• redwattlebird@lemmings.world
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    7 hours ago

    My windows partition forced me to do an update which has now broken the start menu and right clicking on pinned icons. Thanks Microsoft. Great job.

    I really can’t wait to be rid of it completely but unfortunately the building and construction industry is addicted to torture and refuses to move on from Autodesk.

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    11 hours ago

    I’m not a tech guy

    • Installs Arch
    • Installs Hyperland
    • Makes custom animated ASCII art for NeoFetch
    • Makes custom bash script for his sponsor spot
    • Creates a completely custom reactor-themed desktop

    Yeah I think he’s a tech guy…he just doesn’t know how to build computers (that was painful to watch).

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      By saying he’s not a tech guy probably just means he’s not a programmer. But with how he’s done everything he definitely has the chops to be one.

      He seems to be a guy that really likes to tinker with things. And those are the kind of people that Linux, especially arch, really latches onto.

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    11 hours ago

    I’ve never watched any of his videos. They just don’t appeal to me and never have. However, given his apparent fame, it’s good for linux.

    The more people acknowledge linux’s existence, the more engagement, the more growth.

    Here’s hoping someday Windows will be a nasty memory.

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    12 hours ago

    Yes, Linux is king. More stable, better hardware utilization. Better customizability. Linux just makes more sense.

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      More stable

      Wellllll, I wouldn’t go that far.

      I just had to reboot because clicking anything in the browser randomly started sending the CPU utilisation to higher 70s, which was triggering the fans to spin at full power.

      Then I ran a game on Steam and Steam said it’s running, but it was nowhere to be found. Had to reboot again.

      Both of these happened completely randomly after I changed nothing, just browsing the web.

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        You dont have to restart your Computer, you can also just kill a task.

        To make it simple use something like mission center

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        Steam said it was running

        Probably updating the client in the background, for some reason this is the default updating behavior on Linux unlike the visible progress bar on Windows

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      More stable, haha. I was just randomly surfing around and my computer goes to sleep and can’t wake up.

      Also randomly, my computer won’t go into sleep mode when I close my laptop. It works about 90% of the time, but that 10% is when I pull my laptop out of my laptop bag and my computer is on fire and fans full blast trying to cool itself. The OS came from IBM installed.

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    12 hours ago

    Seems like PewDiePie is a lot more open-minded than a lot of Windows users lol

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      The people who care have always done so. They’re just 25 now. This is relevant to his target audience.

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      hes trying to come back as youtuber, eventhough he “retired”, (due to being supportive of nazis)

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      He was and forever will be an rich kid with internet so whatever is the most popular. When he was a teenager that was Mint, now its Arch. Which is why he has Mint and Arch+hyprland.

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        When he was a teenager it would have been Slackware. Not even Knoppix was released yet.

        And he didn’t use Linux as a teenager. You hallucinate things worse than ChatGPT.

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    It is actually a competitor. Mean Microsoft have to improve if they want to keep the users. With the Windows 10 EOL soon they will give up on those users on those computers. Basically forcing anyone else to take care of them - Linux stands there welcome. Users just need a push or someone saying try this for free.

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      10 hours ago

      Most people will just raw dog it, and keep running their computer without windows support.

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      Yeah, but providing that push at the wrong time… Maybe I just presented it the wrong way. I think there was some snootiness to how I advocated it. Like I knew more than them, which might be the case… but it’s still alienating.

      Maybe we can wait until they ask.