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"As a Linux user..."

Yeah yeah, you're right. But can you maybe shut up about it for just a minute?

USE LINUX

LINUX IS BETTER IN EVERY WAY

MICROSOFT SUCKS APPLE SUCKS GOOGLE SUCKS

THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP

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[-] Lux 21 points 2 years ago

as a vegan linux user...

USE LINUX

STOP PAYING FOR THE TORTURE ANIMALS

https://youtu.be/LQRAfJyEsko

[-] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

no one is paying for the torture of animals and your youtube video sucks.

[-] Lux 10 points 2 years ago

what do you think the money you buy meat with is used for?

[-] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

what do you think the money you spend on beans is used for? but after you give it to the same stores I do, it's not your money any more and you don't get to decide what happens to it any more than I do.

[-] Lux 10 points 2 years ago

based on your comments, you're probably just a troll, buy just in case, here's a really simple explanation.

so i buy beans from a store. the store has fewer beans, so they buy more from the company that sells them. i don't buy meat, so that is one less meat product that they have to restock. therefore, instead of giving my money to the meat industry, they give it to the bean industry. on a small scale, that obviously makes no difference, but if enough people stop buying meat, less meat will be produced, which leads to fewer animals being tortured.

[-] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

if enough people stop buying meat, less meat will be produced

i don't think that will ever happen

[-] Lux 6 points 2 years ago
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[-] kttnpunk@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

You haven't ever had good tofu, clearly.

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[-] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

no one is torturing animals.

[-] Lux 7 points 2 years ago

some factory farms are torturing animals. depending on your definition, not all are, but the ones that remove pigs' tails and castrate calves without sedatives are definitely torturing them.

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[-] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

calling me names doesn't change whether what i said is true.

[-] Lux 3 points 2 years ago

hey i didn't say you are a troll, just that you probobly are one. and yeah, it's true that they can do what they want with any money they get, but what they will do is use it to replace the things that people buy. otherwise, people stop buying things from them.

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[-] kitsuneofinari@yiffit.net 19 points 2 years ago

I mean, if you want to pay for an operating system that displays ads by default... More power to you, I guess?

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Did you post this ironically? This is the shit I'm making a joke about lol

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago
[-] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Doubling down on... What?

[-] kitsuneofinari@yiffit.net 2 points 2 years ago

Did you post this ironically?

It was sarcasm.

[-] discomatic@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago

But for real? Linux is actually so great. I'm running a shitty old PC as a media server and learning Linux as I go. It's so light and nimble compared to a Windows machine. For anyone considering Linux, I highly recommend trying it out even if it's just for funsies.

[-] Teon@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I never tell people I am a linux user.
I tell them I use Kubuntu.

Telling someone, you love drinking pop is unhelpful,
Telling someone how obsessed you are about drinking MOUNTAIN DEW*, is way more informative.

FYI: I rarely ever drink pop.

*choose your own fizzy water

[-] iliketrains@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago

I don't care much about what other people are comfortable in using, but please don't expect tech support from me. Every time I have to use Windows I get frustrated at how it forcibly feeds me stuff I don't want. Although I admit that sometimes I joke to people to switch to Linux when they get frustrated with Windows as well, but that's about it.

And also, some popular memes about Linux are probably just that, memes. Don't take it too seriously.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The force feeding of news and shit is fucking enraging! Why on earth did they start pushing that, and why is it so hard to turn off? Why do they turn it back on at every opportunity? I have a Surface Pro that I use for digital painting. I'll be happily just painting along when I misclick the system notification area and all of the sudden "Trump! Trump! Trump! Outrage! Doom! Gloom! Global catastrophe!" gets shoved in my face. I'll open a fucking browser if I want to see the news. Ugh! Fuck off! That's honestly a huge part of the reason I finally switched to Linux as my primary OS.

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[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago

have you tried linux? its really cool

[-] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

What a coincidence, so are vegetables!

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago
[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 10 points 2 years ago

I mean, next year is definitely the year of the Linux desktop.

[-] Granixo@feddit.cl 2 points 2 years ago

I would wait until Windows 10 is out of support (2025).

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[-] thecam@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

There is quite a bit of truth to this.

[-] albertsy2@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

What is a good distro for an absolute noob? Like me.

[-] HappySquid@feddit.ch 8 points 2 years ago

Linux Mint is pretty good, it has a Windows 7 kind of feel to it. Fedora is also nice, it great for tablet, also with touch. Both work pretty well and consistently out of the box.

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

mint! its popular for beginners, ubuntu based, user friendly, lots of tutorials/troubleshooting help

[-] qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

Depends a lot on use case, certainly!

Also, do you like a "bottom up" or "top down" approach? Grabbing a raspberry pi and setting up a headless (no monitor) home server is a great bottom up way of getting familiar with things


learn to configure various services and whatnot from the command line. Or, just start with a user-friendly distro with a GUI you like, and gradually work your way up to looking under the hood.

[-] discomatic@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Watch a few beginner tutorials on YouTube and see which one appeals to you most.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Pop!_OS is the absolute best for beginners. Pick KDE if you want a Windows experience and Gnome if you want a Mac experience.

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[-] Mtrad@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't say it is "Year of the linux desktop!" But I do think eventually it will take up much more of the market of OS use. Maybe years and years away.

Linux has come a very long way. I found it is actually easier in many ways to Mac and Windows, more complicated in others.

For general use, and even gaming, it's actually in a really good state for general users right now.

[-] KyuubiNoKitsune 1 points 2 years ago

The amount of time I've wasted trying to fix dumb issues in Linux, usually to do with some kind of file missing or dependency not being available but unable to be installed is infuriating. I always end up just trashing the install and starting again. I'm a systems engineer and I hate troubleshooting Linux issues. Great for servers, shitty for something you're fucking with on a day to day basis like a desktop os. Also bash sucks ass.

[-] ChojinDSL@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

Difference is, meat eaters don't complain about eating meat. Whereas Windows users constantly complain about privacy issues, ads and forced updates that break things. As for apple users,....lots to complain about, but due to Stockholm Syndrome they don't.

[-] kubok@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

As an 11 year Arch user, I would like to correct the title: "Arch users are the vegans of the computer world". :-P

[-] oaklyn@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Omg shut up 💀💀

[-] xoggy@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Linux users are vegetarians while free software users are the vegans.

[-] kabobglance@infosec.pub 2 points 2 years ago

Then what are Apple users? Meatheads?

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