#install linux

[fixmypc24ex]

How to replace Windows with Linux Mint on your PC | ZDNET

But is Linux Mint the best desktop for you? The only way you'll know for sure is to try it yourself. Here's how to first give Linux Mint a spin. It's simple to try. And, then, if you like what you see...

[gumbuk9]

soon i am getting a new laptop that i will have to use in public, and i am thinking of doing the most arcane, malevolently set up, Doug Rattmann crazy levels, most incomprehensible Linux setup on it, so that nobody who isn't me, or atleast is not familiar enough with the specific linux utilities, can use it.

so that in the event i happen to leave the laptop unattended in public, (which i do not plan on doing, as i innately keep my backpack on me 100% of the time, so much so that multiple people have found it offputting, but in the event it do) nobody knows how to work it, or how it even works.

currently i've only a few ideas, such as - using i3wm with a fully rewritten key configuration, including having some common windows shortcuts such as alt + F4, ctrl + shift + esc, ctrl + alt + del, et cetera pull up premade messages heckling you for trying them - using only command line tools like feh, mpv, nmtui, & others for basic tasks - possibly automatically lock the session while the machine is in use if you fail to enter a password into a window, probably one it doesn't open automatically so you also need to know what fucking program to start from a terminal to enter a password you also need to know. (and possibly not have the program in the $PATH for extra evil)

LINUXPOSTERS OF TUMBLR - i call to you in a time of peril - heed my call, give me your most diabolical ideas on making an installation as hostile and arcane as you can. the machine doesn't even have to be 100% usable by myself, i'm fine with it being annoying as fuck to use if it means that it's bafflingly unusable to those around me.

no holds barred. if it's funny, or actively hostile to a user, or both, you may suggest it.

[redphrite]

gee i really want to get into linux but idk how to even start.. I wonder if there are any smart transgender women out there who could explain it to me in extreme detail while i bat my eyes at them.....

[muffinlance]

Woo got Linux working! On a related note I have gotten over any fear of breaking things through the command line and also can now roll back to an earlier system backup. Yes those are related. In my defense, breaking things in interesting ways is a great way to figure out what's actually going wrong.

[queen-of-bad-opsec]

do you truly own your computer, if the only system you can ever have on it is the one the manufacturer chose?

do you truly own your computer, this wonderful, universal machine, if its ability to do whatever you desire has been hamstrung by its creator?

do you truly own your computer if anyone else can restrict your freedom of choice in any way, ever?

do you own your macbook? your windows machine? can you truly make them yours, when you cant even change what they look like?

sure, it gives you a paltry few dials and knobs, lets you change the text a lil, use some different colors.

but what if the way your system lets you use it is just fundamentally foreign and awkward to you? what then? what good is a fresh coat of paint when all the cogs are one size too small, but put in place as if they were one size too big?

and yet, so many people are just ...fine with it. they don't mind having to drag the mouse all the way across the fucking screen to switch to a different window (yes, alt-tab exists, but your mouse doesn't follow). they don't mind having to alt-tab through more than 2 windows, missing the window they meant to go to, and having to cycle all the way through again.

it makes me a bit sad.

i think the problem is that nobody ever tells them it gets better than that. they think it's fine because it's all they've ever known, and well, surely millions and billions of people can't be wrong... right??

the other problem is that the systems they know don't let them do it better. using Windows? you must use the Windows way. using Mac? it's the Mac way for you. in either case, not truly your way.

but oh, wouldn't that be wonderful, a system that defines itself by just letting you have fun and be yourself. that doen't try to prescribe a way to do things. that lets you choose your own way. where you can truly do whatever the fuck you want, however the fuck you want. that lets you just own the device in your hands.

where you aren't stuck with whatever you're given. where you don't even have to use what you're given at all. where you as the user are truly respected as the owner of your system.

[systemdeez]

Devices having locked bootloaders should be illegal and I'm not kidding even a little.

[jswatson]

watched the new doctor who episodes and im sure theres a thousand (better) versions of this video out there already but here

[irbcallmefynn]

There's a lot stopping me from wanting to switch to Linux to the point where it's kinda funny. sure Linux gaming is in many ways better than windows and everything runs better and you have more control and it won't spy on you and you can do basically everything I'd want to do.

But! I don't like compatibility layers the concept itself is annoying to me i should be able to just run the thing and it works. Also I've heard Linux has issues with VR which is important to me. Also the mental image i have of Linux is that it's very technical and fickle and you have to do a lot of things manually and i don't like that. Also i think there being so many types of Linux is actually a bad thing for me cause i don't know the difference between them and i don't know which would work for what i want so I'm just confused and frozen by choice paralysis.

Linux scary and confusing I'm literally just a wolfdog you can't expect me to use commandline or tell the difference between an Ubuntu and an Arch and a ShitBalls

[autolenaphilia]

I said recently Linux has room to grow, while Windows can only get worse, and you can clearly see that by comparing how windows users talk about a new version of Windows compared with Linux users talking about their distro's new release (at least those long term support distros with distinct numbered releases). Like Windows users are filled with trepidation and dread, a sense of "what will they fuck up this time" mixed with some relief that things aren't entirely unuseable. Whereas the release of a new version of Debian or Linux Mint seem to be genuine enthusiasm, "New debian dropped, the experience is already great, I wonder what they have made better with this release, I can't wait to upgrade." It feels like Windows users have lost all hope, whereas Linux users are hyped about the future.

[girlwarlock]

lol i accidentally installed linux mint on my computer how's your day going

[fixmypc24ex]

How to install Linux on an old laptop | ZDNET

[manjaro-official]

if you're making an indie game with no qa dept., literally just compile your game for Linux. unity has a whole ass button for this exact purpose. it takes approximately 0 seconds of labor to significantly reduce the number of times the average player of you game has to sign into their Microsoft account (morally good)

[autismbedamnedmyboycanworkagrill]

Man I somehow felt the urge to get an rss reader and install linux on an 18 year old computer (almost 19) as a trans guy, should I just get the programmer socks and stupid amount of stickers already or what

[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.

[wishfuldeity]

that was so fucking easy (first Arch install (im gonna be so annoying about this))

my entire issue was that i wasnt Reading The Fucking Manual(s for the thing(s) I'm trying to install)

That was genuinely great, once I got past setting up Grub it was smooth sailing

[queen-of-bad-opsec]

wow linus tech tips really juat said ubuntu is difficult to install. honestly what the fuck