• tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      “my friend recommended I use Ubuntu”

      me (screaming internally, about canonical, about snaps, about bloat): “That… that’s good. Good choice.”

      • tungah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.

      • luciferofastora@feddit.org
        3·
        2 months ago

        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.

      • robocall@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        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.

        • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          I’m in the same boat. I started with Ubuntu partly because I wanted to start learning ROS (robot operating system) and the documentation for that at the time mentioned Ubuntu. I’ve heard great things about Mint, which I’ll probably try soon, and when I “upgrade” my gaming desktop to Win 11 I’m partly expecting it to try and fuck with Grub and my Ubuntu partition so I’m going to probably install Bazzite once Win 11 is set up. Hopefully Bazzite is good enough for gaming that I rarely will have a need to use Windows. Sadly there is windows-only software I need. I tried Wine once and it didn’t work.

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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. 🫠

      • Camille_Jamal@lemmy.zipEnglish
        0·
        2 months ago

        happy cake day

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

    • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      As another person had suggested, test with a live image first before installing it to an SSD/HDD, however Linux is very well maintained by the community and even if there aren’t native drivers from your hardwares manufacturer, for example Corsair Keyboard Drivers, there usually is Open Sourced alternatives for these things like CKB-Next.

      I say this to everyone, once you get a grasp on BASH (Bourne Again Shell) and package managers & repositories (edit: and the filesystem structure) you’ll essentially be able to use any Linux distro, it just comes down to the nitty gritty of things.

      • Hupf@feddit.org
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        2 months ago

        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.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    I’m on the reverse end. I’m so sick of the “I hate windows, I’m switching to Linux” and then just never make the swap. Like stop bitching about it if you won’t do anything to fix it.

    • TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Its just fun man. Before I tried linux seriously, I thought it was ridiculous. Why would you care so much about doing extra random bull shit? Except thats literally like 99% of the fun. You dont have to do any of it these days. Most stuff runs out of box pretty well. People just do it because its fun to experiment. You learn so much about computers its addicting. I even learned some powershell for windows and zsh for mac because now I understand how they work better after reading books about the linux kernel. I used to be weirdly judgemental about mac and linux users, now I just want people to have a computer that fits their needs.

      Its not for everyone, but my wife got so jealous of watching me try Mint/Ubuntu/Debian that she joined linux over a year ago. Her homepage is now the Fedora newsletter. She is a normal person who was only mildly interested in computers before and now we talk about Debian/Fedora all the time. If you like computers, its worth giving it a shot. Just dont blame yourself if it isnt your cup of tea.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 months ago

    Just have a friend who finally decided switching yesterday. She picked my distro recommendation too which makes me feel all validated.

      • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        She wanted something that was an easy transition from Windows without having to learn a new interface. She is competent enough to install her own OS but wants to spend what little spare time she has on the computer gaming and not troubleshooting and maintaining. So I recommended she tries a few but primarily Bazzite with KDE and she liked it.

        Heck, I’m running Fedora KDE right now but if I ever had to change I’d probably pick Bazzite too. Immutable sounds great for my purposes. I have zero intentions of messing around with my kernel.

  • MithranArkanere@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    If only there were a distro as lazy as using an Android device.
    Every time I mention this, someone comes along and mentions one or another distro, and then the caveats that keep it from being as lazy as using an Android device.

    • glibg10b@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      Android needs the same sort of hardware-specific configuration that other distros need. It’s just that the phone manufacturer takes care of that for you

      • MithranArkanere@lemmy.world
        0·
        2 months ago

        I wouldn’t be lazy if I cared about how the cake is made. Wait, bad analogy. I do like cooking.

        But I hope you know what I mean. Have someone else do it. Have the user just install and plug things and they work, absolutely nothing else to be done, no need for research, asking a friend, wizards, troubleshooting tools, or tutorials.

        Lazy.

    • Urist@leminal.space
      01·
      2 months ago

      What exactly do you mean? Like a distro that just works well on a phone? Yeah proper Linux phones aren’t quite there yet.

      But any of the commonly recommended distros work out of the box on PC at this point, there’s less fiddling than with windows at this point in my experience

      • blackbeards_bounty@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        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

      • Owl@mander.xyz
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        2 months ago

        What exactly do you mean? Like a distro that just works well on a phone? Yeah proper Linux phones aren’t quite there yet.

        I think they meant distros that are for desktop but as easy, convenient, simple, to use as android, ios or even maybe macos