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I just don't know why I keep clicking on the memes. I don't know anything about Linux, I know I'm not gonna get it, but I keep opening them and being confused. It's like when I try to understand the code in programmer humor like it's suddenly gonna click. Or ich_iel. I don't speak German. What was up with all the noodles? I still don't know!
I stg, 80% of my time on this site is just clicking stuff I know will confuse me but I can't stop.
The path to enlightenment seems clear. All aboard the Linux train.
Choo Choo!
I've thought about it and then I remember that I'm pretty dumb about stuff that doesn't interest me much, so it would have to be a situation where someone else was like, "here's your linux computer, I already set up all your stuff and your games all work."
Ah yeah I was only messing really. There is no reason for 90% of people to switch to Linux if they're happy with Windows or MacOs and I say this as someone who's solely been using Linux for nearly 20 years now.
Sure, it's a great operating system but honestly most people just don't....give a shit.
On a technical level that's correct. But if you don't care about all the ads, data harvesting and not being in control of the device you own, you may want go home and rethink your life.
Give it a year or so. I may give more of a shit when Win10 hits EOL because I really don't want 11.
Thankfully, I didn't have to switch.
I'd like to see the market share of Windows today if no PCs were sold with OS. Or at least if it was a separate opt-in purchase. I am pretty sure quite a few people would rather not pay the Windows license.
There would also likely be some more interesting OSs, and most likely even Windows would be better due to the competition.
It's actually super easy now. If you can install Windows, you can install Linux (distro dependent obviously). You'll have to learn to do power user things, but that's true for Windows as well. Any issues are just a web search away. If you have to use the terminal, you'll be given the commands to copy-paste.
you’ll be given the commands to copy-paste.
No. Terrible advice. NEVER COPY-PASTE COMMANDS YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! That's also true for Windows.
I understand the sentiment, but if it's coming from a reputable source I'd disagree. I think it's ideal to understand the commands, but most users occasionally need to do some things that they'll never learn what the commands do but they need to use them. It's like saying never to run an application you download from somewhere. Sure, ideally you don't unless you've read through the source-code and double checked it's the same thing, but no one's doing that.
I've never installed windows either. 🙂 I picked all the parts for my current computer, but I paid a guy to do the assembly because I wasn't confident in my ability, so he did all that. My ex husband did it on the previous build, and everything prior was a pre-built.
If you want to try it, you can use a VM like VirtualBox, unless you have an ancient potato PC.
You're scaring yourself away from these experiences. If you managed to pick the parts out for a computer then you can assemble it. Picking them out and making sure they're compatible is the hard part. Assembly is just putting them into slots that only they can fit into and plugging in some wires.
Installing an OS is also (usually) trivial. You download the software online and put it on a USB drive and follow the instructions. Dual booting takes a little more effort because you have to set up partitions, but it usually isn't that bad. I'm 100% Linux though because when I dual booted starting from Windows it eventually destroyed things after a Windows update (because Windows sucks), so I just removed the Windows partition and redid everything with just Linux.
Your new game is making the linux computer work.
Steam Deck?
As long as it doesn't have anything to do with German noodles
Freedom is a confusing emotion.
I use Linux since 2008 and I don't get most of the Linix Memes as well. :) I also know German as a native language and don't get most of the ich_iel stuff. You are not alone.
I thought that was a sub for people who didn't like that they were eels or something.
Eels are accepted on ich_iel, only sturgeons are banned.
Ach mein lieber!
That describes 80% of my path to becoming a Linux admin.
Meme is a lie. Linux is tofu. It absorbs whatever flavor you hope, but only after performing tasks and you still want the other thing sometimes.
The noodles is quite easy. One of our most active posters is called "Instantnudel" (instant noodles). In his memes he puts this block of instant noodles on the persons head that's meant to represent him.