When I needed to use chrome (ugh) to run a program I just compiled I googled chromium… which didn’t work… so I tried troubleshooting it. But I don’t understand c. Or why it didn’t work I can’t remember what happened next but it took hours.

I have ungooohlef. Chromium now though which is great.

I’m with you.

Local everything I possibly can.

The one beside Debian is almalinux I think.

The one beside Kali is parrot

Don’t you just love how with phones you don’t really have one?

Google is breaking their backs locking down Android tighter than a nun’s cooch, and generally enshitifyijg every garbage product they offer. Where’s my third fucking option?

It’s the most stable distro I’ve used so far. Manjaro just seems like it’s a ticking time bomb just waiting for borked o’clock to come. I couldn’t get Nvidia drivers working on fedorat all. Ubuntu was just slow as ass. I don’t know why. But it was just fucked from junk street. I’ve given it a go a few times. Just slow wet ass. Kali is snappy and clean but not meant to be a daily driver. Not would I use it as one.

Mint works. It’s relatively snappy. I like the gui. It’s customizabe.

I’ve tried Manjaro kde and mint kde and it’s been a dumpster fire both times. Then again gnome was also a dumpster fire on Manjaro. It honk I’m seeing the common thread there.

I want to love kde… why won’t it let me?Fuck gnome though.

Duck duck go is just bing and Google.

I pay $10/month for kagi. It’s really not where I want it to be but it’s the best game in town so far.

The fact that Google and bing are aggressively fucking search to death doesn’t help much.

My first 4 months or so with Linux sucked. I literally broke a keyboard once out of frustration. I often find myself wanting to scream “can you just fucking work for once?” More often than I’d care to admit.

I’ve been at it for about a year and a half and I’ve learned more about computing in that time than in the 30-odd years before. I’m starting to get the hang of bash, I’ve figured out the cause of, and fixed, problems without reading anything online (Google is fucking broken and it’s not getting better so it’s often not an option anymore anyway).

It can be hard. And frustrating. But it’s freeing to realize just how fucking stupid Microsoft made me. And the privacy issues always bothered me (in the process of degoogling ATM) but they bother me more now than they ever did. It’s fucking gross. And it’s appalling that companies collect what they do.

Point being your criticisms are all valid but if windows is a Honda Civic then Linux is a rusted out Porsche in the backyard. It’s going to take some effort to get it where you want it but when you do baby it’ll purr.

I won free airline tickets once and was shocked and appalled when they said I COULDNT use them to go to the moon. I fought long and hard for the right to use those tickets the way I wanted but alas.

Amen. Everything google touches turns to shit. Everything.

I’ve been on Linux for about a year and a half. So just passing the newbie phase I guess.

My advice is to dive right in. Don’t know what that file does? Delete it. Punch in cd /; rm -rf, try to us ethe find command, think you understand the find command. Then avoid the find command like your creepy uncle. Open up vim, have no idea what vim is, and restart your computer because there’s a snowballs chance in hell of figuring it out once you’re already in vim. Fuck the install of your first distro beyond recognition, download a new one and do it again. That last one isn’t advice, it’s going to happen so you might as well embrace it.

Just try shit. Say: I wonder how I… And then figure it out. Look into what all the symbols on the bash scripts do. Be curious and brave and remember that as long as you back up the important shit you may fuck something badly enough that it’s not worth fixing but a reinstall doesn’t take very long and it gives you a chance to try another distro anyway.

I’m telling you when the terminal “clicks” it’s such a good feeling. When you write a short bash script that works the first time without looking for help it feels GOOD. But nothing as good as peeling back layer after layer of abstraction and seeing there right in front of you all the shit Microsoft keeps from you. Sure most of an s trace is total fucking jibberish and probably always will be because I don’t have myself enough to learn C but just look at all the stuff my computer does! Boy, look at it go.

Bottom Line is that you can read all the books and how to guides in the world but none of them will do more to carry you forward into the perplexing and frustrating world of computers like a wild-eyed sense of curiosity and a bottle full of Xanax

Join us. One of us! One of us!

Every distro I’ve tried so far kind of runs like ass. There are mad disk io issues.

I do have like 7 hdd/adds in there though.

C/c++ scares the shit out of me.

Libre office is slow af on mint for me for some reason. I get like 10 fps whenever it’s open. It’s weird.

And also, you know what? Just for that comment we’re removing the ability to click. You’re moving the mouse cursor around with hr arrow keys now. You’re welcome.

Same thing happened to me last year. Right into the uefi. Spent months fighting it after it got into phones, laptops, Linux Windows, whatever. Eventually got it gone and had been (trying mostly) to use Linux during the whole fiasco. During one of about 150 reinstalls of windows I couldn’t remember my password and wasn’t getting any of the password reset emails I was repeatedly requesting.

I was locked out of my own fucking computer with nothing to do but reinstall windows. The same shit could happen with Linux except I wouldn’t have an expectation that a fucking password reset button would work.

That was the part straw for me. I viewed never to use windows again unless I absolutely had to.

And now that I’ve gotten thang of it: I fucking love Linux. I’m continually learning more about both Linux and computers. I feel like I’m peeling back later after layer after layer of useful interesting shit that windows purposefully kept from me.

Parts of the learning process were rough, not going to lie, but my god. I fucking love the command line. I just love it.