James Edwin
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literally everyone recommends Linux Mint, Cinnamon to windows users.
It's easy enough to use that your senile great grandfather could probably use it.
New Gnome Code of Conduct - It's pretty bad tbh
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It's easy enough to use that your senile great grandfather could probably use it.
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Just wanted more than one vote of confidence in it since recommendations seem to be flying all over the place unless I can't into English. Thanks.
Also I'm forced to wonder: This is the kind of thing, as mentioned, that starts to drive away developers in droves. Is this potentially some omen of Gnome's downfall or does it have the life support to push through the times?
Shoggoth
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I remember in one of his videos Lunduke lamented that people in open source conventions have reached the point of advocating for racism and violence, but against white people, so nobody seems to bat an eye besides him. As far as we know they might already be breaking the law and getting away from it under the umbrella of their corporate sponsors, because all of these loons seem to be working for big tech while advocating for their crackpot theories.
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There's only one thing that can save us
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If you wish to use our crappy thing, you MUST agree to be discriminated against if you have what our deluded brains deem "privilege". Bow your peasant white straight heads and kneel before our magnificent QUILTBAG master race.
Let us oppress you because if we don't, you will come in here and oppress us first.
Let us oppress you because if we don't, you will come in here and oppress us first.
Gottahavemysips
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GNOME has always looked like straight up wannnabe OSX/Adobe garbage. I've never used it in my life. Weren't some of the devs on GNOME were part of the group that ousted rms?
Personally, I use XFCE and it's not some shit that looks like it is trying it's damnedest to be corporate friendly. Besides, it's fucking Linux. If you aren't doing 95% of your shit in the command line of your choice, it's not really worth it.
Anyway, fuck GNOME, and fuck what bleeding heart faggots have done to open software development.
Personally, I use XFCE and it's not some shit that looks like it is trying it's damnedest to be corporate friendly. Besides, it's fucking Linux. If you aren't doing 95% of your shit in the command line of your choice, it's not really worth it.
Anyway, fuck GNOME, and fuck what bleeding heart faggots have done to open software development.
nobody else has mentioned it in the thread, but manjaro is a really good distribution and it keeps getting better. unlike linux mint, it is not based on debian/ubuntu, and instead is based on arch.
the bottom line of why that is an overall improvement is because the arch repository is the largest in the linux ecosystem. while there are separate official and community repositories for manjaro downstream from arch's repositories, and thus are slightly more limited, you can always use yay package manager to access the arch repository directly at your own risk. if I am not mistaken, it took canonical forever to properly port the discord client into ubuntu, whereas with arch it was pretty swift since arch's community is not overly concerned with stability.
James Edwin
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All in all though all a linux distro is, is a 'starting point'. You can turn Arch linux pretty much into a 'windows'-style OS like Mint fairly reasonably. You can't really fuck up too much by getting the ""wrong"" distro.
The only way you can really fuck up is by selecting a 'starting point' that is too advanced for your knowledge level to climb out of.
Your best bet is to start with an easy one, and when you're advanced enough go with something extremely lightweight like Arch and then make a very specialized system that works exactly to your needs, that way you dedicate 100% of your hardware only to your specific needs.
The only way you can really fuck up is by selecting a 'starting point' that is too advanced for your knowledge level to climb out of.
Your best bet is to start with an easy one, and when you're advanced enough go with something extremely lightweight like Arch and then make a very specialized system that works exactly to your needs, that way you dedicate 100% of your hardware only to your specific needs.
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was about to literally say that
Manjaros been getting better and better and its user friendly enough for most
and isn't part of the debian-cancer (not really saying debian is bad just that the typical "ex-windows user" market is completely dominated by debian based distros)
Tiny bit more advanced but a relatively easy good distro would also be
Interesting note tho is that most of the communities in open source that go double plus extra woke seem to be the dying breeds of the industry like seriously who still uses gnome3?
Personal favorite of mine's XFCE or Mate
if you want a fresh feel, KDE's good too if its your thing or Lumina
hell theres even shit like CDE with some unexplainable charm to it
or if you really want that windows feel combine it with some sense of nostalgia and get yourself Trinity, tho is thats your thing i recommend it not being your thing anymore
tl;dr get a better desktop environment and let these types rot
it's almost as if actual programmers care only about competence and consumers care only about a good product.
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Bitches don't know about my CP/M.
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That's the distro I recommend most highly to Linux newbies. Once you have a firm understanding of Linux and the command line, then I'd advise using Arch proper or Gentoo. The one annoyance I have with the install documentation of arch is that they recommend fdisk or gparted for partitioning. cfdisk is much, much easier to use and would always be my first choice.
Kaiser Wilhelm's Ghost
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What I don't get is the unwanted physical contact clause.
IT'S A FUCKING COMPUTER! An emoji isn't physical contact.
P.S. Gnome, it's what I did to your mother last night, while your dad recording it for his collection.
IT'S A FUCKING COMPUTER! An emoji isn't physical contact.
P.S. Gnome, it's what I did to your mother last night, while your dad recording it for his collection.
kiwifarmsfan1
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A reddit thread in /r/gnome which despite being 4 days ago, 6 upvotes, and 30 comments is still going https://archive.ph/4hRtH
And another one with twice the discussion in the same subreddit: http://archive.ph/C8TIz
Any other reddit dicussions or forums/mailing lists not included in the thread yet?
And another one with twice the discussion in the same subreddit: http://archive.ph/C8TIz
Any other reddit dicussions or forums/mailing lists not included in the thread yet?
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If you hate white people because they're white, you're a racist.
James Edwin
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To unfamiliar windows users out there: If you care about privacy and security even slightly, go with Linux the moment its convenient to do so.
1. Many windows apps can be run through wine or games with proton, which is steams wine for games.
2. The apps you can't run will very likely have alternatives that are just as good, possibly better
3. You can run Windows 10 through a virtual machine with GPU pass-through and W10 is too stupid to even know the difference.
4. Windows is highly vulnerable to Malware and uploads your data. Linux doesn't, and comparatively has nearly no virus's, meaning you have no need for a scanner.
5. You can duplicate the look and feel of Windows and virtually never have to even learn terminal, though it's still its own OS and still different in many ways.
6. Because its so lightweight apps that run natively on it will work far better. This means you can use cheaper hardware for a similar result. You can even boot off a flashdrive.
7. You can choose when and how to update, no ones putting a gun to your harddrive and demanding you to do it.
8. Believe it or not there is a huge amount of guidance and tutorials out there to make things the best.
9. You can make it look like the best version of Windows. Even Windows itself can't do that.
10. Instead of paying money for an OS you can spend that money on a better computer.
11. Drivers are built into the kernel itself, which means changing hardware from Intel to AMD would "just work"
12. Windows is run by Jews.
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1. Many windows apps can be run through wine or games with proton, which is steams wine for games.
2. The apps you can't run will very likely have alternatives that are just as good, possibly better
3. You can run Windows 10 through a virtual machine with GPU pass-through and W10 is too stupid to even know the difference.
4. Windows is highly vulnerable to Malware and uploads your data. Linux doesn't, and comparatively has nearly no virus's, meaning you have no need for a scanner.
5. You can duplicate the look and feel of Windows and virtually never have to even learn terminal, though it's still its own OS and still different in many ways.
6. Because its so lightweight apps that run natively on it will work far better. This means you can use cheaper hardware for a similar result. You can even boot off a flashdrive.
7. You can choose when and how to update, no ones putting a gun to your harddrive and demanding you to do it.
8. Believe it or not there is a huge amount of guidance and tutorials out there to make things the best.
9. You can make it look like the best version of Windows. Even Windows itself can't do that.
10. Instead of paying money for an OS you can spend that money on a better computer.
11. Drivers are built into the kernel itself, which means changing hardware from Intel to AMD would "just work"
12. Windows is run by Jews.
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What's so hard for these assholes to understand about that? And what's so bad about simply stating that everyone should be treated fairly, no matter what, why a double standard?
Because what they don't realize that they're doing is by making it ok for people who aren't white to be racist, increasingly white people are going to ask the question "well why can't we be racist too?" Why should white people just lie down and take it? Guilt tripping is not going to work on everyone and the further they push in that direction the less people it will work on and the worse things will get.
It's just utter fucking insanity that this is the world we live in.
to elaborate further on that: running proton is a matter of going to your steam games library, going into the properties of the game you wanna play, and choosing to run the game through proton. it works extremely well and only gets better with each passing update. proton is developed by valve, which is why it is available out of the box on steam.
pretty much every single game in my library that does not support linux natively runs exceedingly well on proton: grand theft auto 4, deep rock galactic, mudrunner, and most likely many more, I haven't gotten around to testing out all of them. it even supports pretty niche games like victoria 2.
the only pitfall I would warn against is using an nvidia graphics card. nvidia does not give a shit about you, and their company policy is to steal everything and release nothing. it's a miracle they even have drivers for their graphics cards out on linux. admittedly I have never used radeon cards, but I am considering getting one in the future due to how shit nvidia's proprietary drivers are.
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James Edwin
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Shut up boomer