And rightfully so. They might not know much about Linux itself BUT they did dare try and for that they deserve recognition.
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She keeps clicking on random shit.
Get an ad blocker on that browser.
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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.
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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.
Best part is that it never gets old day after day after day af…
I get a hit of dopamine just doing mundane tasks on Linux.
i’m still at awe i can literally just play videogames on linux.
The progress in the last 2 years has been nothing short of amazing.
The KDE team, Wine, Proton, TKG/GE/etc have worked miracles for the Linux community.
Also, shout out to Microsoft for spectacularly face planting in their move to Windows 11/CoPilot/Vibe coded OS development. Nobody deserves more credit for Linux’s growth than Microsoft’s complete failure to innovate as an operating system developer.
the best part is that they didn’t even need to innovate, they just had to not ruin it
Little did we know that their long LONG term plan was actually “EmbraceIncompetence, ExtendBlueScreens, ExtinguishSelf”
The siren call of enshittification-driven short-term profits was too strong.
Ikr? An indie game just came out last week, and I’m able to use my PS5 controller with all the really cool haptic feedback with no configuration on my end.
Can confirm, I’m using arch btw and every three
pacman -Syu's I run into issues that are new to meJust nuked my CachyOS install with a routine update and switched to Bazzite after repairing it in chroot failed. I enjoyed the entire process, even the failures.
You get issues every fifteen minutes? Damn.
One day I will figure out what other Arch users do and why my installation had not a single issue in the 3 years it has been running so far.
I was thinking the same thing, I have installed it on a laptop and it’s almost boring how it just works.
TBH, pacman aur is damn easier than managing PPA’s on Ubuntu
Jup. I think I’ve had some 3 actual issues the past 2 years on EndeavourOS. But the Endeavour team did a good job of warning me on Discord/RSS or at least provide tutorials and explanations afterwards.
One of the issues was in regard to Grub (fixed by Timeshift rollback and a one-liner), one was in regard to some rogue Nvidia bug crashing the login window (fixed by Timeshift rollback and waiting a few days before updating again), and one was Nvidia removing support for GTX1000 cards and older (Nvidia, WHYYYYYYYY?!).
For reference, I had what felt like similar annoying bugs (and much worse) on Windows 10 about every month, but without any useful support from Microsoft. :(
and one was Nvidia removing support for GTX1000 cards and older (Nvidia, WHYYYYYYYY?!).
Yeah this one REALLY sucked on my laptop still running a 960M. But hey, after the fix (which I think was just locking the driver package?) I just don’t gotta worry anymore, so that’s cool.
Usually it’s graphics drivers going boom on update.
Yeah but that was communicated in Archnews: https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules/
Sure the Arch or package maintainers could provide migration scripts for stuff like that (there probably are rolling distros who do that?) or when they split packages but usually you are fine if you read the announcements and act accordingly.
The question was how they make the arch go boom by running pacman -Syyu and I gave the most probable reason. Thanks for hitting me with RTFM
Sorry that wasn’t meant like that, I was just pointing out that that was at least communicated in Archnews which not everything is, for example the firewalld package split you have to catch in the package update warnings which is easy to miss.
Yeah there’s a lot of things you can do, but I bet most people just hit yes and go about their day, which is how they break their system. I’ve done it at least once (come back from vacation and pacman hits you with 300+ new packages), but also have broken arch by trying to install stuff by following old deprecated guides. It’s not hard to break, but it’s also very achievable to have a problem free time.
I don’t get new issues all the time like op says, but I do have a few nagging issues that I’m too lazy to fix.
Heh, that’s on you, bazzite here (was arch for a few years 4+ish years ago) can’t remember the last time an update was problematic (oh, wait, 42->43 broke a distrobox, but I do that myself all the time, it’s what they’re for).
On regular Fedora 42->43 broke (or forgot to change?) a few SE Linux rules for me, so that I got constant notifications about violations. Otherwise it’s been rock solid so far.
Yeah, if you dig through journalctl (and you should once in a while) it gives you the commands to fix that stuff if you think it’s right. That said, would be nice to not have to do that.
you know what distro I would choose if I were prone to tinkering at the expense of the system’s month-to-month stability?
lmao :) Have fun.
It’s been 9 years since I set my system up, so…
Please do.
I’m on arch now (BTW) and I’m eyeballing fedora atomic sway.
https://github.com/bradford-smith94/informant
This will help big time. 😏
Well, I used enough linux to be angry about a lot of things.
Justified imo
Even 4s would be fine, anyone who’s made the move is better than anyone who’s stayed.
Yeah honestly even if you try it and give it a fair chance but still decide to go back that’s fine with me.
In that case the user has made a choice is the good thing. They’ve seen what options are there and decided Windows fits their needs best. That’s better in my mind than a world where everyone accepts the OS that comes preinstalled on their machine as permanent and doesn’t consider alternatives.
Even 4s would be fine
install finishes
“That was it?.. Heh. Of course it was. This is Linux, afterall. Not some grotesque accumulation of defects for those base creatures.”
I’m super happy with Debian, but I still have to dual boot because of Solidworks 😭. Also Elegoo Satelite doesn’t work too good with Wine.
I’ve gotten solidworks to work in a Windows 11 VM with decent performance. I use Virtual Machine Manager, which is a GUI that uses QEMU/KVM on the backend.
I used this guide for better performance, and it also resolved an issue where solidworks wouldn’t install because it could tell it was in a VM.
25H2 is Microsoft’s latest major release, featuring a refined interface, faster performance, enhanced security, and better hardware support. It’s the most polished Windows 11 experience, making it ideal for virtual machines.
This is either the biggest load of horse manure ever vomited or a scathing indictment of the true quality of MS product. Either way, i am glad i don’t need those instructions.
Didn’t even notice that bit lol. After reading lots of articles on the internet, one tends to skip all the BS in the intro. Can’t disagree with that paragraph more.
I still think the rest of the guide is very good though, it walked me through tons of complicated config I could not have figured out on my own. Turns out you have to configure the VM to have special VirtIO hardware and install the drivers for that hardware within the Windows VM, among other various tweaks.
Also, this setup 100% should be people’s last resort for running software on Linux. I would be using wine if I could, but the SolidWorks for Linux project has stalled in favor of the fusion360 for Linux project, so I had no choices other than installing Windows 11 on my old laptop or installing it in a VM.
Sweet, thanks so much!
I’ve been using OnShape for CAD. It runs in the browser and is pretty fantastic.
Depends on what you need to do and who you collaborate with of course.
I just do mechanical stuff. Does it do gear mates?
Imagine being a Linux user and a vegan, it’s absolute moral self-masturbation
Hey, some of us are also cyclists! By the way.
Which distro do you use tho?
Communist Linux users have a far superior morality complex.
There’s probably a pretty decent crossover between those two things.
Vegan Linux users can compile their own protein from source.
Their purity level is so high that they can
kill -9anyone wearing a leather belt with just a glance.I’m thinking about changing distros to Arch, for the animals (vegan btw)
I do so while I order my servant to throw them some pennies.
Every day I use windows I find more that is wrong with it…
Yes, let the hate flow through you.
I still look at Windows user like this after a year
4 years later and I look down like I’m even higher up.
If they didn’t want to be looked down upon then they wouldn’t be using inferiour software.
The only thing stopping me from moving to Linux is the fact I want to play Battlefield 6 and Space Marine 2.
Space Marine 2 works just fine on Linux, I was just playing it last weekend. It has a gold rating on Protondb.
Kernel anticheat games can die in a fire, with all due respect to them.
I’ll worry about them when I get through my backlog of games which grows faster than my completed game list.
I thought EasyAntiCheat didn’t like Linux?
It has support for Linux but developers need to enable it and it won’t act as a kernel level anti-cheat like on Windows.
It didn’t, but EAC added Linux support a while ago… so any game dev can choose enable Linux support (and most do in my experience). I play many EAC games on Arch(, btw) with an NVIDIA card, HDMI 2.1, HDR works, etc. I have a working VR (Index) setup, a gaming mouse with better customization software (imo) than Windows, etc.
Most of these things had various minor issues even a year ago and now the only thing I can think that is non-standard/requires tinkering is that I’m using beta drivers to have Vulkan support on NVIDIA. This provides a good HDR implementation. Once the Vulkan support is released in the official driver then a user could get all of the same features without ever needing to do anything but update their system and install Steam.
Progress in the Linux gaming space advances every week. Things are approaching perfect, outside of structural issues (such as kernel anticheat). I have 213 games in my Steam library and the only game that I cannot play is Apex: Legends.
Apex runs just fine, but EAC is configured to kick Linux clients if you try to connect to a match. This isn’t a Linux issue that can be patched, this is a developer choosing to not allow Linux.
If you haven’t tried gaming on Linux in a while, you should give it a shot. I’ve long since ditched Windows in order to have more free space.
That’s what dual booting is for!
I played Space Marine 2 on a steam deck. It wasn’t the best experience but that was not because of linux.
The biggest issue I ran into when migrating was because I created an NTFS partition that I intended to share with my dual boot. So many programs had issues seeing correct privileges on the folders or the privileges would reset after a reboot. Trying to find help was very difficult because I was doing something stupid to begin with. When I changed the partition to exFat or something else all my problems were solved. A couple of years later I maybe have booted into Windows 2 times total, I just use my work laptop when I need to run something that has issues with wine like the tax software
If your work laptop is a pain for those last Wine resistant apps: I recently started using (and liking) WinBoat for running Fusion 360, the 1 piece of software I can’t get running in Wine and can’t manage to switch off of. It makes it really easy to maintain a windows VM and then use RemoteApp to launch individual pieces of software from it as if they were running natively.
You are a live saver.
You know, I have used DOS and various un*x (hpux, aix, irix, sunos/solaris, sco, bsd, minix, sVr4, others) in the 80s/90s, before linux and windows existed, so I’m looking at you like this, peasants!
/s :)
You are harboring a FreeBSD installation in your home somewhere, aren’t you?
sudo systemctl reboot && systemctl deeznuts
Well I know I’m superior because I don’t use the OS that funds a pedo’s STD collection via stock value.
I want that feeling to disappear, by having Linux completely dominate the OS space.
Microsoft Linux is what you want.
I think I threw up a little
Unfortunately, that’s where I see it heading. And for all the good intentions out there, as soon as the corpos get involved, it goes to shit.
I think we’re a few principled maintainers away from standard enshittification of the Linux Foundation.
Then it will just be distros shitting on each other…
End Linux Racism!
Sex is cool and all, but that feeling of something natively supporting Linux….
