Down that hole
It was a hole alright
The hole is Arch, btw.
I’d say Nixos is the real hole 😄
Haha, or Void might be more fitting considering the image 😆
Me trying to switch to arch today frfr. 4 hours straight of errors because I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing
what manga?
The Enigma of Amigara Fault.
looks like a horror manga, i like it
It is. It’s a good one too.
The mystery of the something or other fault by Junji Ito.
Don’t
It should be VIM
No one comes back from VIM.
Those who say they have are dirty liars… or have it paused in the background.
i always end up just going back to vscodium.
liked Helix quite a lot more but still switched back after a whileNeovim plugin+vscodium/vscode are great
Pfff. Try joe editor, then. It’s a Wordstar clone. For those of us that loved Wordstar, it’s as much as a home to us as vi/vim is.
Layers upon layers of vimception!
Good god do I love VIM. For work I wish my regular windows notepad was vim…
No one comes back from VIM.
5x ESC (for good measure), then type :q!
Am the the only weirdo who swapped over to Linux without knowing a ton about it, and didn’t really have any issues? I just started with a Windows-user-friendly distro (Mint Cinnamon), and then just looked up how to get through any weird (to me) issues that I encountered over time. Gradually learned more about what’s under the hood as I went.
But I see these memes and stories about “I tried Linux, it lasted a week and I went back to Windows” here and there.
It’s not scary. Am I missing something? XoD
I guess you either picked a distro that isn’t stupid about drivers or you don’t play a lot of those anticheat games (most of which are trashy anyway).
Personally I’ve always had less problems with Linux. Windows gets in your way and tries to slow you down every chance it gets. If something goes wrong your chances of fixing Windows without a reinstall are really slim. On Linux, it’s more viable to actually fix it which saves you weeks of your time. Reinstalling all my Windows shit every year was such an awful chore. sfc /scannow my ass, that shit never fixed anything
Nah, I think if you used a distro like mint on most hardware your experience is completely reasonable.
I started playing around with Nixos (seasoned Linux user)… That’s a real hole though. Not hard. Just different. And weird. Very cool, but still quite a bit rough around the edges.
I’ve been seeing lot of these posts about Linux. Way more since I joined Lemmy. What’s the deal?
I have 0 knowledge of programming/coding and feel should be as far away from Linux as possible. Is it not meant for GUI people like us?
Linux is perfectly fine for GUI users. It’s really great for most common use cases. You might have issues with games (or so do I’ve heard), but I’m not a gamer and don’t know much about this… Steam has helped make games on Linux a lot better. I just play supertux or supertuxcart or mahjong once in a blue moon and am happy.
Most things work perfectly - stick to Ubuntu or Fedora or opensuse. Once you get the hang of things, things actually feel better on the Linux desktop:
- much faster than Windows
- no tracking
- highly customizable
- if you ever get into it, you can script your setup to be easily replicable across machines
Things that you’ll have to fight
- fingerprint scanners - only a small subset work. My Dell latitude scanner works perfectly though.
- some printers might need manual driver download/install
- some software is only built for Windows (less and less of those these days, unless you’re doing something specialized)
Actually, my experience on Linux was much better than windows for printers. Everything can be downloaded from a repo. No need to go around looking at manufacturer websites.
Printers were a pain on Windows on Linux they worked without much tinkering at least for me
Is there any way to try Linux on a MacBook. My only gripe with it is lack of games. The Linux library can’t be worst than what I have now.
If you have a Mac with M1/M2 chips then I’ve heard about great things about Asahi Linux. Not sure how it’ll work with games though, it already has a hard time on ARM Macs since most games are made for Intel Macs.
I’ll look into it thanks
Gaming is actually pretty great on Linux now thanks to Proton. I still use Windows for games usually, but of the ones over tried in Linux, I haven’t had any issues.
Lol same here, switched to Ubuntu for the most easy noob distro and don’t ever touch the terminal, it’s been going well don’t ever miss windows.
Yep. The most dangerous thing about Linux is also its draw for me.
You can tweak and fiddle with setting and suddenly 為什麼我要輸入中文
I feel like most people who swapped back either are gamers or otherwise not part of the growing number of people who could happily boot into a web browser and have nothing else on their PC. Like if you have a specific need for professional software you might have trouble staying away from windows, sadly.
You must be young. My first Linux distro was like knoppix back in… 2001? Shit ways way different back then. Drivers you had to find manually and inject during install 😂
Holy shit knoppix, forgot about that distro.
Also around that time, wifi was becoming popular. Installing those goddamn wifi drivers for those pcmcia cards Jesus Christ. I mainly used fedora around them.
Fedora kind of went to shit for me and I always struggled with drivers until a few years later I did a big distro evaluation and decided to move to Ubuntu where I still am today.
I did the same, moved to Ubuntu then arch now manjaro
My friends never followed me.
I’m alone in the dark (mode).
Come to light mode my man. It’s the best thing we can do. I’ve been converted, so shall you :).
Your friends lived happily ever after.
Either that or they can’t figure out how to close vim.
Oh no. Trapped in vim for the remainder of history.
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The sun will burn you!
His username is almost drwho1138. Remember how the movie ends? With THX rising from the caves, into the open sky and the sun.
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/456
Never ending #nerdsnipe !
If he were doing it for real he would build the stairs himself.
what makes you think he didnt
It would be in the comic. It is like learning how many times people have their own fresh eggs.
they will tell you. they will always tell you.
Damn, this meme slaps so hard. I didn’t chase any friends down there, but I thought it sounded like a secret nerd club that I wanted to be a part of. Using Linux is a part of my daily life now, professionally and personally, 10 years later.
I chase friends and family down (I have non to semi technical 5 people who use Linux for years now).
Unfortunately… They don’t have to dive into the rabbit hole .I do… to make their flows seamless.
They’ve been stable for a long time though.
check out https://distrowatch.com/
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I’ve installed Linux many times and I always go back to Windows 🤷
I’ve put Windows on a spare drive on my PC a few times and always end up deleting it again 🤷
Windows comes and goes on a spare drive on my main machine as well.
It’s there for the occasional Steam game that won’t run otherwise. Needless to say, it doesn’t get much use nowadays.
It just annoyed me every few weeks when I DID boot it, I had to deal with Windows Update
Which is the WORST operating system update manager ever designed
Iirc there were some windows 10 patch tools to debloat and remove some of these annoyance from the iso and some scripts for already installed ones. Try some of them, it was pretty good when I last used it but can’t remember the ones I personally used sorry.
Heyo! We gonna reboot now! Kthks bye!