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Screw it, I’m installing Linux (www.theverge.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 294 points 9 months ago (4 children)

BREAKING: Man decides to install Linux.

More details to come.

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  • [–] 96 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    “I deleted the recycling bin folder named /bin/ and it just froze what do I do?”

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    You need to remark your files !! Just run sudo rm -Rf /

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    FYI to new users... Do not run any command without knowing what it does. Especially that one. Not even if they say "don't worry, rm prevents you from deleting your hard drive's contents now", .... like I fell for, 21 years ago. Doh!

    FYI to old users... Stop telling people to do that. It's not funny. Getting new users to delete their root directory... not cool.

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  • [–] 51 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I am glad to see articles like this. For too long I have seen articles saying "sick of this windows bullshit??" Only to find advice on workarounds in windows, or suggestions to use a console, or a fucking phone app. For too long Linux has been treated like the evil twin locked in the attic, never to be spoken of or acknowledged.

    IT IS TIME! TIME TO ANNOUNCE WE HAVE RELEASED THE LINUX AND IT WAS THE GOOD CHILD ALL ALONG! BART WAS THE EVIL ONE AFTER ALL! LET IT BE KNOWN!

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    To be fair (even though I also am both happy and relieved to see articles like this), just because you convert to Linux, that doesn't mean everyone else will. I have used so many guides to help debloat windows computers, and turn off nonsense I don't want (mostly so I can use proprietary software for work). My choice to not use windows in my personal life on my personal devices doesn't really change my situation with needing those guides to help others circumvent windows BS.

    I wish we didn't have to live in interesting times and all that, but the guides are helpful.

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  • [–] 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    BREAKING: Man breaks Linux, installs another distro, and lives happily ever after.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    That’s like eating exactly one potato chip.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    LOL, I've actually tried Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Puppy Linux, DSL, Tiny Core, and even the true outlier (not quite Linux or Unix though) Microsoft Xenix before. I've probably even tried a couple other distros before but only very briefly.

    It takes effort to break them in any way that I can't manage to figure out how to fix.

    I settled on Linux Mint as my daily runner, but one of these days I might have to give TempleOS a spin in a virtual machine..

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Try an atomic distro too, if you haven't yet. It's a completely different experience from regular Linux - specially the ones that take care of everything for you like UBlue's.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    As a chaos monkey, I haven't broken this atomic distro in a few years. It usually takes me less than a year to break my distro's package system beyond my comprehension (or something equally important, but it's usually the packages).

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Ohhhhh boy. I surfed over a thousand distro ISOs. Couldn't have just one.

    ... Now, for over a decade, I've calmed down. Settled down with Bedrock Linux. ;) (That's cheating!)

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Am I the only one annoyed the article is an article about a future article? Like I didn't get anything out of their experience into linux because it's just a pre-article and the user transition experience is what we're interested in.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I got annoyed and stopped reading before that became apparent.

    Content churn. Pussy-footing. Just get on with it! Heh.

    Still, it's good to see more are jumping ship (to freedom), with how much M$ keeps making it worse (abusiveness).

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