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I started using Linux last week. And now I’m looking at your memes!
Welcome!
Please reach out if you have trouble. Make a buddy if you don’t have one!
Same! Put bazzite on my desktop.
welcome to the master race
we can be buddies in how bad we are at it lol
I see you’re on the right path… If you need any help feel free to reach out to the community and we got your back.
I’m just starting too! What an exciting time to be making the jump.
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!
If I could I would upvote this twice 😄
You can, but you have to de-upvote it once.
Got it for you.
Do we need the socks?
UnixSocks is leaking
Internally: “YESYESYESYESYESYESYES”
Externally: “Cool, let me know if you need any help”
“my friend recommended I use Ubuntu”
me (screaming internally, about canonical, about snaps, about bloat): “That… that’s good. Good choice.”
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.
Same.
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.
I’ve been using Ubuntu for years with no desire to switch or learn more. I’ve heard the comments about canonical and snaps, which I barely comprehend. But there’s a chance one day I’ll grow an interest in what you’re talking about, and I know you’ll be there to explain it.
Ignore the haters (me), everyone starts their journey somewhere
I’m in the same boat. I started with Ubuntu partly because I wanted to start learning ROS (robot operating system) and the documentation for that at the time mentioned Ubuntu. I’ve heard great things about Mint, which I’ll probably try soon, and when I “upgrade” my gaming desktop to Win 11 I’m partly expecting it to try and fuck with Grub and my Ubuntu partition so I’m going to probably install Bazzite once Win 11 is set up. Hopefully Bazzite is good enough for gaming that I rarely will have a need to use Windows. Sadly there is windows-only software I need. I tried Wine once and it didn’t work.
Hopefully Bazzite is good enough for gaming that I rarely will have a need to use Windows
I have been using it for a while now, and unless the software just doesn’t work, it works perfectly on bazzite
Yeah, a guy recently said that they’d jump into Mint and I could’ve said that I started on that, too (a fucking decade ago, apparently), but I was considering to tell them they could start with $BETTER_DISTRO right away for so long, that I didn’t end up saying much at all. 🫠
For me, I started with Ubuntu then Parrot Os then MX Linux
Nailed it
happy cake day
would you like to yap at me about linux (any distro, curious about ubuntu now tho)
Ah. Still fairly new, I assume cake day is to be left behind or am I misinterpreting this? Asking cuz im tired
I think most people here would be take it at face value and warmly respond. For me, it’s definitely a trigger as it was when I started to wise up to the commercialization of Reddit, my own personal canary so to speak. I know your intent was good, but still - goddammit.
Oh alright
thats kinda cool it can be used like a canary tho
:D
Just have a friend who finally decided switching yesterday. She picked my distro recommendation too which makes me feel all validated.
You have to share what this is now.
She wanted something that was an easy transition from Windows without having to learn a new interface. She is competent enough to install her own OS but wants to spend what little spare time she has on the computer gaming and not troubleshooting and maintaining. So I recommended she tries a few but primarily Bazzite with KDE and she liked it.
Heck, I’m running Fedora KDE right now but if I ever had to change I’d probably pick Bazzite too. Immutable sounds great for my purposes. I have zero intentions of messing around with my kernel.
Sounds like a solid rec for her usecase :)
Nice. I’ll have to give Bazzite a try sometime.
i had to hold in my excitement when someone asked me what linux distro they should use as a beginner
Arch my beloved!
Oh, and remember to
sudo rm -rf //j, don’t do that, it’ll delete your whole system (for any newbies)
Linux is a pyramid scheme. Prove me wrong
Its just fun man. Before I tried linux seriously, I thought it was ridiculous. Why would you care so much about doing extra random bull shit? Except thats literally like 99% of the fun. You dont have to do any of it these days. Most stuff runs out of box pretty well. People just do it because its fun to experiment. You learn so much about computers its addicting. I even learned some powershell for windows and zsh for mac because now I understand how they work better after reading books about the linux kernel. I used to be weirdly judgemental about mac and linux users, now I just want people to have a computer that fits their needs.
Its not for everyone, but my wife got so jealous of watching me try Mint/Ubuntu/Debian that she joined linux over a year ago. Her homepage is now the Fedora newsletter. She is a normal person who was only mildly interested in computers before and now we talk about Debian/Fedora all the time. If you like computers, its worth giving it a shot. Just dont blame yourself if it isnt your cup of tea.
It’s penguins all the way down
You are free to think whatever you like. Have a nice day 👋
this is a joke, right?
This looks like an ex of mine. It’s creeping me out.
Congrats on dating Elizabeth Olsen!
They said it looks LIKE them … could have easily been another one of the Olsen twins too … 👀
Wait, how many twins were there?
Condolences on dating Elizabeth Olsen!
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.
I thought it was that Theranos lady… It’s the eyes.
Me after years in IT and decades of Linux:
If you need help, bother somebody else
I use Mac btw (more to the point, I use whatever you do not use).
That’s why I daily drive Haiku OS.
Mad props if you really are. 👍🏻
That picture is so unsettling and idk why
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Are they sitting on the loo??
Because you never had someone look at you like that IRL.
Because her face is lit from the top by a point light source
That excitement is real 😂 Switching can be refreshing, but I always tell people to try it on a spare drive first. The best OS is the one that actually fits your workflow.
Switched to linux this year and I would NEVER go back to windows.
I’m such a nonconformist that I tell people Linux is terrible, and that they should never try it.
Me when my friend started talking about how he wanted to buy a steam machine as his first entry into pc gaming, and considered installing linux on his laptop cause windows ran like ass on it.
Sleeper agent, go!
Loving Mint but I really wish it was easier to integrate into AD/Exchange/O365 so I could replace all our work machines.
There is some interoperability with windows domains for bigger distros like RHEL and Ubuntu (there are even Ubuntu specific admx templates iirc). Check out SSSD
I still have a Windows VM for that case when the web version of office doesn’t do what I need. Work is all in on Microsoft.
