Now, to figure out all the stuff I could never really get windows to do…

  • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    5 days ago

    Me at 12:02am “Ooh! This distro looks interesting! I’ll just install it and configure it and add a few programs here and there”.

    Me at 7:02am “Why do I always do this so late?!”

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
    3·
    5 days ago

    Last night I was up to 2 trying to get rocm+pytorch working on AMD, maybe if I’d gone to 3am it would have worked.

  • JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    8·
    7 days ago

    I thought I’d step out of my Debian/Arch comfort zone by installing OpenSUSE on an Intel MacBook - Tumbleweed has trouble working with the Broadcom wireless adapter, and Leap straight up kernel panics because it can’t find root on boot.

    It’s been actually educational and almost nostalgic in that it makes me feel like a total Linux noob again as I try to navigate zypper and YaST.

    Once I get it working this meme will feel extremely relatable.

  • owsei@programming.dev
    5·
    7 days ago

    This but reversed. My first install was up at 3pm, got it to not login anymore at 3am. Prelude to an horrible amazing relationship

  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    I’m still trying to wrap my head around creating a virtual audio sink in fedora with wireplumber and pipewire. That should pretty much round out this weeks task of “hey that Linux server you built 2 months ago needs something to do”

    It never ends.

  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
    5·
    7 days ago

    Spent a couple hours over the last few days trying to get Bambu Studio to work on Ubuntu 24 and haven’t figured it out yet. A couple hours does not include the additional hours required to build it.

      • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 days ago

        I had a Prusa for several years before switching to Bambu. Can’t go wrong with either brand imo. Although I have blocked my Bambus and their slicer from communicating with the outside world.

          • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
            1·
            7 days ago

            Meh, the hassle of blocking the Bambu stuff is worth the print quality, reliability, and multicolor printing capabilities. I tried the Prusa MMU2S and ended up giving up. I had less than a 5% success rate with multicolor prints.

            Edit: my phone keeps auto correcting Bambu to Bambi

            • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              7 days ago

              I put together an original MMU for a customer back when it came out, I don’t think it ever worked. I might try an MMU3, they’ve apparently got it reliable, but I’ve been 3D printing since 2014 and haven’t really found much of a need for multicolor printing that I couldn’t do by snipping the filament and pushing different filament into the pinch rollers to make, like 2.5D signs or something.

  • highball@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    Same way I felt when I got my Sound Blaster Live sound card working under Linux back in the day. Had LICQ running, with the volume all the way up on the speaker just in case I got sound. I woke the whole house when a message came in. “Message for you sir!” Good memories.

  • gressen@lemmy.zip
    86·
    7 days ago

    Everyone not familiar with Linux should note that this is probably partially a joke and a very uncommon thing.

    These days your basic Linux installation requires very little time and knowledge.

    • binarytobis@lemmy.world
      25·
      7 days ago

      I recently installed Mint for my first Linux and honestly it took me a few days to get it set up fully. The initial install was really quick and super easy, 90% complete in an hour. But, for example, my speakers didn’t produce sound. Four hours of trying to force drivers and all sorts of bizarre fixes, finally post on the forum for help and find out there’s a hidden volume setting in alsamixer that was set to 0.

      Still better than windows.

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        10·
        7 days ago

        Yeah, Linux really suffers from the 90-10 principle. You’ll spend 10% of your time getting it 90% functional… And that remaining 90% of your time will go towards the final 10% of functions.

      • khapyman@sopuli.xyz
        7·
        7 days ago

        I know running Gentoo is labour intensive and for the most part unnecessary. Something still draws me back and every now and then there’s a fresh install.

      • jollyrogue@lemmy.ml
        2·
        7 days ago

        Exactly. I’ve been up for 27 hours, but I finally have a booting Gentoo install now. 😃

        Gentoo installs are not that bad these days. However, back in 2005, it would take, like, a day or so to compile the kernel on my old Pentium M Thinkpad. I would run through the install, start compiling the kernel, and go to sleep/work/whatever. I would check on it periodically to see if anything went wrong, and eventually it would get to the point where I could reboot and find out I messed something up and had to start over. That was like a week, and then I installed Ubuntu. 😂

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      4·
      6 days ago

      These days your basic Linux installation requires very little time and knowledge.

      True! But the perfect Linux install only needs just one more hour…and then one more hour after that…for the rest of my life.

      The bit about making it do all the things Windows never would is accurate. Power users tend to migrate to Mac and perfectionists are practically pre-destined to discover Linux.

    • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
      9·
      7 days ago

      It’s usually something unrelated to the OS that I am staying up all night trying to get working. One time I realized it was because I was trying to use an x86 program on ARM for a Raspberry Pi and I felt like an idiot spending so much time troubleshooting to find that out.

      Installing the OS is simple. I’d go as far as saying it’s now easier & faster on most distros than installing Windows, considering you’re not hunting down the latest exploit to bypass signing into a Microsoft account or having to go through all the prompts you’re going to say no to anyway and not having to remove all the bloat and reverse the stupid Microsoft defaults and startup crap like McAfee…

    • MyBrainHurts@piefed.caOPEnglish
      9·
      7 days ago

      Absolutely agree! It was amazing how much just worked.

      I spent a lot of time tinkering and just having fun with all my settings etc. Though I did have to battle a little as my setup, which gave Windows headaches, is a little unusual. (Three screens, one is connected to a receiver and then to a tv, so the sound and third screen are connected. I’ve got it functional etc but am really looking forward to diving in and getting everything to work well!)

    • uienia@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 days ago

      Unless you run into particular bios issues like csm and hd formats. It took quite a while and lot of research before I was even able to begin installation, because every distro I tried just hung even before it initiated the process of installing.

    • Auster@thebrainbin.org
      4·
      7 days ago

      I reinstall mine around 2 times a year, partly habit, partly some time I accidentally fuck up. Not counting the time to download the installation media, and though I become faster at setting things as I like each time, best I do is still some 2 hours. For someone not used to the environment or even just starting, I’d easily expect it to be much longer.