Linux users are the vegans of the computer world
"As a Linux user..."
Yeah yeah, you're right. But can you maybe shut up about it for just a minute?
USE LINUX
LINUX IS BETTER IN EVERY WAY
MICROSOFT SUCKS APPLE SUCKS GOOGLE SUCKS
THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP
But for real? Linux is actually so great. I'm running a shitty old PC as a media server and learning Linux as I go. It's so light and nimble compared to a Windows machine. For anyone considering Linux, I highly recommend trying it out even if it's just for funsies.
I never tell people I am a linux user.
I tell them I use Kubuntu.
Telling someone, you love drinking pop is unhelpful,
Telling someone how obsessed you are about drinking MOUNTAIN DEW, is way more informative.
FYI: I rarely ever drink pop.
choose your own fizzy water
???
I don't care much about what other people are comfortable in using, but please don't expect tech support from me. Every time I have to use Windows I get frustrated at how it forcibly feeds me stuff I don't want. Although I admit that sometimes I joke to people to switch to Linux when they get frustrated with Windows as well, but that's about it.
And also, some popular memes about Linux are probably just that, memes. Don't take it too seriously.
The force feeding of news and shit is fucking enraging! Why on earth did they start pushing that, and why is it so hard to turn off? Why do they turn it back on at every opportunity? I have a Surface Pro that I use for digital painting. I'll be happily just painting along when I misclick the system notification area and all of the sudden "Trump! Trump! Trump! Outrage! Doom! Gloom! Global catastrophe!" gets shoved in my face. I'll open a fucking browser if I want to see the news. Ugh! Fuck off! That's honestly a huge part of the reason I finally switched to Linux as my primary OS.
And also, some popular memes about Linux are probably just that, memes. Don't take it too seriously.
Try going to a Linux community and telling them for what reason you wouldn't use Linux in a specific case or to whom you wouldn't recommend Linux. You'll quickly see a lot of responses that aren't just memes.
have you tried linux? its really cool
What a coincidence, so are vegetables!
i know ;)
I mean, next year is definitely the year of the Linux desktop.
I would wait until Windows 10 is out of support (2025).
It'd only be out of support by then if they don't release new updates. Not to mention the versions with longer life.
There is quite a bit of truth to this.
What is a good distro for an absolute noob? Like me.
Linux Mint is pretty good, it has a Windows 7 kind of feel to it. Fedora is also nice, it great for tablet, also with touch. Both work pretty well and consistently out of the box.
mint! its popular for beginners, ubuntu based, user friendly, lots of tutorials/troubleshooting help
Depends a lot on use case, certainly!
Also, do you like a "bottom up" or "top down" approach? Grabbing a raspberry pi and setting up a headless (no monitor) home server is a great bottom up way of getting familiar with things --- learn to configure various services and whatnot from the command line. Or, just start with a user-friendly distro with a GUI you like, and gradually work your way up to looking under the hood.
Pop!_os for sure but dont mess up the gui like linustechtips did
Pop!_OS is the absolute best for beginners. Pick KDE if you want a Windows experience and Gnome if you want a Mac experience.
Nvidia? Pop!_OS probably.
Mint is great but its using the legacy display manager so some people witg multi monitors with different frame rates bla bla had issued with it tho.
Watch a few beginner tutorials on YouTube and see which one appeals to you most.
As an 11 year Arch user, I would like to correct the title: "Arch users are the vegans of the computer world". :-P
I wouldn't say it is "Year of the linux desktop!" But I do think eventually it will take up much more of the market of OS use. Maybe years and years away.
Linux has come a very long way. I found it is actually easier in many ways to Mac and Windows, more complicated in others.
For general use, and even gaming, it's actually in a really good state for general users right now.
The amount of time I've wasted trying to fix dumb issues in Linux, usually to do with some kind of file missing or dependency not being available but unable to be installed is infuriating. I always end up just trashing the install and starting again. I'm a systems engineer and I hate troubleshooting Linux issues. Great for servers, shitty for something you're fucking with on a day to day basis like a desktop os. Also bash sucks ass.
Difference is, meat eaters don't complain about eating meat. Whereas Windows users constantly complain about privacy issues, ads and forced updates that break things. As for apple users,....lots to complain about, but due to Stockholm Syndrome they don't.
Omg shut up 💀💀
Then what are Apple users? Meatheads?
Linux users are vegetarians while free software users are the vegans.
Literally hear more people shitting on vegans than vegans actually talking about it
Yes.
as a vegan linux user...
USE LINUX
STOP PAYING FOR THE TORTURE ANIMALS
https://youtu.be/LQRAfJyEsko
no one is paying for the torture of animals and your youtube video sucks.
what do you think the money you buy meat with is used for?