Why Linux is Better Than Windows 11

Now, now. Cinnamon is a perfectly competent DE. Gets out of the way. Does what it's supposed to.

Let us not treat it like it is Gnome.

Elaborate?

While installing Linux is faster you can use the Windows ISO directly with Ventoy instead of the Microsoft tool. At least, that's how I do it.

It will differ by distro, but generally for debian, you begin uninstalling systemd by installing something else like SysV init:

apt install sysvinit-core sysvinit-utils
cp /usr/share/sysvinit/inittab /etc/inittab

Then you will need to configure grub by editing /etc/default/grub changing:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="init=/bin/systemd console=hvc0 console=ttyS0"

to

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="init=/lib/sysvinit/init console=hvc0 console=ttyS0"

and then executing update-grub as root.

Then you can reboot so that the system boots off of sysvinit instead and then purge systemd with apt-get remove --purge --auto-remove systemd. This also removes packages that depend on systemd.

Then you pin systemd packages to prevent apt from installing systemd or systemd-like packages in the future.

echo -e 'Package: systemd\nPin: release *\nPin-Priority: -1' > /etc/apt/preferences.d/systemd
echo -e '\n\nPackage: *systemd*\nPin: release *\nPin-Priority: -1' >> /etc/apt/preferences.d/systemd

Depending on if the distro is multiarch, you might also need:

echo -e '\nPackage: systemd:amd64\nPin: release *\nPin-Priority: -1' >> /etc/apt/preferences.d/systemd
echo -e '\nPackage: systemd:i386\nPin: release *\nPin-Priority: -1' >> /etc/apt/preferences.d/systemd

This information was sourced from this wiki dedicated specifically to removing systemd on multiple distributions and replacing it with something else:

https://without-systemd.org/wiki/index_php/Main_Page/

He's quit youtubing like 2 years ago. Also:

I will always remember Luke Smith as the perfect example of what happens when you fall for every single /g/ meme at once, without carefully analyzing them first. He owns four ThinkPads at least. While I see nothing wrong with them in themselves, as they are admittedly pretty good value for the price, four is just mindless consumerism, contradictory to his "philosophy". He started using every single shitty pseudominimalist, ncurses-based program, used a shitty riced out i3 setup of dubious actual productivity (like all tiling wms), then fell for the full Suckless meme and went in even deeper. Then he started making videos shitting on Python and praising C, which is ironic considering he is not even a programmer by his own admission. He effectively spent years trying out, configuring and hopelessly trying to integrate tens of meme programs to build what is, combined, effectively a shittier Emacs, just like most of /g/ was doing in their "productive" desktop threads a year or two ago. Then he read the Unabomber manifesto and blindly accepted it without constructively analyzing it first, same with the anarcho-primitivist ideology that was all the rage about a year and a half ago on 4chan and 8ch. While he stated on his website that he "didn't browse 4chan much anymore" it was obvious this wasn't the case. Then he went and took the memes way too far, and unironically went to live in isolation. While I see nothing wrong in itself, the actual reason he did it is massive cringe. He became Christian because of 4chan, the least christian website. He has the mentality of someone 10 years younger than he is, yet he acts like a literal boomer jokingly criticizing "zoomers" despite he himself being the worst example of a millennial. He attacks "nerds" when it't painfully obvious he's deeply unhappy with himself, as it was obviously self-directed criticism thinly veiled as an edgy dabbing video. He is a perfect example of someone you should avoid becoming at all costs.

Far right nutjob? Crypto bro? That is what I have been hearing... Can't say for sure, though.

im asian, i like rice. i like linux. im not offended.

Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just sharing what was taught to me. I don't really have the spoons to sit here and debate or defend it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner

It is clearly racist. "Ricing" comes from a derogatory term for Asian racing vehicles. You cannot excuse the racism inherent to it by personal ignorance. It's the same logic as black face being racist, whether you're personally aware of the history behind it or not.

Though I no longer live in the US, as an Asian computer scientist, I am quite aware of how it is clearly perceived as a racist term by many Asian Americans. To me, it will also never stop being offensive. So, please, stop with this "ricing" stuff.

Precisely one person, here in this thread, on behalf of imagined others.

It was a term for modded crappy japanese motorcycles and cars, that derived from a slur for asian people.

he definitely leans right but he still supports foss and all the important stuff around that so does it actually matter much as a Linux YouTuber?

also his level of schizo is pretty funny

Aw, that sucks that they're infesting Linux, too. I thought that free/open source would be too commie-socialist for them.

I'm reposting a reply to similar comment. Replying to "Mental Outlaw is far right and cryptobro". But the TLDR of that could be that he has some takes that people here like and some takes that people here don't like but he is not a National Socialist, otherwise give source. Perhaps Drew has been cooking again?

Those are just insults people, who cannot gasp that someone could have a slightly different opinion about something, use against him.

Some political things about him include: He ...

• is an anarchist (or somewhere on that political spectrum)
• wants to have the right to own a gun
• is pro free speech
• thinks using money should not have to earn mega corporations that much money
• thinks "brother should not kill brother" in the war in Ukraine
• is not a fan of Elon Musk, Teslas or self driving cars
• is pro Free Software and for privacy

Obviously depends on what is meant with "far right nutjob". If it implies that anarchy (no government) is the opposite of socialism (far left - maximum government) then yeah but usually it just means "massive bigot", which I don't think he is, otherwise give source.

Similar with crypto bro. For me it means the pump and dump scheme scammer or at least someone who is pro crypto because he sees it as a mean to get rich quick. But if "Crypto bro" just means anyone who likes the advantages of crypto, then he indeed is one.

But regardless of how we name things, he doesn't have any evil values (as far as I know). He just has different opinions than the average lemmy user. It should not be hard to tolerate him, considering this platform is a mass murderer fanclub (actual evil values, not just "quirky" politics).