I feel like the meme got it backwards. People fussing over WMs in the middle, while newbies and veterans just using whatever comes by default on Fedora
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Using Fedora without codecs?
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Not all terminals are black!!
I would say we should burn the light-mode heritics, but they've already done it to their own eyes.
*heretics
And I wouldn't be so sure that light mode is more harmful than dark mode and not vice versa.
Fuck Linux
All my homies use FreeDOS
Fuck FreeDOS
All my homies use Plan9
Fuck plan9
All my homies use EFI SHELL
In defense of the creators of Unix, you cannot fuck plan9.
I have a pocket pussy that uses plan9 for its OS
Ok I was kidding I actually love my systemdOSd it runs seamlessly on my IBM systemdbookd so fuck FreeDOS and everything else cause they aren't d
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Somehow I am all three of these people at the same time.
Why is it constantly booting to a black screen with text?
This is easy, just install steam and go
Ahh the beauty of this Debian server, don't even need to get out of my sofa because I have SSH on my phone.
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GUI has the fundamental advantage that you can mostly find your way around without having to know commands, syntax, file paths etc. That's a huge advantage for the vast majority of users.
yea as much as like using the command line, I'm having a hard time remembering all the options required, especially with things i use rarely. the discoverability is just better in GUIs
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It's not a blank screen. It's a canvas. You just don't know how to paint.
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I think itβs just been stigmatized by society as a whole for some mysterious reason. Didnβt a lot of our grandmothers slashed through terminals like fruit ninjas back in the day?
Heck yeah they did! I remember going over to my grandmothers house to use Word on her computer running DOS. She used that computer to keep her personal budget, do the accounting for her office supply business, write letters, and the newsletters for her church and social clubs. No gui, just a command line and some things that we would now call a TUI.
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My dream is the Linux kernel with the BeOS/Haiku filesystem and display system on top. It could easily put Wayland to shame and gaming would be pretty awesome.
My other dream is Haiku having as much hardware and software support as modern Linux. Imagine running a version of qemu kvm on an os that already screams.
Neither will happen but I can still wish.
Itβs still somewhat early days, but you might want to check out https://v-os.dev/
Iβve also been playing with Haiku on an old laptop and itβs pretty decent as a daily driver for the basics.
Omg this is so peak gonna be my next distro hop fixation.
They are about to get a lot of github pull requests
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Me, not being a programmer or sysadmin or whatever, booting into TTY just for shits and giggles, playing videos via mpv with -vo=tct just cause I think it looks funny
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TUI enjoyer π
GUI is simpler because you have to remember a sequence of steps for every action you want to take and then memorize a bunch of keyboard shortcuts and then do it all again when they reinvent their product in two weeks.
CLI requires you to learn how your system is structured and where things are located and then you create scripts that last years. Not everyone wants to put in a bunch of effort just to use their computer.
Anyways Firefox just updated and they moved "save to collection" and a few other things so now I need to relearn some stuff. I hope my other apps don't reinvent themselves anytime soon. Every update I know how to use them less and less.
I can't use Linux, it's too hard!
The whole idea of someone not being sure if they want to use Linux while having an aversion to systemd, a system they likely donβt even have full context for, is just bizarre.
Youβre either new and donβt know what you want or youβre someone who already knows well enough if Linux is for you or not, and likely exactly which version you want to use.
Exactly. The only thing a new user is really going to care about or even notice is if their hardware is well supported in first install and that the desktop environment feels like what they are used to. All of the fighting about things like systemd, snap, flatpak, deb vs rpm, etc are somewhere between a distraction and scary sounding words.
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Oh Im deeply aware those exist. My daily is Debian Stable.
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I'm a CLI enjoyer. It's easier for me to define what I often do as a bash function than to remember which button to click in a GUI app. It's easier for me to copy paste a StackOverflow answer than to zoom the screenshot only to find out that the UI has changed. And I'm too lazy to move my mouse when I can do it with a Neovim keymap.
Can't and don't want to are two different things.
Look I just switched over from Windows, I'm new to this shit lol. I enjoy using commands while I'm learning them but mostly I just copy/paste from instruction manuals on how to install shit I want installed. Makes me feel like a master hacker.
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