…and it went very smoothly. I installed on a spare PC for now, but I could absolutely see this becoming my daily driver. I’m mostly surprised at how snappy and responsive it is, even on 10 year old hardware!
One of us! One of us!
Welcome aboard!
Linux has it’s tradeoffs, you must accept that sometimes, in some cases, you may get somewhat inconvenienced, but in exchange, your computer is truly yours now, with time you learn to deeply appreciate that, also, people who develop desktop, usually want to do it so people who are normal, can use it, I’m not a technical person and have never had a problem I couldn’t fix, you just need to keep trying!.. or find your way around it, contrary to popular beliefs, a big chunk of the Linux community is eager to help new people, for sure there are people who are elitists and gatekeepers, but are a loud, obnoxious minority.
Enjoy Linux!
Thanks! I think I’m willing to make that tradeoff. I also wouldn’t consider myself techy (as in, not a tech professional or anything), but I am pretty confident in my ability to google and figure stuff out.
I’ve even run into my first issue now: It turns out that Realtek wifi USB devices don’t play well with Linux.
To save yourself some headache on the wifi front, I recommend - at least for non-Laptops - getting a repeater and hooking your computer up via Ethernet cable. Yes, WiFi does work, but it can be a major PITA.
I might do that in the end, but I’ve already ordered a different one that is supposed to be more Linux friendly. The other one was falling apart anyway - I had to sort of bend it back together.
Googling is all you need (maybe change the search engine for a more privacy respecting one, like brave search or kagi, but still the same)
I am going to distro hop and experiment with it a bit more before I make the switch, I haven’t thought about things such as my peripherals being incompatible under Linux until I tried it for myself. I couldn’t use some of the buttons on my mouse (Logitech G502) to change things such as the DPI/sensitivity, and my headset (Arctis Novo Pro Wireless) also had similar issues, both of which use software that is only made for Windows. :(
took me a few gos to make the switch permanently. i wouldnt go back if you paid me though
This, but GrapheneOS
I have mint on two laptops and I want to install it on my desktop but right now I have too much work to do and can not get a couple of days to install it and set it up the way I want. I have a lot of files I need to move first.
Moving all of my files was my holdup too. I had to set up some backup storage before I could consider Linux on any of my machines. Then, there was a lot of back and forth while I was paranoid about forgetting something. That step took a while.
Ignore that this is from Lunduke, but you might like this rice.
https://lcarsde.github.io/installation.html
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/make-linux-look-like-star-trek-lcars
Ignore that this is from Lunduke,
who? why?
One of those people who used to make Linux related content and then became an anti woke grifter
Ooh! I was hoping something like this existed. Thank you
My biggest hangup (so far) is modding games.
Nexus is built for Windows. CDPR’s RedMod is too.
It’s probably not that big a deal. I’m just shit at all this stuff. I’m not a coder. I don’t even know what the fuck sudo means. But I have a very loose grasp on using it. With a moderate amount of help from the internet. Usually.
Super user do
Dragging mod files into folders is your easiest solution
Nexus is building a new version of its app, and the new one has Linux support (native app).
It’s not yet a full replacement, and at the moment only supports a few select games, but eventually it’ll expand to the full catalogue.
I’ll just go back to modding morrowind LOL
“I heard them say we’ve reached Morrowind. I’m sure they’ll let us go.”
Morrowind will always be wonderful to return to. I miss all the awesome player house mods. OpenMW has been so AWESOME.
Also:
YoU wOuLdN’t StEaL a LiMeWaRe pLatTeR
Yeah that is one of the weaker areas of Linux. I think there is native support coming for Nexus soon.
Closest comparison I can give of it is… It’s like clicking “Yes” when the User Account Control (UAC) popup appears on Windows when you’re installing stuff. That’s you, as an admin, confirming you want to perform whatever action is being performed.
sudo ...is perform an action/command as an admin.As for the mods. A lot of the time it’s a matter of taking the files you downloaded, and dropping them in the game directory (or a directory within the game directory).
Once you do it manually once, you’ll see it’s pretty straight forward and you don’t really need the mod managers.
Fun fact,
sudo...meansSuper User do...Yep
That image reminds me of this album art
Pink Floyd’s best album
The stuntman on the right had quite a career. He died 2 weeks ago https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05e0z9lj3mo
ONE OF US!!! ONE OF US!!! ONE OF US!!!
Literally came here to comment this lol
Congratulations. One of us, one of us, one of us.
Gooble gobble, gooble gobble!
Penguins together strong?
This cracks me up, why is there a bunch separated from the rest?
Become untariffable
Penguins together warm!
SWOLE PENGUINS GO
One of us.
One of us
One of us!
Welcome to Linux, here’s your thigh highs. We expect a post on UnixSocks soon.
can confirm, installed linux as a teenager and became a trans woman as an adult - the programming socks work 😉
BASICALLY YEAH
And please leave your PC running for a post on uptimeporn
Every time I stumble across an uptime post I laugh, and then proceed to do my daily ritual of having to fully pull out my power cable and reinsert it to get the laptop to wake up.
UnixSocks
How did I not know this was a thing
I didn’t either.
I’ll be in my bunk.
Finally a good use of bullying.
