That picture is so unsettling and idk why
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2026
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Are they sitting on the loo??
that particular combination of face expression and the top-down yellow lighting being the first thing I see when I open lemmy, I got jumpscared.
I got something else. It seems that psychotic looking conventionally attractive women are my thing.
I can fix her.
Me after years in IT and decades of Linux:
If you need help, bother somebody else
I mentioned to my dad how much windows 11 sucks to use and he agreed that he can't stand it
So naturally, I told him about Linux, which he literally had never heard of before. I told him I'll show him how to restore one of his old laptops with it, and he can go from there. Knowing him, I can't wait to see "how cool" he thinks it is that he can just "fix" his own computer
And I've already converted my wife, instead of buying a new MacBook cause hers is showing it's age. She keeps her Mac for backup, but the main computer is Linux Mint. She's even started to understand the terminal a little, even though she doesn't really have to
Slowly converting family and friends, simply because computers are expensive and windows sucks so hard now
You're doing the Lord's work. And by "the Lord" I mean Tux the penguin.
Is there a program or way to check what parts are covered by Linux? I have an old laptop I want to try Linux on beforehand.
As another person had suggested, test with a live image first before installing it to an SSD/HDD, however Linux is very well maintained by the community and even if there arenβt native drivers from your hardwares manufacturer, for example Corsair Keyboard Drivers, there usually is Open Sourced alternatives for these things like CKB-Next.
I say this to everyone, once you get a grasp on BASH (Bourne Again Shell) and package managers & repositories (edit: and the filesystem structure) youβll essentially be able to use any Linux distro, it just comes down to the nitty gritty of things.
I'd say that downloading drivers from the manufacturer is the absolute outlier and things working better with integrated open source drivers out of the box is the norm.
Try before you ~~buy~~ download proprietary cruft.
Yes. In general - it's called live cd. Some distros ship with that in their installed image. {K,X,}ubuntu come to mind. Mint might do as well. You can boot into it and look around, see if basic stuff - network, audio, etc - works.
And you can do this with a USB, it doesn't need to be a CD/DVD.
If only there were a distro as lazy as using an Android device.
Every time I mention this, someone comes along and mentions one or another distro, and then the caveats that keep it from being as lazy as using an Android device.
What exactly do you mean? Like a distro that just works well on a phone? Yeah proper Linux phones aren't quite there yet.
But any of the commonly recommended distros work out of the box on PC at this point, there's less fiddling than with windows at this point in my experience
I think he means, Android runs Linux and doesn't/can't be tweaked for the most part. Because you don't have root. So yes it's opposite of what most Linux users seek, but it sure seems to be stable for years. So you can be lazy "admin'ing" it
Things have gotten MUCH better than they ever have been.
But unfortunately, it is still not as easy as just using an android phone.
But then again, it's a hard metric to judge by, because while some things are harder than they should be on Linux, other things are just.. Different, than what people are used to (Windows, Mac).
I use Linux, I use Android, but I still get frustrated when I need to use my wife's iPhone for pretty much anything, because I've never owned one and I never use it. Does that mean iPhone is inherently bad design? Many people would argue no, it's a good design in most cases. Just different. You've gotta learn the different ways of doing what you need to do. Although iPhone definitely has a few design flaws, in my opinion.
Likewise with Linux. Many modern distros are very user friendly. But no matter how good it is, people will always struggle when starting for the first time, because many things are just plain different. And also there are design holes/flaws.
You can say the same thing about any modern operating system you aren't familiar with.
My sister in law has a MacBook, and every time I need to use it, which is maybe once or twice a year, I struggle. Things aren't where I expect them to be. Things don't work the way I expect. Heck, some "standard" keyboard shortcuts are different. Does that mean it's a bad operating system? No, I just need to put the time and effort in to learn it, if I wanted to use it daily.
Linux has come a long way, and gets a bad rap. Yes it has a learning curve, and it might be more difficult because of all the different distros, but it's pretty similar to everything else.
Iβm such a nonconformist that I tell people Linux is terrible, and that they should never try it.
It really is terrible. And yet, somehow orders of magnitude better than most windows versions.
Internally: "YESYESYESYESYESYESYES"
Externally: "Cool, let me know if you need any help"
"my friend recommended I use Ubuntu"
me (screaming internally, about canonical, about snaps, about bloat): "That... that's good. Good choice."
happy cake day
would you like to yap at me about linux (any distro, curious about ubuntu now tho)
I've been using Ubuntu for years with no desire to switch or learn more. I've heard the comments about canonical and snaps, which I barely comprehend. But there's a chance one day I'll grow an interest in what you're talking about, and I know you'll be there to explain it.
I'm in the same boat. I started with Ubuntu partly because I wanted to start learning ROS (robot operating system) and the documentation for that at the time mentioned Ubuntu. I've heard great things about Mint, which I'll probably try soon, and when I "upgrade" my gaming desktop to Win 11 I'm partly expecting it to try and fuck with Grub and my Ubuntu partition so I'm going to probably install Bazzite once Win 11 is set up. Hopefully Bazzite is good enough for gaming that I rarely will have a need to use Windows. Sadly there is windows-only software I need. I tried Wine once and it didn't work.
Ignore the haters (me), everyone starts their journey somewhere
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Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! Itβs gonna be so much fun! We can do each others hair and talk about our favourite distros!
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i had to hold in my excitement when someone asked me what linux distro they should use as a beginner
Arch my beloved!Β
Oh, and remember to sudo rm -rf /
/j, don't do that, it'll delete your whole system (for any newbies)
I started using Linux last week. And now I'm looking at your memes!
we can be buddies in how bad we are at it lol
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