#using ubuntu

[ubuntu-official]

2010: Mom, dad, I'm gay.

2020: Mom, dad, I'm the sus imposter.

Has woke gone to far?

[soup-mother]

"The rise and fall of [thing that never went anywhere]"

[thewolfofthestars]

I finally got a new laptop! Yay! My geriatric 8-year-old can finally be sent to the retirement home (aka gathering dust in the closet because what if I need it later). And now I can run programs and perform tasks without it taking a dog's age! :D

But I did notice something in getting everything set up.

I've been a staunch Linux lad since I was very little--one of the few things my father and I actually agree on. And the new laptop came pre-installed with Windows 11, as most new non-Macs do, so I decided to partition a bit of the drive for it rather than wiping it completely, just in case I need Windows compatibility for school or work stuff, even if I spend the majority of my time in Ubuntu. (I had wanted to do that with my old machine, actually, but something went horrendously wrong in the process and it took two days to fix and my laptop briefly did not have a functioning OS on it at all lol.)

Now, I find Windows... unpleasant to use. And obviously part of that is just that I'm not familiar with it--the last time I had Windows on a personal computer was when I was 6 years old, and that thing ran Windows 2000 with a genuine CRT monitor and it was not connected to the internet and I spent my time playing King's Quest and MS Paint. I don't know where things are anymore, and the UX seems pretty uninterested in telling me.

Another issue is, of course, how bloated with ads and spyware it's become in recent iterations. I see where people are coming from when they decide to stick with Windows 7 or Vista or some other older version, even if I disagree with them for security and malware reasons--"person on previous version of Windows" is by far the largest and juiciest target for all manner of bad actors online.

But I think a really big core part of the problem is this: modern Windows is speaking a different language than I am. And the language it's speaking is that of phones, not of computers.

I only spent enough time on Windows to get it set up and strip away all the permissions I possibly could, and in that time I could tell: the default user Microsoft is designing this system for is people who are more familiar with Android and Apple than they are with a desktop computer. They made me log in with my email, rather than creating a device-specific profile. When I created my password they didn't even call it a password, they called it a "Hello Windows PIN". The format of the Settings page UI is nigh-identical to the one on my phone, right down to the list of access permissions siloed away by app (and yes, everything is called an app--no programs, no functions, no systems, no app*lications*, nothing else). I had to check a specific box to be able to look through my entire computer's file system, for crying out loud, rather than just browsing my Pictures and Downloads!

Hey, Windows! My laptop! Is not! A phone! And I don't want it to be! This is a computer OS for people who hate computers and I. HATE IT!

[steampunkfiend]

So, Do You Come Here Often? #30 Nearly 1/10th of the way through the year and one month of comics is in the books. Today I break the absolutely out of the blue news that I'm trying out Linux. Is it intersting? No. Do you care? Maybe. I wrote it because I thought it be funny to have Tux hunt me down in a dark room and enlighten me.

[mossfueldgoblin]

windows: im the most stable operating system :D

also windows: you dare run a game and have me install minecraft?? fuck you *corrupts graphics driver*

[elementaryos-official]

When you have Debian / Debian-based Linux distros installed on all your PCs

[theresa-of-liechtenstein]

got a new laptop on sale yayy 😎 hopefully a zoom meeting will no longer threaten to wipe out my whole machine

[andietries]

The Code of Lore

[systemdeez]

Bitches be like "Ubuntu sucks" and then install an Ubuntu derivative.

[thegodnamedleo]

It's crazy how folks hate Linux because they had one bad experience with Ubuntu or couldn't figure out backtrack.

[ubuntu-official]

KDE users be like "Windows sucks" and then their favorite desktop environment is the one that looks exactly like Windows 10.

[punk-in-metal-detector]

Begging Tumblr users to finally discover Linux

Everyone keeps complaining about Google and advising to use Firefox etc while still using OS produced by Microsoft which is just like Google maybe worse. Linux is literally free and out there, there are so many different distributions produced in different countries and so much free open source software. Go grab yourself a flashdisk and do yourself a favour. Tbh if you get Ubuntu it is very easy to set up(seriously if you managed to download firefox and add Ublock you probably are very much capable of installing Ubuntu), has shit ton of support online, comes with many useful programs preinstalled and you can even get an add-on to make it look more like windows. Nothing is stopping you

Edit: people are also recommending Linux Mint a lot so you can give that a try! (Personally I have never used it but it looks very windows-like at least when it comes to the UI layout)

[silicon14blog]

Got Lubuntu running on my 2010 laptop, probably going to be more entertainment and media focused machine since it has a disc drive/tray I can play DVDs in while my primary windows laptop does not. Might use it for more technical usages but will see.

[tiralja]

There truly is no better way to learn an operating system that by spending a few hours smashing your head against a figurative brick wall only to find out that the version you are operating on is too new and because of that incompatible with the code you are trying to use!!!!! I would like to thank aptitude for helping me find out that the resolution was to roll back my package to a later version to get the fuckin thing installed. Gd bzip2 is like pulling teeth. Still pretty sure a good old sudo apt update should have taken care of this but what do I know. Maybe this damned machine just enjoys a good laugh. Maybe that's why the repository list was empty!!!!

Anyways. Managed to get bzip2 installed, next to wrestle with the g++ dependencies. Because it also didn't install those. Gd.

[unidentifiedfuckingthing]

heres your random frustrating fact of the day

[natural-blogarithm]

backing up my laptop for the first time in months because my OS is acting up. i should probably do this more often.