toastal ,

Regardless of the path, congrats on getting there

mindbleach ,

Now see if "programming socks" do anything for you.

MargotRobbie ,
@MargotRobbie@lemm.ee avatar

Speak for yourself, I first got on Lemmy to promote a movie, and the next thing I know, I was using Arch (BTW) and moderating an Android community.

I'm still not quite sure how that happened. This place.

Ansis ,

You're so damn confident with every comment that I am constantly struggling not to believe you're actually Margot Robbie.

m3t00 ,
@m3t00@lemmy.world avatar

it really is comforting to know you can do 99% of stuff you want with PCs without a license from Microsoft. FOSS has its own headaches but at least you don't have to wade through a PR swamp to fix stupid bugs

MashedPotatoJeff ,

It's a good reminder of how influenced we are by our surroundings, even when we try to be aware of the effect. Or maybe especially when we try to be aware.

I was staying strong until I saw they were already sundowning windows 10. 10! They just came out with that shit. I have no intention of upgrading to the latest advertising package.

JasonDJ , (edited )

….windows 10 came out in 2015. I wouldn’t say it just came out, 8 and a half years ago. Thats a pretty good run for a retail OS. There was only 5 between the release of 3.0 and 95.

My big gripe with 11 was that it seemed like MS was going to go away from major releases and go to something somewhat closer to a rolling release model. My big gripe with 10 was all the telemetry.

It’s actually pretty telling that from “insert installation media” to “working web browser”, just about any Linux distro is a faster, easier, and less demanding installation experience than 10 or 11.

MashedPotatoJeff ,

Haha, fair enough. I seem to have lost track of the years somewhere in there.

Ashen44 ,

Fuck did we all go down the exact same pipeline? I just installed Linux last week and I haven't booted up windows since.

Neil ,

Welcome to the light side

honeyontoast ,

Did the same thing in November with MX Linux. Haven't needed to boot into Windows once.

DerpDerpingtonIsHere ,

How is mxlinux? Never used it.

honeyontoast ,

I like it, but I'm not exactly a power user and the only other distros I've used are Ubuntu and mint. I think if you want a Debian based distro that's not tied to Ubuntu then Mx is a good choice. I know there's LMDE too but as far as I know that's only available with cinnamon, so Mx having KDE plasma is nice too.

There's the whole sysvinit Vs systemd but I don't have a dog in that fight and enabled systemd, which Mx makes very easy even though they advise against it.

pirrrrrrrr ,

No. Some of us were already there.

Lifetime Microsoft expert here, I have had machines with Linux in one flavour or another for 15+ years at least.

But for ease of use I just keep coming back to Windows... Because I know it backwards and upside down.

The structure of it makes sense to me. And I have ADHD so I have a terrible working memory and Linux relies FAR too much on command console to do anything effective.

But Linux is hands-down the better system to get away from Microsoft's enshitification of Windows. But I personally like Windows better.

So I will always run both. But if I need to be really productive, Windows Desktop it is.
If I need a server, Linux every time. (Unless it's MS SQL or a website).

Pharmacokinetics ,

That wallpaper is giving me Elite Dangerous vibes. Do you play?

Sammy OP ,
@Sammy@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I’m more like an Animal Crossing kinda guy 😅 I just wanted to fit in with all the space gals n pals.

ImADifferentBird ,
@ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

ONE OF US

ONE OF US

Kawi ,

It happened to me too.

Affair4377 ,

One of us! One of us

renard_roux ,

Google EOL'd my beloved Asus C302 Chromebook, and now it runs Fedora with KDE. I'm super happy with it ❤️

Now tentatively working on turning my 2009 Mac Mini into a Fedora server/homelab.

So far it's running Fedora desktop/KDE, and I'm slowly trying to figure out how to get Docker to work so I can run stuff like Audiobookshelf. If I manage to get it working, I'll try going full Fedora Server instead of the desktop version.

Quexotic ,

This is the biggest reason for me; old hardware.

Wanna try and kill my 8 year old laptop by refusing to support it? Fine. Lubuntu.

renard_roux ,

There's so much waste everywhere, let alone in tech. Being able to both "recycle" old hardware, and find legitimate use for it, should be celebrated.

Now if only I knew what to do about my old phones ... I'm pretty good at making them last, so my older ones are very old, and I can't think of anything useful for them to do that whatever phone I currently have doesn't do much better 🤔

KuroeNekoDemon ,

Welcome to the community! If you need any help you have the Ubuntu forums and Lemmy because fuck Reddit

merthyr1831 ,

now to get a chromebook with coreboot to really stick it to the anti FOSS demons

hagelslager ,

Just a passer-by: why a chromebook? Is their hardware less reliant on proprietary software?

Secret300 ,

Depends on which one but some are easier to install coreboot on

merthyr1831 ,

the Chrultrabook project is what youll wanna look into, but basically yes. You can reliably get new-ish hardware very cheaply and flash FOSS stuff like Coreboot onto it.

No idea why tbh. The equivalent laptops outside of ChromeOS' ecosystem are usually much more locked down, to the point where the most powerful systems you'll find being able to run Coreboot are decades-old thinkpads on 3rd gen mobile i5 and Kepler mGPUs.

chemicalwonka ,
@chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I gave one step more to achieve the holy sanctity of FOSS hardware I bought a Thinkpad and flashed Libreboot in it. Waiting for the bless of Saint iGNUcius

Haha ,

I have a chromebook how do i convert

13617 ,

chultrabook discord

Haha ,

Got a link?

0x2d ,

is it x86 based? what's the board name?

Haha ,

Model is n16p1 - acer
14 CB3-431

0x2d ,

your board is edgar, wp screw, see more infos on mrchromebox

Haha ,

I’ve done everything and my roadblock is finding compatible images hahaha

mariusafa ,

If you like ubuntu and you want to remove amazon and junk that ubuntu has you can go to debian. But in the future, just familarize yourself with everything first

merthyr1831 ,

or a Pop!/Mint/Neon ;^}

linuxPIPEpower ,

familarize yourself with everything first

dry humor i hope

baseless_discourse , (edited )

I also started with LTS assuming they would be more usable, but the extremely outdated package have later driven me away from linux for a while.

Now I realize I can just run normal Ubuntu to get reasonably up-to-date packages. But I like the latest (non-graphical) software that is offered by fedora.

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