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I feel like I've been gaslit into running FOSS but every success only brings me closer to fighting god
Speak for yourself, I first got on Lemmy to promote a movie, and the next thing I know, I was using Arch (BTW) and moderating an Android community.
I'm still not quite sure how that happened. This place.
You're so damn confident with every comment that I am constantly struggling not to believe you're actually Margot Robbie.
it really is comforting to know you can do 99% of stuff you want with PCs without a license from Microsoft. FOSS has its own headaches but at least you don't have to wade through a PR swamp to fix stupid bugs
Fuck did we all go down the exact same pipeline? I just installed Linux last week and I haven't booted up windows since.
now to get a chromebook with coreboot to really stick it to the anti FOSS demons
Just a passer-by: why a chromebook? Is their hardware less reliant on proprietary software?
the Chrultrabook project is what youll wanna look into, but basically yes. You can reliably get new-ish hardware very cheaply and flash FOSS stuff like Coreboot onto it.
No idea why tbh. The equivalent laptops outside of ChromeOS' ecosystem are usually much more locked down, to the point where the most powerful systems you'll find being able to run Coreboot are decades-old thinkpads on 3rd gen mobile i5 and Kepler mGPUs.
I don't run Linux (though I'm admittedly more interested in it than I used to be) but the reddit API stuff definitely made me learn more about foss, and value it more.
If you’re already feeling some interests your gonna jump ship sooner or later. I made the switch last year and its been nothing short of amazing.
Steam, gog and epic games all work. Some run better then on windows, others require a tinker step.
You can run and install most exes, even pirated games using Lutrius.
Blazing fast. I have sm called hyprland sway and win11 feels like the stone age compared.
Best of all: COMPUTERS ARE FUN AGAIN You learn so much but its intuitive enough you don't even notice.
Interesting to know that steam, gog, and epic (specifically) all work well for you, I've heard mixed results with Epic, some say it doesn't work. Maybe I've gotten wrong info.
I have an older laptop, and as soon as I can upgrade to something better, I'm going to use it as a Linux practice.
I am using heroic launcher to play blazing sails on epic right now. I am on Arch, which I believe is a positive since the steam deck is arch based (i heard).
The escapist 2 i have not gotten to work properly though. It runs but with like 1fps. Apparently this is because epics implementation and it runs smooth with steam. Definitely test things on a game by game basis.
its intuitive enough you don’t even notice
a bit much
COMPUTERS ARE FUN AGAIN
agreed
Now you just need to remove snaps. And then when Canonical still forces them on you, you move to Linux Mint, but then Linux mint won't be updated as often as you'd like. So then you move to Arch. Then you'll really be one of us
Mint to Arch?
That's like saying: "ok now that you have driven your for first car for a few weeks it's time to fly your first plane. Good luck."
I already ran Linux when the API blew up but now I'm a girl..
queen behaviour
I tried Ubuntu in college and people told me it was a phase... joke's on them.
Linux gals are best gals
Might be a Linux thing, though.
Beware of the pipeline
windows -> LMDE -> Fedora KDE -> Arch Linux -> Gentoo
Windows -> Linux Mint -> Debian -> Arch -> Kinoite
Lmfao
sudo hostnamectl set-hostname SOMETHINGNORMAL
git clone https://github.com/popey/unsnap
cd unsnap
./unsnap
The first one will set the name behind the @ sign to something not that long. I recommend just usint "PC" for privacy reasons. Often nobody needs to know your device model.
The second one removes snaps and snapd and installs installed apps as flatpak instead. Flatpak is a universal format, similar to snap, came out a bit later but not only Ubuntu uses it. Snap also works on multiple Distros but people dont like it, it is still slow (now just slowing down boot) etc.
What hostnames do people use? I'm tired of (and bad at) naming all my devices, I just tend to leave default as op, at least I can tell them apart easily
I use names from FFXIV.
For my work-related VMs, raid bosses. It makes it easy to spot my VMs because nobody sane would name them stuff like Erichthonios or Hippokampos. Unfortunately I had to draw the line at 724P-Operated Superior Flight Unit A-lpha.
For my home server VMs/CTs, I use the names of the gods - Byregot, Rhalgr, Azeyma, etc. and Eulogia for Proxmox itself.
You could also name them so everyone can identify what they are at a glance instead.
Why stop at Ubuntu if you can try a new distro each month?
This is the way, quit your real job and focus on nothing but switching distros
I guess there’s that beginner period when that should be allowed. I kind of wished it happened to me again, instead of daily driving boring Arch systems with no incentive to ever change.
I got pissed off at Google Photos, which led me down a self-hosting rabbit hole. Ended up installing Linux everywhere, even my "gaming" one eventually (I do development, and WSL was a resource hog).
The hardest thing to degoogle has been email - I've used the same address for years. But I use Thunderbird so at least I don't have to see ads in my fucking inbox
In 2018 I went to research why all the sites wanted my cookies so much, today I'm a free software adovocate and a Marxist
That sounds kinda like my journey, although without the Marxist part.
Maybe a bit random, but
Also I buy a year of Nebula to support creators and stick it to Google.
Would you recommend that? I also wanna quit/ reduce YouTube and enjoy learning new stuff while watching high quality content. Is it worth its money? I'm currently broke and have to watch my finances, but I wouldn't mind spending a few bucks if it's something I enjoy.
You can get a promo for $30/yr. If you're broke, it's hard to recommend it as money is better spent on needs, but if you have some disposable income I'd say it's worth it. Many large creators upload their YT videos (sans sponsorship sections) to it and add bonus exclusive content, and it doesn't come with any ads.
I think I see NixOS in your future. ;)