Hello,
I've been using mint for two years now and have begun to hear The Call as I lay in bed at night. Should I switch to Arch? I can't remember what settings I change because I focus on solving the problem immediately in front of me.
I think it's worth it to make the switch if you want to learn more about linux and how it works
Some general advice: plan out everything about your system (partition layout, what drivers you may need for audio/video, desktop environments) that you'll need to download beforehand since pacsrap doesn't install that stuff by default. And write it out on paper so you have a reference for when you're installing
Read the installation guide a few times before installing, and watch guides on youtube. There are so many, and there are a lot of good ones
Keep the arch wiki on hand and look through package listings to see what software is available. Also made sure you understand basic things about your hardware such as whether or not your system is uefi or mbr (used by bios), as that'll affect installation
And dont worry about not remembering what you've changed from the default config, I've changed so much I dont remember what I've changed about my system until I fuck something up so you'll be fine
I think software engineers should be more careful actually.
What do you mean I installed the pre-packaged "WD Elements" software that came with my new external hard-drive and it corrupted my icon cache, made it impossible for other software to install/update, made Photoshop crash, and shot my NVIDIA app out back? How the fuck do any of those things interact? And worse yet, how the fuck is a layperson supposed to connect "oh, huh, when I change my blend mode in Photoshop the software fucking explodes" with "the completely unrelated file management helper I installed a few days ago". Bro??? BRO???
Oh and yeah, Windows 11 says "Awwww, you can't install Windows 11! Have you considered buying a new PC? Since your machine can't run this?" fuck you, first of all, yes it can. But how do I know this? Because I refused to believe that my cutting-edge PC couldn't run their ad-riddled OS. Turns out that, huh, I didn't need to update my $5000 PC. I just needed to adjust the BIOS (yikes) and tell it to start using the feature that was already there for windows security. People aren't going to want to do that, Microsoft! Why not just let the OS installer check when it runs and ask the user to enable TPM 2.0?
I know that it covers the vast majority of situations in which Windows 11 can't run on a machine, but in a situation like mine I imagine that people with less knowledge are going to have a nightmare of a time.
I have a suggestion
i don't think that's right
linux is known for having a lot of options. The options:
There's literally nothing wrong with gnome on its own, it's not a sin to be unfamiliar and I can imagine the exact kind of person who'd really enjoy it as a desktop. I just don't like that it's kinda the big flagship linux thing and if you don't like it you go use kde (which I have my own issues with)
And again, their idea of easy to understand visual design flops between "the most logical common sense thing ever" and "space alien who only learned about human sensory organs via stray radio waves" rather arbitrarily.
nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations
ff mpreg
made this a while back, is it what you're after?
Forcefemmed Linux system...
the man command? No, that's the woman command
git init defaults to the mistress branch, rather than master
you can no longer send mail, you must send femail
all the coreutils are girls now
the sh command is now the she command
shebangs? of course she does
ok, so she doesn't realize it yet, but @btrfs-unofficial has basically made this a reality with her itty operating system :3
i mean, the shell is quite literally named miss
we don't have woman pages yet tho
also the text editor will be named picogram. like estrogen
I would like to point out, because I've been converted to @emacs-unofficial , that emacs has a package for viewing manpages without man and it's called woman
Youtube is full of ads, spotify is full of ads, tumblr is full of ads, pinterest is full of ads. Everything uses ai. Every new update makes the website/app worse. Youtube auto translates almost every video I want to watch. Sometimes pinterest only loads ads for me. Check out this new ai feature. Here's a new update that breaks ur laptop. Here's a new update that breaks ur phone. Why are u complaining about ur phone, just get the newest iphone lol. Join my patreon. Join my membership. Pay a monthly membership to get all features. Upgrade your membership to get even more features. Subscribe to netflix. Subscribe to disney. Subscribe to amazon. Subscribe to hulu. This content isn't available in ur country. This content was removed. This website was removed. This feature only exists for apple. This app only exists for apple. U need to a WiFi connection to play this game. U need an account. We need your email to finish creating this account. We need your number to finish creating your account. We need your id to finish creating your account. In order to delete your account please write an email. In order to delete your account you need a laptop. Oops our database was hacked and ur information was stolen. Ur data was sold from this random website u used once 10 years ago. Spam call. Spam call. Spam call.
this image will never not make me laugh. it was such a charmingly devlish approach to achieving forward compatibility
Armored robot girl
charlotte my tummy hurts how do i fix this :<
SWITCH TO LINUX
mutuals stop putting this on my dash challenge
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thank kde it’s friday
I love having this post scheduled because someone will always reblog it from me and then I get to see it again :D
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