#linux guy

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If you don’t like Windows 10, Windows 11, or other mainstream desktop operating systems for whatever reason, consider using linux. It isn’t as hard as you think.

I switched from Windows 10 to Linux Mint a few months ago, and it went pretty smoothly for me.

Linux has a reputation for being difficult to use, and while it is somewhat deserved, it is quite overblown.

For myself, I think the hardest part of switching was installing Linux on my device. It required me to learn some new software and took about 3 hours on my first try. After setting up my laptop, it was pretty easy. The user interface took a few days to adjust to, and I fiddled around with some settings to my preference, but it was not difficult to adjust from Windows 10 to Linux Mint.

And if you can get someone else to install linux for you, all you need to do it get used to some user interface changes!

INSTALLING LINUX ON YOUR COMPUTER

Here’s an installation guide for Linux Mint if you want more detail than what I give. Link: https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

You will need: a laptop or desktop, a USB stick, and USB writing software.

Download a linux ISO file. An ISO file is all the data used to install an operating system onto a computer.

Then you will need to download a USB writing program. Then you can use USB writing software to put the ISO file onto a USB drive. This will create the “bootable media” which will be used to install linux onto your computer. For installing Linux Mint on my device, I used Balena Etcher to write the ISO file.

[hygieiapides-the-vulgar]

Hi my name is Mx Linux Guy⚠️ and I love the Linux OS(that's how I got my name) and I have short black hair that reaches my scalp and brown eyes like fertile earth and a lot of people tell me I look like Linux Torvalds (AN: if u don't know who he is get da hell out of here!). I'm a wizard but my abs are large and powerful. I have pale white skin. I'm also a Linux user, and I go to a computer school called Reddit in England where I'm in the seventh year (I'm 21). I'm a Mint user (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly polos. Today I was wearing a striped polo with kaki pants and a large necklace with the Linux penguin on it. I was walking outside Reddit. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of Arch users stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

[phanta-friends]

The other shift linux guy came up to me (after fixing his phone in the back area for about 2 hours) and said ‘so I was thinking, if I was trans, would I get… what is it? Meta….. meto…’ ‘metoidioplasty??’ ‘Yeah that one, or phalloplasty. Now I’ve been thinking about the pros and cons-‘ and continued to weigh up his decision which is not a conversation I ever expected to have with my 40 year old cis coworker

[hygieiapides-the-vulgar]

Link

Your wish is my command, Lord Foone.

immortalized...

wish i had said something better than "OH"

[soup-mother]

I can't even imagine how it must feel having genuine linux issues on this website and asking for help and suddenly a bunch of parody accounts start erp-ing in the notes. like full on reblog chains.

[monsterqueers]

So ive been using linux for a good while now, and its now officially my daily driver. Windows is now permabenched in a removed hhd in a drawer unless something awful happens. (Good riddance, havent truly enjoyed windows since xp)

And from this I think that people urging others to move to linux are not doing so in the correct way.

Instead of trying to push a friendly distro and insisting it will work for everything and everyone, instead check if the hardware they are using specifically is good for linux and if so what families.

One computer will be a breeze with any distro, another could have a few quirks but be basically fine, however another of the same year and manufacturer could be an uphill battle thats straight up unusable even for someone who knows how to do the kernel edit workarounds for all but specific distros, if that.

My desktop took linux mint like a dream, 100% painless with no fucking about to make it work and even no need for an ethernet cable to get things started. My dinosaur laptop (may it rest in peace after other components died) had a few issues but also worked very well with little effort with mint. My current junk laptop is an uphill battle that will require arch AND edits to the kernel paremeters to work without being filled with screen flashing and full system freezes at random and im still gearing up the gumption to give it another few attempts to actually pull it off.

Each of these computers is a VERY different experience, and if your prospective switcher is using a computer that doesnt play well, its NOT going to work, they will get frustrated, and they will give up. They have to work with what they have.

Instead of going right to telling them to switch and that anything is good, Encourage people to search up their pc+linux compatibility if they are looking to switch to determine if its viable for a newbie who doesnt want to struggle, then offer a distro that has a live usb/dvd version if possible for them to test without install, and a big enough userbase that troubleshooting is as painless as possible.

If its a laptop, archwiki has lists of those by maker (linked in the page given) with notes on what has been tested in that family of linux.

This, I think, above all, is the most important thing when trying to get people to switch:

MAKE SURE THEIR HARDWARE IS GOOD FOR IT

Not just the pc, but the peripherals too; their mouse, their mic, their webcam, their keyboard- these things are not always supported well.

Linux can be fast, easy, and really comfortable and painless with little to no troubleshooting or tedious workarounds to get your stuff to work; but you have to be using the right hardware.

Yes, make sure you have alternative programs lined up that are actually good (stop reccing gimp when krita is a way better P$ alternative for people trying to draw digitally), and maybe consider talking about how to run wine in a newbie friendly way for things they might need for work reasons that dont work on linux normally(and accept that it might not work even with wine), but above all, make sure that its not just being phrased as 'a you problem' when it might be their system that is the issue there.

For prospective switchers that tried but gave up because of glitches or freezes or things otherwise not working: It wasnt you being bad at computers. Sometimes it just doesnt work with that hardware well and there is nothing you can do. People dont warn you about this, but its a very real issue.

If you still want to try linux, when you eventually get a new computer in the future, look for one that seems to be supported by linux well- some pcs even come with linux preinstalled for you even (dell does this with ubuntu and ubuntu has skins that looks windows esque). Asking specifically for linux compatible or linux preinstalled computers signals to developers to make more computers that work with linux, and makes it easier to get linux friendly stuff.

If not, there are windows 11 neutering tools out there in the wild that are very useful and are a plenty fine alternative to switching. You should only switch if you want to switch.

[conceptuma]

quick mark study from 2mths ago

[hygieiapides-the-vulgar]

#fun hack: repost all your own posts to reddit for cheap validation since those guys will upvote literally anything#reddit

:/

Yeah, you are right.

We’ll upvote anything.

close your eyes for a second, and imagine yourself, if you will, as a redditor.

before you is a tumblr screenshot of the worst take you've ever seen.

you check the comments. every single one is pointing out why it's wrong.

the post has 7k upvotes.

relax. you're experiencing r/curatedtumblr.

[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

[cool-retro-term-official]

Little ad moment. I'm not paid or anything, I just really like this library I thought I'd share.

This is fuckin huge.

Fuck electron apps loading up your 8Go of ram with a single one open, embrace real GUI in C, C++, Odin and many more to come with Clay

I'm so in love with this. It's C99 style, single header, very elegant and nice to use. Works with raylib, opengl, sdl, vulkan, and ANY OTHER RENDERING ENGINE.

Video tutorial and presentation under the cut:

[original-post-locator]

Linux guy! I’m back again with another post request. This one is like a chopped setting, it’s got all the contestants that are usually on chopped, and then ingredients like unicorn meat and hair, I think? (Been a while since I’ve seen it and I think I found it on Pinterest originally) it’s been haunting my brain and I haven’t been able to find it by myself so here I am!

This one was a trip to read lmao.

[hygieiapides-the-vulgar]

Posting low quality self-posts on Sunday for negative karma lets's fucking goooooo!

[phanta-friends]

linux guy updates;

exhausting opening to the shift where he completely misunderstood what i meant by a comment and spent like 15 mins justifying himself against something i didnt accuse him of

thought i was being transphobic because i said a drag artist dressing up as a sexy fridge was funny. like he thought somehow that they personally identified as a fridge and i was mocking them

was eating chilli peppers whole

gave me a vinyl sticker that he made when I was 3 years old. he said he used to make them for his friends cars (or something) and the one gave me was one of his first trys so you can see the pencil marks. im genuinely touched by this

[pocket-vvardvark]

I love that the (incredibly misogynistic) professor I have to get training from is purposely excluding my professor on emails :)) like wtf dude, I'm cc'ing him in there for a REASON LMFAOO PLEASE PRESS REPLY ALL INSTEAD OF JUST REPLY 😭😭

[steevejr]

truly so baffling to me to hear people complain about their electronics like my coworker was complaining that her 2017 Mac was so slow its barely functional and it’s like what do you MEAN your 8 year old Mac is dead? mine is from 2013 and runs flawlessly?? what are you doing to your $1000 machine ??? filling it with peanut butter and TikTok viruses?????

[bonelessgoblin]

i guess i gotta learn linux now