How me, still a Windows user then looked at fellow Windows users because i had planned installing Linux after 2 months.
I have been using Linux since almost 30 years. It took me almost a week to get X running, since it had to reboot to windows everytime I wanted to look something up or get help. Now I buy games on steam without checking if they run, because… they just do. :)
Actually I don’t need more people using Linux, I am happy with how it is now - no need to attract the attention of the malware industry. 😜
@ekZepp LOL, that’s the original Unix user, dmr, looking down!!
Me after having control of system updates again when I to Linux.
And rightfully so!
Not going to lie, as a recent convert, this is not very off the mark. 😅 😎🐧
Particularly Arch users
And rightfully so. They might not know much about Linux itself BUT they did dare try and for that they deserve recognition.
To test a very stubborn program I had to install windows in a VM and use it for 20 minutes yesterday. It felt like I was swimming in a swamp located at the exit pipes of a factory that exclusively produce shit and deadly biohazard material.
All hail King Torvalds! 🎺
Ive used it for 30 years… :)
I’m getting close to that point. I started playing with it in 1997 or 1998, trying to avoid grad school work… Daily driver at home for many, many years.
I picture you:
Loved that guy! Need to rewatch xfiles…
I actually did rewatch it all a few years ago. Its quite good, but I see now as a older guy that David Duchovny actually wasnt very good playing Moulder. Didnt notice it as a kid but yeah, he is just reading lines with the same facial expression all the time. If you havent noticed, try rewatching with that in mind… :)
Gillian Anderson is amazing though, really good actress and she was paid much less than Moulder, despite being able to actually act properly.
he is just reading lines with the same facial expression all the time. If you havent noticed, try rewatching with that in mind… :)
That’s basically Duchovny’s whole range, as far as I can tell.
I think he was in some non-X-Files related movie. I never saw it, but I remember the commercial for it. Duchovny’s character: “Are you here to kill me?” “Yes, are you worried?” “Just trying to plan my day.” All deadpan.
I got so tired of X-Files stringing me along. It reminded me of some women that I tried to date. I gave up after the first movie (yeah, the one everyone forgets about) - no answers there, either!
4 days?
Took me 4 seconds to realize I can actually use the super key and have my start menu pop up instantly and not watch it struggle to load 50 ads and tell me to download candy crush
I have a couple of Linux machines, but I also use a MacBook. It’s been a year now, and every time I use the Mac it kinda pisses me off that I have to hit Cmd+Space to bring up a search. It feels like a massive step backwards.
Just my files & programs, and instant search through them. All a menu needs to be
But also when I click the start button it has all of my files and programs
Oh yeah can you put your taskbar or whatever on the side?
You can put your taskbar in the middle of the screen if you so desire!
😳 oh no a wrongful thought. maybe we can get him back to the right view if we give him more ai
I used zorin and pop OS but only use the browser as most of my work is browser based.
Also I installed Zorin on my Nana’s PC. She keeps clicking on random shit. Her windows machine was infected with all kind of virus but her Linux machine is safe as none of the executable she dowbloads run on it
She keeps clicking on random shit.
Get an ad blocker on that browser.
Installed brave browser but dont know whenever i visit her and check the downloads I see lot of .exe files. Lol dont know what she does but I dont have to worry about it.
Sounds like it’s still quite a worry, maybe she’s safe from malicious software but sounds very prone to being mislead in to doing things by bad actors through her computer.
I’ve blocked incoming calls from all numbers except the family.
Well done! You’re doing important work, letting her chill instead of get scammed. Besides the money loss, many of those phone scams are also traumatizing.
The first few days is where you realize “holy shit, there is another world I’ve been ignoring and it’s so much more fun.”
I’m always somewhat confused by this, I haven’t tried Linux since 2009 so maybe I just need to try it some more to appreciate what people mean by thks. I’d say it was “fun” in so much as it was nice to have a challenge for a little while but that was more sort of incidental to it facilitating my computer being a useful machine for me. In terms of it being a better operating system that does it’s job efficiently without problems, shouldn’t it be sort of… Invisible then? Like how can it be fun? I use my computer to do stuff so for me it’s sort of like an operating system is only noticeable to the extent that it is bad and if it isn’t bad I won’t really be aware of it.
Like how can it be fun?
So many cool utilities are Linux native first, today.
When I finally switched my work computer to Linux, various little tools I had been using were suddenly trivial to install, instead of maybe an hour each. I had restored my full favorite toolset in less than 30 minutes, and moved on to exploring things that never worked on Windows, for me.
The combined feeling, for me, is like when my father user to hand me $5 to shop at our local 10¢ candy store. “I can just have as much of this as I want.”
“I’m always somewhat confused by this”
“I haven’t tried Linux since 2009”
ok
Well, invisible is how linux (mostly) is now, as opposed to windows which has become very visible and pushing and annoying by design. It is very refreshing to have an os which works and doesn’t constantly annoy you with unwanted things.
You should try it again, I am pretty sure your experience will be very different from 2009, because a lot has happened to linux since then.
It’s fun for enthusiasts only, I suppose
I suppose it’s a lot easier to have fun when you’ve got some stability.
