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.
The noodle thing is because of a dude that posts heavily on ich iel and it’s called Instantnudel. Things took a turn from there. Apparently, he’s currently getting laid more often due to a fitting Tinder match and everybody’s missing their daily dose of noodly memes.
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.”
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’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 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.
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.
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.
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 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. :(
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.
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
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”.
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