I feel like I’ve been gaslit into running FOSS but every success only brings me closer to fighting god
I already ran Linux when the API blew up but now I’m a girl…
Might be a Linux thing, though.
Beware of the pipeline
windows -> LMDE -> Fedora KDE -> Arch Linux -> Gentoo
LFS feels like the next logical step in that progression.
Gentoo -> Linux From Scratch -> Kernel From Scratch
Windows 98 > Windows XP > Ubuntu > Fedora > Ubuntu > Arch.
Windows -> Linux Mint -> Debian -> Arch -> Kinoite
I’m totally posting there tonight!
Linux gals are best gals
I tried Ubuntu in college and people told me it was a phase… joke’s on them.
One of us! One of us!
Talk to your kids about Linux, before a stranger does.
Your post couldn’t be more true. Decades ago I was sold on MythTV, this PVR software but it only ran on Linux and you had to compile it yourself. So I gave Linux and MythTV a shot. As it turned out, both MythTV and early desktop Linux were a buggy, frustrating mess. X broke all the time. Incomprehensible, ungoogleable compile errors all the time.
I spent so much time troubleshooting MythTV and compilation problems that I ended up learning Linux inside and out and the C programming language to be able understand the compile errors. I went on to lead a major open source project and have had a long career as a programmer, using all the knowledge I gained that started with fighting MythTV.
MythTV was an amazing nightmare.
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time…
what project
In 2018 I went to research why all the sites wanted my cookies so much, today I’m a free software adovocate and a Marxist
This is the way…?
That sounds kinda like my journey, although without the Marxist part.
- Clueless about tech, bought an iMac
- These ads are annoying. [Installs adblock Plus]. There. Except for fricking Taboola, they can DIAF. And the cookie popup banners. Why do they love cookies if they’re not playing cookie clicker?
- It’s the MacOS Catalina Update!! It Thanos snapped my iPod music library. This taught me to avoid MacOS and realize that updates often just make things worse. Set up a dual boot with Windows.
- I start browsing r/asshole_design too much. Teaches me to never trust a corporation. I also realize how phones keep dropping useful features. I finally realize uBlock origin blocks much more than ads.
- Oh boy, this is where the rabbit hole starts. I’m sick of how slow my Mac is, addicted to discovering new cool apps on my phone, and discover FOSS. I install Linux for the first time, and it runs quite well on a laptop from 2009. Also YouTube goes full greed mode.
- Get my new Windows gaming laptop, try to balance privacy with convenience. But I’m irked at how slow it is for some basic tasks. Everything is stable, except when the laptop’s SSD borked.
- Uh oh. Discord, YouTube, and Reddit all make massively greedy decisions, and I don’t want to support those platforms anymore. I discover Lemmy. I try to focus extra hard on FOSS and donate $150 over the course of the year. I think this tells me I’ve became radicalized. Proprietary platforms keep getting worse and worse.
- Linux resurgence. Tired of Windows, and one of my classes needs a UNIX terminal. Sounds like it’s time to dual boot (on 2 SSDs), with Ubuntu being the default. Also I buy a year of Nebula to support creators and stick it to Google.
Maybe a bit random, but
Also I buy a year of Nebula to support creators and stick it to Google.
Would you recommend that? I also wanna quit/ reduce YouTube and enjoy learning new stuff while watching high quality content. Is it worth its money? I’m currently broke and have to watch my finances, but I wouldn’t mind spending a few bucks if it’s something I enjoy.
You can get a promo for $30/yr. If you’re broke, it’s hard to recommend it as money is better spent on needs, but if you have some disposable income I’d say it’s worth it. Many large creators upload their YT videos (sans sponsorship sections) to it and add bonus exclusive content, and it doesn’t come with any ads.
Why stop at Ubuntu if you can try a new distro each month?
Did this for a bit until i learned how to install arch and never looked back
I use arch btwWait until you try NixOS.
Nix stops you from hopping because it takes literal months to set everything up for a mortal.
I did try it on a second drive and was to stupid to understand the like config file where you specify your packages
There’s a lot to explore after arch. We have Gentoo, NixOS, image-based distros like Silverblue. Swappable immutable core through ublue, leading you to bluefin or bazzite. Your journey is far from over
Nah i think it’s pretty over… I have tried gentoo, nixos image based distros and all that. Even lfs. I’m quite comfortable with arch
I got pissed off at Google Photos, which led me down a self-hosting rabbit hole. Ended up installing Linux everywhere, even my “gaming” one eventually (I do development, and WSL was a resource hog).
The hardest thing to degoogle has been email - I’ve used the same address for years. But I use Thunderbird so at least I don’t have to see ads in my fucking inbox
Related: does anyone here have any thoughts on Tutanota and how it compares to Proton Mail? I’ve considered using it in the future.
What are you using instead of Google Photos?
I’m the other way round, email was the first thing I degoogled. It’s Photos I don’t know how to replace.
“The project is under very active development. Expect bugs and changes. Do not use it as the only way to store your photos and videos!”
I’m aware :) really, anyone that backs up anything at all shouldn’t be using ONE THING for backups.
Personally, I use it to “sync” photos from my phone to my computer. I run nightly backups via a cron script.
Still, can’t say I’ve had any issues so far
You could switch to proton mail and synchronize the gmail account to proton, saves the hassle 👍
NASA already killed god in 2011
Hell yeah! Good news all around!
Literally
sudo hostnamectl set-hostname SOMETHINGNORMAL git clone https://github.com/popey/unsnap cd unsnap ./unsnapThe first one will set the name behind the
sign to something not that long. I recommend just usint “PC” for privacy reasons. Often nobody needs to know your device model.The second one removes snaps and snapd and installs installed apps as flatpak instead. Flatpak is a universal format, similar to snap, came out a bit later but not only Ubuntu uses it. Snap also works on multiple Distros but people dont like it, it is still slow (now just slowing down boot) etc.
perfect demonstration of culture sharing for a newbie. Like advising them to always trust commands they find online without even explaining them what each command does!
Free security pentest!
Right, added an explanation
What hostnames do people use? I’m tired of (and bad at) naming all my devices, I just tend to leave default as op, at least I can tell them apart easily
I have
NekkoDesktop,NekkoLaptop,NekkoLaptopJr(new laptop) andNekkoServer:) (Phones are justNekkowith release being S9 and S21 for Samsung or G6 for LG)I do it similarly
I name them after fictional robots/AI
PC is Deep Thought, laptop is Wheatley, phone K9 in etc
Culture ship names. https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spacecraft
I go with a UUID so I never duplicate. 🤪
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier
PC. Privacy reasons
I use LoL champs, there’s at least one for every letter of the alphabet
My PC is just arch Linux and my laptop is computer
Similar to other people:
laptop-56
phone-56
server-56 (or the actual domain name…)
…palmtop-56 (I’m not sure if that’s actually possible)I like the look of all-lowercase hyphenated words. And “56” is a conveniently short identifier I use for myself.
charlemagnefor my desktop, andinvictusfor my laptop - no particular theme, just liked the names lolMy servers however previously used gods from Greek mythology though, as controversial as that apparently was (?)…
(To be fair, I think the controversy was regarding doing that in a professional / enterprise environment of which I am definitely not in)
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Fuck did we all go down the exact same pipeline? I just installed Linux last week and I haven’t booted up windows since.
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).
Welcome to the light side
ONE OF US
ONE OF US
If you ever get bored of Ubuntu. You could try fedora kde, the recent versions are so good.
Don’t forget to install codecs though.
That’s exactly what I did haha, started with Kubuntu and moved to Fedora
I run Kubuntu on my desktop and laptop machines but I’m seriously considering switching to Debian (which I run on my server). Any reason I wouldn’t want to do that on my desktop or laptop?
(Previously I ran Slackware on everything, so both of them feel like gliding softly on a cloud to me.)
There’s no reason. I switched to Debian after leaving Slackware around the reiser4 time. It’s real good.
Yeah it seems to work very well on my server. I’ve always just wondered why I don’t see more people recommending it when they’re switching from Ubuntu/Kubuntu. From what I’ve seen on the server (which I mostly access remotely), it seems decent.
It’s not cool. It means you have gray hairs. The packages are old by default.
Well I do have some gray hairs, so no issue there…
May I recommend lxqt and a trackball?
lol Listen here, sonny…
@limelight79 @gayhitler420 my only real nitpick with debian is that the package updates are too slow for my personal taste. for other people, maybe its perfect, but i think ubuntu has just a bit more bleeding edge without being unstable.
my 2 cents
ymmvHmm interesting point, thanks. That’s the sort of thing I might not have noticed since I don’t use it on an interactive system like my desktop.
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You probably will not notice that you are in other distro when you start using Debian. They are the same in most things, but without Snaps and most propietary stuff (by default. But if you really need propietary things, you may see the official non-free sourcelist)
Thanks. I often wonder why I don’t see people recommending Debian as a potential destination from Ubuntu/Kubuntu. Why not go to the Free source?
I really do not know. But what I can say for sure is that during the installation of Debian, it allows you to choose the desktop environment at installation time, so you can have your Debian with KDE at minute 0 after installing it.
On the other hand, remember that Kubuntu is derived from Ubuntu. I don’t see Ubuntu fans very enthusiastic about creating another Debian-based distro with KDE preinstalled when they even offer it (live images) to you here.
Yeah those codecs always get you.
Weird. I’ve been trying to find a distro I’m happy with and was setting Fedora KDE up today. Ran though my bookmarks and found no videos played on Twitch. Had to install codecs to get it to work. I hadn’t seen this in previous distros. Is this specific to Fedora? Other than this hiccup I’ve enjoyed it so far.
I liked how straight forward Linux Mint is but prefer KDE Plasma. Plus Mint seems quite far behind in versions.
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I wonder if it is notorious?
Do most Linux users (in this context we’ll say people who specifically choose to use Linux and by extension chose a specific distribution) look unfavorably on proprietary software being excluded by default?
For me, I prefer it so I don’t see it that way. But it is also an extra step and an annoyance if you want things to “just work”. Which is an understandable position.
Food for thought, I guess.
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It is definitely not, at least for me when I switched to Linux.
I noticed weird issues while watching a video through VLC, posted about it on Reddit and someone suggested that I had not installed the codecs.
Haha the pain of finding out…
Didn’t you notice the decreased quality?
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Yeah, I don’t recall seeing that and installed it about four times.
How do I install codecs? I’m running Ubuntu and I don’t have the option to encode in H.265, which I could do on Windows.
I fas as I am aware, Ubuntu ships codecs by default.
Fedora does not ship proprietary software due to license issues.
*This is just what I know, you should fact check both.
Welcome to the club. Your lan port is over there. (Insert broadcom chip joke here)
You have been assimilated, resistance was futile.
Seriously, though, I’m glad you’re with us. The more people we get to embrace alternative approaches, the more viable the open standards will be.
Welcome to the real world Neo. Don’t take the pill with 777 permissions btw.
dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1k count=128 of=anarchy
chmod 777 anarchy
./anarchy
find / -print0 | while file= read -r -d ‘’ line; do chmod $(($RANDOM % 777)) $file; done
True anarchy
It’s the path of many of us here, now you will hate linux if you come from windows, give it a couple of months and you’ll ask yourself how the fuck you could be on windows till now.
