Hated Windows. TechTV had a download of day that “works on both Windows and Linux!”
“I don’t know what Linux is but it can’t be worse that Windows.”
I’ve been on it ever since. That was 20+ years ago.
I honestly don’t know how windows works… I only ever used it for about a year and some change when I was a teenager in the 90s.
It’s easier to think about Linux on the context of what an individual application needs to run. Pretty much everything you do will have these components.
That’s really it. If something isn’t working, it’s pretty much exclusively going to fall into one of those categories. What that means is going to vary significantly from app to app but understanding this is how literally everything works makes the troubleshooting process a lot easier.
My personal laptop is whatever the first gen Framework is called. After many, many years doing the “cool” distros, I’ve settled on Mint and don’t really have any motivation to do anything else… I have real work I need to do and can’t be bothered to deal with figuring out weird shit. I just need it to work.
TBH, the only things I use my laptop for anymore is a browser, vim, git, and kubernetes tooling… I barely have any interest in running Linux on a workstation at this point. The only things that really interest me anymore are being run in distributed clusters. Desktop Linux is kinda boring and tedious for me.
Those days gave me a career so I can’t really complain.
Back in the dark, old days of Linux I spent 5-6 hours digging through dbus events and X11 configs to get my mouse working. It was unplugged.
In my defense, in those days, Linux was such an insane asylum that diving into dbus and X11 as a first step was usually the logical approach.
What software are you using that is keeping you on windows?
FWIW, the last version of windows I’ve run was WinME circa 2001ish… I’ve been on Linux since '99 or so. You can certainly get by for day to day stuff. The only thing holding you back is going to be pretty niche.
I use Resilio Sync. It uses a modified bittorrent protocol. You don’t need to open any firewall ports or anything like that… Really simple to get going.
This is a sync took though. Replication is not the same as backups. This may or may not be for you depending on the goals.
distro hopping is a waste of time.
Very much so. There are limitless things you can do with a computer. Installing a new OS for me falls squarely in the annoying and tedious categories… There are so many more interesting things to put effort into.
I feel like I left arch a decade ago. 😄
It was rough going around the time of the systemd transition and needed something more consistently reliable. I’ve been on Mint ever since.
I have long loooooong ago given up on distro hopping because, at the end of the day, most distros are close enough to each other that it doesn’t really matter which one you choose at the end of the day. These new immutable ones though… They seem cool as hell. I need to give one a go someday.
FWIW, once I got deep enough into it, the thought of going back to the old way seemed like a crazy idea. I don’t want to manage servers like that again if it can be avoided. YMMV.
This was me until the kubernetes transition occurred. Now I ssh into nothing unless it’s a personal box. I’ve become a zsh convert.
Talos. Make the jump.
Not scrolling through all the comments to see if someone mentioned this yet or not but every December I check what is on the best albums of the year lists… Generally I check per-genre that I’m into. Like best black metal of 2023, best jazz of 2023, etc etc…
Other than that, bandcamp and YouTube are the biggest. I honestly buy more on bandcamp these days than I torrent though. It’s such a great site.
The FOSS absolutism is exhausting.
Most of this thread reminds me how unbearable the open source community can be.
I’ve been using Fleksy for years but there are some apps that don’t work well with it. Notably, Connect for Lemmy. Backward swiping for deletes only does one word at a time and up/down swiping for managing autocorrect doesn’t work either.
There are a few other apps with their own quirks as well. 90% of the time it’s great though.
It’s completely overkill for pretty much everyone but I have been thinking about building a kubernetes native client for months now.
Like the torrent should be treated as a normal resource with a Torrent CRD. It should be scheduled onto whichever node has available capacity and rescheduled onto a different node if it goes down. If allowed by the tracker, multiple instances could be run. You could set resource limits programmatically, easily configure block storage, build dashboards, export logs/metrics… It would be open ended enough that you could have interfaces built as browser extensions, web ui, mobile app, tui, cli and be unopinionated so much that the method for torrent ingestions could be left up to the used. HTTP request, watch directory, rss client, download manager… You could even do stuff like throw magnet links into a queue… etc, etc…
I keep thinking it would be a great project but I just do not have the spare time to dedicate to it… I imagine it could be used for large scale deployments for something like the Internet archive or whatever.
In the case of small little indie bands, they often aren’t on torrent sites at all. Given the choice between Spotify and Bandcamp, I’m going to buy the album on Bandcamp 100% of the time. I can contribute to the artist more and usually end up with a vinyl copy on the process.
Pirating has always been a solution to poor ease of access to content. If I could pay a legitimate subscription for a site with the catalog of PTP or RED, I would do it in a heartbeat. It will never happen though.
Bluetooth on Linux fucking sucks