• marcos
        9·
        6 months ago

        Do people get Arch as their first distro and succeed in using it?

        • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          102·
          6 months ago

          Unless we’re talking SteamOS or similar, then it just sounds like disaster waiting to happen.

        • strifegroove@ani.social
          91·
          6 months ago

          Depends alot on the person

          I went straight to arch but i also program and system admin so… I dont feel hurt having to read

          • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
            6·
            6 months ago

            Pfft, amateur. My first was some version of red hat (2? 2.1?) that took me almost a week to download, then I had to compile it, and then load onto, like, eight floppies.

            I can’t even tell you how many attempts I made before I actually succeeded in getting it to install, but it was one of the more traumatic experiences of my teenage years.

            • Dultas
              2·
              6 months ago

              Slack 2 or 3 here I couldn’t get it to install because it didn’t have CD ROM drivers that worked with mine. Little did teenage me know I could have just copied the disk images to floppies but neither the sound or CD would have worked. I actually just installed it on a VM in Proxmox a couple weeks ago though. Now my windows 3.11 can telnet into my slack 2.3 box because why not.

              • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
                1·
                6 months ago

                Slackware 1.0 was at least 1-2 years later and a huge leap forward. Even Red Hat 2.5 was a major leap because it was the first Linux distributable that was pre-compiled and feee to download. It was also bundled with X.org and gnome desktop. That was a big deal at the time. The open source community was very political, even back then.

        • your_dead_pet_goldfish
          4·
          6 months ago

          So far arch is my first and only distro. I moved to linux a year ago and decided to just jump in with Arch. I havent had any major issues.

        • BakedCatboy@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          My college roommate told me to wipe my os and install arch not thinking I would do it but I did, and that was 14 years ago. It’s a fun experience but these days I just wanna throw a fedora ublue distro on stuff and use that.

      • quips@slrpnk.net
        9·
        6 months ago

        This guy is kidding, do not listen to this guy. If you are a beginner and want arch use cachyOS

        • syreus
          3·
          6 months ago

          And if you are a beginner and don’t want arch , use nobara.

      • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        161·
        6 months ago

        You can have your personal preference, but Mint is fantastic. Especially for switching from windows, but not only.

      • Lost_My_Mind
        4·
        6 months ago

        Zorin user here. As far as Linux goes, Zorin is good. Mint is also good.

        • thermal_shockEnglish
          14·
          6 months ago

          That’s what you spent your energy on, and is the best you could come up with? Your mother is ashamed of you. I’d argue you’re the tool for now knowing how to use anything else but mint, fucking waste of oxygen you are.

          I’m allowed to have a different opinion, I’m not your mother and don’t have to love you.

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
    20·
    6 months ago

    The amount of service calls I get from people locked out of their own windows computers…

  • Agent641
    16·
    6 months ago

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    • daanniiEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      Remember those viruses that were around a few years back. They would lock your computer unless you paid like $100. I believe most said something like . This isn’t a legit copy of windows. Pay now or you can’t login.

      And if you paid. It was of course just stealing your credit card. But a lot of stupid people did it.

      I remember I got the virus once and I had to use another computer to get rid of it by making a boot flash stick. … I can’t recall the details but there wasn’t any way to fix it on the computer because it locked you out of everything.

      Maybe around during windows 7 of 8?

      Anyway. I bet that’s where they got the idea.

      • jeffep
        4·
        6 months ago

        If you’re talking about ransomware (?), they are actually famous for great customer service and not stealing your credit card details. If people don’t trust them, noone will pay. So they offer live chats with real humans to help you set up a bitcoin wallet etc., to ensure smooth processing.

        The business has developed further though, not if you don’t pay they often threaten to release the data on the web.

        • daanniiEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          Yep. That’s what I was referring to. I also didn’t know they were semi legit. Lol. That’s kinda ridiculous.

          No I never paid or even considered paying. I just got some fix from somewhere to get rid of it.

          • jeffep
            3·
            6 months ago

            Yeah, I wouldn’t say “semi legit”, but they know how to run a business 😅

      • Eat_Your_Paisley
        3·
        6 months ago

        I don’t remember the viruses, I’ve never been a windows user.

        Thanks for the background on the meme, I would never have figured that out.