“As a Linux user…”
Yeah yeah, you’re right. But can you maybe shut up about it for just a minute?
USE LINUX
LINUX IS BETTER IN EVERY WAY
MICROSOFT SUCKS APPLE SUCKS GOOGLE SUCKS
THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP
Windows user: I use Windows! It’s the best!
Apple user: I use OS X! It’s the best!
Windows and Apple users: Which do you use?
Linux user: Linux.
Windows and Apple users: OMG shut up, nobody asked!
As a Linux user (who uses Arch btw), most Linux users at least care about what OS they use. To everyone else, they just wanna get work done and aren’t just having conversations about what they’re running. It’s a computer, not their personality.
What windows user says that lmao
You’d see that a lot on Reddit, on subs like r/pcmr or r/gaming. But not much of that here, presumably because Lemmy has a higher ratio of FOSS-friendly folks.
Windows user: I use Windows! It’s the best!
No not really no. This doesn’t happen. Not even remotely close to as often as Linux users say Linux
I’m not even saying Linux users should say it less, I’m fine with whatever, it’s just that this isn’t true at all
Yeah cus maybe it is the best 💀
This happened with XP, 7, and 8.1. 10 wasn’t bad either at first, but they’ve gradually enshitified it. 10 now and 11 are spyware masquerading as an OS.
As a Windows user, just keep your Apple away from me. I can’t do shit with it. My wife stepped away while we were zooming with someone the other day, and the Mac got pulled to another desktop (or something). I had no clue what to do. Apparently, it’s a three-finger swipe on the trackpad, because of course it’s a three-finger swipe.
Workspace switching is also a three finger swipe on windows 10
Then maybe it’s just that I don’t have a clue what I’m doing on laptops these days.
no one is paying for the torture of animals and your youtube video sucks.
what do you think the money you buy meat with is used for?
Windows licenses?
what do you think the money you spend on beans is used for? but after you give it to the same stores I do, it’s not your money any more and you don’t get to decide what happens to it any more than I do.
based on your comments, you’re probably just a troll, buy just in case, here’s a really simple explanation.
so i buy beans from a store. the store has fewer beans, so they buy more from the company that sells them. i don’t buy meat, so that is one less meat product that they have to restock. therefore, instead of giving my money to the meat industry, they give it to the bean industry. on a small scale, that obviously makes no difference, but if enough people stop buying meat, less meat will be produced, which leads to fewer animals being tortured.
calling me names doesn’t change whether what i said is true.
hey i didn’t say you are a troll, just that you probobly are one. and yeah, it’s true that they can do what they want with any money they get, but what they will do is use it to replace the things that people buy. otherwise, people stop buying things from them.
You’re proposing people stop buying things from them now.
the store gets to decide what to do with their money and they can choose to take the bean money and stock up on hotdogs for labor day.
and when they don’t have beans, i don’t give them anymore money
It’s crazy that you have to explain this in such a basic way but it’s still ignored/denied/misunderstood.
i doubt they’ll run out of beans. they probably already bought enough for the year on contract. same with the hotdogs, too, for that matter.
if enough people stop buying meat, less meat will be produced
i don’t think that will ever happen
not with that attitude
do you have a plan to make that happen?
You haven’t ever had good tofu, clearly.
you think good tofu will make people give up their cultural foods and farming tradition?
no one is torturing animals.
some factory farms are torturing animals. depending on your definition, not all are, but the ones that remove pigs’ tails and castrate calves without sedatives are definitely torturing them.
they’re not torturing them. they’re not being cruel for cruelty’s sake. The point isn’t the pain. The pain is incidental. it’s not torture.
I mean, if you want to pay for an operating system that displays ads by default… More power to you, I guess?
Did you post this ironically? This is the shit I’m making a joke about lol
doubling down i see
Doubling down on… What?
Did you post this ironically?
It was sarcasm.
I don’t care much about what other people are comfortable in using, but please don’t expect tech support from me. Every time I have to use Windows I get frustrated at how it forcibly feeds me stuff I don’t want. Although I admit that sometimes I joke to people to switch to Linux when they get frustrated with Windows as well, but that’s about it.
And also, some popular memes about Linux are probably just that, memes. Don’t take it too seriously.
The force feeding of news and shit is fucking enraging! Why on earth did they start pushing that, and why is it so hard to turn off? Why do they turn it back on at every opportunity? I have a Surface Pro that I use for digital painting. I’ll be happily just painting along when I misclick the system notification area and all of the sudden “Trump! Trump! Trump! Outrage! Doom! Gloom! Global catastrophe!” gets shoved in my face. I’ll open a fucking browser if I want to see the news. Ugh! Fuck off! That’s honestly a huge part of the reason I finally switched to Linux as my primary OS.
And also, some popular memes about Linux are probably just that, memes. Don’t take it too seriously.
Try going to a Linux community and telling them for what reason you wouldn’t use Linux in a specific case or to whom you wouldn’t recommend Linux. You’ll quickly see a lot of responses that aren’t just memes.
But for real? Linux is actually so great. I’m running a shitty old PC as a media server and learning Linux as I go. It’s so light and nimble compared to a Windows machine. For anyone considering Linux, I highly recommend trying it out even if it’s just for funsies.
I never tell people I am a linux user.
I tell them I use Kubuntu.Telling someone, you love drinking pop is unhelpful,
Telling someone how obsessed you are about drinking MOUNTAIN DEW*, is way more informative.FYI: I rarely ever drink pop.
*choose your own fizzy water
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I mean, next year is definitely the year of the Linux desktop.
I would wait until Windows 10 is out of support (2025).
It’d only be out of support by then if they don’t release new updates. Not to mention the versions with longer life.
have you tried linux? its really cool
What a coincidence, so are vegetables!
i know ;)
What is a good distro for an absolute noob? Like me.
Linux Mint is pretty good, it has a Windows 7 kind of feel to it. Fedora is also nice, it great for tablet, also with touch. Both work pretty well and consistently out of the box.
mint! its popular for beginners, ubuntu based, user friendly, lots of tutorials/troubleshooting help
Mint is great for beginners. I never had any issues with it and the cinnamon desktop is very nice.
Watch a few beginner tutorials on YouTube and see which one appeals to you most.
Depends a lot on use case, certainly!
Also, do you like a “bottom up” or “top down” approach? Grabbing a raspberry pi and setting up a headless (no monitor) home server is a great bottom up way of getting familiar with things — learn to configure various services and whatnot from the command line. Or, just start with a user-friendly distro with a GUI you like, and gradually work your way up to looking under the hood.
Pop!_OS is the absolute best for beginners. Pick KDE if you want a Windows experience and Gnome if you want a Mac experience.
Nvidia? Pop!_OS probably.
Mint is great but its using the legacy display manager so some people witg multi monitors with different frame rates bla bla had issued with it tho.
Pop!_os for sure but dont mess up the gui like linustechtips did
There is quite a bit of truth to this.
I wouldn’t say it is “Year of the linux desktop!” But I do think eventually it will take up much more of the market of OS use. Maybe years and years away.
Linux has come a very long way. I found it is actually easier in many ways to Mac and Windows, more complicated in others.
For general use, and even gaming, it’s actually in a really good state for general users right now.
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As an 11 year Arch user, I would like to correct the title: “Arch users are the vegans of the computer world”. :-P
Linux users are vegetarians while free software users are the vegans.
Then what are Apple users? Meatheads?
