• @fluxion
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    444 hours ago

    Oh to be a young lad experiencing linux for the first time again

    • TimeSquirrel
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      92 hours ago

      For higher throughput in middle age, I recommend Edge-ing every so often, and then going back to a real browser.

    • Natanox
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      51 hour ago

      Not knowing how anything works, being scared by errors that you don’t know how to get around or deal with, not knowing alternatives for your former favourite apps to do things quickly, wondering if you get the peripherals you currently own to run?

      naah thanks mate, hard pass.

      • @m4m4m4m4
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        Not knowing how anything works

        I mean, that’s how you start learning stuff - not knowing how something works

        Being scared by errors that you don’t know how to get around or deal with

        Isn’t that the case for every OS in existence? When something breaks, you don’t know how to deal with it. Enter google/ddg/whatever

        Not knowing alternatives for your former favourite apps to do things quickly

        See point 1 - and yet there are Linux apps that let you do things quicker than Windows stuff. I can’t imagine myself at this point having to use frigging photoshop to crop or add a border to a image when you could do that with a ´magick -crop´

        Wondering if you get the peripherals you currently own to run?

        Wasn’t that the whole point of live images? Not that they will charge you for downloading them. And hardware support is infinitely better today than back in the day. Just look at what the folks at asahi did - that’s nothing short of incredible

      • @Psythik
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        242 minutes ago

        There’s also the fact that if you have modern hardware, you’ll find that half the features that you paid for don’t work properly in Linux (or at all). It’s a great OS to keep an old PC alive, though.

      • @NOPper
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        21 hour ago

        I feel like this supporting Windows servers and navigating Win 11/12 clients at work these days.

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    53 hours ago

    I too, obtain great please from gaming on Linux.

  • @lemming741
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    104 hours ago

    I too was there for the release of the 2.6 kernel

    • Björn Tantau
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      210 minutes ago

      I put off the switch so long because I didn’t know what udev was but I understood that it was important.

    • @9bananas
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      83 hours ago

      “I constantly came” is the funny bit ;)