I’m the kind of recently-thawed Neanderthal who’s always resisted understanding anything about the technology I use every day; I retain an atavistic certainty that the monitor IS the computer.
Despite these, uh, endearing eccentricities, I just asked @jdekg to put the #Linux on my computer. I think it’s time.
I still refuse to understand anything, but the thing I refuse to understand will now be Linuxy instead of Windowsy.
I did download both the latest Linux Mint Cinnamon and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS; While at work, I will decide which distro to install. Even though I weighted Ubuntu lower in my list, I’m drawn to it! Tonight, I will be making bootable drives using balenaEtcher.
@WanderingInDigitalWorlds Can't go wrong either way. You know what my preference is, but you're in good hands no matter what. Also, I would suggest putting Ventoy on your USB and copying the ISOs over to that. In this manner, you can boot from multiple images on the same USB stick. Compare and contrast. It's what I use. I must have 10 ISOs on one 32 GB USB drive... ;>)
@wendigo I’ll consider Ventoy as after reading the page, seems like a slick software! It might delay my installation till tomorrow though. I’ll have to read the instructions several times over. ROFL Anxiety for the win and loss.
Satya Nadella says Windows PCs will have a photographic memory feature called Recall that will remember and understand everything you do on your computer by taking constant screenshots. This is a great reason to ditch windows altogether. Switch to #Linux 🧑💻 They don’t care about your privacy or safety anymore and not hiding it either. Source https://youtu.be/uHEPBzYick0?si=2ekH11gESoyDeq3D
@nixCraft I still have to keep Windows (10) around for some things, but I cut off all updates right before they rolled out the Copilot crap. I'm a bit worried about the potential problems from lack of updates, but I'm 1,000,000x more worried about the potential problems from updates... I've had some pains trying to switch to Linux (particularly in gaming) but have mostly managed to finally completely switch over just in time though. Congratulations MS on chasing away even hardcore gamers.
Taking my new (to me) ThinkPad 450 out for its first stroll. Using it while waiting for the car to be serviced. #linuxmint, #firefox, #emacs, all working like a charm. Keyboard and touchpad are almost perfect, battery life is super long. Screen is a little dim but hey. For under $100US I'm not complaining. This is exactly why I got it and set it up with linux, etc. Oh, also doing some journaling with #orgmode and it seems to be syncing to my home computer with #syncthing. Just about perfect!
@holgerschurig Thanks for that. A PET2001? We're not talking Commodore PET, are we? Wow. I'm a Commodore Basic guy from the 64 days. And yes, very small steps do add up!
@birv2 Yes, Commodore PET2001 with 8 kB of RAM. Long before C64.
Later, after I worked beside school and had some money I was able to buy myself an Apple II. Not the original one, but a compatible one. So than I had 48 kB of RAM :-)
Voting is under way for the Fedora 40 election cycle! Please look at the candidates and their responses to questions about serving in the roles they are running for.
Open seats are for the Fedora Council, FESCo, Mindshare Committee, and EPEL Steering Committee.
Free as in Freedom cloud gaming? Without technically & mentally closed NVIDIA Geforce NOW? :linux:
🎮 🌥️ NETRIS🌥️ 🎮
◉Open cloud gaming with feats familiar of Stadia
◉Utilizes Proton (Valve) to play Windows games without Microsoft
◉Developers aim Netris as GeForce NOW alternative
◉For now a Chrome-based browser needed but Firefox support coming?
◉ "We ensure your favorite games are always ready to play on Linux"
Congrats and thank you to Andrew Lukoshko, Ben Thomas, Cody Robertson, Elkhan Mammadli, @jonathanspw and @Conan_Kudo for serving as the inaugural ALESCo members. #linux#opensource