And it felt great.

Long story short, I was looking for a new Linux distro to use (very Fediverse cliche situation, I know), and of course my first reflex was to use Reddit. However, due to the combined enshittification of both Google and Reddit, I couldn’t find relevant recent threads for my question, so I thought, let’s use some search-lemmy.

A few threads later, I was able to make my decision. I just wanted to share this with you as this is for me a very strong sign that we are moving away from Reddit for good.

Some of the threads in question:

And in case you wonder, it’s probably going to be OpenSUSE. Currently testing it in VirtualBox at the moment before making the jump.

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This gives me hope!

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Nope, none intended.

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Nice choice!

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Thanks! Let’s see how it goes. The rolling release aspect and very polished KDE made me choose it.

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I am glad for you, but I still have not gotten any help :(

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Sorry to hear that. Have you tried on !apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world? I heard it’s also quite alive

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I have not, I’ll, although I am starting to believe it is a hardware issue :/

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Ah, that sounds bad :-/

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YES!!!

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I haven’t actually used the search function much. Maybe I should try it. Can’t be worse than reddits can it…

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