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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Thank You, Linux and Linux Community (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by JayleneSlide@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I'd wanted to jump to Linux since the 90s, but it was never quite there for me, plus my day jerb requires me to be on Windows. I finally started ripping the band-aid off a couple years ago and it's been amazing. I received a private message in response to a long-running issue I was having with my dGPU, and that person absolutely got me squared away by suggesting I give Aurora Linux a try for use cases.

Win10 at some point stopped recognizing my beloved FiiO E10 USB headphone amp despite it supposedly being class-compliant. Nothing I did could get any Windows machine to recognize it. Today, I found that amp in a drawer. I plugged it into one of my Aurora Linux machines, and the OS immediately recognized it. Works great and gave me back the headphone sound that I know and love.

So thank you all, for this community, for your contributions, for paying forward the Linux love. Have a great day all.

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[–] anothermember@feddit.uk 17 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yep things have certainly changed since then, I remember when it was common advice to new Linux users to generally avoid laptops.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

that logic was my exact reasoning for buying linux-first laptops and it gave me an ultra smooth sailing for almost a decade meanwhile this is how i felt learning about everyone else's hibernate/wifi/nvidia/battery-draining problems that system76 solved for me:

pffft plebs lol

imagine that this is how mac people feel. lol

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I remember this too. Somehow, despite all the laptops I installed it on I got VERY lucky and only had a couple of WiFi issues, one totally incompatible laptop, and one that would not boot until I got the boot parameters right. I heard plenty stories from other people though. All that said, it's so much smoother and easier installing Linux nowadays that the Windows install where I worry the whole time that MS is trying to reverse psychology me into agreeing to sell my unborn children into slavery.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Welp, maybe even the SDIO wifi on that 200 $ convertible back in ... 2018-ish would work ootb now. Windows 10 struggled already with the only 4 GB RAM, forget webbrowsing, the only reasonable task for such a device.