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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Download BalenaEtcher and burn an .ISO of your selected distro to a USB memory stick - Pop!OS and Linux mint are perennial favorites. Bear in mind that this will erase all data from the stick.

    Boot the laptop into BIOS (you will need to check with the manufacturer to see which key you will need to hold to do so) and scroll down to the “boot from device” or similar option. Select “Boot from USB”, save settings and reset your laptop.

    If all goes well, and your laptop likes the distro, you should see a bunch of cryptic text scroll by. Don’t worry, this is what Linux shows instead of a loading screen. A menu should pop up, asking you if you want to try out the Live distro, or install the OS. Choose the live distro first, this will create a version of the OS that works from the RAM disk and does not install on the hard drive.

    You can now play around with the OS, browse the internet, play games, anything except saving locally to the hard drive (unless you Mount it, but that’s another story). When you are good and ready, you can either choose to dual boot to Linux and Windows, or take the plunge and use Linux as your primary OS!

    Hope this explanation wasn’t too rambly. Have fun!









  • Tankie here, basically most of us are pro russia not because we like russia, but because a multi-polar world with many different types of influence is better than a singular polar world because wedon’t want one bloc or alliace to have too much influence over the world, brics alliance makes one pole, and the nato/allies make another.

    That makes as much sense as supporting Hitler’s invasion of Poland in order to stick it to British imperialism.

    Another thing is I personally believe even if Ukraine won the war, they a culturally, economically, and politcally fucked because of the war, not to mention the azov battalion.

    And who is responsible for the war? Here’s a hint, not the country that is being currently invaded.

    I am fairly new to the community so i probably don’t speak for all of them but we acknowledge some of the bad things that was done, for example Stalin’s role in zionism and the creation of isnotreal

    Next time you cretins seethe about being called red fascists I will quote this lovely bit of antisemitic bilge.

    Just about every argument you brought up is either nonsense or genocide apologia. Please, remain in lemmygrad.





  • The biggest mistake they made was using the awful new gnome desktop. Seriously, it feels like I’m using those shitty info kiosks you find in poorly maintained bus terminals. Fortunately, I have the option of booting into xfce, and Lubuntu on my laptop has Lxqt.

    Snaps do feel like a half baked implementation though.