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[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 years ago

"Okay, I switched to Linux, now I'm getting this error message: _______."

"Install ______."

"It gives me this error now: ______."

"You have to update the _____ library first."

"It won't let me."

"You have to use sudo."

"It tells me to clone the git via the command line, but git says verifying login from command line isn't supported any more."

"You're following seven year old instructions."

"They're the only instructions I can find."

"You should switch to this other flavor of Linux."

[-] diskmaster23@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago

TIHI

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[-] Holyginz@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Switch to Linux and spend way more time making sure everything is updated and having to jump through hoops installing things.

[-] Dnn@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

No idea what you mean. I just quickly wanted to update before calling it a night, got a grub update and now it neither boots the default nor the fallback image. I use Arch BTW.

[-] copylefty@lemmy.fosshost.com 2 points 2 years ago

My grandma runs Ubuntu and has gotten by fine without the command line

[-] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Mostly just when you initially install like most OSes ; browsers, office suits, game launchers, etc... My mother doesn't even notice fedora automatically installing updates when she turns her PC off. (I enabled automatic updates for her)

Even with my arch Linux install with Hyprland, most of the time I just update before I turn it off. With a terminal command but even that is just paru and my password or flatpak update. If I had kde or gnome desktop, I could set it up to auto update too.

Sometimes I don't even bother and use the computer without updating it for a couple of months or it automatically updates when I install new software.

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[-] RCKLSSBNDN@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

I remember I had a date with a girl back in the'10s. We hit it off and got back to her place. Wanted to show her a funny Internet video.

She brought out an ancient laptop that refused to boot and said her Ex had tried to fix it with Linux.

I got it pointed at the right dependencies, she fellated me as it updated.

I think this is my only sexy story that includes Linux.

Well, I guess there was this one time I loaned a lonely neighbor DOS 6 disks.

But, that does not include Linux.

[-] HenrysCat@feddit.uk 8 points 2 years ago

My suspicion is it's not just your sexy Linux story but the only sexy Linux story.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

I mean we all know that recompiling the kernel is practically a replacement for sex

[-] docAvid@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

Never been to PenguiCon, I guess.

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Is that the furry Linux con?

[-] Cannacheques@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

This is the best blowjob story I've read yet lol

[-] lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Switch to Linux! Then you can have problems with Linux.

[-] somedaysoon@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The problems are different, and you can fix them in Linux. However, if you like dogshit workflows, a lack of customization, no control or the feeling like your OS is in control instead of you, ads in your OS, and telemetry data being sent, then Windows is the far better option.

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

i'm sorry, i've been out of the loop, and i haven't used windows on my own machines since XP quit being supported, but, fucking ads in the OS. i don't know if you're having me on or not.

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[-] PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

If you run an office and need your computers to be relatively idiotproof, use Windowss

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

And lock that damn Windows DOWN. Windows isn't idiotproof if you can install just about any software you want.

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[-] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

About the same when you ask for a good GUI replacement for X and someone replies "just use the command line", like cheers for that men, not what I'm asking for.

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

AMEN! I asked recently if there was a good Linux alternative to this program I used in Windows called "Bulk Rename Utility" and i was flooded by people telling me how easy it was to set up a script to do what I want.

Turns out the best alternative is running BRU in Wine.

[-] Supermuff@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Krename is pretty nice

[-] oatscoop@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago

There almost always powerful existing utilities that can do what you want in linux.

But you have to find them and they have a learning curve. Sometimes that "curve" is a cliff.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Tbh though, as a person going through this learning right now, the single most essential thing I did was youtube "basic bash tutorial" and watch a few videos/follow along with them. Gave me the first foothold to start climbing the cliff, made it much less foreboding.

Now I'm struggling with for loops, but that is not exactly basic and I'm blaming that on my ADHD, I haven't tried to learn in months, I'll get around to it!

[-] hellishharlot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This makes me wonder how powerful a repo platform like gitlab would be if it allowed people to suggest software ideas and have people make them. In this instance a simple GUI wrapper for bulk rename command line would be sufficient but I would bet there's millions of things like that, not world changing software just nice qol stuff

[-] moomoomoo309@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

I'd have recommended KRename personally. It uses some programming-esque stuff (format specifiers for stuff), but it's not exactly difficult to do advanced stuff with it.

[-] sucksatusernames@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

"Why even use a DE? Try a WM like openbox"

Well, because a lot of things are simplified with DE functionality, and not everyone has the same preferences...

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

The WM folks can be obnoxious lol. But it comes from a place of passion and love for the ecosystem so it’s not bad.

[-] Whisper06@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

I do have to vouch for sometimes the command line is easier, not with everything but sometimes. Like my VPN sometimes it’s a little slow on the uptake and finding a server all that nonsense but I can also just have a few taps away at the command line and bing bang boom it’s done.

[-] FarLine99@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Based 😁

[-] dustojnikhummer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I still don't understand why there isn't a terminal-gui (you know, those text but graphical utilities) for basic stuff like mounting a network share. Why do I still need to manually edit fstab?!?

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[-] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

A non-technical end-user once had a problem with Windows. A technical friend said "SWITCH TO LINUX". Now they have thousands of problems.

I've been a non-stop user of Linux as my primary OS since before Ubuntu was a thing. I do not recommend Linux systems to my non-technical friends.

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[-] ColPanic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No, you don't say "switch to Linux". This is an opportunity to be free from the shackles of being the go-to IT support person! If they say they are having computer problems, ask "Is it Linux? No? Sorry, can't help you"

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The ones that make me laugh uncontrollably are those Windows disk encryption issues for which the solution is…wait for it… run Linux from a LiveISO, fix the disk with Linux, then reinstall Windows. Because Windows is incapable of fixing its own issues that it itself caused.

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Linux will only be the solution when it finally learns to adequately cater to a better class of idiots. Once Linux handles a fool as well as Windows, then we can talk.

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[-] Stillhart@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Okay, I'll bite. I've been trying Linux every few years for the last few decades and it's never been anywhere close to replacing Windows for me. I'm not a luddite; I was in tech for many years (MCSE certified) but there just... ALWAYS something that doesn't work right. And there's NEVER a simple fix. Linux for me ends up being more of a hobby than a tool and I haven't had the time or patience to deal with it in the past.

But I'm willing to try again,

Anyone have any resources to get me pointed in the right direction? Which distro to try, how to install as a dual-boot on an exiting Windows machine without breaking it, how to get Steam/Nvidia drivers/games going, etc?

EDIT - Apparently trying to dual boot with Windows on a machine with two physical drives is too much to ask (unless you have a CS degree). Maybe next time, Linux.

[-] maleek@lemmy.my.id 2 points 1 year ago

Im gladly to help!!

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

50% of the time the Microsoft forum help solution for any Windows problem is "Have you tried Re-installing Windows?"

  • source, my ass
[-] sgtlighttree@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Or sfc scannow, absolute classic

[-] leanleft@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

how do these two birds interact in the first place?

[-] afox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

This is the way

[-] emi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Windows issues?

Top Text: "You Pick:", then middle of the page there is the text saying "or", on the left is a picture of Windex and on the right side of the "or" there is the Arch Linux logo

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago

Every time I try Linux on my own, it's fine. But God forbid I ever use any device that comes with Linux pre-installed, and I'm cursed. I'm on my third steam deck after it software bricked itself, and our university Linux server is so unstable that it disconnects my session with vim every 30 minutes or so. Pain. At least there's a method to the madness: trust nobody but myself :P

[-] ojmcelderry@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Screen and tmux are your friends in this situation. They can keep your vim session alive when your SSH connection drops, so you can reconnect and continue where you left off.

[-] NOPper@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Holy hell, three Decks? How did they get bricked? I've had mine since the second shipment batch and beyond some very early software issues it's been pretty solid.

[-] nyternic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

As someone who has had been around Linux-based people and whenever I have had a single gripe about Windows - it's this.

I don't have a hate boner with Linux, I just feel like Linux is a little too much for the average casual user. Everything is fine until they run into a single issue with Linux, if the bewilderment of not having their familiar easy to run programs that they had on Windows wasn't a turn off for them from the get-go.

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