My right index finger still has an indent from using the clit-mouse to play Starcraft on a Thinkpad 25 years ago.
I DON’T HAVE A PROBLEM buys 3 more Thinkpads on eBay
I tried buying a used thinkpad and putting Linux on it, but then it stopped charging correctly after 2 weeks. So I went back on adhd meds and got a new job and turned my life around.
By turn your life around you mean bought a new Think pad and put Arch on it, right?
The ol’ 360 life turnaround
Honestly I thought I was doing good for my technical knowledge by playing with Linux and it has helped but there comes a point where I hit a plateau with that and now I just end up endlessly tweaking and just wasting time on it
Looks at M2 macbook running NixOS
Ok maybe I do need help.
Someone was saying in a linux hate post yesterday that linux is not viable for beginners because it is not easy to install arch linux on a vm on their old macbook. Lmao
My kid (not even a teenager) uses Linux daily. And not in a coy “he’s using a chromebook” way. He’s using full-blown NixOS on a laptop I set up for him. Could he have set it up? No, but he’s a child. Has day to day use presented him with any difficulties whatsoever? Nope. He figured out gnome purely by instinct in a day. He goes between macos and windows and linux effortlessly, because he’s a reasonably intelligent human being.
But, yes, half the time the “linux is hard” crowd seem to be basing their evaluation on things you would rarely do on a mac or windows machine. These days, install Mint, Fedora, or, hell, even Nixos or Endeavor, choose the defaults, and you will very likely have a perfectly usable, intuitive system.
A real linux installation or darwin-nix? If the former, what steps did you follow? 👀
The real thing. https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon/
I wouldn’t say it’s something anyone can do (no graphical installer and updating is a bit manual) and it’s all dependent on the Asahi folks, bless them, but it took me about 20 minutes, other than whipping up a machine-specific configuration.nix and home.nix (about 20 more minutes on either side of the installation). All of the instructions were clear, though I will warn that some of them are not well presented in that there are instructions that should be bullet points that are stuffed into paragraphs. Nothing remotely exotic though–that’s all in the Asahi stuff that is wonderfully hidden from the view.
You should try gentoo as a therapy replacement next. It’s basically the adult version of maintaining a long running Animal Crossing save.
Every morning I wake up, grab a coffee and update my system @world. Almost every day it goes without a hitch and I watch the system evaluate and resolve any incongruities that might emerge from updates by itself. Other times I might need to make a intervention in the dependencies to guide it to a resolution; but it’s a small nudge in the right direction, like tweaking a miniature ship inside a bottle.
This is partially tongue in cheek but I unironically get a lot of joy out of administrating my PC: Having it completely customized and working exactly like I need it to.
USE flags are so addictive…
Gentoo: the Tamagotchi Penguin
Well, you do have to feed, er, update it at least every six months if you don’t want to be left with an unholy mess to clean up.
I’d advise every week, within six months a lot has changed and you may end up with messed-up inconsistencies.
Six months is the max that’s supposed to be supported. (Longest no-update period I’ve ever sorted out was twelve months. Possible, but time-consuming.)
Fucking amateur. Linux from scratch
I enjoy this activity too as a non binary person
Wouldn’t that be Gentoo?
Except even Gentoo does binaries now (more than they used to).
LFS?
Then they put on the socks and become girls
Legit I brought my first thigh highs and my T430s (now quite modded) within like 2 weeks of each other.
I am unsure, I feel like Google is watching me and selling my data to OP because I was only yesterday ogling a Thinkpad Yoga X1 precisely for this purpose.
woman would take care for a literal horse instead of going to therapy. i don’t see anything wrong there either.
just a horse is way more expensive, cannot be put aside for a week on vacations (could a notebook be put aside?) and one cannot make backups of horses or carry them with you when visiting friends. Horses are way more cute, though.
or carry them with you when visiting friends.
They might be able to carry you.
They probably dont want to
I can’t carry your trauma, Ma’am, but I can carry you!
I feel like I need to get back into Gentoo just to add a lil spice to the horde of Arch users around here :P
Still gonna use Arch on my laptop, bytheway 😅
Incidentally:
- which models are the best new old?
- what are the best places to get them?
…asking for a friend.
Old MacBook Airs make great Linux machines. EBay is a good place to look for them
Therapy is expensive, I’d have to make appointments, leave my home during my free time, talk about myself to someone, and probably won’t help because my problems are external. No thanks.
Buying a new laptop and installing an OS is a relatively simple and inexpensive process that is actually rewarding.
Therapy actually often helps with external problems too. If you tried another therapist every time you installed a distro, you might have found one that can solve your problems.
Therapist-hoping, eh?
I mean, if it helps why not! I honestly really do have a lot of fun tinkering with Linux, it’s one of the big draws of the OS to me.
Because *mumble mumble* no Windows into your soul
I don’t like Windows. They leak a lot of air, they are expensive to replace, and you usually just end up covering them anyway.
I also don’t like the OS much either. lol
My submarine functions so much better since I nailed them all shut.
Costs a lot less than therapy too.
Fuck that’s relatable I bought one like 4 days ago and it just arrived :'D
Can confirm
(throw all those neofetches at me)(yes sir)
Does this still count?
No, because you did not enable trim and firewalld by yourself. Also how dare you like Dracut? /s
when you stop hating yourself
