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Yesterday, for the first time, I solved a technical issue using Lemmy (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to c/general@lemmy.world

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And it felt great.

Long story short, I was looking for a new Linux distro to use (very Fediverse cliche situation, I know), and of course my first reflex was to use Reddit. However, due to the combined enshittification of both Google and Reddit, I couldn't find relevant recent threads for my question, so I thought, let's use some search-lemmy.

A few threads later, I was able to make my decision. I just wanted to share this with you as this is for me a very strong sign that we are moving away from Reddit for good.

Some of the threads in question:

And in case you wonder, it's probably going to be OpenSUSE. Currently testing it in VirtualBox at the moment before making the jump.

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[-] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 13 points 1 year ago

Nice choice!

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

Thanks! Let's see how it goes. The rolling release aspect and very polished KDE made me choose it.

this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023

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