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jjlinux ,

If you’re not going to be tinkering, and all you want is your computer to work, absolutely.

jjlinux ,

This is not true, specially with atomic distros. You can get away with doing everything via GUI. I love my terminal, I can shave off hours of GUI with a few commands, but my kids and wife are also Linux users exclusively, and none of them have ever touched the terminal (yet).

jjlinux ,

Most Windows and Mac users have no idea what a script is,nor do they care. That doesn’t mean they can’t benefit from moving over to a Linux distro, and never having to touch a terminal is entirely doable for common users in most distros.

Why are we trying to alienate people looking to drop proprietary BS by fearmongering?

If you’re on GNOME, KDE or any of the other DEs for that matter, and you’re not a geek, yes you can live on GUI alone these days.

jjlinux ,

Agree to disagree. I keep trying Debian and Debian based distros, same with Arch based (looking at you, Endeavor), and always lend up back on Fedora or one of it’s spins.

jjlinux ,

For one, I’m a sucker for bleeding edge, so the constant updates, including kernels, are a godsent. Then there’s my overall experience when compared to other bases. For example, I love PopOS, but even in my S76 Gazelle, it would break regularly (it could have something to do with all the tinkering I constantly do, but who knows), whereas with Fedora, since F37, I’ve barely had to tweak anything other than the DE and have yet to see it fail.

I also tried Arch (Endeavour actually), but I find managing it unnecessarily convoluted for my taste.

I’m sure my love for Fedora comes from my personal experience based on my use cases and the hardware I use. It’s not without it’s kinks though, I used to hate how slow DNF is when compared to APT, but DNF5 has been working flawlessly and fast for a couple of months now. And be aware, in terms of performance for some intensive graphical stuff, I feel Fedora falls a bit behind any Ubuntu/Devian based distro, but not noticeably enough for me to go back.

jjlinux ,

At the end of the day, it’ll be a matter of taste and how much anyone’s willing to “play around”. For example, my 9 years old son started with Zorin when he was 6, and has never looked back,whereas my 11 years old daughter started with Zorin at 8, saw me on PopOS and a couple of months later moved to that. Then we gave her an old HP X360 for school when she needs a laptop, and she went with Nobara, and my wife finally dropped Windows about a month or 2 ago, and chose Fedora because that’s what I use and she figures I can resolve anything quickly for her since that’s also what I use.

Yes, My house is now spyware free on all PCs and Laptops 🥰

jjlinux ,

When your kids tell you “why do people use Windows? I can’t understand why it always popping stuff up”, you know you’re doing a good job as a parent.

jjlinux ,

Yay, let’s install Spyware on our Linux computers 👌

How easy is it to switch back to windows?

I’m considering switching to linux but I’m not a computer savvy person, so I wanted to have the option to switch back to windows if unforeseen complications (I only have 1 pc). Is it just a download on usb and install? And what ways can I get the product key or “cleaner” debloated versions.

jjlinux ,

Easy in terms of installing windows? No harder than a normal install in any situation. Easy in terms of usability? Can’t even imagine ever trying. Have a hard enough time using my windows cloud r at work.

jjlinux ,

I just love to see these posts of “f@$k Winblows”. Welcome to cyber heaven.

jjlinux ,

Normal technology situations created by normal human behavior. 😜

My friend didn't have a great experience with Linux

I have been daily driving Linux for over two years now and I have switched distros many times. So, when my friend bought a new laptop, I convinced him to install Linux Mint on it. I asked him if he wanted to dual boot, he said no because it would fill up all his storage. We installed Linux Mint. The other day, he wanted to play...

jjlinux ,

Unfortunately the fact is that some games are patched to run on Windows exclusively. For some, no amount of tinkering will give you a working game.

In my house there is 1 windows machine remaining, and it’s for a software that my wife needs to use once per month for her business,anx she doesn’t want to hear about a VM, but we all rock some distro as our daily drivers, thank God.

jjlinux ,

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/8a965b38-4cfb-48ce-96d9-373d41509ebc.png

jjlinux ,

RecordScreen.io works for me when I want to do that. It’s supposed to record locally (I’ve tried and have seen no data leaving my computer, but maybe should try taking it offline while recording, see if it breaks).

Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?

Hiya, so am looking to buy more storage and while browsing am seeing some external harddisks, such as Western Digital My Book and Seagate Expansion Desktop for cheaper than the internal harddisks themselves. Have seen this one video from KTZ Systems where he bought up multiple of these external ones just to open them up and use...

jjlinux ,

Indeed. That’s how I populated my NAS with 3 10TB drives and saved around 120 dollars total, and this was 4 years ago.

These are the ones I got: a.co/d/8x58jBY

The only extra thing was disabling the 3v pin, and that was it. Been running rock solid all this time.

Just make sure to research what disks are in the external housings you’re planning on getting, as not all drives need to have pins removed/covered.

jjlinux ,

If by “average” you mean someone with little to no technical background AND not willing to make too much of an effort, it’s still super easy by getting something like a Synology or QNAP NAS.

jjlinux ,

It is satisfying to see stuff like this. Thank you for sharing.

Building a brand new machine and leaving Windows for good

I’m sick of Windows, and especially what it’s become, and the way its trending looks like it will only get worse. I’ll be building a brand new PC this summer and want to choose a Linux Distro instead. In preparation, I’d like to try out a virtual machine with a Linux distribution. I am solidly familiar with Ubuntu, but I...

jjlinux ,

I’m very particular to Fedora based distros, mainly because they sort of just work and keep at the cutting edge of the spectrum with little to no headaches.

If you want to go immutable, Bazzite is pretty solid for gaming, so is Kinoite.

But I can also recommend some Ubuntu/Debian based distros, as they are easy to maintain. PopOS and Linux mint are very good options as well. I would also suggest staying away from Ubuntu itself.

I’ve tried some arch based distros over the years, but end up dropping them because I find them unnecessarily convoluted to maintain and troubleshoot, but that’s just me.

jjlinux ,

I like you.

Newish user migrating to Linux

I have been using Arch Linux with i3wm for around 5 years for work, on my ThinkPad. I am fairly comfortable with pacman and setting up a distro. I have previously tried Mint, Manjaro, KDE Neon, Elementary, and MX Linux, all for the same use case (Work: where I need a browser, Slack, and a MongoDB GUI)....

jjlinux ,

About the pirated SW, I run a couple of games pirated either over Lutris or Heroic, and they work just fine. Sins of a Solar empire 1 and 2 basically.

jjlinux ,

We’re in the same boat. I’ve had no luck with pirated games and bottles, and zero issues on Lutris (other than they do take considerably longer to install than on bottles).

jjlinux ,

With less glory, BTW.

jjlinux ,

As a matter of fact, I spent about a year on my 7 Pro, and just got my hands on a Pixel 8 Pro. I am finishing installing GrapheneOS on it right now. https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/d3c435e7-7906-4a42-b2ed-1605292c70a7.jpeg

jjlinux ,

That’s just one of the reasons why I completely killed my Amazon subscription, same with Disney and Netflix. Fuck that DRM BS.

Just get your stuff on the high seas and enjoy. I do subscribe to Max, and can play it all at 4K HDR in all my devices. I’ll pay for services as long as they’re worth it.

jjlinux ,

That’s just one of the reasons why I completely killed my Amazon subscription, same with Disney and Netflix. Fuck that DRM BS.

Just get your stuff on the high seas and enjoy. I do subscribe to Max, and can play it all at 4K HDR in all my devices. I’ll pay for services as long as they’re worth it.

jjlinux ,

That’s just one of the reasons why I completely killed my Amazon subscription, same with Disney and Netflix. Fuck that DRM BS.

Just get your stuff on the high seas and enjoy. I do subscribe to Max, and can play it all at 4K HDR in all my devices. I’ll pay for services as long as they’re worth it.

jjlinux ,

Out of curiosity, why did a mod delete my comment? I don’t recall saying anything out of place, unless mentioning that I pay for a service that actually works is forbidden.

jjlinux ,

Oh, yeah, I did delete them (again, right after you) as soon as I saw that. Have been having this issue in voyager where it tells me it wasn’t posted, so I try again and then it’s duplicated. I did not check that one again, and I do apologize for being careless. I’ll be more careful moving forward. Thank you.

jjlinux ,

I hope you’re right. What I did was let my kids use Linux, whatever distro they wanted, and they have used Windows only at school. I think this is the way to do it, expose this growing generation to good software and keep them away from the enahitified ones, while explaining the importance and joy of privacy.

If we all do that with our kids, the next generation will have less sheep following all the commercial crap out there.

jjlinux ,

Welcome to freedom and perfect mental health.

The best part will be never having to download an exe or msi file to get stuff to work. Just look for the software you want, install, have at it.

I’m sorry, it just brings me so much joy when I read stories like this one.

jjlinux ,

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/949c2bf5-9dfa-4618-8835-ef8768cae966.pngI did too, never again. Fedora just works.

jjlinux ,

Makes me wonder what the heck it is that is not what you want/need 50% of the time. Must be a pretty peculiar set of software.

jjlinux ,

1 script, 36 package apps plus 31 FlatPaks installed in one command. Any other thing I need or want, it’s just there via CLI or any program installer such as Discover.

Having said that, and being positive that over 90% of any Linux Distro users would be dumbfounded by reading your comment, I choose to assume you’re just trolling and let you be moving forward. Have fun googling crap in Windows.

jjlinux ,

Correct.

jjlinux ,

We’re on the same boat. I keep being told that all I get is “overkill”, but I like to think of it as “future-proffing”, even though I’ll probably upgrade something in my box within 3 months 🤣. Self-delusion my wife calls it. Some people don’t believe in God, I don’t believe in overkill.

jjlinux ,

You don’t. It’s already happening. Slowly but steady.

jjlinux ,

Later, or even never.

jjlinux ,

This is the voice of reason. Good to see there are some reasonable people still out there.

jjlinux ,

In theory, Kinoite is just the KDE spin of Bazzite (or the other way around, lol).

jjlinux ,

“Defending your rights” and being as loud as possible for the sake of it are 2 completely different things.

The two closest homosexuals in my life are my favorite uncle and my best friend, that happens to be my attorney. My uncle is openly gay, my attorney is married to another woman. This has absolutely NO impact in our interactions. Why? Simple, that’s their business, and everyone in their environment understands this.

Guess why I don’t have more gay people in my environment. Because I don’t like people, precisely because of this incessant need to be loud about irrelevant shit like sexuality. You lack so much of everything else that the only way you have to be seen is your sexual preference? That’s the saddest shit ever. That level of emptiness has to be grueling.

If you have to be constantly “defending” your sexuality, you need to examine the environment you have chosen to participate in.

The problem here is not sexual preference, the problem is that sexual preference, for reasons I can’t begin to understand, has become the defining factor for people, instead of principles, moral, honesty and just flat out being nice.

When was the last time you saw a “heterosexual” parade, specially with a bunch of people swinging it all out?

Whatever happened to “you do you, I do me”?

jjlinux ,

Pretty much.

jjlinux ,

Also, make sure to install MS Fonts. Otherwise there’s a good chance sharing documents with Windows users will mess up formatting. I learned that the hard way.

jjlinux ,

Hey, dreaming is still free. Who knows for how much longer though 🤣

jjlinux ,

If Crapple can do it, I see no reason why Qualcomm can’t.

jjlinux ,

Yeah, that’s the only one that comes to mind if this ever happens.

jjlinux ,

I’m as surprised to learn this as you seem to be.

Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox (lemmy.ml)

I have a trusty UnRaid server that has been running great for almost 3 years now, with some kinks and headaches here and there, but mostly very stable. Now I’m entertaining the idea of setting that box up with ProxMox, and running UnRaid virtualized. The reason being that I want to use UnRaid exclusively as a NAS and then run...

jjlinux OP ,

So, if I’m running ProxMox off of 2 NVMe drives in RAID, I can just pass through SATA and USB for the UnRaid VM and just NFS my way to happiness, right?

I’m still testing each of my UnRaid containers on ProxMox, and so far they all work fine. With a Ryzen 7 5700G and 64GB ECC RAM, I could give the UnRaid VM just 2 cores and 4GB of RAM, and should be smooth sailing from there, right?

jjlinux OP ,

Awesome. I am happier every day I’m in Lemmy and out of Reddit. You guys are flat out amazing. Thank you.

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