Liking an OS isn’t a personality trait, but evangelizing for Free and Open Source Software which generally has no budget for advertising is a noble cause.
Except when it’s every other comment. That’s just obsession.
Bro we get it
“Linux-based? Like Android?”
“WE DO NOT SPEAK THE NAME OF THE IMPURE”
Android can be great. It’s Google that’s the problem.
“I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Android, is in fact, GMS/Android, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Google plus Android. AOSP is not an ecosystem unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning Google ecosystem made useful by Google Play Services, monetization models, and mandatory telemetry components comprising a full OS as defined by Alphabet.”
Pretty sure it’s Linux, based OS. Lol
I’d have a beer with these fine upstanding young lads.
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
This is the correct answer, but you forgot to begin with “uhm actually” so i can’t give you the point.
I don’t understand what you mean, i was just helping OP out, a lot of people make this mistake.
Sorry, it was a joke. There is a youtube show which i love called “uhm actually” where nerds must correct sentences about nerd stuff.
Uhm, actually… it’s called “Um, actually”.
Yo, you do get a point
Perfect answer
They really should’ve called it LiGNUx to confuse everyone
Hahaha nice
Did you know you could’ve made this meme on the FREE, OPEN-SOURCE image editor GIMP? Available now on Linux!
(Also available on Windows)
incoherent screeching
Boy that incoherent screeching sure played crystal clear on this windows machine.
Boy do I love Lemmy
(Also available on MacOS for Intel and Apple Silicon)
I prefer Krita
This, but unironically
Used it for like 5 mins, hated it. I have Photoshop on a Windows VM now
GIMP is pretty much the same as Photoshop for 99% of tasks.
Fuck no it’s not, else I would have used it instead of buying Affinity.
I will have you know my entire online persona on Lemmy is basically a 24/7 “Barbie” movie advertisement, thank you very much.
I use Arch BTW.
You’re my favorite one on Lemmy. Never change.
I like McDonald’s too
Just admit that you are paid by Big Open Source and move on to your next sponsor Air Up
Hey the Linux community is active so they show up on All. Same thing with video game communities, it’s a reflection of the interests of those who populate Lemmy. I don’t care for either but we gotta start someplace. IMO it’s largely due to the concept of the fediverse and instances and not simply an app you sign up to. FWIW, I barely get it. Folks here seem to be a tech savvy bunch
I think it’s mostly because the people who use linux are the people who are interested in free and open source software, which Lemmy also is.
They accost posts en mass that have nothing to do with Linux CONSTANTLY. It’s actually really, really obnoxious, and it’s absolutely chasing people away from this platform.
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Yes. And then, when you ask them 1 simple question they’re like “READ THE WIKI”
Dude/tte I don’t know anything about Linux. I’ve used the command line on my Mac 8~9 times and sometimes on windows and that’s it.
I really want to install Asahi (Arch) on my Mac as a VM before dual-booting but I’m failing for a week now and money‘s too tight atm to get even a cheap $50 laptop for testing.
There’s a few techy communities like that
Given how screwy computer tech gets sometimes you’d think there’d be more empathy for “I tried what’s in the damned wiki already I’m asking for help because it didn’t work!”
Shit sometimes it’s not even written wrong, you just slipped and put an O instead of a 0 and the text editor’s font doesn’t distinguish them enough for someone who isn’t specifically hunting for that to realize.
Still the funniest 8 hour long setup to a punchline I’ve had on mine and a lab partner’s heads though!
I’ve used the command line on my Mac 8~9 times and sometimes on windows and that’s it.
Then Arch probably shouldn’t be your starting point. If you’re really insistent, then you also need to be patient. You need to learn a lot, and will definitely need to read. It’s like not knowing how to drive and wanting to drive an F1 car. There’s knowledge and experience you need to have before getting behind the wheel, but if you’re okay with crashing a lot then go for it.
Where are you stuck on your install?
After I installed everything and installed a desktop environment it reboots back to the installation screen
I would guess it’s booting to the installation media, be that a disc, thumb drive, or other mount point. If you can figure out how to get to a boot menu and have it skip that, it might get you in.
“Read the wiki” in response to questions is literally Arch’s explicit community ethos. They used to plainly tell you at the forums that it would be the first response to any question that could be answered by the wiki. (They still may, I don’t currently run Arch)
Almost literally any other distro is a better choice if diving into the wiki isn’t how you want to start things with Linux.
This conversation can only happen by me being the person OP is mocking, BTW.
dId YoU rEaD tHe WiKi? RtFm!!!
I agree that you should read the wiki first, but the wiki is a reference, not an answer to all your problems, most wiki entries are solutions that came from people on forums asking questions.
Don’t even get me started on clowns who will tell you to rtfm, then when a solution does come out, nobody documents it, AT ALL. Nothing but a bunch of gatekeeping freeloaders.
Well, it’s unfortunate that you skipped the first part of my comment, (and also the advice about choosing literally almost any other distro to avoid that) but don’t let that dampen your oddly deep hostility.
Do what? I didn’t skip over anything, and how am I being hostile? I’m not only agreeing with you but even adding to your points, I didn’t even comment on choosing another distro, I even mentioned in another post that you shouldn’t even choose an engaging distro to start with!
I’m sorry I came off that way, that was not at all my intention. We are on the same side, please don’t think I was trying to attack you.
Ah I apologize I must have misread your comment from start to finish! I will go back and reread it.
Sorry, a little too easy to go off half cocked in these conversations sometimes, I sincerely apologize.
Ahaha you should just wait ! Asahi is super hard to use apparently !
It’s not actually! I’m a semi-noob and manage to get it running like a charm on my M1 in like 30 minutes. It uses KDE so you can set it up to be like win or macos in a few clicks. I’m just waiting for a it to take full advantage of my powerfull GPU to make it my main os.
This may or may not help, but maybe give this a look.
Using another person’s computer for three minutes to fiddle with start menu icons, with half the OS integration disabled, is very different from setting it up as your personal system with your own hardware.
That’s true. The reason why I suggested it is because the other person said they know nothing about Linux, have barely used a terminal before, and just wanted to try a certain distro. I thought this website would be a quick and easy way for them to play around a little bit to scratch that itch and see if they wanted to dive deeper into things.
I would recommend experimenting with one of the less engaged distros before you just dive into something like that, it will save you a lot of headache.
This place in a nutshell 😄
Disliking Linux memes is not a personality trait, OP!!!
What operating system defines you as a person?
Great first date question!
Okay that is not going to stop me lol. 🤣
So anyways, I run Arch on my main gaming computer, and Debian on my servers and laptops.
Based and red pilled af
Pretty much why I blocked c/technology from my feed. They could turn a post about a scientist studying crab migration into a debate about why the crabs aren’t running fuckin Linux. Not everything has to be about an OS, you lot. They’re basically Computer Mormons.
Computer Mormon is my new favorite thing to say
