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Can anyone explain anything in this meme? I donβt know the anime, I donβt know the symbols, all I recognize is the steam logo.
You know every time I think I understand enough about Linux to consider moving over an innocent post like this sets me back to square one.
Nah you're overthinking it. Grab a beginner friendly distro like Mint and just start using it. All this is fanboy talk that can be interesting but doesn't affect 99% of users.
Yeah, it's not like most Windows users understand a lot about Windows, including how to install Windows, or what an operating system is.
A concerning amount of Windows users say they're PC users.
They're technically right, the best kind of right. That said, I too hate Microsoft leaning into this Apple marketing bullshit and trying to monopolize the term personal computer for Windows.
Although, you could argue that some of the modern computers that only support UEFI booting and no longer have BIOS booting support aren't actually PCs since the PC bios is a pretty big part of what traditionally defined a PC compatible system
This is, uh, pretty far into deep lore. Just use mint, you'll be fine.
It's really not so bad. You would likely be fine with a beginner-friendly distro like Ubuntu or Mint. Personally I use Ubuntu because it tends to be the most supported by application developers and things generally just work, it's kind of boring stable IMO to the point where I almost want to start distro hopping and trying out something other than Ubuntu.
Though I'd recommend trying it out in a VM first to get a feel for it, and then also trying to live boot it from a USB and see how you like it.
Nothing about what he said would prevent you from using a casual user focused variant like Ubuntu. The biggest challenge you'll potentially run into is drivers and/or having hardward that just doesn't play nice with linux. I'd suggest just giving an install a try and see how it goes. The experience has come a long long way in the past decade.
What is, Ubuntu, or the pre-Arch based SteamOS? I ask because Ubuntu has so many different variants that you can pick a UI that works for you.
That's true, but you could always just install Kubuntu or Xubuntu and still get a great experience, it's literally just Ubuntu with a different DE so you would still get the full Ubuntu "experience" imo, although yeah I do see your point. Though, I do think Ubuntu has actually moved back to GNOME and killed off Unity.
They even link to the alternate desktop environments on their site
Ubuntu doesnβt use unity anymore, their default UI is a GNOME shell with some extensions. It works pretty well imo. Not that different from gnome itself
I don't understand the purpose of this comment, aside from downvote farming.
I was joking!!!
Why?
Historically the in-group for several niche topics is hostile to outsiders, and the poster was very friendly and inclusive, so the sarcasm of "no don't do that" should be a little funny.
Also, the idea of "for the crime of being X they will be sentenced to the punishment of remaining X" is also funny to me.
SteamOS (the operating system for the Steam Deck) is based on Arch Linux (the blue A), so that's what's going on in the bottom panel.
The red swirl is for another Linux operating system, called Debian. I don't know what OP is referring to by Steam 'leaving' Debian in the top panel.
Versions of SteamOS before 3.0 were Debian-based.
The SteamOS running on "steam machines" when they were a thing were debian
Says on google lens that the anime is Ao-chan can't study.