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Screw it, I’m installing Linux
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BREAKING: Man decides to install Linux.
More details to come.
“I deleted the recycling bin folder named /bin/ and it just froze what do I do?”
Freeze? Nah, it'll keep chugging along 'til you reboot (or otherwise try to run a new program), and then won't be able to start.
I am glad to see articles like this. For too long I have seen articles saying "sick of this windows bullshit??" Only to find advice on workarounds in windows, or suggestions to use a console, or a fucking phone app. For too long Linux has been treated like the evil twin locked in the attic, never to be spoken of or acknowledged.
IT IS TIME! TIME TO ANNOUNCE WE HAVE RELEASED THE LINUX AND IT WAS THE GOOD CHILD ALL ALONG! BART WAS THE EVIL ONE AFTER ALL! LET IT BE KNOWN!
To be fair (even though I also and both happy and relieved to see articles like this), just because you convert to Linux, that doesn't mean everyone else will. I have used so many guides to help debloat windows computers, and turn off nonsense I don't want (mostly so I can use proprietary software for work). My choice to not use windows in my personal life on my personal devices doesn't really change my situation with needing those guides to help others circumvent windows BS.
I wish we didn't have to live in interesting times and all that, but the guides are helpful.
Am I the only one annoyed the article is an article about a future article? Like I didn't get anything out of their experience into linux because it's just a pre-article and the user transition experience is what we're interested in.
BREAKING: Man breaks Linux, installs another distro, and lives happily ever after.
That’s like eating exactly one potato chip.
LOL, I've actually tried Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Puppy Linux, DSL, Tiny Core, and even the true outlier (not quite Linux or Unix though) Microsoft Xenix before. I've probably even tried a couple other distros before but only very briefly.
It takes effort to break them in any way that I can't manage to figure out how to fix.
I settled on Linux Mint as my daily runner, but one of these days I might have to give TempleOS a spin in a virtual machine..
Try an atomic distro too, if you haven't yet. It's a completely different experience from regular Linux - specially the ones that take care of everything for you like UBlue's.