The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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I try to avoid any news channels that sound manufactured and bought out, or just plain come across as a mrwhosetheboss copycat.
 
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Anyone here installed Linux on a laptop? I wanna give it a shot on my secondary work machine as it's getting a bit too slow for bloaty windows.
I've heard a lot of mixed things from spurgy Reddit threads.
 
Camo Fox said:
Anyone here installed Linux on a laptop?
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Camo Fox said:
I've heard a lot of mixed things
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It's possible your WiFi/Bluetooth won't work right, but you should try it. Don't expect too much from things like trackpads and fingerprint readers though. In the last 10 years, trackpads mostly work, but sometimes not that well. In the last couple years some webcams don't work, due to weird Microsoft encryption stuff.
 
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Camo Fox said:
Anyone here installed Linux on a laptop? I wanna give it a shot on my secondary work machine as it's getting a bit too slow for bloaty windows.
I've heard a lot of mixed things from spurgy Reddit threads.
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I have just switched mine from Garuda (as I needed to reinstall and it just wouldn’t work) to EndeavourOS. Linux has breathed new life into the machine but I don’t use Bluetooth or wireless much.
 
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It's pretty faggy but I managed to get Muttleys arch install working by having him reverse ssh into my vps and me logging into his liveusb environment and chrooting in and unfucking what he did. All it took was having him copy a couple lines and I was able to get access in without having to install a bunch of bullshit to vpn and screen sharing and all that bullshit. Imagine trying to do that with windows or mac.
 
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Camo Fox said:
Anyone here installed Linux on a laptop? I wanna give it a shot on my secondary work machine as it's getting a bit too slow for bloaty windows.
I've heard a lot of mixed things from spurgy Reddit threads.
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I'd advise trying Linux Mint. It has the best support so you'll have the best odds of getting it working perfectly.
I still haven't been successful in getting Arch Linux up and running, but I've concluded that it's partly because Arch hates virtual machines
 
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Betonhaus said:
I'd advise trying Linux Mint. It has the best support so you'll have the best odds of getting it working perfectly.
I still haven't been successful in getting Arch Linux up and running, but I've concluded that it's partly because Arch hates virtual machines
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I'm sorry to break it to you but arch is easiest to install in a VM
 
EndeavorOS is an easy way to get arch going if thats what you want. I switched to it from Xubuntu
Also take two minutes to setup Timeshift
 
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EndeavorOS is an easy way to get arch going if thats what you want. I switched to it from Xubuntu
Also take two minutes to setup Timeshift
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If you can't install arch without using install scripts it's just going to cause headaches down the road, rolling releases will break something and if you don't know how to diagnose what broke something and how to fix it you are going to have a bad time. Arch is a great distro if you know what you are doing, not so much if you don't.
 
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