I am sure the people who just lost their job will be super happy about that.
Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There has never been a better time to switch to Mint, Pop_OS, or Bazzite.
ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
This place is constantly shilling Linux, decrying LLMs, and downvoting anything that doesn’t fit the status quo.
Don’t get me wrong I like this place on the whole, but I’ve just come to realise nobody here actually wants to engage with anybody different and just dog piles.
We are the left wing version of r/conservative.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 23 hours ago
Yeah, went Mint 18 months ago. Started at MSDOS in the 1990s, ended at W10.
jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 20 hours ago
Well done!
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I sometimes feel like bare-metalling FreeDOS. Except that and modern laptops, ha-ha, shouldn’t work too well, but at the same time Lenovo even sold some with it pre-installed.
Would just play X-Wing and TIE Fighter and WarCraft II, edit simple text documents, smile at how right it’d feel.
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
Get WordStar
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Did you see that e-mail?
“Nope!”
TheFonz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Already on the way babayyy. Ubuntu gang here we gooooo I know, i know. There are other popular distros but I wanted to start there
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Ubuntu is perfectly valid, feels very mac os
jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 20 hours ago
Way to go!
demonsword@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Ubuntu is great for begginers, go for it
PeterisBacon@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I will be looking into these, thanks for sharing! Any top recommendations from the three??
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
- Disable secureboot so you don’t have to run a few commands and restart in order to sign keys
- Ensure your drives are formatted to a linux format to reduce headaches with steam libraries
- if the command starts with “sudo(superuser Do)” it’s time to read up on what each part of the command does exactly.
- Linux wants you to mount and unmount your drives(filesystems) manually. Plugging them in won’t instantly allow data transfer.
- Don’t be surprised that linux is a perfectly functional OS with fantastic UX and less day to day hassle and management compared to windows.
SuperUserDO@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Also…
- everything is changeable. But not everything should be changed.
- There will come a time when you need to interact with the command line. This is expected, and no you did not do something wrong.
- Have fun.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Disable secureboot so you don’t have to run a few commands and restart in order to sign keys
Stay away from HP. Secureboot will re-enable itself whenever it wants, and the kernel panic is scary if you don’t realize that’s what’s happening.
shininghero@pawb.social 17 hours ago
It’s not on the list, but I’ve been rocking the same KDE fedora installation through about ten version upgrades. Once you dial in your settings and software choices, it’s fairly solid.
The only issue I can recall was some weirdness with steam’s dependencies blocking my last version upgrade, but it was easily bypassed.
vga@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I cannot recommend Bazzite. It’s an atomic distribution, which is pioneer tech that tries to make some things better but in effect makes a lot of things more difficult.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I see that Fedora uses Btrfs, so it should be able to take file system snapshots, which are sort of an alternative to the immutable thing, isn’t it?
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Yes, but not really. It can be convenient. Just remember it takes more space so provision accordingly for /.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Pop!_OS is my top recommendation for Windows expats, followed by Mint (Cinnamon Edition), and then Bazzite (KDE Plasma desktop). Bazzite is so, so, so good, but it has some unique features that make it a little more frustrating for Windows power users who are new to Linux. But honestly they are all good. Pick one, and if you aren’t vibing with it, try something else.
Also, keep in mind that “distro” and “desktop environment (DTE)” are two different things. Sometimes a distro has a default DTE and sometimes it gives you a choice. The DTE makes the biggest difference to your experience. There are many different DTEs, but the two biggest are GNOME (MacOS-like and moderately customizable) and KDE Plasma (Windows-like by default, but very customizable).
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I recommend Mint. It’s super easy to install and maintain. And very easy to use.
damdy@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
I started with pop os 5 years ago and haven’t found a reason to change. I’m not hugely techy and just wanted something to play games on. Had very few issues overall.
PeterisBacon@lemm.ee 15 hours ago
Sorry to sound absolutely dumb, but does it work well with things like steam?
I primarily only use Adobe (learning Affinity) and Steam. I’m a pretty basic bitch ngl lmao! Pop_OS looks CLEAN on their website
damdy@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
Works great with steam. I went back on my ethics and played wow classic for a while though and battle.net was a little tricky for me to get going. But yeah steam works perfectly.
damdy@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
Every issue I’ve had has been easily fixable with searching and following instructions. There’s not been many issues, and I can do it anyone can.
GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Of course we need three flavor so we don’t have a single majority and each of them have their own nuisance. Same as JavaScript libraries.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
openSUSE is also pretty great, and doesn’t get the attention it deserves.
There really is a Linux for everyone.
j4yt33@feddit.org 14 hours ago
But not Ubuntu. We don’t like Ubuntu here, I feel like
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Ubuntu is fine. I do understand the hate, though. Snap is contentious for very good reasons, Canonical makes major decisions by fiat rather than listening to the community (see Snap again), and they have corporate motives that are often at odds with the spirit and desires of the greater FOSS community (like forking upstream projects instead of contributing).
Mint is still based on Ubuntu, for example, but I feel it’s a more ethical suggestion than Ubuntu itself.
gradual@lemmings.world 23 hours ago
You could just say Linux, lol.
We gotta stop upvoting distro-shilling.
Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
They are all great distros for newcomers. I think its an absolutely valid comment.
witx@lemmy.sdf.org 21 hours ago
Right and people that don’t know which distros to use will get lost
gradual@lemmings.world 17 hours ago
I feel bad for the people that get herded by shills.
witx@lemmy.sdf.org 17 hours ago
And yet here you are on Lemmy, I assume out of your own volition and independent thought
demonsword@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Yeah, but which one? There are hundreds of distros. There’s nothing wrong giving some pointers to begginers ou there.
theherk@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
GNU / Linux :)
BJ_and_the_bear@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
Or GNU plus Linux, as I’ve recently taken to calling it
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I find that’s very unhelpful to potential Linux converts. They will quickly find out that there are infinite flavors of Linux, become overwhelmed, and give up.
When you are introducing newcomers to Linux, it’s best to make specific suggestions.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
Try just telling someone that they need to switch to Linux with no other details. They’ll either get confused/overwhelmed by choice, or possibly choose one that isn’t user friendly and hate it.
People have to start somewhere, and I see no issue with recommending user friendly distros to get them going.