I’d say that downloading drivers from the manufacturer is the absolute outlier and things working better with integrated open source drivers out of the box is the norm.

Try before you buy download proprietary cruft.

And you can do this with a USB, it doesn’t need to be a CD/DVD.

I think he means, Android runs Linux and doesn’t/can’t be tweaked for the most part. Because you don’t have root. So yes it’s opposite of what most Linux users seek, but it sure seems to be stable for years. So you can be lazy “admin’ing” it

Things have gotten MUCH better than they ever have been.

But unfortunately, it is still not as easy as just using an android phone.

But then again, it’s a hard metric to judge by, because while some things are harder than they should be on Linux, other things are just… Different, than what people are used to (Windows, Mac).

I use Linux, I use Android, but I still get frustrated when I need to use my wife’s iPhone for pretty much anything, because I’ve never owned one and I never use it. Does that mean iPhone is inherently bad design? Many people would argue no, it’s a good design in most cases. Just different. You’ve gotta learn the different ways of doing what you need to do. Although iPhone definitely has a few design flaws, in my opinion.

Likewise with Linux. Many modern distros are very user friendly. But no matter how good it is, people will always struggle when starting for the first time, because many things are just plain different. And also there are design holes/flaws.

You can say the same thing about any modern operating system you aren’t familiar with.

My sister in law has a MacBook, and every time I need to use it, which is maybe once or twice a year, I struggle. Things aren’t where I expect them to be. Things don’t work the way I expect. Heck, some “standard” keyboard shortcuts are different. Does that mean it’s a bad operating system? No, I just need to put the time and effort in to learn it, if I wanted to use it daily.

Linux has come a long way, and gets a bad rap. Yes it has a learning curve, and it might be more difficult because of all the different distros, but it’s pretty similar to everything else.

Oh, and remember to sudo rm -rf /

/j, don’t do that, it’ll delete your whole system (for any newbies)

happy cake day

would you like to yap at me about linux (any distro, curious about ubuntu now tho)

I’ve been using Ubuntu for years with no desire to switch or learn more. I’ve heard the comments about canonical and snaps, which I barely comprehend. But there’s a chance one day I’ll grow an interest in what you’re talking about, and I know you’ll be there to explain it.

Kubuntu users rise up!

I say better for them to make the jump now to Ubuntu and figure out a distro better suited for their needs later on than to remain on Windows while having choice paralysis about what distro to chose.

I still think it’s a decent entry choice. I won’t touch it myself anymore, personally, but Canonical is still better than Microslop. That bar is set so low that even snap can clear it.

Posting this from Kubuntu Studio and … it’s not bad, really. Everything works fine. I even have a couple Snap packages installed … on purpose. (Though, generally, I do try to avoid snaps.) The bloat might be relevant in lighter systems (which is why I have a different distro on my shitty old chromebook), but this is a massive workstation PC that could handle 10x the bloat without noticeably slowing down, so who cares?

(The reason I’m using Ubuntu is because after trying several distros, Ubuntu is for some reason the only one where my stupid, insane, 6-monitor multi-GPU setup worked properly, right out of the box. I eventually intend to go to 4 huge monitors instead of 6 smaller ones, which means I’ll be able to drop down to a reasonable, rational choice of using only one GPU instead of two different ones. At that point, maybe I’ll try distro-hopping again. Though, honestly, “exactly like Ubuntu, but without Canonical and without Snaps” would be what I’m looking for. Would definitely prefer to stick with apt package management, since that’s what I’m used to at this point. Maybe I’ll try straight-up Debian? But I don’t really like the way Debian splits its repositories, where you basically have to choose between “extremely outdated” and “bleeding edge” with no “as up to date as possible, while still being well-tested and stable” option in between. For all of Ubuntu’s faults, I think they actually do a pretty good job of maintaining that balance between stability and being up-to-date.)

Nailed it

For me, I started with Ubuntu then Parrot Os then MX Linux

Yeah, a guy recently said that they’d jump into Mint and I could’ve said that I started on that, too (a fucking decade ago, apparently), but I was considering to tell them they could start with $BETTER_DISTRO right away for so long, that I didn’t end up saying much at all. 🫠

Woah, just now learning of this legendary third Olsen sister. She uhh… she goddamn cute. The twins always kinda creeped me out, this was an unforseen twist.

They said it looks LIKE them … could have easily been another one of the Olsen twins too … 👀

Condolences on dating Elizabeth Olsen!

UnixSocks is leaking

You can, but you have to de-upvote it once.

Got it for you.

Really slow download speeds?

Leaving a job wit two weeks after an announcement probably.

This is what they’re referring to: https://www.reddit.com/r/UNBGBBIIVCHIDCTIICBG/

UNBGBBIIVCHIDCTIICBG is an abbreviation for “Upvoted Not Because Girl, But Because It Is Very Cool; However, I Do Concede That I Initially Clicked Because Girl”.

sorry accidently replied to you

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