…and it went very smoothly. I installed on a spare PC for now, but I could absolutely see this becoming my daily driver. I’m mostly surprised at how snappy and responsive it is, even on 10 year old hardware!
kewl
Congratulations. One of us, one of us, one of us.
Penguins together strong?
SWOLE PENGUINS GO
Penguins together warm!
Become untariffable
This cracks me up, why is there a bunch separated from the rest?
Those are the people on the Hannah Montana distro.
One of us.
One of us
One of us!
Gooble gobble, gooble gobble!
Glad you decided to give it a try. It really shines on older hardware and really shows how much bloat windows actually has. I’ve been using Linux since the 90s, it’s incredible how far it’s come. Show us your socks. Especially in relation to gaming in the last few years, there’s almost no reason to deal with microsoft any longer!
The bloat is real! I really thought this old PC was just chugging along because of the hardware, but it seems perfectly content to run Linux.
As a recent recidivist, it’s terrifying how snappy my decade old laptop became on a light distro.
I was expecting this on a pos enterprise system that barely managed win 10 (but has 12 usb ports!!!). For context, the replacement drive I got for it from the IT department that “disposed of” the tower had windows 7 installed on it, they said that was the best it could probably do, which is why they were obsoleted years ago.
There must have been something really wrong with other components because even with antixlinux, which doesn’t even have seem to have sound support out of the box, and is meant to be used off a usb (keeps a persistent state on the USB so you can take your OS and data with you), it was slow as molasses. (I also tried mint and raw Debian and a couple other things and they all sucked hard)
So I threw Ubuntu back on and use it only for the Plex desktop app in my bedroom where I try not to watch too much tv. Is the only thing that runs on it without issues as long as I never close it. Reboots take 10 min tho. Not even remotely worth troubleshooting (that’s pc#4 in my house… I live alone. I have other options.)
This all to say, if it doesn’t respond well to Linux, there might be something else going on :)
Welcome to Linux, here’s your thigh highs. We expect a post on UnixSocks soon.
can confirm, installed linux as a teenager and became a trans woman as an adult - the programming socks work 😉
BASICALLY YEAH
And please leave your PC running for a post on uptimeporn
Every time I stumble across an uptime post I laugh, and then proceed to do my daily ritual of having to fully pull out my power cable and reinsert it to get the laptop to wake up.
UnixSocks
How did I not know this was a thing
I didn’t either.
I’ll be in my bunk.
Your Estrogen is in the mail.
Finally a good use of bullying.
The system works
The systemd works
@somerandomperson @DragonTypeWyvern but not the system
That image reminds me of this album art
The stuntman on the right had quite a career. He died 2 weeks ago https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05e0z9lj3mo
Pink Floyd’s best album
I find this funny because I’ve been aware of, and even using, Linux for a lot longer than I have been using Lemmy (or Lemmy or even ActivityPub has even existed). Are many people really becoming more aware of Linux because they are moving from Reddit to Lemmy and then noticing people talking about Linux here?
I’ve always been aware of it, but I guess I just needed the extra push. Being on Lemmy has been like having one of those Civ missionaries in my base spamming “spread religion” for 2 years, and I think they’ve successfully converted me.
I swear Lemmy just turns everyone in a variation of the same person. Its bizarre. We all subconsciously end up watching the same YouTube channels and read the same books.
And watching Star Trek
I hate them, wish I could go all Mao on their asses. But yeah, Linux rocks. Heard great things about Pop. Looking forward for your meme posts asking for help here.
I subscribed to a bunch of Linux communities today with that in mind, but I haven’t drilled down to figure out which are the most active or are open to random questions.
If you make a meme out of it, this is one of the most helpful and active. Otherwise the others are good too, some perhaps not as active.
I’ve known about Linux since the late ’90s; I haven’t been around any significant concentration of people talking about it and how to use it until I joined Lemmy.
The open source nature of Lemmy attracts the same people who are also attracted by the open source nature of Linux.
Lemmy is a bit of an echo chamber because of that.
I was generally planning on switching once windows 10 died but being on Lemmy helped convince me to not only switch earlier, but also I just dove right in with arch. I’d say it was like 2/3 Lemmy and 1/3 Proton that made me switch not because I felt I needed to but because I was actually excited to
Slippery slope reality
Why couldn’t it have been heroin
In this economy?
I mostly use Linux but I dual-boot windows just for VR and every time I have to use windows it feels sluggish in comparison
i do the same thing but i think it’s kind of on us - when you only boot windows once in a while it tries to do a bunch of things (updates, scanning everything for more data on your advertisement profile, virus scan, etc) at the same time
it was similar when i was running linux less frequently, i was annoyed like
ugh again bunch of updates, kernel update as well ugh now i have to reboot tooJust that linux does not force them on you. You decide when and if you even install those updates. Windows does it all in the background without telling you. I hate that behavior so much. This damn machine is under my command and yet on Windows it does whatever Microsoft wants instead of what I want.
Yeah, it’s a little of both, but at least if I don’t use Linux for a while I don’t feel the same problem happening usually
In my experience, if I don’t touch my gaming PC for a month or two and then go boot up Linux it means I just have a long update, but I can also opt to ignore it and deal with it later. On Windows, I don’t really have that choice as much, and updating is extra annoying because it reboots itself multiple times so I have to babysit it otherwise it boots back into Linux after a few seconds on the bootloader
Same. VR is the only reason I’ve still got a PC with windows on it.
ALVR is so frustratingly close to working for me with the Quest 2 on Linux
Some games actually work flawlessly with it for me now, but recently I wanted to get back into Into The Radius 2 since they updated it a lot, and because it only supports a specific VR framework that I can’t seem to get my system to use, the game itself doesn’t connect to my headset, so I had to boot back into windows for that
Then there’s VRChat which uses AntiCheat, which is basically a rootkit for windows…
ONE OF US!!! ONE OF US!!! ONE OF US!!!
Literally came here to comment this lol
One of us! One of us!
gooble gobble.
What distro/DE? I was also surprised with the snappiness! You use Windows/Mac on modern hardware for so long and think it’s the best it can be, but nope!
After watching videos about different distros until my brain went numb, I went with Pop!_OS. It seemed like a really polished and noob-friendly option, which has felt true so far.
I also switched to Pop!_OS a couple days ago. I’ve only used Windows all my life and this distro made everything so easy. The Pop Store is a lifesaver.
Between windows and mac, I enjoy the UX of mac more, and Pop!_OS feels familiar in a lot of good ways.
COSMIC and GNOME are definitely going for a mac-like feel. Not my thing, but that’s why there’s KDE!
I love how much you can customize whatever you want. I saw some cool setups while watching videos about distros, and I think I could get unhealthily obsessed with that if I let myself.
I’ve only used Apple computer a handful of times, but there is a lot of elements to Pop!_OS that remind of Mac. Particularly the tiny loading circle your mouse creates after opening a window reminds me of the similar that used to come up on my elementary school old Macs.
I just really love the persistent top bar, the floating dock, and the way you mount apps to install. It all feels so natural for some reason.
Oh, and the search bar for finding apps/files. I’m glad Pop OS uses that too.
As a pop os user over the past 4 years, I’m unsure what you mean about mounting apps to install them. What app is an example of that?
Sorry, I meant that about Mac and was getting some wires crossed.
I’ve only used Apple computer a handful of times, but there is a lot of elements to Pop!_OS that remind of Mac. Particularly the tiny loading circle your mouse creates after opening a window reminds me of the similar that used to come up on my elementary school old Macs.
Heck, I’ve been hacking Linux for a quarter century and I’ve installed Pop! OS on my main machines because I just want shit that works.
My biggest hangup (so far) is modding games.
Nexus is built for Windows. CDPR’s RedMod is too.
It’s probably not that big a deal. I’m just shit at all this stuff. I’m not a coder. I don’t even know what the fuck sudo means. But I have a very loose grasp on using it. With a moderate amount of help from the internet. Usually.
Nexus is building a new version of its app, and the new one has Linux support (native app).
It’s not yet a full replacement, and at the moment only supports a few select games, but eventually it’ll expand to the full catalogue.
Closest comparison I can give of it is… It’s like clicking “Yes” when the User Account Control (UAC) popup appears on Windows when you’re installing stuff. That’s you, as an admin, confirming you want to perform whatever action is being performed.
sudo ...is perform an action/command as an admin.As for the mods. A lot of the time it’s a matter of taking the files you downloaded, and dropping them in the game directory (or a directory within the game directory).
Once you do it manually once, you’ll see it’s pretty straight forward and you don’t really need the mod managers.
Fun fact,
sudo...meansSuper User do...Yep
Super user do
Dragging mod files into folders is your easiest solution
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“I heard them say we’ve reached Morrowind. I’m sure they’ll let us go.”
Morrowind will always be wonderful to return to. I miss all the imaginative player house mods. OpenMW has been so AWESOME.
Also:
YoU wOuLdN’t StEaL a LiMeWaRe pLatTeR
Yeah that is one of the weaker areas of Linux. I think there is native support coming for Nexus soon.
I just game on windows to be honest. For that it’s not bad. I do a ton of VR and the Linux support for that is minimal anyway.
