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Welcome to libre

A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.

The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.

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Resources

Free Software, Free Society provides an excellent primer in the origins and theory around free software and the GNU Project, the pioneers of the Free Software Movement.
Switch to GNU/Linux! If you're still using Windows in $CURRENT_YEAR, take Linux Mint for a spin. If you're ready to take the plunge, flock to Fedora! If you're a computer hobbyist and love DIY, use Arch, Gentoo, Guix or the many, many offerings out there.

Those on Apple Silicon Macs can consult Asahi Linux for available options.

Rules

Be on topic: Posts should be about free software and other hacktivst struggles. Topics about general tech news should be in the technology comm or programming comm. That doesn't mean all posts have to be serious though, memes are welcome!
Avoid using misleading terms/speading misinformation: Here's a great article about what those words are. In short, try to avoid parroting common Techbro lingo and topics.
Avoid being confrontational: People are in different stages of liberating their computing, focus on informing rather than accusing. Debatebro nonsense is not tolerated.
All site-wide rules still apply

Artwork

Xenia was meant to be an alternative to Tux and was created (licensed under CC0) by Alan Mackey in 1996.
Comm icon (of Xenia the Linux mascot) was originally created by @ioletsgo
Comm banner is a close up of "Dorlotons Degooglisons" by David Revoy (CC-BY 4.0) for Framasoft

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Its time for me to lose my Linux virginity (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago by Moss@hexbear.net to c/libre@hexbear.net

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I spent all of yesterday building a PC (NOT easy, Jesus Christ) and now it needs an OS. Fuck windows, or course, so I want a Linux OS. I'll be mainly using my PC for gaming and editing videos, and I'd much prefer something that works similarly to Windows just for comfort purposes since I'm already familiar. Also I've heard Linux is incompatible with some games?

So, nerds, what do you recommend?

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[–] stupid_asshole69@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

What software, what games, do you need to run? Protondb will tell you.

What hardware do you have? People complain about the nvidia drivers but it’s honestly fine.

It’s not gonna run like windows. You can make it similar (and I kinda do, lxqt, taskbar on the left hand side) but the way you figure stuff out is gonna be different because the way options and capabilities are surfaced to you is different.

That’s why “beginner friendly” distros are so awful. Ultimately the new user has to learn how they’re supposed to do stuff with the system and just like when going between a mac and pc there’s no need for some layer to facilitate that learning once the user understands that they gotta learn a new way of thinking there’s no need for some simplicity layer. Linux is already simple.

Anyway just install Debian and figure it out. You’ll be fine.