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    [–] CallMeAl@piefed.zip 42 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    In 2002 I was lost. I went to Las Vegas ready to gamble it all away. I got in late. There I sat on the bed. Unable to move on. I don't know why but on a whim I opened the drawer of the night stand. There I saw it. I don't know who put it there or why. The Linux Bible. All I know is from that very day my life was changed.

    [–] paper_moon@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    The security conference DEFCON and other technical conferences are held every year at Vegas, I wonder if someone from DEFCON put it there, lol

    Hahahaha!! My friend's brother went to defcon, and told us he left "a little surprise" in the night stand in the hotel. I wonder if that was him!

    [–] lmr0x61@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 weeks ago

    Welcome $HOME 😊

    [–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    It unironically feels this way. I enjoy booting up my machine again like in the good old days.

    [–] judgyweevil@feddit.it 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    I can't really enjoy it because it's too fast

    [–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

    I don't have time to make my coffee anymore 😭😭😭

    [–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 18 points 2 weeks ago

    Like washing off the stench of 1000 toilets from your body after crawling several miles through raw sewage.

    [–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    How it feels to study the Arch wiki

    Vs how it feels to install Mint

    Edit: I hope this comment didn't come across as snobby or anything. The best thing to do if you're trying to install Arch is to just install Mint instead. Using your computer as a computer needn't be a struggle

    [–] hansolo@lemmy.today 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    To be fair, I didn't even have to think this hard on the Mint install.

    [–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Installing Mint really is really something special for how easy it is

    It's the easiest OS I've every installed

    Though the amount I've installed is fairly low lol

    [–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

    C’mon, installing Arch Linux was the easiest install in my entire life, and I tried all the major distros. The difficult thing is to set it up to your needs after you installed it, as it’s just very barebones.

    [–] OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago

    Where does it go?

    In the square hole

    [–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Fun fact, you don’t even need to crawl through hundreds of feet of black water waste pipe to install Linux.

    [–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    In fact it's super easy, barely an inconvenience.

    [–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

    Blasphemy…. There is only Linux from scratch.

    All else’s is a heresy most offensive!

    (I’m jesting, if it wasn’t clear. Most distros work well out of the box.)

    (I would recommend lfs for anyone who likes to learn the hard way. You will learn as you go, but it can be frustrating.)

    [–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

    Missing caption: "What the hell is the command to turn the water off?" πŸ™‚

    Just kidding of course. I've been using Linux pretty much since forever and I love it. But there's a learning curve if you just switched to it.

    [–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

    searches how to and finds a 20 y.o answer in some forum that answers exactly that

    [–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

    Every morning when I'm working with MicroSlop users

    [–] paper_moon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    I had messed around with Linux and failed for a while, as I was using dialup and was trying to get win modem drivers working under linux. Fast forward a few years later and I finally switched when i finally had broadband, and the concept a virtual machine was really becoming industry standard in late 2000's, and I wanted to start experimenting with them, I hated trying to hunt down windows licenses for each VM I wanted to run, and I started messing around with Linux in VM's as they were free. Thank Tux, I finally starated running Ubuntu on my bare metal machines around Ubuntu 7.04 I think, my WiFi drivers "just worked" and it was magical.

    [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    That man is going to catch a cold

    [–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

    sudo rm ./cold

    [–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Gross, you have to get wet? I'm out.

    Edit. Gif, to get the joke across.

    [–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

    It really do be like that

    [–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Yes, and using many closed source apps really feels like crawling through that pipe.

    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 week ago

    And didn't need crawl through as much as Andy did.

    [–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    I love Linux. I use it daily.

    That said, man am I tired of the circle jerks on Lemmy. Calm down, guys. Calm. Down.

    [–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 weeks ago

    My friend you're in the Linux Memes community, the home of Linux circlejerking lol