Yes I installed Firefox and that lets me to go that webpage. How weird, everything else works normally on Brave expect that iventoy-page. I’m confused.
It’s probably an issue of English not being the first language, or of translation. It’s obviously a link to Documentation, which is a pretty safe assumption when you see a nav item named Document. You could have confirmed this yourself by simply following the link.
You’re right, I’m being judgemental about the English stuff… I think Im just especially suspicious of software that is written by people who clearly have the skills to pwn my machine when the software has access to ring0 and is used to boot and install entire oses. It’s a malware gold mine. Even if the project is completely on the level, it’s a high value target for adding malware because of the level of control you get over a machine (just like grub or syslinux of course, I’m mainly thinking about iventoy for that point). Plus as an American I’m definitely automatically more suspicious of software from China :/ not great but it’s true.
I was 13 or 14. Must have been 1995 or 96. Learned about it from friends on IRC (any old dalnet nerds out there?)
Ruined my mom’s computer multiple times leaning how to partition HDDs 😆
I only recently went back to windows bc I was doing some .net projects and found WSFL was more than adequate for my other projects. Still kind of feel dirty using windows shudder
He replied to a post in the Slackware forum back at the end of January telling folk he had terminal cancer. No idea how things have progressed since then but I know he was already very unwell at that point and I’ve not seen him crop up since that time. I imagine he’s either spending his remaining time with his family or he’s already at rest. Either way, losing Steve is a huge blow to the community. Wish I could have met him and thanked him in person for his videos. They were so helpful to me in the early days of running Slackware.
Back in college my CS 201 class was on C programing and needed to use the Linux machines in the lab for the class. They were running CentOS. That was my first time using Linux. After that I starting playing around with different distros (Ubuntu and Debian mostly). Then I took a “system administration” class that was really “Linux 101” that was taught by the departments sys-admin who is a Linux Evangelist and they showed me the light. Havent owned a windows or Mac machine since (about 20 years ago now)
Similar story here, my first encounter was my previous semester of Uni, a Systems Administration and Maintenance class, where we used Rocky Linux. Queue two semesters later, and I’m in love with it, hell I’m even typing this on my Thinkpad’s Ubuntu (ofc I had to get a thinkpad lmao), biding my time until I switch to Arch, since several of my highschool classmates use it, and in general I like the concept behind it.
Linux FT. From a magazine cover disk in around 1996. I was a teenage oik working at a company where I suggested setting up the Internet for email and support use. The manager at the time subscribed to bill Gates' belief that the Internet was a fad. I was granted an old 486 desktop pc, and modem and a basic modem account.
I setup a squid proxy and email server with dial on demand. It was slow but it worked.
I moved onto redhat 5 after (before it became the enterprise thing), we went to isdn and leased line and I even had a stack of usr courier modems under my desk by the end with dial in for both Internet and collecting mail (for sales mostly).
It only got replaced when the company actually paid for a full time IT manager (I was primarily a software developer, doing IT on the side) and they switched everything to windows.
Honestly if it doesn’t work right through the bios but does grub, good. Windows likes to try and take over your computer sometimes when you turn it on.
Idk your laptop’s specs but I’ve been running Arch with XFCE on my Thinkpad T400 for a while now and it was decent enough to do college assignments, take notes, watch videos and stuff like that a year or two ago. Debian is also decent nowadays, and heard good things about Peppermint but I have no experience with it.
Truth is, it doesn’t really matter as long as you use a lightweight DE like XFCE, lxqt or cinamon. The thing that will inevitably kill older machines is the modern JS heavy web. Youtube and Reddit were really pushing the limits of that old machine sometimes but it struggled through.
Once I got Warcraft 3 working on Wine on Ubuntu 4.10, I quit Windows cold turkey.
Erase disk and install Ubuntu
I was ~18. The first “OS” I’ve used was a BASIC interpreter. Then DOS. Then Windows till Ubuntu 4.10. I’ve also used Debian concurrently here and there since then. I’ve tried various other Linux OSes for fun. I’ve used both Ubuntu and RHEL for work. Currently I run most of my machines on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and done Debian. My work machine is on officially supported Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
oh man, warcraft 3 was my game when I was trying to install linux the first time, I didn’t know enough at that point to get it working lol. I tried though, my mom told me about wine and I tried that and blitzkreig.
I’ve been dual booting on and off since 2004, but the big switch came in 2016 with DXVK making my games not run like ass.
I had enough of Windows. I had an older motherboard and the windows drivers were terrible for the sound card causing me to have to reinstall them manually all the time. Sometimes I’d leave a video transcoding and windows would reboot to update. After each update I’d spend the time to get rid of the bloat ware like King games, Xbox garbage etc. Once after an update I woke up to the windows 10 “Welcome to your computer” screen, and it decided during the night that it was going to erase my user profiles.
The most frustrating thing though, is that for all these issues I’m locked out from correcting them, or preventing them, or even checking what happened. Windows obfuscates so much in the name of “user experience” that any effort to diagnose a problem or fix a problem usually results in reinstalling being the best solution.
Also, Settings/Control Panel is a mess and really shows the lack of coherence in the OS. Linux isn’t completely coherent by design, Windows is by ineptitude.
I mostly installed Ubuntu on old machines after nuking them with dban right before selling them. Stuck with Windows until 7 stopped getting security updates. I’d still be fully on 7 if I could, tbh. Though living in Linux is helpful for selfhosting.
Last time I tried to use low latency audio on a Windows VM the latency was still horrendous. You could get closer to the desired result via some non-trivial virtualization where you passthrough a whole USB controller to Windows and you plug your hardware in it. Unfortunately that still isn’t as low latency as native Windows. It might be possible to get there via further optimization like CPU core pinning but I didn’t get there. I keep a laptop with Windows for the purpose.
TL;DR: Windows VM for low latency audio isn’t an option.
Ubuntu in the early 2000s. My dad bought a little netbook that had it pre-installed. I was hooked, I was using Windows XP up to that point and it was something entirely different. My dad was kind of a techie at the time but none of us had any experience with Linux up to that point, still, we got the hang of it rather quickly and Linux had a lot more not so obvious problems at that time.
That’s why I’m saying a long time now, Linux is good enough as it is. It has been good enough for a long time. If you give it to people it works. But you have to give it to them. Normal people don’t install their OS’, as far as they are concerned it’s a part of the machine itself. Linux will only take off if it gets pre-loaded on systems as Windows and Mac was/is to this day. I Canonical wouldn’t have partnered with some laptop OEMs back in the day and I wouldn’t have gotten linux in my hand it maybe would have took years before I got to know linux and I don’t know if I would have installed it on my own.
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