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[-] MrShankles@reddthat.com 10 points 3 months ago

I mentioned to my dad how much windows 11 sucks to use and he agreed that he can't stand it

So naturally, I told him about Linux, which he literally had never heard of before. I told him I'll show him how to restore one of his old laptops with it, and he can go from there. Knowing him, I can't wait to see "how cool" he thinks it is that he can just "fix" his own computer

And I've already converted my wife, instead of buying a new MacBook cause hers is showing it's age. She keeps her Mac for backup, but the main computer is Linux Mint. She's even started to understand the terminal a little, even though she doesn't really have to

Slowly converting family and friends, simply because computers are expensive and windows sucks so hard now

[-] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 8 points 3 months ago

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! It’s gonna be so much fun! We can do each others hair and talk about our favourite distros!

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[-] thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 7 points 3 months ago

I started using Linux last week. And now I'm looking at your memes!

[-] hanke@feddit.nu 4 points 3 months ago

Took you a week to get your graphics working, eh?

[-] Camille_Jamal@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

we can be buddies in how bad we are at it lol

[-] Scorned_Sparrow@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

Same! Put bazzite on my desktop.

[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Please reach out if you have trouble. Make a buddy if you don't have one!

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

One of us one of us gooble gobble

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[-] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago

Is there a program or way to check what parts are covered by Linux? I have an old laptop I want to try Linux on beforehand.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago

Btw you can check your laptop model in https://linux-hardware.org/

[-] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

As another person had suggested, test with a live image first before installing it to an SSD/HDD, however Linux is very well maintained by the community and even if there aren’t native drivers from your hardwares manufacturer, for example Corsair Keyboard Drivers, there usually is Open Sourced alternatives for these things like CKB-Next.

I say this to everyone, once you get a grasp on BASH (Bourne Again Shell) and package managers & repositories (edit: and the filesystem structure) you’ll essentially be able to use any Linux distro, it just comes down to the nitty gritty of things.

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[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 months ago

Yes. In general - it's called live cd. Some distros ship with that in their installed image. {K,X,}ubuntu come to mind. Mint might do as well. You can boot into it and look around, see if basic stuff - network, audio, etc - works.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

And you can do this with a USB, it doesn't need to be a CD/DVD.

[-] luciferofastora@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago

Internally: "YESYESYESYESYESYESYES"

Externally: "Cool, let me know if you need any help"

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago

"my friend recommended I use Ubuntu"

me (screaming internally, about canonical, about snaps, about bloat): "That... that's good. Good choice."

[-] tungah@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I say better for them to make the jump now to Ubuntu and figure out a distro better suited for their needs later on than to remain on Windows while having choice paralysis about what distro to chose.

[-] luciferofastora@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago

I still think it's a decent entry choice. I won't touch it myself anymore, personally, but Canonical is still better than Microslop. That bar is set so low that even snap can clear it.

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[-] iatenine@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago

Me after years in IT and decades of Linux:

If you need help, bother somebody else

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[-] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

If only there were a distro as lazy as using an Android device.
Every time I mention this, someone comes along and mentions one or another distro, and then the caveats that keep it from being as lazy as using an Android device.

[-] Urist@leminal.space 2 points 3 months ago

What exactly do you mean? Like a distro that just works well on a phone? Yeah proper Linux phones aren't quite there yet.

But any of the commonly recommended distros work out of the box on PC at this point, there's less fiddling than with windows at this point in my experience

[-] blackbeards_bounty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

I think he means, Android runs Linux and doesn't/can't be tweaked for the most part. Because you don't have root. So yes it's opposite of what most Linux users seek, but it sure seems to be stable for years. So you can be lazy "admin'ing" it

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[-] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

that particular combination of face expression and the top-down yellow lighting being the first thing I see when I open lemmy, I got jumpscared.

[-] Abyssian@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I got something else. It seems that psychotic looking conventionally attractive women are my thing.

I can fix her.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

Linux is a pyramid scheme. Prove me wrong

[-] wax@feddit.nu 3 points 3 months ago

It's penguins all the way down

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[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Just have a friend who finally decided switching yesterday. She picked my distro recommendation too which makes me feel all validated.

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[-] capuccino@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Then they use the worst set up you could imagine.

[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I see no issues here…

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

You can see the Rust they added to the kernel.

[-] humanamerican@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

Windows is the worst setup you could imagine and they're ditching that. Sounds like a win to me.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

This laptop came with an onboard intel graphics card AND an NVIDIA graphics card!

Oh fuck

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[-] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

i had to hold in my excitement when someone asked me what linux distro they should use as a beginner

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[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

I'm on the reverse end. I'm so sick of the "I hate windows, I'm switching to Linux" and then just never make the swap. Like stop bitching about it if you won't do anything to fix it.

[-] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I like it when people talk about how shitty microsoft is.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

This looks like an ex of mine. It’s creeping me out.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 5 points 3 months ago

Congrats on dating Elizabeth Olsen!

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Condolences on dating Elizabeth Olsen!

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Woah, just now learning of this legendary third Olsen sister. She uhh... she goddamn cute. The twins always kinda creeped me out, this was an unforseen twist.

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