Turns out the reply in my thread telling me the best way to combat not caring about Linux is to care about Linux was absolutely correct.
I picked up a laptop, installed Linux Mint Cinnamon, and I’m already obsessed. I haven’t had this much fun with a PC in a long time and it’s just a cheapo Dell Inspiron 3520.
remember kids, peer pressure is an absolutely valid strategy to convince someone to try something new.
Like crack?
No, I do not like crack.
They best way to stop not liking crack is to start liking it!
That’s clearly the lesson learned from this post.
But… I stopped liking the crack way back when I realized there’s a whole underworld of decent FOSS alternatives to most of the proprietary junk. Now what?!
That’s why we use Linux, free software and no cracks
I do not like it, Sam I Am.
What are you, a loser? Everyone’s using crack. Don’t you want to be cool?
What about cocaine
Loser
Why not?
So you’ve tried it?
compared to microsoft, crack gives you a lot more control and cusomisation to fuck your life up on your own terms.
Community Crack Pipe v1.6 has no EULA.
How do you feel about camping and anal?
God I hate camping
We got another one, bois!
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Gooble gobble!
Lmao I saw that thread. Congrats on joining the cult!
thread. Congrats on joining the cult!
Stop it, a friend already thinks Lemmy is a cult itself 😔
Lemmy - The FOSS, furry LGBT political cult
you forgot communism
Communism is the C in LGBT
Oh right, how could I forget
Are we not?
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You nailed it with the “I haven’t had this much fun with a PC” line. Switching to Linux reawakened my love of using a computer, not only as a tool for creating but as a genuine interest in itself.
Enjoy and welcome!
Wait until you need to back it up or move the drive or something. The difference is mind boggling.
I asked the community if there were tools. And they basically said “tools to direct copy the /home folder to an external drive?..” and I was like WTFitcantjustbethateasy
Nah. No “backup” or “timeline” or “restore point” or other BS. You just back it up, reinstall, and drag it back over (you can do this LIVE even).
One restart will fix out any kinks and you’re basically good to go.
GNOME also has an app that lets you do encrypted incremental backups very easily.
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Now 76% of all the posts in the Fediverse are about Linux!
Welcome!
Welcome to the
cultcommunity 💘Welcome to Linux Mint. Once you log in, you will never go back
It’s true. I installed Mint on this computer to dual boot with Windows, expecting a gradual experimental transition away from Windows. But it has been months now, and I haven’t used Windows on this computer at all, other than to just test a couple of things for a minute or so.
Switching to Linux wasn’t perfectly smooth. I’ve definitely run into some problems. But the functionality is there, and the problems are mostly about my lack of experience. I doubt I’ll install Windows on any computer ever again. Windows is getting more and more annoying with nags and ads and bloatware, while Linux continues to slowly but steadily improve.
Honestly with how shit windows 11 feels, I’m thinking of even switching my gaming pc to be totally mint. Thank goodness for Nvidia support and proton.
Keep a small Windows partition if you play any of those games with anti-cheat that don’t allow Linux.
Otherwise, almost everything else just works with Proton. It’s a lovely age.
I’m honestly sad this wasn’t the case for me. Biggest headache was getting my keyboard setup since I didn’t use QWERTY. I was expecting customization like that to be easy/simple since I’ve heard the customizability of Linux systems to be toted before but my god was it a week or more of hell trying to get it to recognize my keyboard layout for the login screen.
And now unfortunately I’m back at it again trying to get it to use my keyboard for the tty session.
if your layout is part of the keymaps (/usr/share/kbd/keymaps depending on distro) you can load it with ‘sudo loadkeys -u awesomelayout’ and make it permanent with ‘localectl’ except on debian and heirs. There it would be ‘sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration’
Welcome! Enjoy :)
nooooo i hate this
because i want to do the same thing :(
if you wanna be cool get a used ThinkPad for your Linux machine 😎
I have a question for the group. I do run Linux on a ThinkPad, but it’s Mint/KDE on an X1 carbon I bought new.
My question is: what’s the dress code here? Do I actually need to buy programming socks and a skirt? Can I get away with just wearing ribbed, white athletic socks and cargo shorts? Business casual?
Mostly either cargo shorts or ragged jeans. The biggest hurdle is growing the badly maintained beard.
The programming socks and skirt are only required if you can’t work remotely.
Linux is for all dresses. Configure your apparel like you do your distro.
Like my distro?
So a tiara, duster jacket, kilt, one “stiletto pump” shoe, one wellington boot – and a roll’s worth of duck tape. Got it.
Don’t know what the rest means but a roll of duct tape yes.
Ancient MacBook gang represent.
My wife’s old iMac over here. It’s lightning fast too.
nooooo i want a thinkpad soo bad that’s the one i wanted
I have a thinkpad but am taking a chance on the Legion slim 7 gen 7. Still love that thinkpad.
Any suggestions for a good model? 😅
Literally whatever is in your price range. If you can swing an i7, something relatively new like gen 6 or higher. If not i5 gen 6 or higher. Recommend at least 16 GB ram, 32 preferable. Make sure it comes with a working battery and charger. Anything else is your preference, like does it have a VGA port? Or HDMI? Or a disk drive. Or flash card port. A GPU is a huge plus for gaming if desired. Model doesn’t matter as much as specs do.
I don’t mind older/thicker/heavier tech so i have an x230 with the 7 row keyboard swap and extended batteries. it’s not for everyone, but for me, it’s what peak performance looks like
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