I know you’re not impressed that I use Ubuntu but it’s not Windows, and I can’t be bothered to learn a damn thing about how to operate a system.
If Ubuntu works for you then keep rocking it
I wish Linux distro devs would interview you about your experience. If the goal is wider adoption, we need to understand how to make it friendly for real. Your opinions are very valuable.
Switched to Mint recently and had 0 problems, took no effort to make the switch at all. I still have Windows if I need it, but why would I ever need it, Mint isn’t all that different from Windows, but better
I used to use ubuntu but stopped bc i couldnt really game without dual booting to windows anyway.
Would you recommend ubuntu now? I know linux gaming is in a much better place, it just wasnt user friendly as an OS back in 2010
I switched from win 10 to bazzite the hardest part of the process was remembering my steam password and finding the setting in bios to boot to the usb. Ill never buy another windows pc again.
Luckily im forces to use win 11 at work./sCurrently running cachyOS and have almost no problem running games besides having nvidia 1060 3GB so just old hardware not for modern games. But I can probably run anything and what’s not for Linux just use wine, that works much better now than I remember. Also I’m very much a noob that just can use a search engine.
I gamed on it when Proton magically made it so games I bought on Steam worked. Otherwise I just gamed on an Xbox before that. I only recently switched to popos, (still gaming on it). I started on Slackware 3.4 and switched to Ubuntu in 2006-2007. I think as long as you aren’t on the LTS version, you should be good. In any case, it’s not a permanent decision and seems like every distro is crazy fast at installing these days. Worth a go whatever you try or where ever you land.
You’re not meant to operate the system. That’s what the operating system is for, silly
If Ubuntu works for you then that’s good. Don’t listen to the gatekeeping weenies who shit on people for not using arch or whatever. Most of them haven’t built their os from source and are just roleplaying having a unix beard.
insanely based
That’s Linux and I say it counts :3
Shoots you and rolls you into the pit of bodies.
boot
open librewolf
open neovim
code my silly lil’ Dreamcast stuff
close neovim
play quake arena
shutdown
Dad energy. Debian + XFCE. Get off my lawn.
I’ve been considering this actually.
On my main pc, which I mostly use for gaming, I’m running CachyOS, which was great when I actually had time to play games, but I’ve got a kid now and just got promoted to manager so I don’t really have a lot of time these days. I have a second pc which is technically a laptop but the battery is completely gone (and it’s also somewhat old now) that I’ve been planning on using more for office-y stuff. I’ve currently got it running Mint but I’m heavily considering hopping to Debian.
Would I be immediately shot if the answer is FreeBSD?
Never! BSD bros are fellow comrades in arms against the corpos.
BSDs get too little love imho. They have more potential of becoming complete, usable and safe OSs than most Linux distros. Wish they would be discovered/talked about as much as Linux this past year.
Some dev at my company uses BSD and its like insane Aura
Nope, BSD is perfectly respectable
It being libre is what matters
whats’s a distro? :3 My UI looks like Windows 95 and i have cute cats in my terminal :3 i can text my friends, play games, surf the internet and do arts :3 what else does a girl need? :)
This is as it should be
It’s a bucket list item to someday have a pull request merged into a branch of the Linux kernel.
I was once the first to report a bug in the kernel. I’m still pretty proud of it.
- Boot computer
- Steam, emacs, evolution, newsflash, and web browser auto open
- Check email
- Check news
- Cry
- Go to dropout or nebula
- Log onto Wurm Online/FFXIV/Whatever
- Do something obnoxious in emacs that could probably be done elsewhere
- Maybe tweak a config if it needs it. Haven’t needed to in a year tbh.
- Shut down
- Realize I forgot to update
- Say I’ll do it tomorrow Like I’m on Arch but it’s a computer. I do computery things on it. Write my silly little stories that would traumatize a therapist. Do obscene things in video games.
I got really into customizing my system for a while, but now that it works I just leave it be, mostly. Most recent major change was my update command now spits out a list of packages, so if I need to reinstall I can just shove that into pacman
You know, the kind that insists on using Arch, despite being slightly (or more) below the skill level one should have before using it.
The kind that pretends he understands the terminal output before entering “Y” after pasting in a decade-old user script suggestion on stack exchange.
Well at least you’re not entering “Yes, do as I say!”
lol … i still cant believe LTT did that.
Ah, normal computer user then.
I’m these 2 kinds:
- Cute queer nerd
- Stallman-like privacy and libre software enthusiast and anti-capitalist
i use openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE btw (it just works)
The kind who spends more time compiling than using my system.
So crazy that this guy built his career on being Matt Damon adjacent.
*Matt Daemon
He was called Meth Damon during the Breaking Bad days. Great actor though.
I’m the kind that likes to build up a lightweight system instead of tearing down a featured one to get things where I want them to be. I also want to look like a hacker at all times because I find it funny. I don’t actually use my computer all that much right now because I’m in school so it’s basically a glorified browser that also has games, though I do some small side projects and manage a couple basic servers with it. I may have programmer socks that happen to be blue white and pink for no particular reason I just think the colors look neat
I use arch btw
I’m the type to mess around with pipewire, break stuff, fix it, learn nothing from that and fuck it up again. I’ve got it doing what I want it to, and yet I wanna tinker around and probably mess it up again because I can’t seem to really understand the docs or configuration files.
I’m the type to have two OS (Nobara, Ubuntu) on separate disks, then decide to rip the guts out of the second one (Ubuntu) and just use the disk for data storage (without reformatting) but keep forgetting to also delete the boot partition that no longer works anyway (because none of the system directories exist anymore) but occasionally UEFI randomly decides to boot it first and ends up with a fucked up and hopelessly confused GRUB.
I’m the type to put the second disk in fstab, then unplug it and wonder why boot is having issues loading the filesystem.
This is my primary system, so I’m just barely holding back from messing with the system itself, because I know I’ll fuck up something and I’d rather still have a working system to either troubleshoot from or at least decide I’ll postpone the unfucking and play Satisfactory instead to mess up my factory there.
I’ll probably format my third disk again (currently Bazzite, which I never really fully set up to try at length) and try something new on there. Still haven’t figured out how to make my GRUB add entries for other disk, but also, I really don’t wanna touch my primary boot config.
I can’t stop messing with things I don’t properly understand, get impatient with trying to understand the Docu and just fly blind, with predictable results. I tell myself half the joy is in fixing it, because the second it works, I forget it all and get to figure it out again next time.
I’m the “incorrigible amateur” type.
Linux Mint runs my laptop. I do some light 3d modeling and slicing, maybe a little photo editing. I guess that makes me a pretty casual user.
