• 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      My first Linux install, I downloaded some tutorial from somewhere, can’t remember where (maybe someone on IRC shared it 🤔… IDK, I can’t remember), and this is litelarly what it said 😂.

      You have to be prepared when installing Linux. Take a week or two off work or school and make sure you have the following things at your disposal.

      • Find as many bootable floppy’s and as many different dostro CDs as possible. Why? The boot floppy from Debian might work with Suse, but not the Debian CD.

      • Make sure you have at least two CD drives and floppy drives at your disposal. The more, the better. Why? You’ll probably burn out the first ones while trying to figure out which boot floppy goes with which distro.

      • Have coffee at your disposal all the time. You’re at the bottom of the pot? Pour that in your mug and put a new one on the kettle.

      • Stock up on as many different kinds of alcohol you can find, preferably strong stuff. Trust me, you’ll need it.

    • cevn@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Lmao… it hurts because it’s true!! Debug these windows stack traces in Linux, here you go!! Exception happened at 0xEBFCEBFCBEBXBDBBWBXBENEKWWLLWLFFMLW

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Yeah, enjoy that… I’ve tried it enough times to find the process cumbersome and full of troubleshooting. In the right state of mind I enjoy that, but I could never straight up ditch windows as someone who games often. Sometimes you just want to download a new game and play it.

    Linux will get there, if things keep going that direction. It’s not there yet, though.

    • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      01·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, enjoy that… I’ve tried it enough times to find the process cumbersome and full of troubleshooting.

      But… that’s part of the joy 🤨…

      In the right state of mind I enjoy that, but I could never straight up ditch windows as someone who games often.

      Who said you have to ditch Windows 🤨. I mostly use Wine so I don’t have to restart and boot into Windows or fire up a VM. It’s just simpler.

  • nifty@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I hate comments that are like “oh if only Linux could run Whatever” etc. You can have more than one computer (or partition), and you can have more than one OS. Windows isn’t going to divorce you if you spend time with Linux.

    • MashedTech@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      No, but it sure is annoying having to switch in the middle of doing something especially when you’re working. (Also, there’s that pesky thing that happened to me as well where windows doesn’t play nice with the Linux boot partition and fucks it up) So there’s always going to be a main os. If you’re fortunate enough you can use an old laptop for windows. Or, if your computer is powerful enough run an windows VM. For me, Gnome Boxes offered a really easy to use experience of running windows. It worked out of the box, no special tweaks.

      • Sagrotan@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        I installed Garuda on my wife’s gaming machine last autumn, dual boot with Windows. I haven’t seen her using Windows since then, and she said she hasn’t. She loves it btw, says, even better graphics in some games. And KDE is an eye candy anyways.

        • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Exactly it can be very hard to break away for some people but once you do its a breath of fresh air.

          • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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            10 months ago

            Meeh, I’ve had so many things in life taken away from me at some point that I just stopped caring to be honest 🤷. I just keep an open mind now (or at least try to) and am more like “oh, no more of that huh… ok, let’s see what was next on my to do list”.

            My mom always told me “people can take away everything from you, money, status, freedom… one thing they can never take away - your mind”.

            • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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              10 months ago

              I can’t find it now, but there is an Existential Comic that addresses this attitude perfectly. The philosopher is talking about how he always has some form of freedom, so he gets chained to a wall in a dungeon, and then he says “at least I still have the freedom to interpret my situation!”

              • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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                10 months ago

                Ah, yes, I saw that commic somewhere, I think someone posted it on Lemmy, but there was a twist to it at the end… can’t remember what it was, but it was funny 😂.

                • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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                  10 months ago

                  The person who chained him to the wall asks “And how do you interpret this situation?” He replies “it sucks.”

          • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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            10 months ago

            Ummm… not exactly, they sell shit and then take that shit away from you when they see fit. If that’s not illegal, then me circumventing their DRM for my own personal use most definitely isn’t.

            Plus, it really is legal to do RCE for your own personal use. It’s illegal to share that info.

            • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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              10 months ago

              I think you are mixing up illegal with unethical. I strongly disagree that any level of DRM warrants piracy. If you don’t like a company having power over you its time to seek alternatives.

  • Treczoks@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    There are actually only two kinds of windows apps that don’t run on Linux: Those made not to run on Linux on purpose, and those that were made by so bad programmers that you’ll be amazed how fast the “fixme” messages scroll in the terminal window from which you started wine. I’m working with one of the latter, and I’m happy that I just finished the last project with it. This piece of software is plain shit. And it looks like they don’t intend to fix their shit.

    • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It’s not exactly on purpose, but Wine is still missing a lot of hardware level translation, like native SATA for example, so… 🤷.

      • Treczoks@kbin.social
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        10 months ago

        I’m not talking about limits in low-level hardware support. I’m talking e.g. about games with anti-cheating software or productivity software with invasive license managers that are made not to run under anything but Windows.

    • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      01·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, you can run them with some heavy modding. I’ve done it with Photoshop 2021 and Premiere 2021. Takes a lot of work and debugging, but it’s doable.