My friends want me to shut the fuck up
It’s great, I get a checkout line to myself now.
What else would I be talking about to people?
The Revolution.
Somewhat related but does anyone know the backstory on the linuxsucks guy? He’s the sole poster in that community and has a massive rage boner for Linux but seems to know way too much about it?
Brian Lunduke
as for info about him… eh, I’ll leave you to it.
Stallman?
Man, idk, but I think the guy is also the one running the Reddit community by the same name. The usernames are different, but the Reddit sidebar links to the Lemmy community and the description and rules are almost word for word.
Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but anyone who promotes telemetry as some sort of good thing and hates on makes it their life’s work to dissuade people from Linux is either someone with too much time of their hands or an op.
That was my suspicion too but sometimes people just have hate boners for things like an autistic fixation on hating something. A good example is that CPU benchmark website where the owner has a rock hard hate boner for AMD no matter how well they do. When they kicked the crap out of Intel they used every disingenuous reason to score it lower because Intel should always be better.
it-it’s happening- SOMEONE HELP M-i use arch btw :3
I hate that we can now recommend win10 over win11 because win11 now has AI in your fucking notepad.
I fired up an old Win7 box this weekend, and by the end of the day Microslop had force installed copilot onto the system.
I talk about Linux with a lot of people. Anywhere from non-technical users, to technical users.
I have gotten a few people to try it. But ultimately in my real life circle I am the only competent Linux user. And I can’t get non tech people to try it.
A bunch of non-technical family members have been on Ubuntu for a decade. I’m only involved in LTS release upgrades and hardware failures.
Maybe it’s because the survey respondent hasn’t used an OS worth recommending.
ITT:
Win 10 user not realizing they are self-reporting how unenthusiastic / unimpressed they are by their OS, to the extent that they literally cannot even imagine being excited by any OS.
I’m willing to recommend Windows 10 to someone who considers “upgrading” to Windows 11.
Have you heard of the gospel of our lord and savior, Linus torvalds? Do you have a minute to discuss salvation from the eternal fires of surveillance capitalism? /j
Bro we get that you’re joking.
I only suggest it when someone is complaining about windows.
Exactly.
It’s not “randomly recommending an operating system”
It’s noticing when people have problems, and providing a solution.
Hey, it’s this meme again!
This seems as good a place as any to ask. I have a shitty old laptop that ran Arch pretty good, but I’m not good enough at Linux and I managed to fuck it up. Something about the root partition being full, and discussions about the fix went over my head. So I pulled all my stuff off of it and installed Mint like my other computer has, because it’s braindead easy to use. But even Mint Xfce runs like doo doo on this machine.
Is there any good middle ground that’s more beginner friendly than Arch, and runs on weaker machines than Mint?
Linux from scratch
Void should be fine if you’ve used arch before. You’ll likely have an awkward moment when you go into xfce and there’s no audio playing with your music/video, but you can get it working by linking pipewire’s folder under /etc/sv into /var/service. There’re other ways too
Just plain Debian, with either xfce or i3. I have a rediculusly old laptop that runs them both fine. I generally prefer i3 on it because the touchpad is pretty terrible, but xfce works well with a real mouse.
Debian won, I’m trying it first. So far so good, using KDE because Arch ran pretty well with it, but will likely try i3 if this gets slow. Side note: This is the first distro I’ve tried that shows accurate colors on my laptop! I’d resigned myself to always having a slightly washed out, slightly cool color palette. Not anymore! It looks normal!
If you decide to give i3 a try, I recommend this repo as a sane starting config: https://github.com/shreyas-a-s/debian-i3
Is it actually your drive slowing you down? Do you have a hard drive or SSD? You could run ReadSpeed to see the speed at different segment of your drive. If it’s slow across the whole thing, that’s probably why it’s so sluggish. If it’s just the beginning and end of the drive on an SSD, you might be able fix it.
Lubuntu is a smaller install and will run well on a toaster. It is made for older computers. When no os runs well chose Lubuntu.
Or Xubuntu!
But honestly Mint is the way to go for new guys.
True. Any Ubuntu spin offs would work as they have more support for newbies to help get things working.
Let’s build it out even further. Linux Mint Debian Edition with XFCE.
I’m going to get obliterated in the distro wars for recommending a Manjaro derivative, but how about Mabox? It’s more of a ricing distro, but it’s also the most beginner friendly distro I can think of that doesn’t use one of the heavier desktop environments but still keeps the floating window paradigm as the path of least resistance. I think you’d be fine, just use the AUR sparingly. https://maboxlinux.org/
You could try basic Debian, maybe with lxqt?
I never see the point of Debian derivatives anyway.Or maybe try out one with a lightweight wm like fluxbox or icewm. These are more barebones i think. last time i used fluxbox many years ago it did everything i needed and was pretty cool.
maybe . . . MX linux " the most popular linux distro" /s Except i think they ban systemd.init so lots of debian based help wont necessarily work.
Meh - maybe none of these are good answers to your question.
Maybe try EndeavourOS.
It’s pre-configured Arch, since you said it ran Arch well.
No one I know but me even owns a computer to install it on.
Wait, hol’up, please tell me it’s because of some socioeconomic reason, not because everyone around you just defaults to phones and tablets. Please.
When I moved from the Midwest to Los Angeles, CA c. 2013 it was a bit of a culture shock to learn that almost no one had a computer.
I still don’t know anyone who owns one that doesn’t have to work with one.
And it is totally about phones and tablets. I don’t even think the kids learn to type in schools anymore.
The… second one.
Entire fam and friend circle is okay with paying for things. They have no sense of privacy to remove, and believe any alternative would be too conveluted for a bunch of mobile users to reliably depend on, and they’re complerely right.
With zero computer experience, there is no way out. The learning curve is a sheer cliff.
Nothing, not even TOR or i2p would help, their entire OS is backdoored, as is anyone’s on stock software.
