• Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Totally understandable. Haven’t used windows at all, home or work, in at least a decade. However, I went through my insufferable Linux zealot phase about 15 years ago.

    I was an annoying judgemental ass, but I got better.

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      8 months ago

      proud of you for your growth, and more than that, your willingness to admit so aloud 🙇‍♀️ 👑

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        8 months ago

        That’s not to say that I still don’t honestly consider Linux a better option in most use cases. I just don’t generally wade in past the most simple explanations of stuff.

        If people want to switch, they will. I’ve realized I’m not doing anyone any favours by being pushy.

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      8 months ago

      Me at 16, shitting on people who use OSX (iOS wasn’t a thing then)

      Now me: oodles of Windows machines, three Linux machines, a Mac laptop, and an iPhone because fuck dealing with custom ROMs

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    8 months ago

    Lemmy ain’t gonna like this. Ain’t gonna like it one bit.

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      8 months ago

      i get being passionate but when its every. single. comment. it gets exhausting.

      it’s like if i went and commented “BE A VEGAN” under every picture of a burger on c/foodporn. like live your truth!!, but be decent about it for goodness sake.

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        8 months ago

        I get it.

        Im literally a Linux support guy for a living and even I think people can be obnoxious recommending Linux.

        Don’t get me wrong, I’ll shit on Windows when I get the chance, but I get why people either have to use it or just don’t want the hassle of Linux.

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          Sorta related. I’m gonna be moving in a couple months and decided I want to start dipping my toes Into Linux when I do. I want to set up a mini pc hooked up to my TV as my ‘streaming box’, not planning on doing anything fancy like iptv or any of the RR suite apps/self hosting since I don’t actually watch much TV except for movie nights and the odd TV show.

          OK here’s my actual question, what’s a solid simple distro I can set up and not fuss with much that’ll serve that purpose? Realistically it’ll just be for browsing the free streaming sites and possibly later on setting up old console/arcade emulators. My tech level is ‘go to guy in the non tech related office that fixes pc stuff 90 percent of the time’. Bonus if anyone can recommend a mini pc or brand I should look into.

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            8 months ago

            Not the guy you asked, an he may have a better recommendation, but Linux Mint Cinnamon was incredible for when I needed something that just worked out of box. It’s really good in terms of compatibility and defaults to a super usable system right out of the box.

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            You could take a look at Kodi for more of a “smart TV” vibe. I’m currently running it on a RPi 4 using the LibreELEC OS (very minimal Debian based distro), and I’m really happy with it. I’m mostly using it to watch YouTube, our country’s national TV and my locally stored series and movies.

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        8 months ago

        IMO it’s Redditor behavior. I hate Microsoft and Windows but there are some really annoying, overbearing Linux know-it-alls on Lemmy. It’s possible to inform people of Linux without being an annoying asshole

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          8 months ago

          someone should make a c/OSrecs community and then all the main tech communities can make a rule that if you want to proselytize an OS in a discussion not specifically asking for OS recomendations that you must stop and move to the other sublemmy or shut up <3

          disclaimer this is probably a dumb as hell idea with a million problems i don’t stand by this at all i just think it would be funny

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            8 months ago

            No. They should require them to only recommend Linux so they all have a place to meet their daily proselytization quota.

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      8 months ago

      Love Linux, definitely foresee myself having it as a daily driver in the not too distant future. That out of the way, I initially thought “is this even a shitpost” lmao

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    8 months ago

    Linux made my computing fun and free again. It’s not for everyone but it did spark my interest and finally settled to be happy with the change.

    Ymmv, though don’t rule it out how anything could impact you personally. Playing the hard to try way might poison any cool potential personal discoveries on your own.

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    8 months ago

    I was lucky to be in a few companies that enforce win, Linux and Mac laptops.

    In the win company (a pretty big one, everyone has heard of it), they’ve given me Think pad T14 that had an i3 proc that was falling behind 3 generations.

    In the Linux company they’ve supplied me with a disgusting chromebook, “because everything in the cloud now”. Discussed ByOD, worked from my own one.

    In the most recent company - the smallest one I’ve been working in, they’ve given me a decent M1 Pro with 16 Gb.

    So at least, companies that enforce Mac will give you a decent machine to work on.

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      8 months ago

      This is why a prefer Mac shops. It’s kinda hard to buy a current Mac and have the stats be actual dogshit.

      I swear most windows shop try to find the shittiest machine that even qualifies as a laptop then load it with so much corpo wear that even Outlook sends the machine into thermal limiting

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      8 months ago

      performing inward self investigation as a way of improvement while allowing others to make that decision for themselves

      based.