#Linux version

[mutter-official]

should i switch to jetbrains ides

they are a) not electron, b) either open-source or based on an open-source codebase, and c) look really powerful

don't get me wrong i love neovim but the constant terminal-wrangling is starting to be a bit much + i want features like code completion and doc peeking that just work out of the box

[yiffos-official]

made my ipod gayer

[mfcl3780cdw]

watching microsoft shoot themselves in the foot this year with copilot and the windows 10 EOL is amazing.

the year of the linux desktop will come not at the hands of some crazy user-friendly distro, but by microsoft becoming so unbearable that people switch out of frustration.

[poetswarren]

I made this for one of our sys members but i thought Tumblr might enjoy it too.

[sixamese-simblr]

The starter pack being unavailable made it so that the legacy collection is the only still existing way to get TS2 working on linux besides the physical disk that has any documentation and I am FUMING

[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!

[pancakeke]

for some reason the normal way to boot windows 8.1 is to initiate the process while the PC is already up and running. like, I get that users may need to start with a healthy computer and then access safe mode for whatever reason, but be real. 99% of the time anyone needs safe mode is cause their PC is fucking up and they can't reach a functional desktop.

the secondary way to boot 8.1 into safe mode is to power the PC on and off via its power button several times until you trick the PC into thinking it's dying, which makes it boot into a recovery screen where you can access the option to restart in safe mode. kind of like you are waterboarding it.

[lxde-official]

I wonder if Half Life is so slow on my netbook because of Wine or because of the shitty GPU. It is slower on software rendering mode, but when in OpenGL mode it's not using 100% CPU.

[dullahandyke]

puzzle enrichment for you

[ID: the first image is an MS paint writing done in ogham runes. The second image is a guide to the ogham alphabet. Decoded message below the cut.]

'U LOST DA GAME'

[peppermint-shamrock]

I've been playing the Sims 2 Legacy Collection, and while I haven't had any issues with the game crashing, my Sim keeps resetting almost invariably while cooking or greeting people, so I can never actually get food or further conversation with strangers. Maxed out cooking skill and my Sim is living off of takeout and chips lmao.

Anyone know of mods that can fix this or do I just wait until they update the game? I'm actually not sure if this issue was there from the start or introduced with the latest patch - I started my Sim at University and she was living in the dorms so I didn't really notice the cooking reset issue until after she graduated.

[spoonietimelordy]

So it turns out that my version of "doing weird shit to your hair", when life is out of control, is "doing weird shit to my computer".

[aceforestnymph]

I'm doing it! I'm installing Linux!

[match-your-steps]

kinda funny how most programmers would prefer to not have to touch apple products with a ten-foot pole but if you talk to basically any designer over like 25 they'll swear up and down and backwards to friday that nothing could ever hold a candle to any apple product

[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)

[birdmenmanga]

I think I may be stupid? I've been going ":(((( its' so sad I can't get da vinci resolve to work on my linux PC" but??? guess what??? I've been using CSP inside a virtual machine bc I couldn't get THAT to work either?? so just get dvr on your virtual machine??? idiot?????

[y-eontan]

DO GET IT TWISTED. DO NOT FAKE IT. THEY WILL ASSUME YOU MADE IT.