“You need to try Linux”

Tenderizer78

Just deleted my Facebook account. Now I just need any of my friends to install Threema (or maybe Revolt?).

I just finished my accounting course yesterday, but I’m not sure my assignments met the training guidelines so I’m hesitant to uninstall Windows if I may be asked to come back and redo some assignments (not sure I even need Windows for that though).

Reddit is still an issue, can’t find Twitter manga and de-Americaification advice on Lemmy.

YouTube I’ve reduced my engagement on but haven’t deleted. Discord I’m lurking in some essential group chats. Still on an 10-year old iPhone, gotta get a new open-source one. I’m sticking with Steam for games.

@Paddy66@lemmy.ml

https://distrosea.com/ this is amazing for previewing linux OS flavours right in your browser, no need for a USB stick or installation! Linux Mint, Zorin, Ubuntu and Fedora are the winners for me in terms of being normie friendly.

@TCB13@lemmy.world

When facebook was all over removing anti-vaxx posts and “misinformation” that later turned out to be very close to the truth that guy was okay with “working close with the regime”, now he suddenly isn’t. I wonder…

@Rhaxapopouetl@ttrpg.network

He clearly says “You need to try, Linux”. He’s talking to someone named Linux. Someone that needs to try.

@CoolMatt@lemmy.ca

Someone who*

@Rhaxapopouetl@ttrpg.network

Someone who what* ?

@CoolMatt@lemmy.ca

Needs to try

@ikidd@lemmy.world

Whom*

@CoolMatt@lemmy.ca

Someone whom? Doesn’t sound right

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/commonly-confused-words/who-vs-whom/

@Allero@lemmy.today

The Linux Foundation itself is in the US jurisdiction - just sayin’.

Which is why I repeatedly called for the Foundation to move into Europe, potentially into Finland, back to its roots.

@javiwhite@feddit.uk

They do have Linux foundation Europe, which has a hq in Brussels. Afaik, all of the Europe OS projects supported by LFE are hosted in Europe also. They also claim to be independent; though I’m not sure if that means from LF entirely. Checking the job boards show roles in California and Germany however; suggesting they are the same entity. (Though I suppose that could just be collaborative?).

The very nature of open source means someone else could just pick it up even if the entirety of LF were wiped out. (There are 5000+ collaborators on the Linux kernel git repo) But the reality is a large portion of those actively working on the kernel, are likely involved in LF in some capacity. Add the fact that LF fund multiple Open source projects, The impact of losing LF would be drastic for the future development of not just Linux, But the FOSS ecosystem as a whole.

This isn’t the only threat to FOSS either; The fact that GitHub is owned by Microsoft is a concern imo.

@Allero@lemmy.today

Not only that, but it also affects the decision making. For example, quite recently Russian maintainers were removed from the Linux kernel, citing “compliance”.

It’s easy to imagine same thing happening to Chinese maintainers, for example. And then from other countries. This, too, can strongly affect not just Linux, but FOSS landscape as a whole.

Thanks for bringing up the European foundation, I’ll look into it!

@TootTootComingThru@lemmy.world

If this is the same person I think it is, I would take their comments with a huge pile of salt. Not saying they’re wrong, but…

A couple years ago this Linux-Is-Best dipshit somehow got onboarded as a mod of the /r/massachusetts subreddit, started banning a ton of users for pretty unreasonable reasons, brought a few other seemingly random moderators on board and almost nuked it out of existence by being an unhinged little weirdo. They claimed to have worked at Facebook/Meta and I forget which, but they were found out either to have made it up or they were just a bottom tier content moderation employee.

You can go find some posts about it, but this person’s not well at all even if you happen to agree with them. If this is the same person. They’re not trust worthy. Privacy’s important, big companies are creepy, do what you can to protect yourself and use linux if that’s what gets you there, but again I would take anything this dipshit says with a grain of salt.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/11wsnla/mod_of_3_months_in_rmassachusetts_purges_members/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Massachusetts_US/comments/11wnjsk/removed_by_reddit/

https://www.reddit.com/r/massachusetts/comments/11xw44r/linux_is_gone/

@dogs0n@sh.itjust.works

I believe in the underlying message (use linux), but doesn’t practically every big company change their privacy policy or tos every 10 minutes.

@IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee

Come the Windowscalypse, I’ll probably be moving to Linux Mint. The only problem is ComfyUI. Managing Python packages makes me want to end myself. I might just keep dual booting Windows for SD alone.

@Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works

Use docker

@IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee

Gonna do just that. Thanks!

@Kobo@sh.itjust.works

Trump’s regime. Stops reading.

NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ

You should try learning words sometime

@Kobo@sh.itjust.works

NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ

Ok. Ignorance is bliss, sometimes, I suppose.

Cheers!

@JonEFive@midwest.social

places hands over ears screams “LALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU EVERYTHING IS FINE”

@untakenusername@sh.itjust.works

that’s dumb

@Lila_Uraraka@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Hi Nazi

@Kobo@sh.itjust.works

@Tapionpoika@lemmy.ml

Funny how much longer my phone’s battery lasts now after I flashed /e/ to it. No constant net traffic anymore.

@keegomatic@lemmy.world

/e/?

@diskmaster23@lemmy.one

What is /e/?

@Tapionpoika@lemmy.ml

Sorry. It’s a bit offtopic but in the same mission. /e/ is French AOSP fork, which cuts off Google from my phone. Google, Microsoft and META are the biggest root of evil in privacy world, META being worst.

@jaredt@lemmy.ca

A deGoogled smartphone operating system

@untakenusername@sh.itjust.works

I thought it was a 4chan board for a moment lol

@gameplayer55055@lemmy.world

Let’s see what people will do at October 14

@ungsund@lemm.ee

YOU CAN’T DENY THE WAVEEEEE

I’m been using linux mint for over a year now, and it is legit liberating.

@array@lemm.ee

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@the_q@lemm.ee

YEA I’M GONNA CONTINUE TO USE PLATFORMS AND TOOLS THAT EXPLOIT MY PRIVACY AND INFO FOR MONETARY GAIN WITHOUT QUESTION BECAUSE I’M A GOOD LITTLE CONSUMER

sheep pretend to be wolves

thermal_shock

“Knowingly” exploit you, not even a guess.

sunzu2

Easy on the hatorade

@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world

Do, or do not, there is no try.

@ulterno@programming.dev

Why not both?

std::vector ulUtil {"GNU", "Alpine", "BusyBox", "Toybox"};
int currentUtil = 0;
do
{
	try
	{
		OS(ulUtil[currentUtil], "Linux").use();
	}
	catch (USER::Bored & err)
	{
		currentUtil++;
		continue;
	}
}
while ((currentUtil < ulUtil.size()) || (findMoreUtil(ulUtil)));

@Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org

Distrosea would just like to interject for a moment.

@Lila_Uraraka@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Except there is… live environments

thermal_shock

I don’t try, I do. Wanna try me?

@boringbisexual@lemmy.blahaj.zone

I mean…if you’re offering

@JonEFive@midwest.social

username checks out

@rottingleaf@lemmy.world

(Also this won’t really help you because Linux is a mainstream system with big corporate input. Backdoors hidden in plain sight are a thing.

This will make you feel better though, Windows sucks.)

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