I think you mean this old one:
Cool, does anyone know how to hack it so my HDMI connector can actually hit 240hz? Apparently HDMI is a closed standard and only Windows/Mac has the license to go that high using HDMI.
That excitement is real 😂 Switching can be refreshing, but I always tell people to try it on a spare drive first. The best OS is the one that actually fits your workflow.
No, its the one that doesn’t Harvest you
Switched to linux this year and I would NEVER go back to windows.
Me when my friend started talking about how he wanted to buy a steam machine as his first entry into pc gaming, and considered installing linux on his laptop cause windows ran like ass on it.
That picture is so unsettling and idk why
Because her face is lit from the top by a point light source
Because it is a perfect 50% cute and 50% scary af
That’s an analog horror face without the filter
Mouth to face ratio, and eye to face ratio. It hits a kind of uncanny valley
Because you never had someone look at you like that IRL.
Are they sitting on the loo??
I started using Linux last week. And now I’m looking at your memes!
Welcome!
One of us one of us gooble gobble
Please reach out if you have trouble. Make a buddy if you don’t have one!
Same! Put bazzite on my desktop.
welcome to the master race
Took you a week to get your graphics working, eh?
we can be buddies in how bad we are at it lol
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! It’s gonna be so much fun! We can do each others hair and talk about our favourite distros!
If I could I would upvote this twice 😄
You can, but you have to de-upvote it once.
Got it for you.
Do we need the socks?
UnixSocks is leaking
I mentioned to my dad how much windows 11 sucks to use and he agreed that he can’t stand it
So naturally, I told him about Linux, which he literally had never heard of before. I told him I’ll show him how to restore one of his old laptops with it, and he can go from there. Knowing him, I can’t wait to see “how cool” he thinks it is that he can just “fix” his own computer
And I’ve already converted my wife, instead of buying a new MacBook cause hers is showing it’s age. She keeps her Mac for backup, but the main computer is Linux Mint. She’s even started to understand the terminal a little, even though she doesn’t really have to
Slowly converting family and friends, simply because computers are expensive and windows sucks so hard now
You’re doing the Lord’s work. And by “the Lord” I mean Tux the penguin.
Blessed be His webby feet and adorable flippers.
that particular combination of face expression and the top-down yellow lighting being the first thing I see when I open lemmy, I got jumpscared.
I got something else. It seems that psychotic looking conventionally attractive women are my thing.
I can fix her.
She’s perfect already.
Me after years in IT and decades of Linux:
If you need help, bother somebody else
I use Mac btw (more to the point, I use whatever you do not use).
That’s why I daily drive Haiku OS.
Mad props if you really are. 👍🏻
Is there a program or way to check what parts are covered by Linux? I have an old laptop I want to try Linux on beforehand.
As another person had suggested, test with a live image first before installing it to an SSD/HDD, however Linux is very well maintained by the community and even if there aren’t native drivers from your hardwares manufacturer, for example Corsair Keyboard Drivers, there usually is Open Sourced alternatives for these things like CKB-Next.
I say this to everyone, once you get a grasp on BASH (Bourne Again Shell) and package managers & repositories (edit: and the filesystem structure) you’ll essentially be able to use any Linux distro, it just comes down to the nitty gritty of things.
edit: and the filesystem structure
This is what I’ve definitely struggled the most with mint so far. It’s extremely difficult to find anything and I’ve needed to manually search for the file paths multiple times already, since I always manage to do something I need them for, and I haven’t gotten locate to work etc… Though this is probably just me being stoopid since I never find anything on windows either lmao
This is what I’ve definitely struggled the most with mint so far. It’s extremely difficult to find anything and I’ve needed to manually search for the file paths multiple times already,
If you got time, take a look at Debians man page to try and get a better understanding of the filesystem structure. it’s important to keep in mind that Linux Mint is a derivative of Debian, Debian provides some pretty in depth wikis that i suggest consulting when you can.
For some hardware you might have to install drivers or firmware yourself. Not all are included in all Linux distributions for complex reason.
Btw you can check your laptop model in https://linux-hardware.org/
Yes. In general - it’s called live cd. Some distros ship with that in their installed image. {K,X,}ubuntu come to mind. Mint might do as well. You can boot into it and look around, see if basic stuff - network, audio, etc - works.
And you can do this with a USB, it doesn’t need to be a CD/DVD.
This is exactly what I’m going to do in about 14 days. Fuck Microsoft.
Out of curiosity, why in 14 days?
That’s when I finish my thesis. Migrating OS + thesis just begs for disaster.
Latex hell? Good luck
Really slow download speeds?
Even like 30 years ago it took under a week to download an ISO.
Leaving a job wit two weeks after an announcement probably.
Good on ya! 🫡
If only there were a distro as lazy as using an Android device.
Every time I mention this, someone comes along and mentions one or another distro, and then the caveats that keep it from being as lazy as using an Android device.Android needs the same sort of hardware-specific configuration that other distros need. It’s just that the phone manufacturer takes care of that for you
What exactly do you mean? Like a distro that just works well on a phone? Yeah proper Linux phones aren’t quite there yet.
But any of the commonly recommended distros work out of the box on PC at this point, there’s less fiddling than with windows at this point in my experience
What exactly do you mean? Like a distro that just works well on a phone? Yeah proper Linux phones aren’t quite there yet.
I think they meant distros that are for desktop but as easy, convenient, simple, to use as android, ios or even maybe macos
Work out of the box with some asterisks.
I did some distro hopping over the last couple of months and there were only a few that installed drivers and firmware for my Broadcom WiFi. Several had severe issues with Bluetooth audio. Keyboard backlight worked out of the box in less than half. Laptop speakers sound like crap without a lot of tweaking. Hardware acceleration for video doesn’t work out of the box on any distro I tried using the nouveau drivers for NVIDIA. Battery life is meh. No distro put the computer to sleep automatically on low battery by default. Websites can look like ass before installing Microsoft fonts. HDR support for screens is still limited.
Depending on your hardware, you can be lucky, need additional configuration, and will have to accept some limitations.
Things have gotten MUCH better than they ever have been.
But unfortunately, it is still not as easy as just using an android phone.
But then again, it’s a hard metric to judge by, because while some things are harder than they should be on Linux, other things are just… Different, than what people are used to (Windows, Mac).
I use Linux, I use Android, but I still get frustrated when I need to use my wife’s iPhone for pretty much anything, because I’ve never owned one and I never use it. Does that mean iPhone is inherently bad design? Many people would argue no, it’s a good design in most cases. Just different. You’ve gotta learn the different ways of doing what you need to do. Although iPhone definitely has a few design flaws, in my opinion.
Likewise with Linux. Many modern distros are very user friendly. But no matter how good it is, people will always struggle when starting for the first time, because many things are just plain different. And also there are design holes/flaws.
You can say the same thing about any modern operating system you aren’t familiar with.
My sister in law has a MacBook, and every time I need to use it, which is maybe once or twice a year, I struggle. Things aren’t where I expect them to be. Things don’t work the way I expect. Heck, some “standard” keyboard shortcuts are different. Does that mean it’s a bad operating system? No, I just need to put the time and effort in to learn it, if I wanted to use it daily.
Linux has come a long way, and gets a bad rap. Yes it has a learning curve, and it might be more difficult because of all the different distros, but it’s pretty similar to everything else.
I think he means, Android runs Linux and doesn’t/can’t be tweaked for the most part. Because you don’t have root. So yes it’s opposite of what most Linux users seek, but it sure seems to be stable for years. So you can be lazy “admin’ing” it
Just have a friend who finally decided switching yesterday. She picked my distro recommendation too which makes me feel all validated.
You have to share what this is now.
She wanted something that was an easy transition from Windows without having to learn a new interface. She is competent enough to install her own OS but wants to spend what little spare time she has on the computer gaming and not troubleshooting and maintaining. So I recommended she tries a few but primarily Bazzite with KDE and she liked it.
Heck, I’m running Fedora KDE right now but if I ever had to change I’d probably pick Bazzite too. Immutable sounds great for my purposes. I have zero intentions of messing around with my kernel.
Sounds like a solid rec for her usecase :)
Nice. I’ll have to give Bazzite a try sometime.
