#Linux on a stick

[lichen-soup-scribe]

So, my spouse has been exploring his gender lately; he also just built himself a new laptop. Today he told me that he in an attempt to process some genderfeels through metaphor, he made a post on a trans forum along the lines of: "I'm a lifelong Windows user and I think I'm pretty good at it. I want to find out what Linux has to offer but I'm afraid I wouldn't be any good at it. And how do you choose the right Linux distro, anyway? Do you have to try them all?"

The responses, he said, were a mix of useful advice about feeling out your gender and useful advice about choosing a Linux distro.

I love trans people so much

Edit 4/8, in case you don't see the reblogged additions -- my wife is now going by Eve!

[realityfragments]

Linux Ain't Hard. Just Different. Come Play.

Microsoft Recall has been making waves in privacy circles. Some are calling it a privacy nightmare, some others are calling it a privacy nightmare, and privacy experts are sounding the alarm about it1. As usual, when Microsoft does a stupid – and in my eyes, this is a pretty big stupid – people talk about migrating to Linux. Of course, people still think that people who use Linux wear funny hats…

[youve-always-had-me-cas]

On a semi related note the more I am subjected to Microsoft products the more I become convinced that the reason so many people these days believe themselves to be “bad with computers” is that the programs they are forced to use in their professional life are utterly incomprehensible to ANY rational human being and they are (rightfully enough) extrapolating out that this is just how computers are. They aren't!!! In their quest to remove all the “scary” details from their poor fragile end users Microsoft have created an ecosystem that behaves completely erratically and unpredictably and is by definition unknowable. Things just happen. Then they stop happening. Nothing ever announces why or how. Just a thousand vague and useless popups that may or may not be there tomorrow. I PROMISE computers are actually extremely simple and logical beasts.

[im-civy]

Hey Linux users... Just wanted to ask, what's the state of Wayland? I mean in terms of stability, screen recording/sharing, touchpad gestures, app compatibility...

I'm still on Windows but just wanted to check

[mercaptocompaund]

All according to the plan

[zram-official]

i can fix her

[mothbaaalls]

i am still stressing out about windows 10 EOS 👍

[grzzlwmpf]

Stars I forgot how much installing Windows sucks ass

[brokenrefraction]

for what ive heard, youll honestly be fine keeping windows 10,, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-of-support like it just wont be updated anymore, but this isnt windows xp or whatever, youre not going to immedietally get attacked by one million hackers, espeically if youre safe about what you do online at all i feel,,,, im personally sticking with windows 10 because i heard utau has some issues with windows 11, not to mention the other decade old exe files i rely upon,, linux also, is apparently not very good with piss random exe files and music making software,,, if you dont use either of those then as far as im aware youd be fine switching to linux, but i also think youll be fine sticking with windows 10 if you want rwarr

YEAH NO i know i'm technically fine with windows 10 even when it'll run out of support but i heard linux is really good with things like privacy and not having ads iirc i'd just like some OS that isn't filled with stupid AI slop or ads everywhere (also my 15 year old pc will eventually die so might aswell know how to install a linux system earlier than later)

[clouds-of-wings]

Fun fact: Divinity OS 2 Definitive Edition contains the entire original game too. As a separate game. That means when you install it you get 30GB of data that serves no purpose if you actually want to play the DE. You can basically delete the "Data" folder. Just keep the "DefEd/Data" folder.

(This is true for the GOG version, idk how it works on Steam.)

[stormeko]

Rambling here because I rambled enough about Linux on bsky and masto

I switched to Linux (Dual boot) on the 28th, and I recently fully switch, so it's been pretty fun honestly! I like Mint. Everything's working nicely. Had to switch from Medibang Paint to Paintstorm Studio since Medibang isn't supported, wine didn't fix the tiny text/no pen pressure. I would've went Krita, but I didn't click with the layout and how things worked. Though I think I'm comfortable enough with it if I ever do wanna jump from Paintstorm

But damn the file manager kinda sucks. Upload and download manager specifically, but it's horrible for Paintstorm like wtf??? No icons at all

All the Steam games I wanna play minus one works just fine too thankfully! That was the other thing I was worried about! but I just can't get Palia to run fully smoothly. After today's update, I did manage to get into the game, but loading a different game crashes it. Idk what to do at this point with all the fixes I've tried. Funny thing is, one of the crashes led to Steam going to the Uninstall window and it kept popping up even after I closed it. Maybe it's a sign? I could always just go back to the Switch version for now

Overall I'm happy I switched. Mint Cinnamon is real nice, and I also got to learn 2 art programs because of it

[mrnnki]

the hard-won (but very enjoyable) result of messing around in Krita for the past three days :3

[rapha-reads]

My dinosaur of a laptop is so old that not only can't it support anything past Windows 10 (and it struggled like hell to update to it), but it also apparently can't support Ubuntu and I'm having trouble trying to install Linux. I think but I really have no idea what I'm doing that I can get Linux to work but it's going to require some tinkering and yeah I'm not an IT. Welp. Backing up all my files on my external drive first and then we'll try and see.

[a-girl-called-bob]

ughhhhhhh my shitty chromebook stopped booting but all of my recovery stuff says the hardware is fine but every time i try to install some garbage debian based os to just try and get something i can use libreoffice and firefox on the installer quits with no log and an error that nobody seems tl have ever gotten with this installer program before and like the fact that it boots at all even just from live is better than nothing but i'm so fuckin tired i just want this thing to work

[infriga]

My dad, who doesn't know how to forward an email, trying to figure out his new chromebook: "should I download Linux?"

Me: "I think if you got within 50 feet of a computer that uses Linux you would die instantly."

[passiveagreeable]

The marvel of technology is that a large wall clock in my living room quits working, and I order a new movement for ten bucks, but when the quartz movement goes out in my watch, I’m quoted more than $200 to replace it when the watch wasn’t worth that to begin with.

When the backlight goes out on my laptop screen, I’m quoted anywhere from $300 to $700 to fix it (and highly discouraged to do so because despite working perfectly it’s almost ten years old), then told its a motherboard issue, thereby forcing me to buy a new laptop anyway for hundreds more. But a lightbulb in my room costs like three bucks to replace.