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[–] FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

No League = perfection

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Ok but now I can't put my laptop to sleep without it breaking my wifi and needing a full restart. None of the solutions I found worked. What then? More hours of fruitless troubleshooting?

[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 19 hours ago

Your laptop's wifi is the sacrifice we make to the gods. Once we get enough sacrifices, the gods will intervene and force hardware makers to offer better support for anything non-windows. Think of the future where your laptop's grandchildren will finally be free from all the shackles.

[unless your problem happens to be a bug on Linux itself, but that is usually not the case].

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 1 day ago

Have you tried posting in the Linux community and having them tell you that it's your fault for closing the laptop in the first place, it's clearly that's an insane thing that no human should ever be doing?

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works -1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Did I stutter?

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Son, I FORBID you to use Linux!"

"YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!"

Bam, big uptick in Linux adoption, easy.

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

"Libs hate Linux Mint"

"Nazis hate Fedora"

Now all your bases are covered. Now we can put aside political ideology and fight about the real issues...... the distro wars.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Really, though - it would be amazing if someone made a MAGA-themed distro just to tell people it's the "Trump47Freedom Linux, free from liberal wokeness!" and then just collected massive telemetry and had a bunch of backdoors so you can just scam them all for...

Uh.....quick, tell me how does one make a Linux distro?

[–] groet@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago

A Linux distro is essentially 2 things. A installer that sets everything up and a package repository to install software and updates from. The work is in selecting the software in the repository and making sure they all work with each other. But you can just take an existing distro (like debian) and make minor changes, like setting a Trump wallpaper, setting a secret backdoor password for ssh and adding the telemetry to the programs installed by default. For everything else refere back to the parent distro. Every time they make an update, just apply your changes on top of it and ship it as your own distro.

Should leave you with enough time to market to MAGAs and sell access to the backdoors and the telemetry data.

"Libs hate Linux Mint"

"Nazis hate Fedora"

"I use arch btw" says the anarchist

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[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 77 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

If we're to have a serious conversation on this for a second - my view is that I don't push people towards the lifestyle choices I've picked (veganism, Linux, meditation, etc.) but if it seems the person is already open to something I do, I'm happy to answer their questions in a non judgemental manner and be a resource for them.

I'm truthful in what I say, and I will just as easily tell them the bad things (no Photoshop, learning curve, you may find yourself running commands sometimes) as well as the good things so they can make an informed decision.

I've had one friend move over to Linux Mint on his laptop because he saw I was already using it and realised it's actually doable, and another friend start considering vegetarianism more seriously

I feel that if you constantly tell people how awesome and great Linux is and they're missing out, you just look like you're part of a cult and not a rational person.

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 4 points 20 hours ago

Seriously, I don't preach veganism to anyone around me. When people ask why I'm vegan, I answer, straight to the point. If they ask more questions, I just continue answering their questions.

I know at least of 2 people I have known personally who became vegan later. I never preached to them.

I'm not aware of anyone who switched to Linux or an ergonomic keyboard layout though, so results may vary.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Linux AND meditation? Not both at the same time, surely?

[–] missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What worked for me was:

"Windows updates won't break your 5 year old laptop!"

FUCK M$

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[–] Karl@programming.dev 16 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I seem to be the only guy on lemmy who doesn't know computer shit T-T

What does this mean

[–] jsalvador@programming.dev 3 points 23 hours ago

It means League of Legends is bad, but Doom is not.

[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 18 hours ago

League of Legends and other games by the same company require you to run an anti-cheat system that has more control over your computer than even you as an user can ever possibly get while windows is fully loaded. It basically controls windows itself - so all the tools that Linux has to run windows game are ineffective for these. It's like the game is running windows instead of the other way around.

The other point is that games like LoL tend to have a weird effect on people. It's not the case for everyone but most people I've met who play it, absolutely hate the game and feel miserable within minutes once they start playing - but they get cravings for it when they don't. So they keep going back to play more and get mad at it again every day.

At the same time, people who don't play those games and see the toxicity in it often meme about how the world would be better if it didn't exist.

So the OP text is similar to saying something like "there's no cocaine there" being a good selling point for living in some country.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago (6 children)

League of Legends is a popular game that has a reputation for having toxic players, as well as requiring kernel-level anti-cheat, which is intrusive and so disliked here, and also does not work on Linux.

Thus, by switching to Linux, you can avoid the unwanted chance of playing League of Legends.

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[–] IndieSpren@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago

it means league of legends blocks itself from being installed on linux

[–] Nelots@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Interesting choice of instance in that case.

Idk, that seems about right for most of the developers I've known professionally.

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can't play ForkKnife neither 😠

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why would you want to play Fortskin?

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I play Fortnite regularly with two friends, it's a way to keep the connection when I live across the world. We catch up on our lives while murdering teenagers dressed as spiderman, it's fun

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Fun with the bros (I'm almost 30 😎)

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 days ago (9 children)

I delayed switching my Win10 desktop to Proton because League brought Doombots back this week.

God, I am never escaping this game, am I...

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I don't know what that means and frankly I think that's a blessing.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Count yourself lucky.

But frankly, imo League is overhated. I've been playing that game since I was 12 and no one has attempted to groom me on it. Meanwhile my time on Roblox and public Minecraft servers was...something...

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