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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

    "Corporate wants you to tell the difference between these two..."

    This comment brought to you by the anti-snap gang.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

    Good luck with fighting dependency hell!

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

    Also, stop slobbering over shuttlecock. Centralized repos run by big corporation is not free as in libre, it's free - as in free to rug pull you into a SaaS model.

    "But you can make your own!"

    If you modify the client and if you recreate the backend to actually make snaps. It's in essence proprietary technology posing as open source.

    Also, I do use flatpaks on my NixOS to get packages directly from vendors and not from some wannabe app store. Yes, Flathub allows vendors to post directly.

    Even though the FreeDesktop dependencies are big, it's still much more free than snaps.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

    Bish, I use NixOS. I have defeated dependency hell by sacrificing storage space to just say "fudge it, give me ALL THE DEPENDENCIES!!! Rip off their ELF heads!!".

    We are not the same.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

    Take the red USB and it always ends with you deep in a forum and the terminal app.

    [–] atlas 1 points 45 minutes ago

    at 2am on a work night

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago

    *You stay in Wayland.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago

    “What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with your computer. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.”

    [–] captain_aggravated 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    "How come my typing fingers hurt?"

    "you've never used them before."

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

    Fingering the rabbit hole?

    [–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    You take the green USB, it's Ventoy.
    You click the wrong option in the list, and suddenly it's GParted.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Ah, shit, TempleOS.

    Yes, I have TempleOS on my drive, why not, it's just a few MB.

    [–] starman2112 6 points 1 day ago

    I look at the cool elephant whenever I'm feeling down

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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

    You too could find out the dev left out a space in an rm command in an install shell script

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

    People that chose the "red" drive ... Once you install Ubuntu a mysterious shaman will once again introduce you to the red and blue choice, ... well, I mean, not exactly, it will be just a giant bag of mixed ~~pills~~ drives for different distros and the ominous warning be like "you only really need to take one, but there is no actual limit".

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I cannot even download Windows 11 ISO on my network, I am (my ISP is) blocked by Microsoft. So, problem solved, it's just red USB.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Microsoft blocks people from downloading stuff all the time for unknowable reasons. You have to either reset your IP or go through customer support to fix it. I did the latter and they did not tell me why I was blocked in the first place.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

    I've heard of being blocked from a specific service like Xbox Live but never the whole of Microsoft. How would people get Windows updates? It's crazy.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

    It's not all of Microsoft, you just can't download ISOs from their website.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

    Fair enough

    [–] [email protected] 70 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Talk to your kids about Linux before someone else does.

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    [–] [email protected] 108 points 2 days ago (7 children)

    Dude, you're getting a dell ...

    [–] [email protected] 60 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

    And plugging highly suspicious USB drive into it...

    [–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Reminds me, back in like, 2007, Nine Inch Nails did a promotion for their new album where they left "mystery" USB drives with media from the "future", themed from album, in public areas at their shows. People couldn't wait to find them and jam them into their computers to piece the story all together.

    [–] Steamymoomilk 30 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    The next album is gonna be about, trojans, viruses, worms, RATS (not the one with the rubber room)

    And a 40minute PSA from your IT admin telling you DONT PLUG RANDOM STUFF INTO YOUR COMPUTER!!

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    [–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    some mf gonna grab both and dual boot

    [–] starman2112 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    Hi I'm some mf

    Day 1,095 of begging Autodesk to put F360 on Linux so I can ditch windows

    I know, they won't, but I'm gonna keep asking anyway

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Hey, same boat. I've tried FreeCAD and Ondsel (which is supposed to be a more intuitive version of FreeCAD)... But they are both so unintuitive that it drives me nuts and I just boot into Windows when i want to design something functional to 3D Print.

    Luckily Blender works great on Linux for less functional designs.

    [–] starman2112 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

    so unintuitive that it drives me nuts and I just boot into Windows when i want to design something functional to 3D Print.

    People often recommend Linux alternatives, but that's the thing—an alternative on Linux has to be a preferable to just booting into a spare Windows hard drive.

    If restarting my computer, booting up windows, opening F360, modeling my part, exporting it to a flash drive, restarting my computer, and booting back into Linux is faster than figuring out how to make that same model in OpenSCAD or whatever, then I'm gonna be restarting my computer a lot.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
    [–] [email protected] 64 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Ubuntu logo is a trinity but you're not getting laid

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    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Until you find out about snap

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    Linux Mint: The Better Ubuntu (tm)

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    I found that Pop!_OS (another Ubuntu fork) worked better with Nvidia crap out of the box. They both seem pretty good.

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    [–] FreshLight 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Don't call it penguin hole 💀💀💀💀💀

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago
    [–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Why are both of the USB drives red?

    [–] [email protected] 87 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Because choice is an illusion.

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

    Both are Linux.

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