217 points

No time for distrowars

…says the guy that makes a meme shitting on users of every other distro.

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78 points

While at the same time not even using the meme format correctly.

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11 points

I‘m 14 and this is deep, linux edition. :)

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I see this always get commented, but I don’t get it, what’s the right way to use it?

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21 points

In this meme template both the lowest and highest IQ should say the same thing

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103 points

Honestly what is wrong with ‘just works’. If the policies behind the project and the security and privacy is all in place using this option is nothing wrong.

For linux to grow it needs to be more ‘just works’. Let the complex stuff and simple stuff be there. It’s not one or the other.

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39 points

Exactly.

When I was younger, tinkering around was a hobby in itself. But today I actually used my machine and I want it to work without hassle. I don’t want to think about swap partition sizes, modeset kernel parameters and that kind of stuff. I want a reliable tool.

That’s why so many devs use MacBooks. They’re essentially Unix machines with a proper GUI and mostly work absolutely flawlessly.

I’ve been using MacBooks for over ten years now and had exactly one crash: when the drive was failing so hard, it couldn’t even spin up anymore.

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12 points

This is exactly me. For a server it’s Linux but for everyday use/work a MacBook Pro is great. It just works. It’s great as you can fire up the command line to manage Linux servers easily. That’s how I admin my Lemmy Ansible install.

For gaming I use Windows. It’s all about the best tool for the job.

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15 points

Why should I use Arch btw if Ubuntu does everything I need? It’s not some locked down os like Windows and I can tweak it however I want

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8 points

You might want to configure it from scratch, with exactly the tools and utilities you want (e.g. networking utility, desktop environment). Or you might just find this process fun and interesting. Some people take issue with how Canonical is run, and decisions they make.

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I think it’s funny that so many Linux users talk about how locked down Windows is, when 90% of them live in an effective walled garden defined by their package manager, or other inborn restriction of their distro. I doubt that even 10% are compiling from source with any regularity.

Why do you need to wait for someone to repackage FF for you before you install it? Just go get it if you run Arch BTW, but you know the overwhelming majority of ArchBros really only know how to install it through Pacman.

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5 points

What‘s wrong with installing software from a package manager when the package I need is on there and has a decently up to date version? If its not on there I can still build from source.

When I‘m in a situation where I just need a specific lib or cli tool or whatever and don‘t have time to potentially debug a niche compile error, installing from a package manager is more convenient and saves time.

Except snap, which can burn in hell.

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10 points

Fedora definitely doesn’t “just works”. Try installing the proprietary NVIDIA drivers then updating your kernel.

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8 points

Ford definitely doesn’t “just works”. Try installing a jet engine on the roof then fueling it with unleaded.

I don’t want to blame you, but I think sometimes Nvidia really enjoys messing with Linux users.

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2 points

Regardless of whose fault it is, it’s unacceptable that half the people with a discrete GPU have nigh incompatible hardware. It’s more akin to using snow tires breaking your car than a jet engine.

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2 points

Not just that, but ever since F32 every single fricking update managed to either break something completely or made some part of the OS too unstable for daily use. Bluetooth issues, crashing display server, system hanging on suspend, broken bootloader on some Secure Boot sysems (handover from EUFI to bootloader no longer happening) therefore rendering the system completely unable to boot… Just some issues I ran into when using Fedora as my daily driver for well over a year.

Fedora is great when it works, but always keep in mind that having a bleeding edge system comes at the cost of stability.

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1 point

I keep reading this, but I haven’t had any issues at all over the past year with Fedora KDE and proprietary Nvidia drivers installed via flatpak. Is it more of a problem when installed via dnf?

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That was my experience ten years ago : mobile Geforce 660 with “Optimus”, two flavours of drivers, of which none worked reliably. I remember fiddling with Nouveau & Bumblebee for hours. I should try another, more stable distro on my desktop, but I rely a lot on some Windows-only programs.

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10 points

It is ok to use what you like, this is just a joke

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4 points

Complaining that something works or that people prefer things that work is a very backasswards critique and deepens the presumed stereotype that home Linux users are just nerds who only like to tinker (which is just partially true).

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4 points

Just works is definitely something Linux should strive for, but at least in my experience and in experience of my friends, “just works” has always been a poor experience.

What I’m talking about is how you install a just works distro like mint or garuda, and then some package refuses to work or maybe hardware such as a sound card or multi monitor setup, so you gotta go troubleshooting, which isn’t very “just works”. What’s worse is that some of the issues aren’t talked about/documented, so you pretty much have to rely on making a post and wait for potentially hours for a response to get help. It’s also very hard to troubleshoot the system by yourself if you don’t have experience, as you don’t really know what’s running under the hood as in what came prepackaged by the distro.

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To be fair I’ve been using mint, and whilst THE FUCKING MULTIMONITOR DOESN’T FUCKING WORK (Uhh I wanna punch a drywall)! otherwise it has been suprisingly smooth. Especially since it is my main computer, and I use it to burn discs for older game systems (incl. x360!!!), unity development, and a bunch of other stuff. So I have to say, it is VERY close to it just works.

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1 point

Ah, that’s a dealbreaker. What causes it to fail with several monitors ?

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It works but it kinda forgets the monitor layout, especially if you remove the computer from the dock while the os is sleeping.

It is a pain in the ass to set it up again, especially since it thinks it is a great idea to use the inbuilt monitor, even though the lid is shut.

Also when you undock when suspended sometimes it forgets to check after waking up, and some programs, especially fullscreen video playback has a tendency to continue on a “ghost display”

Overall it is livable but annoying especially because 33% of times it just works.

Also this is xfce. Cinamon and Mate may be much better.

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71 points

Isn’t the point of this meme for the low IQ and high IQ people to have the same preference? Any way, I’m on Linux Mint usually -_-

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Well, ubuntu is based on debian, so it is the same preference.

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5 points

Can confirm. I’m using Kubuntu because the Debian installer didn’t detect my hardware correctly and I couldn’t be bothered to figure out why. Aside from snaps, I don’t care.

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4 points

I think by default the debain installer doesn’t have any proprietary code.

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3 points

From freedom, came elegance

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66 points

Well I can tell you why Linux does not have a higher adoption rate: toxic shit like this.

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41 points

Na the biggest and main reason why Linux doesn’t have a higher adoption rate (on desktop) is that it’s not preinstalled on the devices you buy.

There are obviously other factors but they are miniscule in comparison

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Most people don’t want to have to use a cmd line to use their PC.

Edit: Seriously, why is it such a confusing prospect to linux users that linux is difficult. Literally, every thread on here comparing distros is filled with

“I used debian, but I had to update it every day or my graphics drivers would fail.”

“Oh to fix that regularly occuring issue, just type ‘cgreg320 -I1I0O xx /*poweruninstall the year your motherboard was manufactured’ into the command prompt.”

“Oh yeah, Nvidia graphics cards, AMD motherboards, Steam, Chrome, Adobe products, left-handed mice, and the letter F are unsupported on this distro.”

Windows is easy. Not great, but easy.

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Cmon, this might have been true 15 years ago, but my grandma has been using Mint for 5 years + and TRUST ME she don’t know shit about Bash. Big distros work OOTB today, as soon as you stick to regular use you’ll never see a shell in your life.

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@kmkz_ninja @OrnateLuna

I know people who use linux mint (or other distros that aim at user friendliness) who literally never have to touch the command line. This claim that you need to use the command line was true 5 years ago, but today it is largely false.

I am in a Linux User Group and I am literally the only person who uses a tiling window manager (I use hyprland) instead of DEs like kde, gnome, cinnamon, etc.

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“Seriously, why is it such a confusing prospect to Linux users that Linux is difficult?”

Because honestly? It really isn’t. A couple of years ago, maybe it was hard, but now, Linux is easy to pickup and learn; so easy even someone like me who has zero programming/coding skills (not my profession) and still kinda thinks typing stuff into the terminal is basically black magic was able to pick it up and adopt it with very little hiccups and set it up for my ma on a seperate computer with no problems on her end. Unlearning Windows? That’s the hard bit, especially if you go into Linux (or even Mac, as was the case with me a long time ago) thinking it’s Windows with another skin instead of different beast althogether that has it’s own quirks one needs to get used to, just like with anything new (and just how the majority are used to Windows’s own quirks). That’s where you’ll start having a bad time.

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Most people don’t want to have to use a cmd line to use their PC.

“I don’t want know that car needs oil changes, I just want turn key and go”

“Uh oh, car no start.”

/throws car in trash and buys a new one

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32 points

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux.

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11 points

Oh no, I can no longer tell if you are serious or making fun of the people who are serious.

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7 points

The best know how to tread the line perfectly. Some say that even they don’t know if they’re serious.

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6 points

Haha 😀 This is Linux memes community afterall ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ

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7 points

You’re such a shit. 😀

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2 points

Tomato potato potato tomato.

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7 points

Fueds between distros will always exist, like fueds between car manufacturers. It’s just banter, except some people take it wayyyy too far.

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6 points

but which distro YOU use?

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5 points

All the parrots doing Ubuntu bashing over the last few years are really hurting adoption in my opinion. It still is the best Linux OS for new users for many reasons, even if there are many other ones that might be better suited for other uses or preferences.

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Riddle me this—I’ve used Windows, MacOS, Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu to host a Plex server over the last 12ish years, and Ubuntu has been the most stable, hands down. Currently I’ve got a bunch of VM’s on ProxMox, but Plex still hums away on an Ubuntu Server LTS VM without a hitch.

I have plenty of reasons to chose other distros for specific needs, but when I want something to just work and be easy on me, Ubuntu is the right choice, and it is definitely a solid place for anyone to start getting into the Linux way of life.

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No riddle really. The last time I checked, Ubuntu was the most used server Linux OS. Just like RHEL, it’s tested for and used in the enterprise, but unlike RHEL, everyone gets the same copy, including you and me. It follows that it should be solid. A big part of that comes from Debian of course, but there’s additional testing and patching in Ubuntu. It’s no wonder it just works.

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5 points

This is parroted all the time, all the while linux is doing just fine.

Why is adoption rate such an important metric?

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Serious answer: we need a sizeable installed user base so that the cross-platform developers don’t leave us behind. I found this article to be a pretty compelling analysis of how dependent we are on “scraps” from MacOS/Windows versions of web browsers, and how the Mozilla foundation might not prioritize desktop Linux if it runs into financial difficulties. The recent Red Hat controversy also reminds everyone of how dependent Linux as a whole depends on financial backing from deep pocketed corporations.

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5 points

It’s a meme

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Actually it’s because Linux users are all mentally ill.

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51 points

How is Gentoo keeping it simple?

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I think the insinuation of the gigantic brain is that it’s not

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9 points

Simple is unfortunately the negation for complicated and complex, which are slightly different things. Ubuntu is not complicated, but complex. Gentoo is complicated, but not as complex (at least it can be).

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lol aren’t complicated and complex synonyms (as adjective)?

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4 points

No, there’s a pretty important difference.

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