Mint doesn’t ask for you to pay

There are some that were wrong to begin with, I remember 622 bothering me.
https://xkcd.com/622/

But it could also just be that in the comic, the professor is wrong.

It’s only a general rule. In my experience, Nvidia has kinda been all over the place on how Linux-friendly they are. Do a couple searches on the exact card you have, you might be lucky.

I hope you have fun with finding what works best for you and your hardware!

I think LFS means you also need to build the stove.

MintLinux and Pop!OS are normally the two front-runners for new users. Basically, if you use Steam and you don’t play online-only games with bad implementations of anti-cheat software, you are good to game on either.

Make a USB that you can “live boot” from, so you can test out how they work with your hardware before you actually install the OS. Generally speaking, Mint works better with AMD, and Pop! works better with Nvidia.

Here’s the official basic guide for Mint:
https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

And here’s the official basic guide for Pop!:
https://support.system76.com/articles/install-pop/

Arch is like making your own cookies, starting from growing the wheat.

Mint and Pop! are like buying Oreos.

I’m done threshing in my life, never again.

https://thoughtbot.com/blog/the-magic-behind-configure-make-make-install

The configure script is responsible for getting ready to build the software on your specific system. It makes sure all of the dependencies for the rest of the build and install process are available, and finds out whatever it needs to know to use those dependencies.

If you or don’t program, or you install programs through a Software Manager or use Flatpacks, this isn’t really a part of your life.

Yep, once you get your edge-cases sorted (like needing to run SketchUp 2016), Linux is set it and forget it for distros worth using.

Honestly, I don’t think I’ve used terminal in a year.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/70aa7a8c-6237-405e-928c-ad28732967e2.png

I’m a Captain, BTW.

MintLinux and Pop!OS are normally the two front-runners for new users. Basically, if you use Steam and you don’t play online-only games with bad implementations of anti-cheat software, you are good to game on either.

Make a USB that you can “live boot” from, so you can test out how they work with your hardware. Generally speaking, Mint works better with AMD, and Pop! works better with Nvidea.

Here’s the official basic guide for Mint:
https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

And here’s the official basic guide for Pop!:
https://support.system76.com/articles/install-pop/

It depends on what the goals of the project/group are.

Roughly 100-(1/∞)% of the time I don’t want anything involving video or sound, but I could see some projects/groups where things like streaming or audio would be useful.

I don’t have an issue with discord itself, it just seems to be being used as the default for nearly everything now, even when it shouldn’t be.

From my experience with discord, more than one conversation is often happening at the same time in the same channel. For servers that are active enough, this can be as fast-paced as the chats in live streams.
Trying to parse if the answer that “OrthoDonkulous” gave is for the question that “Headshots247” asked, that “ProgrammerSox” asked, or that “BelieveUsFoetusJesus” asked is sometimes difficult.

If we don’t care about FOSS or privacy or whatever, Discord is good as a chat service, but it really isn’t a replacement of something like a forum, website, or wiki.

Good place to ask a question, not a great place to look for the answer to a question yourself.

Lemmy formatting a little different from reddit. For superscript, you need carets on both sides.

Not Employed, ^in^ Education, ^or^ Training
Turns into
Not Employed, ⁱⁿ Education, ^or Training

If you are using a Lemmy ap that did the formatting, please tell the devs. Basically none of the aps seem to do formatting correctly, and should be fixed.

I have installed Ubuntu, Pop!, or Mint as a fix for wifi issues on laptops probably about a dozen times over the past 20ish years.

I have never had a wifi issue with linux. My husband has had issues with Linux and wifi in 2007. But that was 2007.

Take that person’s post, comparing it to cooking.

Sometimes you use a Library pre-made sauce or spice blend as part of a recipe, so you don’t need to waste time remaking something that is commonly used.

Every so often, a company will tweak the recipe for the things you are using, but it still basically tastes the same. Sometimes they just decide that now it’s salty instead of sweet, so it would complete ruin the dish you would like to make.

The recipe you are using assumes you live in Australia where the new version of the sauce/spice blend is more common, but where you live still only sells the old version.

So now you can either wait for the store to sell the new sauce/spice blend, import it from Australia, or try to make it yourself. But you might have another recipe that still needs/uses the old sauce/spice blend. Needing to have both can lead to issues where you use the wrong one, ruining the food you are trying to make.

This is where snaps, flatpaks, and appimages those dish-in-a-box kits come into play. They’ll have the correct version of the spices/sauces you want, so it doesn’t really matter which version you have in your kitchen.

Snaps branded dish-in-a-box kits are developed by Canonical, and they can be kinda weird. You need to check for updates if you need to re-buy them manually, and you can only get them from the “Snaps Store”. Other dish-in-a-box kits allow you to get them from whichever store you want, and will automatically re-order when needed.

And that’s the main issue folks have taken with snaps. If you have 50+ programs are making a meal with 50+ dishes, and you need to constantly check if you need to rebuy them one by one, it gets old quickly.

Also, Snaps takes up a lot of room, and generally just kinda suck compared to installing things normally or through flatpack.

Same here, every single link works.

What’s up with the cum frappuccino line? Is it supposed to be homophobic?