Y’all’s, I don’t want to tinker with my OS. I don’t wanna think about my OS. I just want my OS to work, mind it’s fucking business and leave me alone.
That’s exactly why I run Linux. If you want something that just keeps running the basically the same way for like 20 years, that’s your option.
May I introduce you to OpenBSD? Where uptime is measured in years.
Calm down Satan
No, the devil’s OS is FreeBSD
I’m 100% in this camp, ive used Pop!_OS now for years and it’s never given me any grief! One PC has had it installed for almost 6 years and it still runs flawlessly.
I’ve been on Garuda for years now, and despite choosing an Arch derivative, I have zero (0) desire to ever change any kind of config, and I will never understand the desire to do so. I need my PC to actually work.
But have you considered paying for linux pro extreme max?
Bruh if I could pay a modest yearly subscription to a company and get actual professional personal support for Linux and not have to roll the dice on snarky forum comments, I unironically would.
That was the whole Redhat business model when they just started.
You can pay me, I got you fam
thats why i use linux too
Bazzite has pretty much been this for me for the past couple years
This. That’s why I have stuck with Mint for almost a decade now. It’s the perfect workhorse: it fits my workflow, is stable as heck, just quietly does what it needs to do and gets out of my way the rest of the time. Hence, I don’t see why I should switch to anything else.
Hacker: Skipper
Programmer: Kowalski
Arch User/Gentoo User: Rico
Cat: PrivateDon’t worry, we’ll protect you
If you have any problems with Blueman not letting Bluetooth controllers work, install KDE system settings. Don’t know why that works but it does.
I will try that out. I usually directly go terminal
At the end of the day for new and casual users, support wins. Ubuntu has the largest community of support, making Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu while having a more elegant variety of UI, making it a good compromise. Good choice.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Mint Debian based these days?
Ubuntu is Debian based, so yes.
Regular Mint is based off of Ubuntu, which is Debian based itself. However, it is somewhat beholden to the Ubuntu way of doing things.
They do have a version that uses a plain Debian base, so they’re not reliant on Canonical. That version is LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition).
i thougt its both, because they have a debian version
Next month will be two years in Mint exclusively. I have no complaints.
Well, I do miss the big preview window in File Explorer, but otherwise, I’m happy to be rid of Windows.
Me who just have install Ubuntu.
Linux Mint is the gateway penguin.
Not trying to win contests. Just glad it ain’t winders.
Marduk I don’t know why you chose your username but it is my favorite of all the Mesopotamian/Babylonian I forget gods so I love it when I see your name pop up. First prize! :3
I’ve used it forever. 90’s or early 00’s. Started with pazuzu from i think final fantasy or similar game.
Then was thinking of ancient gods as well. Fight between Marduk and tiamat.
Just stayed with that.
Well glad i can bring happiness where i can. Have a great day.
Unless you’re playing with your OS, than being vanilla is what you want.
even by just becoming a linux user, you are helping making it more mainstream
Me but with Kubuntu instead of mint
I use cachy os because I like my pc to go fast as fuck boy
I also use “Script kiddie Arch”, BTW.
Lmao my dumbass can’t use regular arch
I daily drive FreeBSD and have tinkered with Plan 9 and Haiku.
My Linux desktop (for gaming, DRM, and Linux-specific stuff), my wife’s laptop, the kids’ laptops, and our two media PCs all run Mint. It’s great.
I mean yeah. This is going to be me as soon as I fix my next
twoone! life and death problems and hang the drapes, and also post a picture on here of the picture we found thrifting because i am excited that it helps color my room I don’t care that it’s a print of AI bullshit. I can put a print of something better there eventually but it catches the eye right now.In the meantime, is there a “these are the cli commands you need to know” Linux for stoned dummies cause I haven’t used it since college and that was decades ago
https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/
This is a lot of fun. Starts off pretty basic with the cli, and gets way more advanced.
i want to try this but part of me says i’m going to end up with a felony in 39 nonconsecutive countries
I think the main thing to keep in mind when doing any of these hacking games is permission. Do you have permission to do what you are doing? With overthewire they give you permission to do the challenges. If you were to try to go outside of what they say you can do, and try to pivot to another part of their system to hack, that’d be illegal.
If you’re interested beyond cli stuff like otw/bandit has check out tryhackme.com They have a lot of fun beginner friendly stuff as well.
the game tells me i have permission, but do i really? for all i know i’m really hacking into a cia blacksite’s third backup or something. i mean i’m not really that paranoid, but i can imagine what my qanon sovcit quiverfull brother would think it might be and go one worse, and then see if i can afford to lose that gamble y’know
If you intend on using a normal desktop distro, you will usually be able to find the command for what you want to do online. You may not even end up typing any command, I remember someone who was hyped to use the terminal being disappointed that he never got to.
The “essential” cli commands are the ones that you will definitely not use in an everyday desktop life. It’s going to be about file manipulation, maybe some daemon management and networking. All of this will be either preconfigured or done through a file explorer and web browser.
If you can say what you want to do and with what distro, maybe people can try to anticipate what you’ll need? I would generally advise to wait for a reason to use a command before worrying about learning it.
I plan on breaking my computer with mint cinnamon. Does that help any?
Just remember that there is an emergency tty in the ctrl alt f1-7 somewhere. I never remember which one, so spam them until it appears, usually when I maxed my ram and have no swap
TeleTypeWriter? sorry, have some Deaf friends so that is the first thing that comes to mind
edit oh gods i’ve even had my coffee that’s not even the same letter. this is the first time i have felt shame in… hold on i need to get a calendar. 22 years, 4 months, 23 days. oh gosh.
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