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[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 77 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

If we're to have a serious conversation on this for a second - my view is that I don't push people towards the lifestyle choices I've picked (veganism, Linux, meditation, etc.) but if it seems the person is already open to something I do, I'm happy to answer their questions in a non judgemental manner and be a resource for them.

I'm truthful in what I say, and I will just as easily tell them the bad things (no Photoshop, learning curve, you may find yourself running commands sometimes) as well as the good things so they can make an informed decision.

I've had one friend move over to Linux Mint on his laptop because he saw I was already using it and realised it's actually doable, and another friend start considering vegetarianism more seriously

I feel that if you constantly tell people how awesome and great Linux is and they're missing out, you just look like you're part of a cult and not a rational person.

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Seriously, I don't preach veganism to anyone around me. When people ask why I'm vegan, I answer, straight to the point. If they ask more questions, I just continue answering their questions.

I know at least of 2 people I have known personally who became vegan later. I never preached to them.

I'm not aware of anyone who switched to Linux or an ergonomic keyboard layout though, so results may vary.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Linux AND meditation? Not both at the same time, surely?

[–] missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago

Yep, at the end of the day it's about using the best available tool for what you want to do

I'm with you on two out of three, but I respect your choice to be a vegan. When you say no Photoshop, you're right - but there are acceptable tools available that can read and write PSD files; and there are some decent graphics tools. The learning curve is easier with more derived OSes like Mint, Kali, or PopOS.

While they might find themselves running command line stuff sometimes, I think anyone who's looking at moving to Linux from Windows should have a vague knowledge of a command prompt or Powershell. If they don't, that's actually where I'd start - teach them the uncomfortable thing (command line) in a comfortable setting (Windows). Have them install from winget, chocolatey, or something like that. Teach them to set up a virtual machine. If they can do those two things, they're 90% of the way to daily-driving Linux.

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[–] sundray@lemmus.org 37 points 4 days ago (2 children)

"Son, I FORBID you to use Linux!"

"YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!"

Bam, big uptick in Linux adoption, easy.

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

"Libs hate Linux Mint"

"Nazis hate Fedora"

Now all your bases are covered. Now we can put aside political ideology and fight about the real issues...... the distro wars.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Really, though - it would be amazing if someone made a MAGA-themed distro just to tell people it's the "Trump47Freedom Linux, free from liberal wokeness!" and then just collected massive telemetry and had a bunch of backdoors so you can just scam them all for...

Uh.....quick, tell me how does one make a Linux distro?

[–] groet@feddit.org 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A Linux distro is essentially 2 things. A installer that sets everything up and a package repository to install software and updates from. The work is in selecting the software in the repository and making sure they all work with each other. But you can just take an existing distro (like debian) and make minor changes, like setting a Trump wallpaper, setting a secret backdoor password for ssh and adding the telemetry to the programs installed by default. For everything else refere back to the parent distro. Every time they make an update, just apply your changes on top of it and ship it as your own distro.

Should leave you with enough time to market to MAGAs and sell access to the backdoors and the telemetry data.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've read this comment about 30 times, trying to talk myself out of paying some kids to re-package Mint for me. But with all the grifting, I could do this and charge $47 a pop and raaaake it in. And it's not a REAL scam, right?

No, I need bitcoin scammer money up front to bother with this. And I don't have that.

[–] groet@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

I feel like it depends on who you are and who you are selling to. Microsoft and Intel have no trouble selling backdoors to the NSA.

But in general selling access to somebody else's computer without their knowledge is considered illegal.

"Libs hate Linux Mint"

"Nazis hate Fedora"

"I use arch btw" says the anarchist

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[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What worked for me was:

"Windows updates won't break your 5 year old laptop!"

FUCK M$

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[–] Karl@programming.dev 16 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I seem to be the only guy on lemmy who doesn't know computer shit T-T

What does this mean

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 24 points 4 days ago (6 children)

League of Legends is a popular game that has a reputation for having toxic players, as well as requiring kernel-level anti-cheat, which is intrusive and so disliked here, and also does not work on Linux.

Thus, by switching to Linux, you can avoid the unwanted chance of playing League of Legends.

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[–] IndieSpren@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 4 days ago

it means league of legends blocks itself from being installed on linux

[–] Nelots@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Interesting choice of instance in that case.

Idk, that seems about right for most of the developers I've known professionally.

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[–] jsalvador@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

It means League of Legends is bad, but Doom is not.

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Ok but now I can't put my laptop to sleep without it breaking my wifi and needing a full restart. None of the solutions I found worked. What then? More hours of fruitless troubleshooting?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 3 days ago

Have you tried posting in the Linux community and having them tell you that it's your fault for closing the laptop in the first place, it's clearly that's an insane thing that no human should ever be doing?

[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Your laptop's wifi is the sacrifice we make to the gods. Once we get enough sacrifices, the gods will intervene and force hardware makers to offer better support for anything non-windows. Think of the future where your laptop's grandchildren will finally be free from all the shackles.

[unless your problem happens to be a bug on Linux itself, but that is usually not the case].

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[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 17 points 4 days ago (9 children)

I delayed switching my Win10 desktop to Proton because League brought Doombots back this week.

God, I am never escaping this game, am I...

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I don't know what that means and frankly I think that's a blessing.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Count yourself lucky.

But frankly, imo League is overhated. I've been playing that game since I was 12 and no one has attempted to groom me on it. Meanwhile my time on Roblox and public Minecraft servers was...something...

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[–] python@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I really should be switching to linux, but I only turn my laptop on like once a month and I'm sure I'd forget all the Linux things in-between those occasions..
Also, does anyone know whether linux can run PHPStorm? That's like the only program I need on there

[–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Many developers use Linux, so Jetbrains makes sure all their IDEs work on it.

I'm pretty sure in general there are more development tools that don't work on windows (or only work through WSL, which is Linux), than development tools that don't work on Linux.

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[–] FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

No League = perfection

This was honestly such a big selling factor for me and has been incredibly valuable and mentally healthy.

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