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[–] [email protected] 218 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Linux Mint. Cinnamon. With a Windows Vista theme. It confuses and/or irritates everyone who sees it.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago

I was going to go Mint/Cinnamon, but now I'm going to more.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

kde has some impressive windows themes that are REALLY convincing

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

I'm using the Windows XP Bliss wallpaper on my Fedora PC at work. I've had a few people ask about it haha. Most of the company uses Macs.

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

RebeccaBlackOS > Hannah Montana Linux

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] TheTechnician27 18 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

So going off the chalice in the movie, the distro that will save you from judgment is the plainest one – the one with the least bloat? That tracks.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

Possibly a perfect use of this.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is why you just fucking lie and say "Arch btw"

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[–] linearchaos 79 points 3 weeks ago (19 children)

Screw that You're all great everybody from slackware to steam deck.

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[–] atmur 67 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

For as much as Linux nerds (myself absolutely included) complain about distros like Ubuntu and Manjaro, I'd still take either one over Windows or MacOS any day.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (34 children)

Mac OSX isn't bad... so long as you sell it your soul, and don't want freedom in return, it's great 👍.

I kid... mostly - it's iOS that is horrifying, but Mac OSX is still Unix (tho not GNU), so not anywhere within leagues of Microdick.

And - possibly dumb question - couldn't you always just run a Linux VM at near-native speed, and get the benefits of both?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

MacOSX is great, other than the fact that it only runs on insanely overpriced, un-upgradeable and irreparable hardware. And that you have what I would consider limited control over it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Other than all that, yeah:-)

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Still not comparable to Windows though, imho.

Its sins are just of a different sort - e.g. you don't need to repair or upgrade those machines so often, bc they work so well for so long as it is, plus other than for gaming, who even upgrades machines these days to begin with?

For non-gaming, Macs are great machines. So too are Linux. While Windows sux ass no matter what. Thus that's the dividing line, imho.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

That's all well and good, but can we talk about proper use of this meme template?

[–] AeonFelis 101 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

Eh it works just fine 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nooo !!!! You can't just use the meme template how you want to, even if it's funny !!!!11!1!1!1

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

This is great. Just to let you know, whatever decision you make is wrong. Cheers!

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Fuck it, I'm switching to TempleOS

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[–] TheKracken 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just setup Mint last night and have been troubleshooting how to get everything to work. So far I'm liking it. Last thing I setup was Lutris for gaming so that's nice.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)
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[–] TheKracken 13 points 3 weeks ago
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[–] fluxion 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Anakin no doubt uses Oracle Linux

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (12 children)

Mint, judge me

PS anyone have any favorite resources for absolute tech illiterate noobs? I'm trying, but without a baseline understanding of the subject, it's hard to find the right guides

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just a humble Arch Linux user here

[–] Aceticon 14 points 2 weeks ago

It's wonderful how the expression "humble Arch Linux user" manages to pack a contradiction in a mere 4 words.

[–] kemsat 24 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912 Distro

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[–] Agent641 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] Diplomjodler3 22 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I'm an unwashed Mint peasant. Tell me how inadequate I am.

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[–] JackLSauce 22 points 3 weeks ago

I run distro, btw

[–] meliante 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Fedora Workstation 40.

On windows until last year, after trying 11 on my T440s which made it unbearably slow so had to start over but instead of going back to 10 tried a bunch of distros.

Fedora stuck, mainly because of gnome vanilla (I really like the paradigm, don't care about deep personalisation) and how everything just worked great.

Fight me?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

Reactions:

Ubuntu: 😮why?

Manjaro: haven’t you managed to kill it yet?

Mint: ex windows guy?

Debian: 😃nice, how did you got to that decision?

Endeavour: 😃nice, how did you got to that decision?

Arch: 😃nice, how did you got to that decision?

Nix: 😃nice, how did you got to that decision?

OpenSUSE: 😃nice, how did you got to that decision?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Ubuntu: 😮why?

For a lot of people Ubuntu is the linux. Canonical is just good at marketing. For all it worth, Ubuntu is not the bad choice for average user who's not into ricing and not bothered by bloat.

Manjaro: haven’t you managed to kill it yet?

I've been using Arch and Manjaro for couple years each and in my experience they both break regularly. But, for some weird reason, Arch Linux is praised, when Manjaro is shamed upon.

Mint: ex windows guy?

Aren't we all?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (10 children)

I've been on mint for a while. Here's a tip for anyone who needs some windows apps that won't work in Linux.

VM workstation 17 is free and is fast as balls. With plug and play pass through too.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
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