Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
BREAKING: Man decides to install Linux.
More details to come.
I am glad to see articles like this. For too long I have seen articles saying “sick of this windows bullshit??” Only to find advice on workarounds in windows, or suggestions to use a console, or a fucking phone app. For too long Linux has been treated like the evil twin locked in the attic, never to be spoken of or acknowledged.
IT IS TIME! TIME TO ANNOUNCE WE HAVE RELEASED THE LINUX AND IT WAS THE GOOD CHILD ALL ALONG! BART WAS THE EVIL ONE AFTER ALL! LET IT BE KNOWN!
To be fair (even though I also and both happy and relieved to see articles like this), just because you convert to Linux, that doesn’t mean everyone else will. I have used so many guides to help debloat windows computers, and turn off nonsense I don’t want (mostly so I can use proprietary software for work). My choice to not use windows in my personal life on my personal devices doesn’t really change my situation with needing those guides to help others circumvent windows BS.
I wish we didn’t have to live in interesting times and all that, but the guides are helpful.
BREAKING: Man breaks Linux, installs another distro, and lives happily ever after.
BREAKING: Man announces he runs Arch, btw
That’s like eating exactly one potato chip.
Ohhhhh boy. I surfed over a thousand distro ISOs. Couldn’t have just one.
… Now, for over a decade, I’ve calmed down. Settled down with Bedrock Linux. ;) (That’s cheating!)
LOL, I’ve actually tried Ubuntu, Fedora, Puppy Linux, DSL, Tiny Core, and even the true outlier (not quite Linux or Unix though) Microsoft Xenix before. I’ve probably even tried a couple other distros before but only very briefly.
I settled on Linux Mint as my daily runner, but one of these days I might have to give TempleOS a spin in a virtual machine…
Try an atomic distro too, if you haven’t yet. It’s a completely different experience from regular Linux - specially the ones that take care of everything for you like UBlue’s.
“I deleted the recycling bin folder named /bin/ and it just froze what do I do?”
You need to remark your files !! sudo rm -Rf /
FYI to new users… Do not run any command without knowing what it does. Especially that one. Not even if they say “don’t worry, rm prevents you from deleting your hard drive’s contents now”, … like I fell for, 21 years ago. Doh!
FYI to old users… Stop telling people to do that. It’s not funny. Getting new users to delete their root directory… not cool.
you’re not wrong …
Freeze? Nah, it’ll keep chugging along 'til you reboot (or otherwise try to run a new program), and then won’t be able to start.
This is what happened when I deleted the root directory in high school.
wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Am I the only one annoyed the article is an article about a future article? Like I didn’t get anything out of their experience into linux because it’s just a pre-article and the user transition experience is what we’re interested in.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 4 months ago
I got annoyed and stopped reading before that became apparent.
Content churn. Pussy-footing. Just get on with it! Heh.
Still, it’s good to see more are jumping ship (to freedom), with how much M$ keeps making it worse (abusiveness).