#switch to linux

[totallynormalbird]

Just turned off my computer after installing Linux mint, thankfully everything seems to have gone along swimmingly! A few things I've noted so far:

Mouse, sound, and keyboard are all working, of course, and so is my drawing tablet! I had to dig around the settings to find the option that un-inverted the cursor direction (?) tho.

It's also a bit annoying not having the option of having the pen button as zoom in/out but I'll survive,

Speaking of, I couldn't find firealpaca in the package manager so I have to get used to krita now :/

As a silver lining, I've finally figured out how to mess with the sensibility so I don't have to press with all my might to get lines that aren't paper thin,

Other than the krita+tablet tweaking I haven't done much, just changed my cursor to a circle and some stuff to red, I haven't even logged into Firefox yet.

Overall, I can tell it's going to be a bit of a learning curve but I'm happy with what I've seen and experienced :)

[hindbodes]

Guess who's posting on Tumblr right now using a Linux system!

[c-rowlesdraws]

I swear to god computer people talking online about how easy computers/linux are are just that xkcd comic about experts in a field overestimating a layperson’s knowledge (“surely the average person must only know 2-3 feldspars”), over and over again. I felt this firsthand back when I was asking for advice when buying my desktop PC. When a casual computer user reads something like this, at least speaking from personal experience, it is nearly incomprehensible. It is wonderful to want to help the less technologically-fortunate, but you have to break things down more than this. You are speaking wingdings at people.

[opensuse-official]

I think it is very cool how tech companies, schools, employers, and universities make it actively difficult to distance yourself from Google, Microsoft, and Apple.

Yes most Linux distros are very stable, way more secure, privacy friendly, and way more customizable. But every institution is built to make technological independence as difficult as possible.

Yelling on the internet that everyone should switch to Linux and FOSS really ignores how much of the technological world is designed to not let that happen.

[voltradar]

Bit of clickbate. Sounds like it's more of an ad for an AI slop writing assistant then a paywall given that it's still free to use without a Microsoft account. Still scummy though, ads suck

[curoopeez]

I need someone who's really autistic about linux and hates windows to infodump to me about windows alternatives for someone who uses their computer mainly for gaming and drawing on clip stuido paint, preferably before october 14, when the pre-11 versions will stop being supported

[muffinlance]

hellooo very cool person I am just now getting into the atla fandom and I know Nothing other than your fics are very cool and great and I was wondering if you have any recs (or links to posts with recs!!) bc I trust your judgment LOL

I hope this is ok to ask!! also I will add that I am not that picky but I will add that I am very much a longfic enjoyer so🫶🫶

My friend, may I open up to you the broad world of clicking an AO3 user's bookmarks. <3

AKA: literally click any ao3 username, "bookmarks" should appear towards the top of the resulting page. You can then voyage into the additionally wonderful waters of filtering by length, "recommended", fandom, etc.

Also: if the fic you like is in collections, try checking them out, especially if the title appeals to you. Can be a great way to find essentially a fic playlist.

Anyway all hail ao3's designers they done good work

[well-of-silence]

IMO installing Linux is never the real issue, it's adjusting to the ecosystem. It's realizing Photoshop isn't available to you anymore and figuring out what the hell gimp is. It's finding out that your discord streams have no audio. It's booting up to a tty and recovering your display manager when you don't even know what a display manager IS.

The learning curve is real (and worth it) and I think it turns a lot of people off. It certainly gave me problems (it took me several years and multiple Windows failures to finally daily drive linux) just because I had to basically start over learning basic shit that Windows just *does* for you by default. And I've mever even used their connected shit like onedrive and office suite etc.

People are scared of change and losing the things they've learned to do. And some people just don't have the time or patience for that.

I think it's a bit annoying when Linux users downplay the giant shift that switching causes (I'm guilty of this though, I mean who isn't)

All that is to say I just want people to realize how brave some people are for making the switch and how daunting it really is. If you've used a Windows machine casually for 15, 20, 30 years it's gonna be rough. It's a lot more than "install linux". But it is 100% worth it.

windows users love complaining about microsoft to me and when i suggest linux they're all like nooo installing it is too harddddd and when i offer helping them going through this process that is as easy as installing windows (while having none of the drawbacks) they're all like. but im scareddddd

of what? actually owning your computer???

[conceptuma]

quick mark study from 2mths ago

[lazytechsupport]

pretty girls named Hardware Error are sending me lewds anad promising to fsck me again later 😊 😍 🥵

[shelbswastaken]

You ever become so hyperfixated on something that you pull off a tech feat you've never done before just to consume it???

Anyways I installed Linux on my switch so I could play pso and stein's gate

[daemonhxckergrrl]

yiff the fox also works for linux ;3

[sludge-life-daily]

listening to sad songs and mourning the loss my my beloved arch linux install.

[bitform]

HELL YEAH!

[lenovo-real]

the only macbook allowed is the one that @scaththefloof has. He put linux on it and it quote "scares me with how fast it is", he still should get a thinkpad though. he should get a t420 or something. Also @scaththefloof's father works for us and has the same exact macbook pro with Ubuntu. Scath switched to Kubuntu though.

and now the macbook uses arch because Scath has stockholm syndrome

[frozenbassist]

Honestly, at this point you should consider switching to Linux (especially a user-friendly distro like Linux Mint, Kubuntu, or Pop!_OS). Linux is 100% free and open source, and gives you full control of your PC.

Then consider switching to free open-source software (FOSS). Use Firefox instead of Chrome, Thunderbird instead out MS Outlook, LibreOffice instead of MS Office, GIMP instead of Photoshop. There are many more examples of open-source software that replaces the commercial products. Open source software is usually developed by the community, and the source code is freely available to anyone, so you can audit it and see exactly what a program does. If you're technically inclined, you can even modify the software to fit your needs.

I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!