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[-] polygon6121@lemmy.world 88 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I can recommend running it on new hardware. I love that it runs great on old hardware, but it is a bit of a disservice to Linux distros that people always experience it on raspberry pies and other old laptops or otherwise relatively slow hardware.

Linux on a brand new hardware is insanely good.

Edit: software => hardware

[-] Hedlosa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Sorry to be that gal but other slow hardware not software

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[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Ehhhhhh I wouldn't say brand new hardware. A lot of times Linux still needs a few months to properly support a new Gen of graphics cards or processors

Though it generally at least works which is a huge improvement over back in the day

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[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My primary laptop is a Lenovo T495s. I'm a big fan because my requirements for a laptop aren't particularly demanding, but while a 5 year old Ryzen 7 is a bit aged, I'd hardly consider it underpowered, at least for my (and many others) needs. Laptops like this can easily be found in great condition and under $200. I spent a little more after a new nvme and maxing out ram.

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[-] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 68 points 6 months ago

Be me

Discover linux in an effort to be able to customize your desktop and make it look like the haxxors in movies at 12 years old

?????

Woops ... Linuxed too hard and became a cloud infrastructure engineer.

FUCK!

[-] cevn@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

Wiggly windows in compiz probably converted like 10 thousand 12 year olds to linux… I know from experience!

[-] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

ABSO fucking lutely ... that and the flaming mouse effect

I thought I was the coolest cat in the litter XD

[-] Willdrick@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Don't forget about the whole desktop rain effect!

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 9 points 6 months ago

If you, like me, enjoyed enabling mouse trails in Windows because wooo particles...

Wiggly windows and the cube desktop switcher were like a huge step up LOL.

[-] BobsAccountant@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Damn no reason for you to get on here and call me out so directly. Also I still have wobbly windows and the modern version of desklets. No shame.

[-] cevn@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I am gonna go set those up today lol, I miss it.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

Hey, I'm old AF. I STILL use wobble windows!

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 12 points 6 months ago

Cloud infrastructure engineer at 12 years old? Damn son!

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[-] stepan@lemmy.cafe 49 points 6 months ago

You forgot paranoid people. I fall into all three categories.

[-] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 39 points 6 months ago

I feel personally attacked lol

Running linux and foss software on my shitty hardware since ever

[-] Bluefruit@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Rejoice brother as you are amoung friends.

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 38 points 6 months ago

Really surprised when I randomly found out that my tech illiterate friend was running Linux. Back in 2014 or so. Ubuntu. Was no big deal for her. It did everything she wanted.

[-] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago

My mother is very happy now. Bonus points she doesn't call me up and have me dismiss the Microsoft upsell every other update.

She says she doesn't want to break anything but I think she wants me to do it so she doesn't have to give it a nanosecond of a thought. Also she doesn't throw a fit every time she has to wait for updates to finish anymore!

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 months ago

Your tech illiterate friend is not so tech illiterate

[-] m0darn@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Lol, yeah they've just learned to pretend to be too avoid being everyone's tech support.

It's why I tell everyone to get a mac: I don't know anything about them.

[-] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 35 points 6 months ago

I look at this meme and lift my hand gently from the track-pad revealing the uncanny logo, ThinkPad and I think: Yes, this meme is for me.

Well, if it's good enough for the ISS, it's good enough for me.

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

now I gotta become an astronaut and be the first to install gentoo in space

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You hear a knock on the window of the ISS, you look over and see an alien in a spacesuit floating, it holds a piece of space paper against the window that says "I use arch btw".

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[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Ah shit, I just accidentally unmounted the Soyuz module and the canadarm drivers haven't been working since the hobbyist maintaining them for free got tired of abusive comments from NASA engineers and took up farming instead, so hopefully we don't need to evacuate before they send up another one.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 7 points 6 months ago

sudo umount -a

|| ISS catastrophically disconnects all modules ||

SurprisedPikachu.jpeg

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago
sudo apt purge doxygen

One character has never been this important.

Though on Windows, you might get:

Co-pilot could not find doxygen installed on this system but guessed that you meant Oxygen Management Service and uninstalled that for you.

Please click on a star to rate your experience ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Doesn't the ISS run Debian?

Edit: Yes, they introduced Debian on user devices back in 2013

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[-] KaRunChiy@kbin.run 29 points 6 months ago

My GF is still using my 13 year old laptop running Pop_OS to do what most normal people do.

Watch youtube.

Now my current laptop is suffering my linux workflow abuse.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 25 points 6 months ago

I fully support Linux and FOSS but, who the fuck pays for windows (not talking about pre installed computers).

[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 25 points 6 months ago

It's not about paying for Windows, usually it's included in the device you buy. The real reason why Linux helps broke people is because bloated Windows can't run on the budget PCs they have (and they can't just buy a faster computer)

[-] smokinliver@sopuli.xyz 17 points 6 months ago

I mean you pay for Windows on preinstalled computers, too. There are Laptops sold without OS and they are cheaper than the same model with windows installed.

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

I did once. I built a pc. I hated the watermark. Y’all hadn’t enlightened me yet

[-] egonallanon@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

The watermark annoys me so I grab one of those £20 fell of the back of a truck keys.

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[-] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

I think the point is you can put a fully updated new Linux on a decade old ThinkPad but with windows you'd need to buy a whole new laptop to run modern stuff also it would be unusably slow

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[-] mememuseum@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

My daily driver laptop is the T410 I found at a thrift store for $5.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 points 6 months ago

I keep hearing stories like this but all I see in thrift stores are like busted DVD players and other grimey old stuff that was second-rate even when released. In that awkward valley where it's not vintage, and newer stuff is objectively better.

I think people caught on and the good finds are pushed to their auction sites and stuff now. =\

I'm happy with my X230 I got for $200 off eBay though, like 5 years back.¯_(ツ)_/¯

[-] mememuseum@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Goodwill is particularly bad about this. You can almost never find cool stuff in the stores anymore. It's all siphoned off for ShopGoodwill.

It was definitely one of my luckiest finds, but I think another part of it was that it was a pay by weight bin outlet. A St. Vincent De Paul in my case. Stuff isn't individually priced and you weigh your items on a scale when you check out and pay by the pound. It's usually very cheap because mine has a maximum of $5.00 per item so even heavy things like typewriters have been cheap.

I much prefer bin outlets because of this.

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[-] littletranspunk@lemmus.org 11 points 6 months ago

Thank you Windows for making your latest version so shitty that I feel comfortable running Linux on all my hardware.

If the latest version is this shitty then I only expect the previous one to be enshittified up to the point of support drop.

Linux FTW!

[-] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 13 points 6 months ago

All they had to do was to allow me to move the taskbar to the side and I'm only partially joking.

[-] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

I'd say all they had to do is remove mandatory Microsoft accounts but the road windows is going down just makes me think it was just a matter of time.

[-] ordellrb@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

can't fix whats broken by design

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[-] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

People don't mention it much but I think it's actually the most powerful thing about Linux (and open source more broadly) that it's free to use. It doesn't matter if you're down on your luck, were born in a poor nation through no fault of your own, or are working class and getting crushed by the capitalist economy. It's a leveller and, in my view, represents power, resilience and dignity in solidarity. It's literally one of the few important things left in the world that we have like that.

[-] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 6 months ago

Free cost and free as in freedom to understand and modify the code. I also think it's a beautiful way of doing things. We also have Wikipedia and Openstreetmap. The internet has a tremendous potential for collaboration, people doing things because they want to, for the benefit of everyone.

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[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 10 points 6 months ago

I'll just use my steam deck for writing code. Thanks though, boss.

[-] finkrat@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If it wasn't for those rascally penguins I would be flat broke trying to afford the latest system requirements for Windows 12 or a mediocre MacBook instead of a $120 5 year old Dell Latitude, how dare they!!

[-] linkinkampf19@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Just threw Zorin on my secondhand x220, but been using the Thinkpad as a low end test bench so that may change. Runs surprisingly well, although I do need a new battery soon ("dies" at ~40%).

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