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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

e: ^^^ don't downvote them -_-;;

Fair.

There are about 30 different ways to do any single thing and whatever way you choose is guaranteed to provoke 17 neckbeards into writing essays on why you're wrong and, while they're at it, you also picked the wrong distro.

On the other hand:

  • the clocks just tell time
  • your user directory isn't stored in a data center 1500 miles away
  • the update process understands the concept of consent, and;
  • you can create a local user account during install without ... whatever this is.
[–] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

There are about 30 different ways to do any single thing and whatever way you choose is guaranteed to provoke 17 neckbeards into writing essays on why you’re wrong and, while they’re at it, you also picked the wrong distro.

My favorite one is
"Oh linux is easy these days, you don't have to even open the terminal"
"Haha noob why did you install the flatpak version, never do that, always install everything as .debs through terminal"

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You can just click on debs in your file manager, no different from an exe in that aspect.. but sure, i guess you could run an exe via cmd if you really wanted to

[–] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 1 points 20 hours ago

Haha oh yes, it's just whenever I search for some solutions it feels like I end up finding at least one reply with the instructions to use terminal only for installing

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm old, and can't be fucked learning a whole new system. I just want to browse the internet and play my games. The biggest barrier is getting my simracing gear and modded Assetto Corsa working on it.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I completely understand. I bounced off Linux desktop several times and I'm a sysadmin.

It's only the last few years where there have been rapid and significant improvements to get gaming so it "just works*" and both of the popular desktop environments, KDE (Windows-like) and gnome (Mac-like) have had a heavy focus on fixing all of the little fiddly annoyances that turned people off.

It's not perfect and it can be annoying, but its dramatically better than it was 5 years ago while Windows keeps moving in the opposite direction.

I'm not trying to sell you on it really, Linus doesn't pay me commissions. Windows isn't THAT bad and learning a new OS is a big ask.

I've just been impressed by the state of things and enjoy yapping about it.

[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

Obligatory "Gnome is NOT Mac-like" comment.

The Windows people think Gnome is Mac-like. Hah, no it's not! Gnome is its own weird thing.

KDE can actually get a lot closer to Mac than Gnome can, if you add a top menu bar, rearrange some stuff, and move the titlebar buttons around.

(We came from Mac land originally, and that's how we have our KDE set up. Mostly.)

-- Frost