Microsoft is fucking butthurt no one wants Windows 11 so they're stopping the sale of Windows 10 licenses this month

Dr. Geronimo said:
The point of it is advertising. If you think a shitty Dr. Seuss rip off of some fish makes me want to try an OS, then I guess you win.
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If you're actively looking for BSD, you're the kind of person who probably finds Web 1.0 sites to be appealing. Meanwhile, over in big-boy enterprise software land this is a decent website, although it's still too sparse:

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Of course, SLES doesn't bill itself as "Windows for people who have an ideological opposition to having a computer that works."

Baguette Child said:
If you're choosing your tech based on advertising and not performance, you need to take a hard look at yourself. Modern consumerism practices do not necessarily select for the most capable product.
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Linux is the least capable non-meme desktop OS. Performance is a lot more than just abstract benchmarks.
 
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So I keep reading "oh, it's a common misconception that Ubuntu and other Debian distros are noob-friendly; they're old and out of date and you should use Manjaro because it's got the advantages of Arch's rolling releases but it's easy to install!"

Hey, what the hell, right? I download the ISO and start it up. I select "boot with proprietary drivers" because proprietary drivers are just like open-source drivers, except they actually work sometimes. The Live session starts, I click "Install Manjaro Linux" on the desktop, the windows opens... and closes. Weird. I click again, it opens... and immediately closes. I try running it from the start menu-equivalent, same thing. I cannot install the operating system.

So I shut down, go back to the boot menu, run with open-source drivers this time and get exactly the same thing. I wonder if there's some setting going horribly wrong, so I try to open the boot options to see if there are any relevant options I can mess around with. The "boot options" selection does absolutely nothing except add "edit boot options" to what appears to be some kind of clipboard (?) over and over and over again.

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But it's okay - I'm assured by Linuxfags that what happened never, ever happens.
 
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The Ugly One said:
Of course, SLES doesn't bill itself as "Windows for people who have an ideological opposition to having a computer that works."
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That's basically how SuSE started. It was like the Ubuntu of its day.
I still have a retail version that came on like 7 CDs lying around somewhere.

Matt Damon said:
So I keep reading "oh, it's a common misconception that Ubuntu and other Debian distros are noob-friendly; you should use Manjaro because it's got the advantages of Arch's rolling releases but it's easy to install!"
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>listening to Archfags
classic beginner mistake
 
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Update: the XFCE version of Manjaro actually launches the installer, but the entire system locks up unrecoverably at the initial "getting system information" screen.

Remember, just like with everything else related to Linux:

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Matt Damon said:
Update: the XFCE version of Manjaro actually launches the installer, but the entire system locks up unrecoverably at the initial "getting system information" screen.

Remember, just like with everything else related to Linux:

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Your SSD is probably from the wrong vendor. You should have checked to make sure you have one of the 3 supported brands of SSD before you tried using Manjaro.
 
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Matt Damon said:
If you can teach me the correct way to double-click on an icon or select an option from a boot menu with your Linux-guru knowledge, I'm all ears.
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the general rule of thumb of running things on linux that isn't installed yourself is that If you didn't chmod +x or go into the properties and click the "Run as Executable" option on the .desktop file or whatever you downloaded and tried to run like an .exe file on windows, you're doing it wrong.
 
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The general rule with Linux is to buy hardware from a reputed vendor who will install and support it for you. For example, a HPE Cray EX series comes preinstalled with their own customized SLES 15. It's rock-solid and guaranteed to work. Start with a $300K EX4000 liquid-cooled cabinet, and build from there.
 
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Computer Guardian said:
the general rule of thumb of running things on linux that isn't installed yourself is that If you didn't chmod +x or go into the properties and click the "Run as Executable" option on the .desktop file or whatever you downloaded and tried to run like an .exe file on windows, you're doing it wrong.
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Cool, I'll go make sure the installer for the fucking OS defaults to running as an executable in the Live session.

...Yep, it does.
 
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Computer Guardian said:
the general rule of thumb of running things on linux that isn't installed yourself is that If you didn't chmod +x or go into the properties and click the "Run as Executable" option on the .desktop file or whatever you downloaded and tried to run like an .exe file on windows, you're doing it wrong.
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That is disgustingly user unfriendly.
 
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