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From what I see, windows sandbox is literally a template VM.

techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/…/301849

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It says in the article that windows sandbox is using a “base image”. It boots up the image, you do stuff then close it, and the next time you boot it up it’s the base image again. Is that not what a template VM would do?

The primary difference between a usual VM template and this is that it’s small. “When installed the dynamic base package it occupies about 100MB disk space”. That’s because it’s essentially mounting a bunch of the system files immutably. You could theoretically do the same on Linux, but it probably wouldn’t be worth the effort.

Most of the advancements they have is under the hood stuff, like linking files instead of directly including them or managing memory. Battery state pass through and graphics OOTB is cool though, depending on your setup you might have to put in a bit of work to make that happen on Linux.

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Buying operating systems is not worth it. Just use Linux.

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Lame and takes effort. Honestly, I already have several windows keys (ebay hardware moment).

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I even have keys from windows 11 computers. I don’t use any of them (but also don’t really want to share, as that could encourage Windows use), so it doesn’t really matter.

I also tend to take friends old junk computers, and most people go through the upgrade of 7->10.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=An4X9E9vyn8

“So Linux is free and doesn’t waste any more time than the alternative” at 8:13.

Linux will install faster than Windows, installing applications will be faster than Windows (because of the builtin graphical app manager, which unlike the Microsoft Store has most everything you want), and most of those burn all your time common bugs are fixed now. I have a computer running Fedora Silverblue, which I’ve done less than an hour of configuration with, and it’s had no issues playing videogames, doing blender, web browsing, or any of the other normal things.

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I mostly just pretend that thing’s can get better, if I just communism hard enough. Also sex and drugs.

Need Some Total Noob Advice for Installing and Running Linux

Alright, peeps, I want to build Linux on my new PC and need some help with that. On my old PC, I had kubuntu installed, which I liked (at least until downloading Skype fried most of my installers and rebuffed all attempts at deinstallation). When installing kubuntu, I had a lot of help (and by a lot, I mean my friend did like...

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For the second question, the Arch Wiki has loads of helpful information. It doesn’t just talk about Arch stuff though, it goes over a bunch of programs and configurations.

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I am now on the floor

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Kinda just ideological commitment. I sorta just started using Linux right off the bat, the only time I wasn’t a Linux user was way back when I was using the family Mac. Linux has gone quite far over the years, in quite a positive way.

Micro***t Word on Linux and alternatives

Are there good Microsoft word alternatives that support Linux (I don’t mind closed source)? Libreoffice is meh and only office is quite good, but are there any better ones? Also, is there a way to install word on Linux using wine? When I do that my laptop just overheats and loses internet connection.

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If you really want word, you could try Microsoft 365, where its in your browser instead of a thing you download.

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Emacs or Neovim could also serve to replace Word, depending on what you need it for.

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CoreCTRL, but written in Rust? Based. I’ll try it out when I have the time.

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talk of political organization outside of violent revolution is frowned on

Then why do so many people talk about how they are voting for PSL? Admittedly that’s mostly on Hexbear, but if anything I think we have too much electoralism and too many LIB s.

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Arch, becaus AUR and rolling. Alpine, because lightweight. opensuse tumbleweed, because rolling and SUSE does cool stuff. NixOS because declarative. Guix, because declarative and bootstrapping.

Those are just the distros I use, I’m sure others are nice too.

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here /s

For international stuff I mostly follow the BBC and Al Jazeera. More locally there are a few pretty cool news sources in my area.

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Linux just keeps winning

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All of them, basically. Arguing with people on Discord got pretty wild sometimes, and one of them straight up pulled up slurs.info and tried to use as many as he could. I suppose trying to argue with those people was a mistake, but I didn’t get doxxed so all’s well that ends well.

In person? Most of the homophobic or transphobic ones, though I don’t think most of them were personally directed at me. K*ke (I’m not Jewish) and n-word lover are also pretty bad.

Switched to Linux, don't know what to do

Hello everyone, I just installed Linux (I’m new to it), in particular Linux Mint, with dual booted Windows for games. Tinkered with it a bit, loved the way it looked, loved how fast it is, but I really don’t want to stop on one option and stick with it for a while. I want to try new stuff, new distros (that’s how you call...

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Use it to install gentoo or Linux From Scratch

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Yes, mostly blogs and Arch Linux updates.

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“A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA” - then NED president Allen Weinstein
NED’s President Carl Gershman said that the NED was created because “It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the CIA.”

It’s literally a group that does CIA stuff, without using the CIA name.

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It’s more similar to not believing Goebbels radio broadcasts about the USSR. We don’t distrust NED, the CIA, or the State Department just because they did something bad once, but because it is both a consistent pattern of spreading misinformation and because it is their stated purpose to rile up dissident groups in US opposed countries.

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Two $20 bills. In all seriousness, there are a lot of board or card games that go for less than $50 dollars.

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bottom users rise up. RIIR!

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Quoting [email protected]: "Queer here, I’m for Palestine. Even if someone might be hypothetically homophobic, I still do not support an apartheid and ethnical cleansing. Many a lib are crypto-gay-friendly anyway and the mask falls off very quickly when a queer person may need tangible help or merely dares to exist near them. "

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your mother /s. The google productive suite is something I have to use, but I do not like it. I’ve cordoned it off to a separate Firefox profile with no personal stuff on it, but still.

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I have my EFI boot partition with 512M on /boot, zram instead of swap, then a whole lot of btrfs subvolumes, with RAID across several disks. I do a lot of snapshotting, and auto-snapshotting, but thats mostly for local rollback. I only btrfs-send to a machine on the LAN. For my real backups I use Restic, sending that data to a number of places.

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Join some kind of org that’s in a niche you enjoy. Enjoy planes? Join AOPA. Engineer planes? Join AIAA. Like programming? There tend to be a bunch of local meetups. Into left wing politics? You could join the DSA or the IWW or the PSL, etc.

Honestly though I’ve found the best way to make new friends is to meet them through your current friends.

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Look into a ThinkPad.

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I love Sway with Arch, been running it for about two years across a few devices. Sway has yet to freeze, crash, or otherwise act unstable. It’s wonderful.

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Good thing I’ve been using LibRedirect with Invidious and Piped for a while now. YouTube really has been going downhill.

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vim and neovim actually hold a pretty significant marketshare on Linux. a lot of developers use MacOS or Windows, so what does it matter if one more small thing is proprietary? It obviously does matter, but people don’t think of it that way.

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pretty sure we have solid confirmation its pronounced yiff https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/3a31a7ae-4019-4a49-8d63-67c4aff3814f.png

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mobile first stuff on desktop

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Patches for the kernel that make the camera work exist, even though they haven’t been accepted into the kernel you could just compile it yourself. Maybe I’m not the best resource though, I hard bricked my 6T two days ago. Ubuntu Touch is also an option, it has camera support because it uses an older more custom kernel.

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Lemmy.world, probably, given everything looks upvoted from Hexbear.

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Is that true though? I used to be a major lurker, but now I post relatively often. I think having other people post about stuff you care about, rather than just screenshots of other websites, can be a big factor.

Where do you fall politically?

I’m hoping this doesn’t start a fight, I’m just curious what the political orientation is of this community. I grew up in a liberal (in the American sense) family, and I identify now as a socialist, though a lot of the liberalism I grew up in has stuck with me, like interest in LGBTQ and women’s rights, environmentalism,...

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I’m an anarchist, and very much into industrial unions.

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That would probably be an accurate description of me, but I think simply “Anarchist” has wider implications. I do more than unions and I think eco-anarchism and popular assemblies might possibly be a more effective path towards the eradication of unjust hierarchies.

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