I just don't know why I keep clicking on the memes. I don't know anything about Linux, I know I'm not gonna get it, but I keep opening them and being confused. It's like when I try to understand the code in programmer humor like it's suddenly gonna click. Or ich_iel. I don't speak German. What was up with all the noodles? I still don't know!
I stg, 80% of my time on this site is just clicking stuff I know will confuse me but I can't stop.
I've thought about it and then I remember that I'm pretty dumb about stuff that doesn't interest me much, so it would have to be a situation where someone else was like, "here's your linux computer, I already set up all your stuff and your games all work."
Ah yeah I was only messing really. There is no reason for 90% of people to switch to Linux if they're happy with Windows or MacOs and I say this as someone who's solely been using Linux for nearly 20 years now.
Sure, it's a great operating system but honestly most people just don't....give a shit.
On a technical level that's correct. But if you don't care about all the ads, data harvesting and not being in control of the device you own, you may want go home and rethink your life.
I'd like to see the market share of Windows today if no PCs were sold with OS. Or at least if it was a separate opt-in purchase. I am pretty sure quite a few people would rather not pay the Windows license.
There would also likely be some more interesting OSs, and most likely even Windows would be better due to the competition.
It's actually super easy now. If you can install Windows, you can install Linux (distro dependent obviously). You'll have to learn to do power user things, but that's true for Windows as well. Any issues are just a web search away. If you have to use the terminal, you'll be given the commands to copy-paste.
I understand the sentiment, but if it's coming from a reputable source I'd disagree. I think it's ideal to understand the commands, but most users occasionally need to do some things that they'll never learn what the commands do but they need to use them. It's like saying never to run an application you download from somewhere. Sure, ideally you don't unless you've read through the source-code and double checked it's the same thing, but no one's doing that.
I've never installed windows either. 🙂 I picked all the parts for my current computer, but I paid a guy to do the assembly because I wasn't confident in my ability, so he did all that. My ex husband did it on the previous build, and everything prior was a pre-built.
You're scaring yourself away from these experiences. If you managed to pick the parts out for a computer then you can assemble it. Picking them out and making sure they're compatible is the hard part. Assembly is just putting them into slots that only they can fit into and plugging in some wires.
Installing an OS is also (usually) trivial. You download the software online and put it on a USB drive and follow the instructions. Dual booting takes a little more effort because you have to set up partitions, but it usually isn't that bad. I'm 100% Linux though because when I dual booted starting from Windows it eventually destroyed things after a Windows update (because Windows sucks), so I just removed the Windows partition and redid everything with just Linux.
I use Linux since 2008 and I don't get most of the Linix Memes as well. :) I also know German as a native language and don't get most of the ich_iel stuff. You are not alone.
The noodles is quite easy. One of our most active posters is called "Instantnudel" (instant noodles). In his memes he puts this block of instant noodles on the persons head that's meant to represent him.
I had a conversation with a friend last night and he was talking about something Linux related and I accidentally contributed to the conversation. I immediately thought "god dammit Lemmy".
Look I use all 3 OSes almost daily. I just don't like talking about them. They are just tools. No I don't want to spend my weekend configuring a window manager. No I don't want to talk about the latest OSX update. I just want to do stuff and the OS is just something I have to use sometimes to do that stuff.
This response is perfect and I don't know if it's supposed to be a joke everyone is missing but me, or if it's 100% serious and I read too much into it.
There's comedic genius in:
"I hate talking about Linux, it's just a tool"
"In that case here's a distro recommendation for you"
Agreed. It works better out of the box than windows ever did. When I bought my most recent PC, the only post-install stuff I did was solved via apt-get, and after 10 minutes I had my favorite games up and running flawlessly.
I can't speak for OSX, though. I still to this day have no fucking clue as to how I right click on a macbook.
Right click on a MacBook depends on how the user configured it, which always trips me up whenever I use someone else’s. The default behaviour is a two-finger click, but it can be changed to single-finger clicking in the bottom-right corner instead. You can control+click too with both configurations, but that sucks
Mental illness, and, you know, the whole God thing aside, Terry Davis was one dedicated motherfucker. As crude as templeOS is, the shit he did to create it is pretty impressive.
I'm too afraid to install it for fear of bursting into flames tho.
I once met someone back in school (eons ago) that was both a devout Born-again Christian and wildly enthusiastic Linux user. I once remarked that I personally witnessed him convert more people to Linux than Christianity.
Stupid teenage me didn't mean to come of as so savage, but judging by the look on his face, I think that broke him a little. :(
I already did all that. I had a Lenovo ThinkPad from 2018-2024 (RIP it died) completely Linux/Ubuntu but I really didn't know how to use it. I just used it like windows. Didn't know how to maximize its linux capabilities.
Thus applies to everything. Force yourself to do stuff. Install Programms that you think are cool. Dare yourself to try new software. This is what teaches you how to use Linux. Oh, this software isn't available for your Distro and they don't have a flatpak/snap/App Image? Compile it from source. This doesn't work? Figure out why. Sometimes this leads to frustration and wasting a lot of time, but that's how you learn stuff.
Great suggestion. I'm currently trying to figure out Flatpak builds because I want to try Vega Strike on the Steam Deck (the AUR doesn't like it). As someone used to Docker and VMs, dependency management is absolutely bizarre, confusing, and hard to find documentation on.
It is amazing how much you can learn when the only way to get OpenOffice working is to troubleshoot outdated C syntax errors in the output generated while compiling with clang. Time solves even the most abstruse problems, whether you planned for it or not.
It is the world you see when you look outside Windows. When you upvote memes. When you read your inbox. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
The app supports extremely fine grain blocking. I can block posts and comments using regex. But if I block Linux stuff my content feed would be empty :^)
Even better, you can filter in certain apps (Like Sync, please don't beat me to death, FOSSies) so anything mentioning GNU, Linux, whatever is removed.
I bought a RedHat Unleashed book as a kid back in the late 90s simply because it came with an iso for RH 5 already burned to CD. I didn't have a cd-r drive, and I couldn't figure out how to boot from my external Zip Disk drive. I kinda miss Zip Disk, those were pretty cool.
It's full circle back to how Slashdot was for me. Though at the time shuttleworth and canonical were seen as good guys. I haven't used it for years, but I guess snap really made people dislike them.
It's not just Snap, but Snap is the latest example of a bigger problem. For a while now Ubuntu have had a habit of trying to invent a new wheel rather than using their considerable resources to improve the wheel that the open source community is already working on. So you had all the time wasted on Unity instead of contributing to Gnome, all the time wasted on Mir instead of contributing to Wayland, and now Snap is just the latest example of them trying to push their own thing. There's also their insistence on controlling everything about LXD which is why it's forked off as Incus now, and so on.
Ubuntu could be doing a lot of good in the open source world, but they don't want to be involved in anything if they're not totally in control of it. So instead they're a black hole sucking up resources that could be used for better things.
I just don't know why I keep clicking on the memes. I don't know anything about Linux, I know I'm not gonna get it, but I keep opening them and being confused. It's like when I try to understand the code in programmer humor like it's suddenly gonna click. Or ich_iel. I don't speak German. What was up with all the noodles? I still don't know!
I stg, 80% of my time on this site is just clicking stuff I know will confuse me but I can't stop.
I speak a small amount of German and i didn't know this.
But i look at the memes and move on haha
The path to enlightenment seems clear. All aboard the Linux train.
Choo Choo!
I've thought about it and then I remember that I'm pretty dumb about stuff that doesn't interest me much, so it would have to be a situation where someone else was like, "here's your linux computer, I already set up all your stuff and your games all work."
Ah yeah I was only messing really. There is no reason for 90% of people to switch to Linux if they're happy with Windows or MacOs and I say this as someone who's solely been using Linux for nearly 20 years now.
Sure, it's a great operating system but honestly most people just don't....give a shit.
On a technical level that's correct. But if you don't care about all the ads, data harvesting and not being in control of the device you own, you may want go home and rethink your life.
Give it a year or so. I may give more of a shit when Win10 hits EOL because I really don't want 11.
Thankfully, I didn't have to switch.
I'd like to see the market share of Windows today if no PCs were sold with OS. Or at least if it was a separate opt-in purchase. I am pretty sure quite a few people would rather not pay the Windows license.
There would also likely be some more interesting OSs, and most likely even Windows would be better due to the competition.
It's actually super easy now. If you can install Windows, you can install Linux (distro dependent obviously). You'll have to learn to do power user things, but that's true for Windows as well. Any issues are just a web search away. If you have to use the terminal, you'll be given the commands to copy-paste.
No. Terrible advice. NEVER COPY-PASTE COMMANDS YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! That's also true for Windows.
I understand the sentiment, but if it's coming from a reputable source I'd disagree. I think it's ideal to understand the commands, but most users occasionally need to do some things that they'll never learn what the commands do but they need to use them. It's like saying never to run an application you download from somewhere. Sure, ideally you don't unless you've read through the source-code and double checked it's the same thing, but no one's doing that.
I've never installed windows either. 🙂 I picked all the parts for my current computer, but I paid a guy to do the assembly because I wasn't confident in my ability, so he did all that. My ex husband did it on the previous build, and everything prior was a pre-built.
If you want to try it, you can use a VM like VirtualBox, unless you have an ancient potato PC.
You're scaring yourself away from these experiences. If you managed to pick the parts out for a computer then you can assemble it. Picking them out and making sure they're compatible is the hard part. Assembly is just putting them into slots that only they can fit into and plugging in some wires.
Installing an OS is also (usually) trivial. You download the software online and put it on a USB drive and follow the instructions. Dual booting takes a little more effort because you have to set up partitions, but it usually isn't that bad. I'm 100% Linux though because when I dual booted starting from Windows it eventually destroyed things after a Windows update (because Windows sucks), so I just removed the Windows partition and redid everything with just Linux.
Your new game is making the linux computer work.
Steam Deck?
As long as it doesn't have anything to do with German noodles
Freedom is a confusing emotion.
I use Linux since 2008 and I don't get most of the Linix Memes as well. :) I also know German as a native language and don't get most of the ich_iel stuff. You are not alone.
I thought that was a sub for people who didn't like that they were eels or something.
Eels are accepted on ich_iel, only sturgeons are banned.
Ach mein lieber!
That describes 80% of my path to becoming a Linux admin.
Meme is a lie. Linux is tofu. It absorbs whatever flavor you hope, but only after performing tasks and you still want the other thing sometimes.
The noodles is quite easy. One of our most active posters is called "Instantnudel" (instant noodles). In his memes he puts this block of instant noodles on the persons head that's meant to represent him.
I had a conversation with a friend last night and he was talking about something Linux related and I accidentally contributed to the conversation. I immediately thought "god dammit Lemmy".
Also, let's not forget...
Best Linux Distro: Arch
Worst Linux Distro: Believe it or not, also Arch
The best one is always Hanna Montana Linux.
Most Popular Linux Distro: MX Linux
Hannah Montana Linux by far
This is a thing I now know exists. Thank you for making it possible.
AmogOS
Nu uh.. Too sus.
TempleOS
Not Linux!
I loved running Arch, but I run mint because I don't have the time for Arch.
Nah the worst is either manjaro or ubuntu for ideological reasons
why is manjaro bad?
You shouldn't use Ubuntu.
That way there's more Ubuntu for me!
Yeah use UwUntu instead
a man of culture i see
TIL
You WILL eat your vegetables. It's good for you. One day you will install it and you will be grateful.
Look I use all 3 OSes almost daily. I just don't like talking about them. They are just tools. No I don't want to spend my weekend configuring a window manager. No I don't want to talk about the latest OSX update. I just want to do stuff and the OS is just something I have to use sometimes to do that stuff.
In that case Mint would be perfect for you.
This response is perfect and I don't know if it's supposed to be a joke everyone is missing but me, or if it's 100% serious and I read too much into it.
There's comedic genius in: "I hate talking about Linux, it's just a tool" "In that case here's a distro recommendation for you"
It was actually a bit of both, a joke and an actual recommendation.
In fairness though, Mint would actually be perfect.
Ogres have run-levels.
It's not a family it's a cult.
Shit I mean it's not a cult it's a cult.
I mean... Fuck it, your family.
Agreed. It works better out of the box than windows ever did. When I bought my most recent PC, the only post-install stuff I did was solved via apt-get, and after 10 minutes I had my favorite games up and running flawlessly.
I can't speak for OSX, though. I still to this day have no fucking clue as to how I right click on a macbook.
Right click on a MacBook depends on how the user configured it, which always trips me up whenever I use someone else’s. The default behaviour is a two-finger click, but it can be changed to single-finger clicking in the bottom-right corner instead. You can control+click too with both configurations, but that sucks
As someone who also uses the three major OSes often, Mint is a great choice. Fedora has been working nicely for me as well.
I also don't like installing OSes on my free time also like I said I use all 3 OSes almost daily. I have Linux already...
All three? Linux, FreeBSD, and TempleOS?
Um actually it's macOS now
Kid: "Mom, can we have Linux?"
Mom: "We have Linux at home!"
Linux at home:
Instead of daemons, it's angels.
Angaels*
I knew the Irish were involved!
No, it's church services
https://pudge.net/jesux/
Jesux, the distribution that will not lead you into temptation
Just port TempleOS for modern architecture and use that, you filthy heathen
I wonder if there's anything doing actual production written in Holy C.
Mental illness, and, you know, the whole God thing aside, Terry Davis was one dedicated motherfucker. As crude as templeOS is, the shit he did to create it is pretty impressive.
I'm too afraid to install it for fear of bursting into flames tho.
Very brilliant, very sick man.
https://github.com/Zeal-Operating-System/ZealOS
HOW DARE YOU REMOVE JEEBUS FROM MAH OS!!!! SINNER!!!!
I actually 100% support this. Let's make sure every church only uses HTTP and does not hash their passwords.
After all...what do they have to hide?
I once met someone back in school (eons ago) that was both a devout Born-again Christian and wildly enthusiastic Linux user. I once remarked that I personally witnessed him convert more people to Linux than Christianity.
Stupid teenage me didn't mean to come of as so savage, but judging by the look on his face, I think that broke him a little. :(
What is this image and umm where does it come from?
Yeah we need to know. For science of course for science
enjoy:
https://foundation.app/@eugeny_hramenkov?tab=created
Talk about expensive collection of porn
It’s just 1 ETH Hiro, how much could that be, $10?
If I had ten bucks to throw away I would've donated to some FOSS project and pirated the porn
You can’t download an NFT, that’s illegal!
Based
This is NFT, you can just view it lol...
Added to bookmarks
Asking for a friend aren't you ?
Yeah, he has to do a science project about forced lactation
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/forced-to-drink-milk
The Jehovah's witness of lemmy
Hey have you heard about Arch?
Did you read the sign on my front door? No distro solicitors. Get off my lawn.
How many of us get to go to Linux heaven?
Are you not entertained?
After much dedicated and persistent blocking of communities, I don't see much Linux on lemmy anymore. But I don't see much on lemmy anymore.
Would be more accurate if it said Linux memes: I don't think I've seen any facts AFAIK.
Here's a fact: I use Arch.
Btw
can you please speak clearly, I don't understand your accent btw
Nah I'm pretty sure that's a meme 😝
4% adoption, it's the year of Linux!
Boom, fact
What you just said is a linux fact
Oh true, I've been seeing all these facts cleverly disguised as memes 😂
Too bad my memory isn't good enough to absorb them permanently.
Posting on an open-source platform and being surprised by the amount of people who talk about an open-source operating system is something.
It is definitely a thing. I would categorize it as such. I'd dare say it is one of the things of all time.
more evidence that we do live in a society...
I want to be her. Where can I find someone to spoon-feed me Linux?
Try Ubuntu. I switched to it from Windows. It worked on my laptop with no issues or needing to install (or learn how to install) any extra stuff
I already did all that. I had a Lenovo ThinkPad from 2018-2024 (RIP it died) completely Linux/Ubuntu but I really didn't know how to use it. I just used it like windows. Didn't know how to maximize its linux capabilities.
Try doing an installation of Arch, following the guide and searching how to do things as you go. It teaches a lot of things.
Thus applies to everything. Force yourself to do stuff. Install Programms that you think are cool. Dare yourself to try new software. This is what teaches you how to use Linux. Oh, this software isn't available for your Distro and they don't have a flatpak/snap/App Image? Compile it from source. This doesn't work? Figure out why. Sometimes this leads to frustration and wasting a lot of time, but that's how you learn stuff.
Great suggestion. I'm currently trying to figure out Flatpak builds because I want to try Vega Strike on the Steam Deck (the AUR doesn't like it). As someone used to Docker and VMs, dependency management is absolutely bizarre, confusing, and hard to find documentation on.
It is amazing how much you can learn when the only way to get OpenOffice working is to troubleshoot outdated C syntax errors in the output generated while compiling with clang. Time solves even the most abstruse problems, whether you planned for it or not.
jk
*GNU/Linux
I use GNU/Linux btw
... or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux
I like to break with tradition and just call it "that FOSS GLussy"
I can sing you a song about free software
SuSE has the best songs.
You can block instances and communities on a lot of lemmy apps now.
Cleans things up very nicely.
You can't block it. It has spread everywhere, in every post.
4% baby. 4%.
Even in this one
It is the world you see when you look outside Windows. When you upvote memes. When you read your inbox. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
One could argue that memes and having a sense of humor is reflection of our society
Trying to prove it by contributing to it here?
OP made a Lemmy app
Maybe they should ask other developers how they managed to do the block instance/comminity feature.
God damn. I was murdered in public.
Et tu, Mastengwe?
just create an embedding for every community name and if any are anywhere close to the embedding for "linux" you just autoblock it
The app supports extremely fine grain blocking. I can block posts and comments using regex. But if I block Linux stuff my content feed would be empty :^)
Even better, you can filter in certain apps (Like Sync, please don't beat me to death, FOSSies) so anything mentioning GNU, Linux, whatever is removed.
Yup. I have everything anime, Linux, Unix, etc filtered out.
Clearly it didn’t work if you’re here
Do you see Linux/unix/anime in the title of the post?
Ubuntu has been added though, if that makes you happy.
I installed my first slackware from a dozen 3.5" floppies
I bought a RedHat Unleashed book as a kid back in the late 90s simply because it came with an iso for RH 5 already burned to CD. I didn't have a cd-r drive, and I couldn't figure out how to boot from my external Zip Disk drive. I kinda miss Zip Disk, those were pretty cool.
have a 1T usb drive for backups the last 10 years. machines come and go. backups persist and you only need one good copy
I hope you're joking.
You definitely need more than one copy of your backup and hopefully you're not relying on 10 year old hardware to backup anything important.
Right on man, hope that dinosaur external doesn't die on you... What does this have to do with anything though?
This is me with my wife
Eh. If you can't beat them, join them.
I use Arch BTW.
I got away after my my bachelor's for IT, and I'm never going back.
People open to change are more open to new ideas and new experiences!
And if you’re not open to change, you have to eat sometime
It’s the experience x
It's time for you to get domestic penguin
It's full circle back to how Slashdot was for me. Though at the time shuttleworth and canonical were seen as good guys. I haven't used it for years, but I guess snap really made people dislike them.
It's not just Snap, but Snap is the latest example of a bigger problem. For a while now Ubuntu have had a habit of trying to invent a new wheel rather than using their considerable resources to improve the wheel that the open source community is already working on. So you had all the time wasted on Unity instead of contributing to Gnome, all the time wasted on Mir instead of contributing to Wayland, and now Snap is just the latest example of them trying to push their own thing. There's also their insistence on controlling everything about LXD which is why it's forked off as Incus now, and so on.
Ubuntu could be doing a lot of good in the open source world, but they don't want to be involved in anything if they're not totally in control of it. So instead they're a black hole sucking up resources that could be used for better things.
they do set an example for others to avoid
Lol so truw
I block all Linux related groups.
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