      29 days ago

      You know what, this is the first time I realized this even though it should be obvious. It makes so much more sense now.

  • 5PACEBAR@lemmy.world
    464·
    29 days ago

    In all fairness my mental health IS better since I’ve moved to Linux.

    Turns out constant ads, AI crap I can’t disable, the feeling of being spied on and other corporate tech-bro soul-sucking shenanigans is not great for one’s mental health.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      19·
      29 days ago

      Funny enough my mental health has been improved by watching Star Trek. Whenever I notice myself doomscrolling at home I’ve started watching it instead. It’s something I’d always meant to watch and I’m enjoying the concept of people trying to live up to higher ideals

      • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
        1·
        26 days ago

        More people should figure this out. Star Trek is essential to a healthy media diet.

        I also recommend a regular dose of stand-up comedy.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          2·
          26 days ago

          I would do that, but a lot of standup comedians have taken to ranting against people like me for daring to be offended when they insult us. I miss when I could just throw on any random standup comedy and have a good time without having to check if there’s a transphobic rant in it

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      10·
      29 days ago

      I think you just described why being on social media is bad for our mental health. Or most of the internet now really. I’ve never had ads or AI shit in the tens of thousands of Windows deployments I’ve had to push out at companies. I also don’t have them on my families personal machines.

      It’s a bad move by Microsoft to include that shit… But it isn’t them that got my mental health this way. They are just falling into the well if everyone is shanking public mental health and making money off it … I guess we have to as well otherwise our shareholders quite literally will sue us for not attempting to make them more money at every stage all of the time reguardless of the harm it could cause.

      Turns out capitalism might not be good for our mental health…

    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
      124·
      29 days ago

      I feel you’re vastly overstating how bad Windows is, to be honest.

      Although I am still running 10.

      • Steak@lemmy.ca
        8·
        29 days ago

        Yeah fr I’ve been on windows 10 for years. It works fine. I don’t have ai or ads everywhere.

        • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
          4·
          28 days ago

          I was talking to a friend of mine about this, very techy guy, has run Linux in the past etc. He said he just ran a de crapifier script on his current machine and carried on with his life.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    421·
    29 days ago

    It’s not even over when you switch to Linux as I found out.

    “You’re not using Arch? What’s wrong with you?”

    “Mint is for idiots who don’t understand Linux.”

    Etc.

    • itsJoelle@lemmy.world
      14·
      29 days ago

      Eh, fuck ‘em. I’ve been riding my Fedora install for nearly 3 years. Never distro hopped. Never found an issue with it.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        18·
        29 days ago

        It just pisses me off that people told me for years to switch to Linux and when I finally did, it wasn’t good enough for a lot of them because I wasn’t using the right flavor of Linux in their view.

        But yeah, Mint is fine for my needs- a web browser and a handful of applications- and I’m going to stick with it.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          4·
          29 days ago

          It’s the hobbyist issue. “You don’t [hobby]‽ Learn it!” Followed by “Do more [complicated/expensive/expert] version.”

          I’m really glad I switched, but I’m a casual. I shouldn’t’ve taken the die hards into account when switching. You don’t need or want to learn an instrument on the most expensive version. You don’t need or want a high end carbon fiber bike to get into shape and do grocery runs. And you don’t need or want to learn on arch unless you’re certain you want to spend a lot of time learning.

          In the past 5ish years linux has entered viability as an “I just need a computer and this seems like it might be better for my needs/wants”. We should trust them about as much as the people saying to drop thousands of dollars on a top of the line bicycle for groceries.

        • jiberish@lemmy.world
          3·
          29 days ago

          I can relate. if you let people tell you what you should do, you will never feel satisfied because there is no consensus. People are addicted to pointing out negatives and telling others what they should be doing. I am an arch user because of imagined people telling me I should.

          I realize now I that this has impacted my life in many ways. I am working to uncover the difference between what I want, and what I think i should do because of what my brain thinks people expect of me.

      • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
        1·
        29 days ago

        Fedora was actually the last version of Linux I used, back in high school on my old HP e-Vectra. Fedora Core 4. What made you pick Fedora? I’m going to be switching to Linux before Win 10 is end of life, and there are so many more options than there were in the early 2000’s.

        • Synapse@lemmy.world
          3·
          28 days ago

          Fedora is a very solid, no nonsense distro. It gives you a vanilla Linux experience, with sane defaults out of the box. You get major updates every 6 month shipping newer version of the core stuff (kernel, desktop environment, etc). The Fedora community is dedicated to deliver a reliable OS and tests a lot before shipping updates.

          It’s my favorite desktop/laptop distro for many years.

          However, there are a couple a pitfalls to avoid. If you go for it, follow some beginners guide to get you sorted out with things like codecs and proprietary drivers. E.g: Things to do after installing Fedora 40 - itsfoss.com I would definitely recommend to do steps 2, 3, 4 and 5 from this guide.

        • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
          1·
          26 days ago

          I’m going to be switching to Linux before Win 10 is end of life, and there are so many more options than there were in the early 2000’s.

          Fedora isn’t my distro of choice, but I can confirm it’s an excellent no-nonsense choice. It gets the job done with minimal fuss.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        2·
        29 days ago

        I jumped into Garuda headfirst. Whenever I get around to hopping I’ll probably pick something Debian based. There’s more support

        • jim3692@discuss.online
          1·
          29 days ago

          I tried using Debian 12 instead of Arch. I ended up installing my apps with the Nix package manager. Debian provides Firefox ESR and an old version of NeoVim. I didn’t want to add more repositories to apt, as I have had some bad experiences in the past with conflicts in backports packages.

  • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
    331·
    29 days ago

    If based on reality, I’m sorry to hear it and how it gets better soon. As a Linux user for over a decade, this is extremely funny.

    Now, have you heard of Plan9 from Bell Labs?.. /s

  • Metz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    321·
    29 days ago

    Linux has helped me rediscover my love for computers. And the many small and larger hobby projects I can now embark on because of it do in fact help with my mental health.

    • ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      81·
      29 days ago

      Same for me…I’m a totally different person because I found Linux…If I had found it earlier maybe I would pursuit an IT career but I’m still glad to have a hobby that fulfill my hunger for knowledge and I have a lot of fun tinkering and playing with Linux