Folks... is it happening? Is M$ giving people undeniable reasons to leave their shitcosystem?
Yes. The reasons are not enough for many people but for many others they are. Just look at the market share stats of the last 3 years or so
They're even helping!
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/install
I mean, Blind mostly (only) plays Dwarf Fortress, which works awesomely on Linux. GG.
Apparently we have a trend. How interesting
Hi have just moved to Linux 2 weeks ago after being fed up with windows 11. I am using fedora workstation and so far I am loving it.
He's happy with it so I'm happy for him!
Interesting point, however, is that the only major issues he had were with OBS and him macro keypad, and everything else worked for him. That is a very good thing imo. It's a testament to how far Linux has come. Now we just need to ensure all the Wayland work gets completely done across all desktops and then it's a matter of time before even stable and "conservative" systems like Debian and Mint get it all supported, at which point Linux will be ready for all, and we can move our focus to Mobile Linux and whatever else the next new big and shiny thing is on the desktop (Personally, I think the only issues after these would be making sure accessibility is all well and good, getting GNOME to finally support VR, and that's about it. I can't think of anything else).
Of course, for every story/video/etc. of someone smoothly transitioning, there's a thousand more that have basic non-starters because of certain applications/hardware, too many bugs or simply gave up in frustration.
I think there should be some work to do with Flatpak as well, but nothing major since it's mostly there.
Can someone tell me what channel the video is from?
The post is a tracking link and I can’t find the video searching for the title.
Its a youtu.be link as long as it doesn't have the si there's no tracking info on it, just the video ID.
TIL, thanks.
Although now I wonder what the difference and purpose is of having these two formats:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WjABILVAz5Y https://youtu.be/WjABILVAz5Y
I guess it’s a little shorter but the regular link isn’t long by any means.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WjABILVAz5Y
The channel is called Blind.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/watch?v=WjABILVAz5Y
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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/WjABILVAz5Y
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
I'm trying but arch won't even let me use the terminal to install anymore.
Why are you trying to install arch, it is not a noob-friendly distro
So I can say "I use Arch by the way."
Says who? The days when this was true are long gone. Ubuntu is no longer the user friendly everyman's desktop system anymore. Arch is extremely user friendly, just not the installation process. I find it to be much less of a pain in the ass to use than Debian based systems. For one, you have the Arch User Repository, so you're very unlikely to need to not be able to find some software you want, and more importantly, so many packages in Debian are out of date and they take forever to update them, stuff often breaks because the version needed as a dependency for something else is not in the repositories.
For people who want to use arch but don't want to manually do everything I highly recommend EndeavorOS. You fly through a wizard, just like Mint or something desktop oriented, and you wind up with a nice, working environment, but it's Arch tooling instead of Debian tooling. The biggest and for most people only noticeable difference is the package manager, and pacman is so much more robust than apt.
I get frustrated online when I see people saying "Ubuntu is the most user friendly distro" or "arch is not for noobs", this stuff was true like 10 years ago, that's no longer the case. Ubuntu is user hostile, and there are arch derivatives that are basically arch with a graphical installer, which is the only part of using arch that is hard for people who aren't hardcore nerds. It's not like Gentoo or Void or Alpine or Nix or running a BSD system or something advanced like that.
You can always just try endeavouros. Its pretty much arch with calmaries installer. It even uses official arch repos
