Long time ago, I did several villages where I grew up. This was before satellite images covered that area, so I did it the old fashioned way with a GPS, cycling up and down every single street, writing down name and surface in a notebook. Walked around every field, every patch of forest, creek, etc. It took years, but I’ve literally been everywhere in those villages. It was fun :) When aerial images came I could do private buildings too.
I installed Ubuntu back in 2012 to get the Tux TF2 item when they made Steam available for Linux. After that, I just kind of tinkered with it on the side until recently when I switched completely.
It was 2009 and I was 14. I had been using Ubuntu on my father’s PC for a year and I installed Andromeda Linux (an Ubuntu fork with a stunning theme), completely wiping my HDD. The next day I installed Windows and attempted my second Linux install, I was more careful and got a doual boot working.
Nope, as a Lemmy.One user, I cannot downvote anywhere. It’s probably my only complaint with Lemmy.One, actually. I’m not sure I would have downvoted this, but it is the type of thing I don’t want to see.
Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise. No misinformation No NSFW content No hate speech, bigotry, etc
In my defence i did check the rules if Memes where allowed!
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I’m certainly not saying you broke the rules, just that it is content a lot of users probably don’t want to see. I spent a few minutes finding the community I knew existed and linking it so that you had a place to put this type of content. It has a valid home for people who want to see it.
I use and love many flavors of Linux, but Windows and macOS are honestly cool too and I use all of them on a daily basis. It’s just cringey to me when people get all dumb and elitist about Linux.
I agree the post is cringe, my brain somehow just thought I’d make a dry slightly related remark (context below) and it ended up sounding a bit too serious.
The context was that I’ve seen quite a few angry/troll posts elsewhere on this instance recently complaining there are too many Linux communities on here, and I found this post to be the other extreme.
I am really sorry i pissed you all of, i just recently switched on a whim while i was gething super into being a windows poweruser and i swear i have nothing but love <3 i saw a really cool hyper-land interface, it was fast, beuatifull. i dig that. I installed it and i except for work i only used windows as a virtual dekstop 3 times in the month i am doing it.
It was redhat around 2001. I burned 3 discs for the install. I was installing on an old computer that was struggling to run windows. I think the DM was Gnome. I remember being in awe that it got up and running after having to re-burn some of the install discs to finish the installation.
Looks good. Anyone knows if there are .deb’s somewhere?
TBH, I’m not likely to use flatpak untill I absolutely have to, and with $meta+= exec htop in my .i3/config I’m not exactly the primary audience.
(By the way, that’s nothing against the author’s decision to go “flatpak first”, I fully support whatever choice they make as long as the project is F/LOSS. I don’t have the resources to help so I’m happy to wait until the project grows enough until the deb appears…)
By the way, that’s nothing against the author’s decision to go “flatpak first”, I fully support whatever choice they make as long as the project is F/LOSS
is whiny?
oh, you mean this part
I’m not likely to use flatpak untill I absolutely have to
OK, maybe a little bit. I did not mean to sound like that :)
Installed Linux Mint in 2017 when I got real tired of having to reinstall windows (+ big programs) on my laptop which got blue-screened every other month. My laptop was not compatible for Linux and had to switch back to W10. Brieflu used Ubuntu on an old tower. When that laptop broke, I went with an old Mac (Linux broke it so High Sierra) and an oldish Dell Tower with LM. Gave up the Dell and now have the Mac until I can get a steam deck which I will use as a light linux pc w/monitor. Never going back to Windows.
Of course! I think there’s a way to boot it into desktop mode by default too but ive never used it, and if you do do that it puts a shortcut on the desktop back to gaming mode anyway.
Windows Vista completely died on my laptop back in 2009. I’d vaguely heard about this other OS called “Ubuntu” shortly before that seemed neat and was especially cool because it was free, but was too nervous about breaking my machine to try it before, but because it was already broken at that point, I had a friend burn me an ISO and installed it. I learned Ubuntu was actually Linux when I was configuring and learning how to use it, and that’s when I learned about concepts like FOSS, Linux just being a kernel and not the whole OS, and the idea of Linux distros. The only time I looked back was dual booting a gaming PC with Windows 10 for a while just before Proton came on the scene. Even then, booting into Windows was rare, only for games that did not work on Linux at the time, which with Proton releasing and constantly improving, became even rarer as time went on. A failed distro upgrade last year (likely due to me messing around with Mesa driver versions) finally had me wipe the Windows side from that PC altogether and go back to only running Linux when I clean installed over both Windows and the other broken Linux install. Truly haven’t looked back since.
I edit with JOSM and OsmAnd. I learn by doing and keep things very local: adding street numbers, marking shops as disused, updating opening hours, Facebook pages, etc.
I also find it calming. I might do some tonight now that you mention it.
I have added some nearby forest paths to OSM and added some bicycle paths alongside roads which were already mapped, using OSM mostly for outside of road network since other maps do not show forest paths and the like at all while OSM has decent coverage
2016 for me. I wanted a music production suite, and was given a new laptop for starting college (uk college, I was 15 at the time). I decided to try out Ububtu Studio, a media/art-centered branch of Ubuntu. I found that the incredibly slow laptop that I used to have just… worked? It was somehow faster at doing day to day tasks than my much newer laptop. I also found the visual aesthetics (Ubuntu Studio was pre-Unity Ubuntu) really appealing.
As I kept using it, I found that more and more my time was being spent on my older laptop rather than the newer one. I started disteo hopping nefore setttling on Manjaro in early 2017. Then I went for i3 and dwm, which led to me using gentoo for a few years. In my last year of uni I found that my time maintaining my set-up was getting impractical on top of all the work so I went back to Windows briefly. Very quickly realised I couldn’t use it anymore and so set myself back up with Manjaro.
Currently giving Ubuntu a go because my current laptop has dual amd/nvidia graphics and out of the box it just works much better on Ubuntu. There’s been some frustrations but I can’t see myself going back to Windows. I use it for work on my work laptop and the little things frustrate me to no end
i probably first got started with linux back when i was around 12 or 13. would make a bunch of usb flash drives and install a new distro every week or two
longest i'd go with one distro was like a month and then i'd make some stupid move and break my system and re-install again.
after a while i went back to windows and then in my early 20s i went back to linux. used arch linux for a bit but then tried fedora and have been using fedora for years
right now my main OS is macos because I have apple silicon but as soon as asahi is more mature i'm gonna switch over back to linux. i do have windows & fedora installation through parallels
I read The Jargon File before I touched much of anything aside from DOS, and I was hooked. My first starry-eyed actual experience with Unix was at my first programming job: On a Unix system writing C (neither of which I had ever used). They gave me and my coworker a single copy of Kernighan and Ritchie’s book and told us to get up to speed. The people assigned to us as mentors were more or less useless as far as figuring out how to do anything, so we struggled a lot. In the end we did okay.
We also an excellent computer science teacher who gave us an old SGI system to play with, which she said “fell off a truck.” It couldn’t really do much of anything interesting because we didn’t have any internet to connect it to and we already had compilers on our own more-capable computers by that point, but it was a super cool little artifact to have.
My first actual Linux experience was when downloading Mandrake when it came out, and starting to use it for my everyday personal computing. Multiple people saw that I had this super-weird science fiction computer and heard how I talked about it, tried to install Linux for themselves even when I told them they probably didn’t want to, and then suffered as a result because it wasn’t super capable (for normal computer tasks) or easy to use at that time in history.
For a while I lived in a big rented house with other young layabouts with my computer (Debian by that point) being totally inscrutable. E.g. it would bring up just a grub command line when booted, which you had to type the right super-cryptic commands into in order to boot the actual system. It was effectively alien technology to everyone else. It was also permanently hooked to an always-on boom box’s headphone jack and had a cron job to record Howard Stern every morning to a low-bitrate MP3, which was shared via Samba to the rest of the network, by request of my housemate so he could listen to Stern any time he wanted to.
It was great days. There were kings on the land, there was magic in the world. Aside from work environments, I used Linux pretty much exclusively from that point forward, up until the modern day when Chromebook+crostini and MacOS have become civilized environments to operate in.
Ubuntu was my first. I got a copy of 7.04 from the IT instructor at a local tech school during a field trip back in high school. I had no idea what linux was before then. I would boot the live cd on the family computer and mess around with it since I didn't have one of my own. I was finally able to get a hand-me-down windows 98 PC from my aunt and installed my copy of 7.04 on that right away. Got my dad to run some ethernet up to my room and I was living like royalty after that.
I've tried about every distro under the sun since those days, but Ubuntu always feels like home
The Linux Pocketbook from APCMag, which included a full copy of Red Hat 5.2 (according to this image, I vaguely recall the copy I had had a slightly different cover so they might have updated it). Having it on CD was a big deal back when we still had dial up! I remember how daunting the command line was at that point - like I had grown up on DOS and then Win 3.11, but a full blown Unix system was not something I was used to at that point.
For some extra context, my PC at that stage was a Packard Bell desktop 😅
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