Down that hole
It was a hole alright
It should be VIM
No one comes back from VIM.
Those who say they have are dirty liars⦠or have it paused in the background.
i always end up just going back to vscodium.
liked Helix quite a lot more but still switched back after a while
β¦ because official vscode binaries are proprietary, released under EULA and include tracking components
official vscode(oss) binaries still have tracking, theyβre not properly configured and come without any marketplace. (arch ships a config file with openvsix though)
vscodium comes without tracking and pre-configured with openvsix marketplace, and also provides itβs own branding.
Am the the only weirdo who swapped over to Linux without knowing a ton about it, and didnβt really have any issues? I just started with a Windows-user-friendly distro (Mint Cinnamon), and then just looked up how to get through any weird (to me) issues that I encountered over time. Gradually learned more about whatβs under the hood as I went.
But I see these memes and stories about βI tried Linux, it lasted a week and I went back to Windowsβ here and there.
Itβs not scary. Am I missing something? XoD
I guess you either picked a distro that isnβt stupid about drivers or you donβt play a lot of those anticheat games (most of which are trashy anyway).
Personally Iβve always had less problems with Linux. Windows gets in your way and tries to slow you down every chance it gets. If something goes wrong your chances of fixing Windows without a reinstall are really slim. On Linux, itβs more viable to actually fix it which saves you weeks of your time. Reinstalling all my Windows shit every year was such an awful chore. sfc /scannow my ass, that shit never fixed anything
iβve reinstalled Linux far more times than Windows because of Pop_OS being a stupidly broken distro and my stubbornness to keep using it for good gaming support. ZorinOS has treated me better, but i still just donβt know how to do the things i want to on it. i can barely figure out how to run an executable despite having grown up with Ubuntu since the beginning. I would have grown up using Linux my whole life if my school laptops werenβt running Windows. Now i just cannot use Linux for more than a week without going back to Windows.
Iβd recommend trying fedora/nobara(derivative of fedora focused on gaming) itβs widely supported cuz itβs one of the big 3 distris but with much newer packages than Debian but your not getting all the new software the moment it drops like Arch so itβs more stable, theyβre very solid distris and automatically support snapshots(they allow you to rollback to previous file states for the entire system without taking up a tonn of memory if you somehow fuck your system). I, at least never had a problem gaming on them and found them to be ideal all-rounders in general
As for running executables you may need to modify permissions with the chroot command, additionally you may need to sudo to run it
Nah, I think if you used a distro like mint on most hardware your experience is completely reasonable.
I started playing around with Nixos (seasoned Linux user)β¦ Thatβs a real hole though. Not hard. Just different. And weird. Very cool, but still quite a bit rough around the edges.
Iβve been seeing lot of these posts about Linux. Way more since I joined Lemmy. Whatβs the deal?
I have 0 knowledge of programming/coding and feel should be as far away from Linux as possible. Is it not meant for GUI people like us?
Linux is perfectly fine for GUI users. Itβs really great for most common use cases. You might have issues with games (or so do Iβve heard), but Iβm not a gamer and donβt know much about thisβ¦ Steam has helped make games on Linux a lot better. I just play supertux or supertuxcart or mahjong once in a blue moon and am happy.
Most things work perfectly - stick to Ubuntu or Fedora or opensuse. Once you get the hang of things, things actually feel better on the Linux desktop:
- much faster than Windows
- no tracking
- highly customizable
- if you ever get into it, you can script your setup to be easily replicable across machines
Things that youβll have to fight
- fingerprint scanners - only a small subset work. My Dell latitude scanner works perfectly though.
- some printers might need manual driver download/install
- some software is only built for Windows (less and less of those these days, unless youβre doing something specialized)
Nah I put my parents and grandparents on opensuse so I donβt have to constantly clean up their viruses. Just installed whatever via flatpak like bottles for running my grandmaβs old mahjong tile matching game in wine. They havenβt asked for help with anything else since and I can actually relax sometimes now.
Hardest part was installing the printer driver I guess. For anyone not comfortable with cli installers anyway.
I took the dark path when Vista became thing. With zero technical knowledge, I turned to Linux, with no regrets.
My entry way was SUSE, which was a shock, with KDE and a radically user experience from WinXP, my former daily driver for many, many years; I was an unashamed fanboy.
My next and final distro was Debian, when Debian was everything but user friendly. But Debian gave me a sense of control over my computer, which Vista had very proudly took away, while gobling away resources from a not so powerful machine.
That computer stayed home for about eight years, when it died, beyond any viable repair.
Debian stayed, although I admit Iβve been using Mint lately, mainly to accomodate for playing GOG games with the least stress.
But Iβm a Debian person, no doubt about.
And I am the kind of person that spins his laptop at someone sporting a Debian-based distro and utters βI am your father.β
Lol same here, switched to Ubuntu for the most easy noob distro and donβt ever touch the terminal, itβs been going well donβt ever miss windows.
I feel like most people who swapped back either are gamers or otherwise not part of the growing number of people who could happily boot into a web browser and have nothing else on their PC. Like if you have a specific need for professional software you might have trouble staying away from windows, sadly.
You must be young. My first Linux distro was like knoppix back inβ¦ 2001? Shit ways way different back then. Drivers you had to find manually and inject during install π
Holy shit knoppix, forgot about that distro.
Also around that time, wifi was becoming popular. Installing those goddamn wifi drivers for those pcmcia cards Jesus Christ. I mainly used fedora around them.
Fedora kind of went to shit for me and I always struggled with drivers until a few years later I did a big distro evaluation and decided to move to Ubuntu where I still am today.
I took the dark path when Vista became thing. With zero technical knowledge, I turned to Linux, with no regrets.
My entry way was SUSE, which was a shock, with KDE and a radically user experience from WinXP, my former daily driver for many, many years; I was an unashamed fanboy.
My next and final distro was Debian, when Debian was everything but user friendly. But Debian gave me a sense of control over my computer, which Vista had very proudly took away, while gobling away resources from a not so powerful machine.
That computer stayed home for about eight years, when it died, beyond any viable repair.
Debian stayed, although I admit Iβve been using Mint lately, mainly to accomodate for playing GOG games with the least stress.
But Iβm a Debian person, no doubt about.
And I am the kind of person that spins his laptop at someone sporting a Debian-based distro and utters βI am your father.β
My friends never followed me.
Iβm alone in the dark (mode).
