I have been to some shady pubs and nightclubs in my life, non of them had so much violent people as a linux bugreport thread.
First rule of Arch Linux is you defintely talk about Arch Linux
I use Arch by the way.
I use Arch and only use Vim or Emacs for config files. That's Linux flex culture right there. 🙂
Queue any discussion of Wayland/Xorg, Systemd, flatpacks, snaps, distro choice, ~~Pipewire/Pulseaudio~~ (last one is easy, Pipewire ftw), Vim/Emacs, GPL/MIT, immutability, etc..
Hah yeah it's crazy. Anyway, zsh or death.
We're not enemies as soon as a Windows user walks in. Or... Uuuugh.... A Mac user.
I'm actually switching to Mac at work (only two options) because I can't deal with the Windows environment anymore. Of locked down corporate environments, Windows is absolutely the worst.
Macs run on Unix and are pretty sturdy. I was surprised, when i also had to choose and found their osx ux very unobtrusive, allowing me to code effectively. Also, using the terminal almost feels like home.
I have close to no exposure and experience with Linux, but I love you guys.
Whispers: It is time. You join us today.
Join us. One of us! One of us!
I swear to God I hate Microsoft so much I'm going to seriously look into it.
It's so easy for you young people. Back in my day, in order to hate Microsoft, we had to understand the virus risks of Windows, we hand to have needed to go into the registry to make some minor customization change; we had to know about Microsoft's nefarious dealings bribing game dev companies to use Directx when they saw the threat of opengl. We had to know about Bill Gates's dark side (which he did, really well - but we have Behind the Bastards now). We had to be mad about crap like how they locked down gui customization, killing litestep and bb4win. We had to deeply care about the deep innards of your computing experience (read: ricing) to understand why Microsoft sucked so bad.
Today, you kids have it so easy - they're putting ads in the operating system, their core software is all subscription, they're talking about making the OS itself subscription based. These days they make it so obvious that we're not their priority, making good software isn't their priority; their priority is getting our money.
(I feel like I made the joke already - Microsoft's really easy to hate these days, you get it - but I'm having fun, so I'm going to keep going.)
They used to put freecell right on your computer - I'm telling you, we had to go seriously digging to find reasons to hate M$. Freecell, minesweeper, solitaire, that weird pinball game my dad liked - we had to be seriously ungrateful shits to head over to Ubuntu dot com.
And now, with one click installers, active discord help channels, eager, excited, and friendly people all over, just happy to see the FOSS community grow - engaging in a healthy relationship with computing has never been so easy - 3 or 4 clicks! Asserting your self respect and aligning your daily experience with your ethics was never like this when I was young.
We used to have to ask on the arch forums where 99% of the time we were told to rtfm (because we hadn't); we had to be super careful not to let on that we were asking the arch forums about our Ubuntu issues. We had to search for random forum threads that inevitably ended with "nvm i fixed it" - if there was any follow-up at all. We had men whose back sweat trickled down through their unkempt back hair before disappearing into their plumber crack; you guys today have stunningly beautiful men and women who are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to be "developer advocates" - there are twitch streamers who are getting paid super well at their fancy Netflix jobs but still spend hours and hours of their day sharing their knowledge with newcomers - literally just because they enjoy helping people learn about computers.
Kidding aside Linux is pretty ok, I hope you enjoy it.
advice #1; never type v-i-m in succession. it summons demons.
I do that so much at work I must be a warlock.
I hear you're sent to the Shadow Realm where you need input a satanic passphrase to escape, only known to those who have signed the deal with the Devil himself! He's also known as Joe from IT, so just ask him.
The "RTFM" linux users.
And then the man page is just a verbose unformatted paragraph written in 2007 by some guy on a lethal dose of ritalin
I bust out kali linux when I need to get into weird places for my clients but usually just windows as that is most of what I have to support.
i miss you linux
I'm so glad I can mostly just ask my Linux questions to AI now instead of hoping I can find someone who will tell me how to do what I want instead of berating my choices and attitude.
I was deep into linux once, in the 2000s, but then I got out.
And yet, the void still calls to me.
Well, in case Someone didn't Noted
I'm Use Arch, th'is the Way
This may not be the place to ask, but is there a guide you’d recommend for a lifelong windows user to try out Linux?
I’ve had a Steam Deck for a while now and love it and feel I could probably make the leap.
I have no idea why this comic in particular motivated me to finally ask.
Edit: I just want to say an incredible thank you to everyone and your advice. I was just looking for a link to a guide and ya’ll wrote them yourselves.
I think the prevailing advice of creating a virtual machine to play around in seems like a very good place to start.
Debian unstable is the only real way to run Linux
And so it's been since the dawn of computing, when the Colossus engineers told the ENIAC engineers to "RTFM newbs"
Welcome to the endless civil war between Linux distros.
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