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Professional Neckbeard

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Nice

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max-w-[1200px], take it or leave it

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I'd say that if you want a stable, "just works" experience, try fedora. It's the only distro I've had truly 0 issues or complications with...

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Screensharing is broken, pretty good other than that

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Think of linux as desktop android... That's probably the best advice I can give you. Depending on which distro you choose, they'll have different app stores. GNOME Software for some, discover (yes, that's the name of the program) for others, Pop!Shop for Pop!OS. As for managing apps - avoid installing snaps. Other than that, don't worry about it.

Pretty much all cloud providers are supported on linux, most of them just don't have bespoke apps and get added directly to your file manager. Some distros have a step during the initial setup, where you can log into accounts and what not, which should setup stuff like OneDrive automatically. And if not, i don't think setting them up manually is too hard.

Do not install/uninstall stuff from the terminal. Most self-respecting user friendly distros have an app store which does all the things for you. Installing things from the terminal/the internet should be a last resort, only if the thing you want to install is not available anywhere else.

As for my distro recommendations... try Fedora KDE or Linux Mint.

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Moths, especially the big ones... idk, they are just insanely terrifying to me. I know they cannot hurt me, I know they are harmless, they terrify the life out of me

Hey Battery, are you OK? You've been saying 0% for 15 min now. ( lemmy.world )

Running a Gigabyte U4UD, been having battery problems for months now, and the battery health only reports 50% capacity. Started playing Battlefront and got distracted and saw my battery looks like this now. Been doing this for 15 min, so either my battery is magical... or the Clevo design is flawed. Seeing how long she goes for...

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Well, of course I know him, he's me

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No, it's not unix. None of the systems in the meme are actually unix.

Linux is unix-like, made initially by 1 guy who just so happened to base it around another unix-like OS and has quite literally nothing to do with unix

BSD has no original AT&T unix code and while it does work in similar ways, it is still not unix

Windows is windows... The closest thing it has ever gotten to unix is the Windows Services for UNIX, which literally only existed so that M$ could claim POSIX compliance and get a lot of government money...

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I sound like a fcking loser omg

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Don't we already have polkit and pkexec for that?

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have you tried EasyEffects?

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it's the never ending cycle, we struggle getting wifi to work and then laugh at windows users trying to get windows to work

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I feel like my joke went over a lot of people's heads

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Except, that older versions of desktop environments tend to be less stable...

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No, stable for me means "it's not buggy and broken"

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Yes, and that's exactly the reason why I'd never recommend debian for a desktop

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Coming from someone who's clearly never used Arch... It is anything but stable, that's kinda the whole point.

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I mean, I get it being broken for the release candidate on gentoo... But it still being broken in the same way on 6.0.4 on alpine... That's gotta be one hell of an imagination

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On gentoo, no, but I forgot to mention in the post that the issue is plasma 6 exclusive, as I have both it and hyprland installed and screensharing works fine on hyprland, so idk.

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I just did a big upgrade to my "home lab" (got a new switch and moved it out of my bedroom), which required some maintenance in the days after the upgrade... Running a new ethernet cable, because the old one just couldn't heck doing gigabit, reconfiguring my router and AP, just general stuff like that.

Other than that and my DHCP/DNS VM sometimes forgetting to autostart after a power outage, pretty much 0 maintenance

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Just use VLC

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The problem with snap isn't that it's useless, it's that it's garbage. Snaps are just plain worse in every way, compared to other packaging formats. They impact boot time A LOT... like A LOT A LOT on a hard drive, use a ton of space, are slow to launch unless you use like tricks or what not to speed up consequent launches after the 1st one, the store backend is proprietary and poorly moderated, the store is slow and unresponsive, and cannonnical is pulling some real micro$oft-esk shit to try and force them on users... Stuff like aliasing apt commands to snap, disallowing ubuntu spins to ship flatpak by default, etc...

The only redeeming quality that snaps have is that you can run CLI/server programs as a snap, and even then, just use docker lmao.

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Based PvZ

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Unless you're running a server, no.

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Wireguard, simply connect to it whenever I'm out somewhere and boom, instant access to everything on my local network

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I like telegram, it's a messaging app... Yeah

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Just... Use virt manager or if you like me hate it's UI, gnome boxes. They are different UIs for the same thing. And are both infinitely better than virtualbox.

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Yes, it's great. I've ran it on a void linux base, a debian base and an alpine base. Was rock solid each and every time.

What's a common occurrence in your hobby that you think shouldn't be?

For me it's driving while under the influence. If you couldn't tell, I like me some ganja. However I have long since held the belief that it is utterly insane to drive while under the influence of most substances, with maybe nicotine and caffeine being the exception. All too often I see other stoners smoking and driving, which I...

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Gatekeeping and acting like you're smarter than everyone else... General neckbeard behavior. Linux/Computers in general can be a great hobby if you can get past the "RTFM, yoUr stUPiD fOR asKing" people.

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Imo, a lot of linux documentation and documentation in general is written in a way that assumes you know what it's talking about... When it's the documentation's job to teach you about said things...

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Yeah, those are the exact kind of people I'm referring to. They are annoying, however not "I hate this hobby now, fck it all" annoying, to me anyways. And Idk if it's just me, but I've encountered less of them here on lemmy than on smth like reddit, even when I've asked stupid questions.

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Void is a learning experience. Both it's init system and it's package manager work differently to anything else out there... If you wanna spend some time, learning how to use it, yeah, otherwise just stay on fedora.

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The gentoo one is the most accurate, as I always leave it to compile overnight

What distro should I use on my potato?

I have an HP Stream 11 that I want to use for word processing and some light web browsing - I'm a writer and it's a lightweight laptop to bring to the library or coffee shop to write on. Right now it's got Windows and it's unusable due to lack of hard drive space for updates. Someone had luck with Xubuntu, but it's been a few...

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My 1st recommendation for any potato PC is AntiX, however, since this one isn't THAT potato and you're gonna be using it for light writing and stuff, I'd say try Alpine... It's out of the box experience is similar to arch, however you have automated install scripts for things like the desktop environment.

You could also try AntiX's parent distro - MX linux or Linux Mint XFCE, both should work nicely.

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Short answer: no

Long aswer: Kali, as a desktop is just half broken debian with a theme and a bunch of bloatware preinstalled... Even if your host is linux, you should still run Kali in a VM.

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Mostly for headless systems, servers and such. That and debugging, if your desktop breaks/quits working for some reason, you need some way to run multiple things at once...

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The only "compiler" I need is npm... Usually just use the one from the repos, however if it's too old, which on most stable distros it usually is, I install a tool, called n from the old version of npm and use that to update npm...

Dell is so frustrating

Dell has got to be one of the most frustrating companies that put out a linux laptop. They put out a laptop certified for ubuntu but then never support newer releases. A big part of their hardware is always proprietary drivers like webcam, fingerprint reader etc.. Then you update to a new LTS release because lets be serious...

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Do not buy dell... They are like apple without the whole "good products" part.

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If you want a PC laptop, my recommendation is that you either get a framework or buy one from a linux manufacturer (System76/Tuxedo/Slimbook)... Or if you need GPU horsepower on the go, just get whichever gaming laptop is on sale, they are all pretty much the same. If you're on a budget, try your hand at 2nd hand. If you country doesn't have a developed 2nd hand market, then you might consider getting a budget laptop, however those generally tend to suck and I'd recommend against it, unless you really just NEED a laptop.

Just don't buy dell "flagship" products, they are just worse macbooks

Rectangle for Linux?

To preface this, I've used Linux from the CLI for the better part of 15 years. I'm a software engineer and my personal projects are almost always something that runs in a Linux VM or a Docker container somewhere, but I've always used a Mac to work on personal and professional projects. I have a Windows desktop that I use...

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rectangle is a built-in feature of the KDE plasma desktop lol

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desktop's built like a flashbang fr

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Makes me feel smarter and my system boots slightly faster... yeah

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I use gentoo, so I feel that

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I don't wanna be that guy but... Linux is a kernel and Hurd is an operating system, so technically neither of them run by default

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I love mint, but man do I want them to hurry up with their wayland support

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How do they even know if you use your data as a hotspot? That's just ridiculous!

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You feel smarter... Yeah, that's pretty much it.

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I've got a few.

A reboot of quake... Quake 2016 if you wanna.

A NieR:Automata sequel. (or a remake of the PC port).

A looter-shooter type game, where instead of you building your weapons, you program them. Like, the unlocks in the game are sort of code blocks, which you combine together to upgrade the weapons and characters... Sorta like scratch: the game

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