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I no longer care if the blackouts change reddit or not. Viva la fediverse!

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Sweet as!

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This seems ok to me. Over time you might come to regret it if you have many scripts and they want to use different package versions…

Another approach could be to write a shell script which loads the virtual environment and then starts the main script. something like

cd /home/rimu/path_to_my_script/
source venv/bin/activate
python myscript.py

Put your shell script in ~/bin and ensure that ~/bin is in your $PATH.

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Ubuntu or Mint are among the most noob-friendly.

But probably the biggest impact will be whether you go with Gnome or KDE. KDE is more Windows-like so could be a softer landing.

I’ve read a lot of stories where installing Linux resulted in less support calls, not more. It depends on how ambitious the user is - if they’re mostly just staying in their lane and browsing the web it should be rock solid.

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80% of the time, compiling something from source is just a matter of downloading the code, opening a terminal and changing to the directory containing the source and running these commands:

./configure
make
make install

It’s the same 3 commands, 80% of the time.

Installing the prerequisites can be tricky, if the docs are lacking.

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If we knew how hard things were going to be (or how long they would take!), we wouldn’t attempt the task. Being a bit deluded about how smart we are is helpful for this.

Plus, there is a lot of autism in IT which sometimes makes people seem like arrogant dickheads even if they aren’t.

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Here’s another user style https://userstyles.world/style/10301/better-lemmy.

It widens the display, changes bright green buttons to blue ones and improves the indentation of replies.

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Agreed.

This doesn’t need to be hard - there are plenty of boilerplate “code of conduct” documents for online communities which can be copied or used as a starting point. e.g. https://mycrowd.ca/about

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