Linux tips (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 7 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

I've had more bad experiences trying to enjoy new things in new communities than good experiences. I think that is more to just how shit my luck is, but it still sucks when I'm just trying to enjoy something with others online. :-/

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  • [–] 7 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    I don't think it's just you. That seems like how most people are online these days. Aggressive gatekeeping vs. first timers asking "did I do basic thing right? :3" for pretend internet points.

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  • [–] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    Thank you. It seems so hard to find like-minded people on the internet for me. I've tried and tried and tried over the years and just never felt welcome anywhere online with others who might share my interests.

    Couple this with IRL issues finding those people, and it can be lonely at times.

    Thank you for your comment, it's hard to not feel like a "me" issue, but comments like yours help to alleviate that feeling. :'-]

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  • [–] 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    Definitely not a universal experience. I hope you have a better one here!

    Are you just new to lemmy or Linux or something else?

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  • [–] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    Thank you!

    I have been here on Lemmy since Reddit killed Apollo (3rd party API fiasco), and for Linux I have been using it mainly for gaming since 2024 I believe?

    I moved over to Linux when I saw how good the Steam Deck was running emulators and thought "Why the hell not try it out on my desktop?".

    I started with openSUSE, but learned last year near Christmas that maybe it was a little too bleeding edge for a newbie like me who just wants to game as their only real use case for the gaming desktop.

    I'm on Fedora now almost a year in, and am enjoying it more that it isn't as bleeding edge as SUSE, but still more updated than Debian for my more modern games that I like to try out.

    How about you? If that's okay to ask? I realize a comment section on a meme page may not be the ideal place, but conversations are always welcome. :-]

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago

    Oh I've been self-hosting since 2009, switched to Linux in 2011, finally ditched Windows as a daily driver last year when I picked up a Legion Go and got it loaded up with steam OS.

    I've distro-hopped quite a lot between then and now, but funny enough I ended up landing where I started when recommending a newbie friendly distro: mint with kde plasma. That's my desktop daily driver now. I've tried bleeding edge in many different flavors and always end up finding I can start from a stable baseline and customize the kernel and modules as needed. Now I've got all my favorite emulators and recompiled games working flawlessly, and I've started working on a decomp of my own for an old Windows 98 game. I've already successfully ported it and fixed a few runtime bugs, trying to get it fully stable before I start remastering it in godot.

    Server-side, I tend to stick with either Debian or Rocky and build on top of those.

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