• @tpihkal
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    10726 days ago

    Just say you run Arch and move on.

    • @Zachariah
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      12526 days ago

      I run Arch and move on.

    • mesamune
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      1426 days ago

      People always talk about Arch. I wonder what people think of other oses and the people who run them lol. Like I’m a bearded Debian user (closer to the look of the Dilbert comic unix guy).

        • @tpihkal
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          426 days ago

          I think those are really the only two options when it comes to Linux (that’s why I main Windows 10). Hacker man or Dilbert.

          • TimeSquirrel
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            1026 days ago

            Well, I’d like to think I’m just a normal looking dude who blends in in a crowd. I just use Debian ‘cause I got sick of Windows’ shit a long time ago, like, back when telemetry was introduced in Windows XP. That was the first sign of things to come. When we would start losing control of our own OS and computers and losing privacy as well. I shouldn’t even notice the OS when I do normal computer shit, and I want to keep it that way. Those who are old enough to have grown up with PCs in the 90s get what I’m saying. We had control.

            • @[email protected]
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              226 days ago

              Ah man, you toughed it out clear into XP? Win2k was the last version I ever ran here. That whole shit of “oh you inserted a USB drive, please reboot” really got on my nerves. Plus trying to write code and having Windows crash once a week.

              • TimeSquirrel
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                226 days ago

                having Windows crash once a week

                Several times per day sometimes if you came from the Win9x line like us normies had to use and not NT.

                • @[email protected]
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                  125 days ago

                  Don’t forget Win3.x. I remember working on that, trying my hand at OS/2 Warp with high hopes. I never used NT, just the home version of Windows 2k, however I was already trying to move away from Microsoft at the time. I was introduced to AT&T Unix in the late 90’s with our Audix voicemail system, and learned a lot while attempting to upgrade the hardware to a more current 486 computer. I got hooked but Unix was expensive as hell, then the internet led me to Linux. My first attempts were with a version of Slackware that ran from a folder on the Windows desktop and by '99 I had my first dedicated server up and running. It wasn’t until 2006 that I finally dumped my dual-boot desktop and permanently dropped Windows.

              • Blaster M
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                125 days ago

                I haven’t seen a Windows BSOD in a long time on any of my systems…

                • @[email protected]
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                  125 days ago

                  I haven’t either. 😆 Switching to Linux solved all of those problems allowing me to run for months at a time between reboots. Of course back then things didn’t work so smoothly, and I did have some struggle getting my sound card working. These days it pretty much all just works.

                  • Blaster M
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                    125 days ago

                    Except unlike all the Linux desktop users here, I’ve run every version of Windows… even Vista was actually very stable for me.

                    When I’ve had problems, it was 99 percent of the time failing hardware or bad drivers…

                    …which I will note I have had a lot of grief with in the past on my Linux installs… nVidiaAtherosBroadcomm

            • peopleproblems
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              126 days ago

              I wish I could find something to help me convert my dell laptop into a Debian device. It would be all sorts of fun.

              • mesamune
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                326 days ago

                Ive had luck with puppy on older laptops. I have one running on a 2008 machine. Works ok.

                • peopleproblems
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                  125 days ago

                  Yes, that is how you install the OS. I meant little strangenesses found in dell hardware that I might encounter

                  • @[email protected]
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                    224 days ago

                    If the laptop is older than the last release of Debian, there shouldn’t be any problems at all.

      • peopleproblems
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        126 days ago

        I just like my build working. What’s wrong with that?

        So it took a little while before I could run stable diffusion, I can now!

    • @kescusay
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      1326 days ago

      You run Arch and move on.

      (Am I doing this right?)

    • @tabular
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      1126 days ago

      🐧🌿 (♏)

    • @Lost_My_Mind
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      726 days ago

      I thought he was saying he’s sexually attracted to punguins…