• M137@lemmy.world
    20·
    7 days ago

    A friend of mine had a party at her place on the most recent new years eve, there were several people who I hadn’t met before there and we quickly realised we were all Linux users and, of course, absolute fucking nerds (I mean that with pride and appreciation).
    She is very much not a nerd in that way and most others there weren’t too. It took about 15 minutes before she threw her hands up in the air and said “guys, this isn’t fun for anyone else, if you really need to only talk about operating systems and shit like that you’ll have to leave. Everyone else wants to hang with you guys too but no one can if you keep this in-group thing going.”
    And, yeah, we all understood her view. Of course we put up a playful fight though, first acting all disappointed and then saying “ok, ok, we’ll leave then. Have fun being all boring and stuff without us cool kids” etc. which it took her a while to realise wasn’t serious, heh.
    For the rest of the night we had to stop ourselves several times from getting back into it, both among ourselves and with other people. All of it was great though, and made some new Linux geek friends!

  • UnknowableNight@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    Ever since switching I’ve needed to hold myself back from mentioning it in every conversation. I thought it was a meme, but it’s real!

  • spidapida@lemmy.zip
    5·
    6 days ago

    Okay people: Win 10 is infinitely better than Win 11, so like if you’re one of the few eccentric people that for some reason is required to use Win🅱️ows

    Tap for spoiler

    Okay so previously I tried PopOS and it kinda works but when I tried playing games (tetr.io to be exact) my framerate is half of my monitor’s refresh rate and I had no idea how to fix it and at the time I’m using absolutely proprietary software required for my university and dual booting is a nightmare to deal with for some reason with Windows; and then at one point I also tried Bazzite, and no matter what I did, tetr.io would always operate on my iGPU and not on my discrete GPU (thanks NoVIDIA!!1!), so after that I dunno I’ll just probably stick to Win 10 until I got a proper PC, and that’s a whole story to have and I don’t want another yapping session about that

    then… there you go.

    • Blemgo@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 days ago

      For the problems you encountered: the refresh rate can be set in the monitor settings. If you can’t go any higher, then there might be a problem with your graphics drivers. It is also important to add that Pop!OS is based on Ubuntu, which can take ages to implement modern changes. For Gaming I would generally recommend a rolling release distro, maybe it be OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, Fedora, etc… Otherwise you might not get the cutting edge tech that you need.

      As for Tetr.io: it seems to be a problem with Vulcan, namely that improperly configured drivers will use the iGPU by default. How do you install/run that game?

  • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    5 days ago

    They do, don’t they? People would complain about certain things of Windows or MacOS not working. And if it fits the situation, recommendation might me voiced.

  • Enzy@feddit.nu
    2·
    6 days ago

    I highly recommend that you recommend some recommended operating systems.

  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    7 days ago

    TBF, almost everyone I work with uses Linux. There’s virtually no conversation about it. It’s just what it is, like even the weather is more deserving of discussion.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
      71·
      7 days ago

      I work a job at an airport assisting the elderly and disabled with wheelchair assistance.

      I cannot tell you, literally cannot tell you how many people sit in my wheelchair, and IMMEDIATELY start talking about the weather.

      Uggghhhhhh!

      I would be pleasantly surprised if the conversation instead was like this:

      “So, hows your day going?”

      “I murdered my wife and kids last night. Then I ate their corpses…”

      “Really? That’s fantastic. Hey, what operating system are you using?”

    • Zink@programming.dev
      3·
      6 days ago

      I thought with them it was more about the entire device than just the OS. People might say they love their mac but nobody is telling friends & family to just install macOS on that old PC that’s losing Microsoft support.

      • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
        4·
        7 days ago

        The Father -> Richard Stallman

        The Son -> Linus Torvalds

        The Holy Ghost -> GNU+Linux

        The Holy Temple -> Arch Linux

            • SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world
              3·
              5 days ago

              The long and short of it is this:

              • Linux is the kernal, the bit of the OS responsible for interacting with hardware and organising processes that run
              • GNU packages are a collection of small software programs that are present in virtually every Linux distro (things like bash, grep, and libc) that are needed to make the OS do useful things.
              • together they make up “GNU/Linux”, which is often shortened to simply Linux. Which is fine, people will understand what you’re talking about from context, and only pedantic asshats will correct you in general conversation. This is the internet though and you’re bound to run into a pedantic asshat from time to time.
              • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                1·
                5 days ago

                Thanks for this explanation. This was my understanding as well, except for the GNU part.

                I asked because the parent commenter directly above my first comment made the distinction between the operating system and the kernel. I wasn’t actually sure what the overall umbrella “OS” was for Linux, since as you say the kernel is Linux while there are GNU packages. I can’t really recall someone on Lemmy saying what exactly the operating system is for any given computer that happens to run Linux as the kernel.

                I guess this scratches at what the definition of an operating system is: Windows, macOS, or GNU/Linux. In reality, doesn’t Windows run on the Unix kernel? Why don’t we call it Windows/Unix then? Is Unix used with other “operating systems” that layer on top of the Unix kernel itself?

                I went to school for electrical engineering btw and had to take many classes about digital logic and all of the entry level stuff about PCs at a hardware level. Didn’t really get taught much about what goes on top of the hardware aside from maybe microcontrollers with Assembly and C.

                Thanks anyways!

            • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              7·
              7 days ago

              For most users, kernel js kinda invisible. Whatever program you run interacts with the system via the kernel. Kernel manages hardware and links software with hardware.

              And all the other programs you can launch, built around the kernel which together make it functional is the rest of the OS.