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    [–] Shady_Shiroe 68 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Hot goth arch girls in your area

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    A few months ago I finished building my system and commented that I'd installed Mint and had been enjoying it for a week. Some guy felt that he needed to suggest a different distro to me (and actually got some upvotes from people agreeing with it).

    I had JUST switched from Windows to Linux and had only been running for a week! CAN I RUN WITH ONE DISTRO FOR ONE FUCKING WEEK WITHOUT HOPPING ALL OVER THE DISTRO-SPHERE?! Holy shit. Just let me enjoy my system for 7 days without telling me I should change again.

    I was shocked someone could be so obnoxious.

    [–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Mint is a really good choice actually. Glad you didn't pick Ubuntu. :)

    [–] pivot_root 13 points 9 months ago

    Yup, it's an excellent pick for newcomers transitioning from Windows.

    Opinionated Ubuntu and its snap bullshit, on the other hand...

    [–] porl 7 points 9 months ago

    For sure!

    I mean, Mint is a great distro.

    Have you tried Arch, btw?

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

    As long as it was mint Debian then you are already family and have made a good choice.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    I switched to linux 3 years ago. And started and stayed with pop_os. Why? Because Anthony at the time from Linus tech tips recommend it to me. Am I gonna switch? No. I use Nvidia btw.

    [–] jelloeater85 2 points 9 months ago

    PopOS seems neat, I like their window manager alot.

    [–] jelloeater85 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    NGL sometimes you can only find the software you want as a snap, it sucks, but it's the price you pay for not using Windows or Mac. At the end of the day, it's Windows 11, OSX or Ubuntu for most folks outside of Lemmy. I really want to swap to Mint w Debian, but they don't have support for MATE out of the box. Maybe in a year or two. Hoping 24.04 LTS works well.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

    Debian has had MATE since forever. It's as simple as typing

    sudo apt install mate-desktop-environment
    

    Honestly you don't even need Ubuntu if you absolutely need snaps. You can install snapd on a lot of apt distros, or you can spin an Ubuntu container in Distrobox in a few seconds.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

    Im a total noob, just started using Linux, dual booting with mint and I've already learned to use snap

    [–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Time to upload gentoo installation video on pornhub. The actor has to look like she's enjoying the process. Any volunteers?

    [–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    if there isn't a tutorial of how to download linux on pornhub i'm going to be disappointed

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Wasn't there that guy that did cooking videos on PornHub?

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    I saw the "How to make toast" one. It's exactly how it sounds like.

    [–] Rognaut 27 points 9 months ago

    Not true, I just insist that they use KDE Plasma.

    [–] malloc 20 points 9 months ago

    I use Arch, btw

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

    I use arch linux btw, the rest of you just add to fragmentation

    [–] raynethackery 14 points 9 months ago

    I don't use Arch, btw.

    [–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

    I'm on Fedora, btw.

    [–] asteriskeverything 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    This is why I'm scared to ask for help or advice with starting Linux lul

    [–] jelloeater85 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Most of the .world Linux users are chill... Folks from other servers, hit or miss...

    [–] asteriskeverything 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Good to know! Any recommendations of where I could post? I'm trying to update an old 2013 Mac so it can play robox and minecraft. I have a portable HDD to work with as well. And Mac is pretty damn foreign to me and it's so old. But damn for 10 years old it's fantastic and most of the specs were better than modern macs (dedicated graphics card for one)

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    [–] iopq 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Don't install NixOS. You won't distrhop anymore because you can easily keep switching DEs/WMs and all the other packages

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

    What's the advantage of NixOS? The thing about package isolation to overcome dependency issues sounds attractive but surely that comes with at least some kind of disadvantage.

    [–] iopq 2 points 9 months ago

    The disadvantage is there's no global libraries. If you want to run a plain executable you need to steam-run it instead of just launching it and it will create an environment similar to Ubuntu

    The advantage is you just run things and they work. I heard there was some packaging issue with hyprland because of different library versions, but it never affected NixOS because there's no global library

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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

    Edge knows what porn you see...

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

    I don't want you to download Manjaro, but I had one partition as root and another as home and Manjaro just asked me to install itself in root, to replace my previous borked Ubuntu installation and use old home without data loss, instead of making me set everything myself again, like Ubuntu does.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    I use emacs btw

    Oh wait wrong post

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    What's the best distro for a dumbass?

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

    LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition)

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

    Bazzite is good for gaming and porn

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

    On my main workstation I'm on windows but somebody suggested Mint for a smooth transition and I made a VM just to emulate it and try it. Cinnamon 21.3.

    My takeaways:

    I honestly have no idea if it's the Debian version of mint or which version of Debian. Kind of important to figure out what software can be used on it.

    It's really easy to glitch the screen while changing resolutions. No idea what the hotkeys to change it back to default would be, so hard reset time when that happens.

    TBH I'll probably just delete it and start on something more standard for my intended use cases. It's main feature appears to be limited Windows program compatibility but... I have a Windows, so...

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    Use arch if you want more compatibility. Debian is stable but it also means their official package repository will lag behind some feature that is present on the bleeding edge. IMHO, stability is good if you are already familiar with Linux AND want it that way, but with windows compatibility in its current state (emphasis there), it is better to go bleeding edge for new users since you are transitioning anyway, you might as well try the latest feature available. Also, the biggest game changer, valve and steam, is basing their OS on Arch.

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    [–] ace_garp 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

    No chance of overwriting your bootloader when you distrohop using LiveUSBs and LiveCDs.

    • But srsly, Trisquel GNU/Linux is a distro that provides Ubuntu with all the non-free and contrib removed. Parabola GNU/Linux-libre is Arch with all the nonfree packages removed. Worth a look if you support software freedom and transparency.
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Or learn a whole new system and try nixos

    WARNING: you probably should try it out in a virtual machine first.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

    as a nix on bare metal from start user i can only second this

    [–] teft 3 points 9 months ago

    Slackware or bust.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago
    [–] FlyingSquid 3 points 9 months ago

    Yeah? Well fuck you obnoxious Linux users. I like Mint and I'm sticking with it.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Guess you guys and gals gotta start from compiling your stage 3 tarball

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