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Actually most settle for something very similar to MacOS, if not actually MacOS itself.
The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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I fell into the tiling window manager meme pipeline for a few years (bspwm specifically). I got driven away because all the Wayland tiling window managers are even more autistic and hard to deal with then the X ones (which I didn't think was possible). I liked using it, but now I am much happier on KDE (the actual most Windows like DE).
Mint is not my thing, All Debian based distros have burned me in some way, and apt deserves to burn in a hole. I would honestly rather compile the entire system from source manually, LFS style, before using anything Debian based again.
GIMP 3 is actually half decent after being delayed for over a decade, which surprised me.
I would strongly recommend installing the PhotoGIMP patch which makes GIMP look and behave like Photoshop. Works very nicely in my experience.
Do poeople actually use Gnome? Originally it drove me away from exploring Linux altogether (before I knew what sensible desktops were, like KDE and Cinnamon). I never understood the point of a desktop environment with the worst parts of Mac OS, iOS and Android all smashed together.
At least Mac OS is a very easy to use and polished product. Gnome is just cheap and nasty.
I have a hunch that Gnome was made to get people away from Linux and keep them on Windows/Mac OS, since it succeeds at that job very well.
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GNOME is indeed garbage. I meant KDE, which is very easy to configure such that it behaves a lot like macOS.
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No worries, I get you now. KDE is amazing for theming. I have set to look like Windows 7, but as you said can be made to act like Mac OS, or really anything quite easily. I had a CDE theme for KDE applied at one point and that worked great, so really anything is possible.
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Honestly, not the best distro out there, but I installed LMDE some 3 or 4 years ago in my parents computer, and since I enabled automatic updates I literally haven't touched that computer for anything besides them asking how to do things in there.
It's really mindboggling how stable it is for the average user opening chromium and browsing some government sites and online stores.
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Sailing the high seas for me, Goldberg Emulator is the best. I don't mean a full on replacement, just the barebones shit to run Steam games that hooks into one or two of their shitty, proprietary libraries. No chat, no store, no Steam Input, etc. Nothing except for launching games and playing them.
Polling rate is a separate issue people are having, this is a new kind of fuckup. In my case, the mouse settings have been the same for a very long time, the only difference was switching off Steam Overlay.
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It is the convergence of ideology and autism. Windows and Mac are not open source, and Windows in particular has ads and a ton of telemetry baked in. That's enough to sway people who care about such things to Linux and to get them to evangelize for ideological reasons. Ideologues do not proselytize for the purpose of conversion. They proselytize to cement, in their own minds, the superiority of their beliefs. If the goal were conversion, their arguments would revolve around how Linux could address some specific issue the potential convert has without too many, or too irksome, downsides.
Autists will just screech at anything even slightly different than their preference when it comes to their hyperfixation.
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Had this issue too and it annoyed me for the longest time until I changed the polling rate. Idk how bugs like that happen.
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We certainly WILL NOT. All this anti-autistic bias is so TIRESOME. Autistic people do not RABIDLY DEFEND THEIR HYPERFIXATIONS and only TOTAL RETARDS would believe otherwise. Why are you such a HATER?
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I use it in conjunction with Steamless to de-Steamify some of the singleplayer games that I lease, as well as to be able to play those I downloaded from the Russian Counter-Strike discussion forum. Steampipe is a DRM by coincidence, not by design. Otherwise you wouldn't have tools to circumvent it on any game and Valve would come cracking down on those tools years ago. Steampipe by design is meant for developers to integrate Steam into their games for features like achievements, Workshop and whatnot, but since devs tend to be lazy, they end up making it work like DRM.
For example, Witcher 3, Postal 2 and BeamNG.Drive on Steam will run without Steam perfectly fine, the developers of these three games did their due diligence so that if you run the executable, but no connection to the Steam client can be established, it'll disable all the Steampipe features and load the game instead of launching the Steam client as a mandatory dependency.
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I just don't want linux full of gamer gorilla niggers. Then causing everything to move towards bazzite like retard proof immutable distros, Because retards like linus tech tips will uninstall their entire desktop otherwise, and not realize you can just install it again with one command.
It's usable now. And it's not like you actually need to know anything to get a normal, just works distro, running now. But that isn't enough retard proofing for the gamers. They need a full andoid like locked down toy os.
I definitely don't think windows is the best tool for the job for most people. On avarage I would bet money the average person isn't actually using photoshop all the time, and similar software, but might use office or something which we have perfectly fine replacements for. But they don't care about what they use, and if it is the best tool for the job. I think they should just keep using the OS they got on their computer when they bought it, like they intend to.
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Immutable distros are just the current fad. It's not gamers pushing Nix(OS), although there's a significant tranny overlap.
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Nixos you have to be an extreme autist to use.
Ones like bazzite, and bluefag or whatever. Are made so dent heads can't ruin their system. the fedora troons, and their tranny dick suckers are pushing for them, saying they are the future of the Linux desktop. If you install those, maybe android isn't the right comparison, but it's similar to macos. In the sense that they attempt to stop you from making any actual changes. If you need to install anything, you have to use containerized flatpaks, and for anything in a terminal you have to use distrobox, which is just absolute shit. (Btw windows is gay, but if you use Mac just kys)
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What Linux really needs is "self-healing" distros. You know how if you massively fuck up Windows you can just run
Unless of course you're the type of "person" that believes Linux should only be for Mensa members that know what each GNU package in their system does and could set up LFS from memory if they wanted to while at the same time expecting people to choose it over Windows or Mac, in which case lol, lmfao
DISM /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth and it'll magically reinstall and fix all the core elements needed to bring your system back to life, but at the same time there's nothing stopping you from fucking it up that way to begin with? That's the sort of retard proofing Linux needs. Right now it's either "if you fuck it up you need to back up /home and reinstall" or "here's a distro you can't fuck with so that you won't fuck it up".Unless of course you're the type of "person" that believes Linux should only be for Mensa members that know what each GNU package in their system does and could set up LFS from memory if they wanted to while at the same time expecting people to choose it over Windows or Mac, in which case lol, lmfao
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If you put in the effort to set up btrfs. You can essentially get that. You need to either use opensuse if you don't want to do it yourself (idk which other ones actually set it up properly) or read a good bit and format everything, set up the snapshot directories, set up snapper. Set it up with your bootloader to allow you to boot into a snapshot. To check on it, and learn to revert back to it.
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The Windows equivalent of btrfs snapshots are Volume Shadow Copies and Restore Points. DISM serves a different purpose. Linux doesn't have an equivalent to DISM, which pulls info about what system components are needed for the installation to work properly, verifies their integrity and pulls clean versions of them for replacement if it detects something's off. Linux has no safeguards like that, or memory of what the initial base package setup was. If something fucks up, it fucks up. The OS itself has no way of repairing itself. Shadow copies are not self-repair.
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It really is terribly convenient when you have multiple computers. For example if I add a new device to my wireguard, I can just add its IP to the tabel in my configuration.nix on my NAS, and it will populate all the computers the next rebuild (which I've also automated through configuration.nix). If I were running a conventional distro, I'd have to add it manually on each one, or more likely add it on the two computers I think are likely to need it, and then have to ssh into one of them to copy it when I eventually need to access it from my laptop or whatever. If I switch from libreoffice to onlyoffice, I just make that change in the configuration.nix and it will populate the others on a rebuild. If my router breaks and I need to quickly swap wireguard server over to my NAS, again that's just one change that automatically populates (only to computers on the local network, but still).
NixOS does get annoying when you need to run python or shell scripts, since those rarely take it into account, but there's steam-run for that (runs a command in an environment that uses conventional Linux paths for everything), and docker (which just works).
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I didn't say it was self repair. It's what Linux has to get back a working system, from something broken.
If you want that for Linux. I guess start writing code and make it yourself. Or move to freebsd where everything from the base system is in in the normal locations, and everything installed by the user is in /use/local. Before you come back to use Linux again because freebsd sucks.
Edit to avoid double post @Susanna see you have to be an extreme autist to use nix
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I want to try a Linux OS, but I want to hear what you guys think I should install. I was thinking of mint but I don’t know…
I don’t want to make any big mistakes like deleting system32 or fucking up my computer in any way
I don’t want to make any big mistakes like deleting system32 or fucking up my computer in any way
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Do you write code and commit it to repos of packages that you use when you find a bug in them? No? Then it's not my problem, someone else should make a distro like that.
Then run Mint in a VM. It's the best way to have a rough idea of how Linux is like without risking formatting your hard drive. If your Windows isn't on the Home version then I'd recommend reading into setting up Hyper-V, it has the best performance out of all VM software under Windows.