• Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip
      2·
      6 months ago

      Someone was saying in a linux hate post yesterday that linux is not viable for beginners because it is not easy to install arch linux on a vm on their old macbook. Lmao

      • pukeko@lemm.eeEnglish
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        6 months ago

        My kid (not even a teenager) uses Linux daily. And not in a coy “he’s using a chromebook” way. He’s using full-blown NixOS on a laptop I set up for him. Could he have set it up? No, but he’s a child. Has day to day use presented him with any difficulties whatsoever? Nope. He figured out gnome purely by instinct in a day. He goes between macos and windows and linux effortlessly, because he’s a reasonably intelligent human being.

        But, yes, half the time the “linux is hard” crowd seem to be basing their evaluation on things you would rarely do on a mac or windows machine. These days, install Mint, Fedora, or, hell, even Nixos or Endeavor, choose the defaults, and you will very likely have a perfectly usable, intuitive system.

      • pukeko@lemm.eeEnglish
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        6 months ago

        The real thing. https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon/

        I wouldn’t say it’s something anyone can do (no graphical installer and updating is a bit manual) and it’s all dependent on the Asahi folks, bless them, but it took me about 20 minutes, other than whipping up a machine-specific configuration.nix and home.nix (about 20 more minutes on either side of the installation). All of the instructions were clear, though I will warn that some of them are not well presented in that there are instructions that should be bullet points that are stuffed into paragraphs. Nothing remotely exotic though–that’s all in the Asahi stuff that is wonderfully hidden from the view.

    • Petter1@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      ☺️i love my arch on my macbookpro from 2009 😂

      Was difficult to understand that I have to boot via legacy bios in order for the nvidia grafic to work… But after installing grub2 via CDrom I had i done ✅ now I can boot any iso from using grub2 and don’t have to relay on CD rom anymore 🥳 Next will be a 2013 MacBookPro (with nvidia as well), as soon as my motor buys her m3 MacBookPro

      • trannus_aran@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        6 months ago

        oh for sure, but judging by unixsocks they seem to be correlated. At this point I’m considering “interested in Linux” to be One Of The Signs™️ lol

        • MetaCubed@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          Frankly idgaf about the prime directive (edit: this is perhaps an exaggeration, I meant I wasn’t necessarily referring to the prime directive) , but as an enby person, I think going around saying “doing this makes you an egg” is pretty antithetical to people not wanting to be judged for not complying with the gender roles that correspond with their assigned gender.

          • trannus_aran@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            1·
            6 months ago

            I’m an enby too, and the point remains! I think what gets lost in translation here is that “hey, this is kinda eggy” =/= “hey, you’re an egg”. At this point, I’m really starting to see this is as a willful misinterpretation by reading the former AS the latter (not saying you’re doing this, but a lot of the self-hating folks who see transness as some sort of curse seem to be overrepresented in the population who react negatively to seeing anything as “eggy”)

  • smb@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    woman would take care for a literal horse instead of going to therapy. i don’t see anything wrong there either.

    just a horse is way more expensive, cannot be put aside for a week on vacations (could a notebook be put aside?) and one cannot make backups of horses or carry them with you when visiting friends. Horses are way more cute, though.

  • Underwaterbob@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    My right index finger still has an indent from using the clit-mouse to play Starcraft on a Thinkpad 25 years ago.

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
    1·
    6 months ago

    Therapy is expensive, I’d have to make appointments, leave my home during my free time, talk about myself to someone, and probably won’t help because my problems are external. No thanks.

    Buying a new laptop and installing an OS is a relatively simple and inexpensive process that is actually rewarding.

  • steeznson@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 months ago

    You should try gentoo as a therapy replacement next. It’s basically the adult version of maintaining a long running Animal Crossing save.

    Every morning I wake up, grab a coffee and update my system @world. Almost every day it goes without a hitch and I watch the system evaluate and resolve any incongruities that might emerge from updates by itself. Other times I might need to make a intervention in the dependencies to guide it to a resolution; but it’s a small nudge in the right direction, like tweaking a miniature ship inside a bottle.

    This is partially tongue in cheek but I unironically get a lot of joy out of administrating my PC: Having it completely customized and working exactly like I need it to.

  • seth@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 months ago

    It’s hard to find a therapist who meshes well with you and can help you make progress, but a busted Lenovo takes to Arch better than Saint Louis.

  • Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
    1·
    6 months ago

    I am unsure, I feel like Google is watching me and selling my data to OP because I was only yesterday ogling a Thinkpad Yoga X1 precisely for this purpose.

  • KeriKitty (They(/It))@pawb.socialEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    I feel like I need to get back into Gentoo just to add a lil spice to the horde of Arch users around here :P

    Still gonna use Arch on my laptop, bytheway 😅