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  • somenonewho@feddit.orgtoLinux@lemmy.ml•[SOLVED] is LTT a good channel?
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    2 months ago

    If you gave a scrolling wall of terminal text to the average PC user and then asked “yes or no”, they will just say “yes”.

    As much as Linus tries to claim it whenever he fucks up in Linux, he is NOT the average PC User. Yes he is a Windows power user foremost but a lot of knowledge and concepts translate broadly. For example: if you get a warning you have to read it before pressing yes like a monkey.

    I agree what happened to Linus should not have happened, but the fact that Linux distros just let you shoot yourself in the foot like that is part of the freedom Linux offers.
    “You wanna remove THAT? Sure go ahaead” in this case they even put in a “You sure you wann do that? This will break things”

  • somenonewho@feddit.orgtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Like going to an Indian restaurant for the first time and saying you want a lot of spice
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    3 months ago

    The thing is … I kind of agree with both takes.

    I have been using Arch since ~2013 back when I still had time to mess around with it and learn the ins and outs, these days I work as a sysadmin so I want my systems at home to mostly “just work”, however Arch also is that Distro for me for the most part. Most of the times I actually encountered breaking changes it was because of my process not breeing quite refined. For example I didn’t regularly update my config files, so when there were changes in the PAM config syntax my login was borked, so now I check for .pacnew files on every update and sometimes I have to move over some changes. I also don’t update as often but just when I have a few minutes while I’m using my machines.

    So in short I consider Arch to be a valid option for a Stable Desktop OS (if you take some precautions and don’t mess with it too much).

    However for servers etc. I do usually go with Debian because the packages are usually simply a bit more matured and I do major version updates as you described (explicitly setting aside some time to possibly fix arising issues).

  • somenonewho@feddit.orgtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•foss nerds stop being condescending to those who don't know the same things you do challenge (impossible)
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    5 months ago

    While I agree on some level that it might be easier and quicker to find out by simply putting it into a search engine I don’t want to deny the human aspect here. At the end of the day social media (and even reddit/lemmy …) is not “knowledge transfer” its about the interaction between humans. So if someone is faced with something new, especially in a thread where it seems to be a given that people know what it is, it makes sense to use that space to ask what it is everyone is discussing. And while a search might yield a generic result (maybe even a better worded explanation) a good faithed commenter might, in the given exampl, enot just explain what Linux is, but also why is relevant to the bigger discussion and also the commenter that orignally asked would have a way to ask further questions that might lead to a deeper understanding of the topic eve it if isn’t as efficient.

    Tl;dr: Don’t just RTFM or LMGTFY someone. Take a minute to explain and welcome people into the lucky 10000

  • somenonewho@feddit.orgtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Facts
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    8 months ago

    Been using GNOME since ~ 3.8/3.10 (so i guess a while now) and out of the box it mostly just works for me. I have maybe 3-4 extensions none of which I desperately rely on (although TopIcons is clutch) and I agree with most design choices. I’ve thought about switching some times but I think all I would do is try to replicate my GNOME workflow elswhere so why bother?

  • somenonewho@feddit.orgtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Here we go again
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    9 months ago

    I would argue:

    2022 was the year of the Linux Handheld 2026 will be the year of the Linux Console (putting my hopes on SteamMachine)

    Now the year of the Linux Desktop is a finicky definition by tradition. To me its a personal distinction. Whenever Linux replaced* your previous desktop OS is YOUR year of the Linux Desktop.

    * replaced is also not discreet but more of when you felt you replaced your Desktop

  • somenonewho@feddit.orgtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Distro advice for a specific case.
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    1 year ago

    As someone who’s installed arch manually back in the day way before archinstall was a thing I tend to agree. Putting together your own install and seeing how everything fits together, to me, is the point of arch. If anything breaks I know what too lol at since I put it together myself and now how it goes together.

    However sometimes we might need to reflect on gatekeeping and just because “back in my day we didn’t have a fancy script to help you” we might still let people use it for their first install (or let them use a arch based distro to get started)

  • somenonewho@feddit.orgtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how
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    1 year ago

    Well as someone who’s been using gnome since about 3.10 I might be able to explain my view:
    Before that I’ve used plasma and Unity and a whole lot of Mate but then I started using Gnome for a pretty and smooth experience right out of the Box.
    Now I’ve simply been using it for so long that it’s muscle memory all the way.
    I don’t agree with everything the gnome devs decide and I definitely am annoyed that I have to use extension for small things that should just be a toogle in the settings but I’ve realized some time ago that if I did switch to plasma I would use all the customizability to make it work like Gnome … so I stay on Gnome.