You haven't used Linux until you've accidentally destroyed your install. Reversible damage like uninstalling your shell or breaking your display server counts as partial credit.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I once managed to destroy my system by doing dumb shit with the partition table in cfdisk and lead to a new warning being added

[–] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LTT has been pretty positive about linux and recommend it a lot. Although that is more thanks to Emily than Linus.

[–] ssfckdt@mastodon.cloud 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

okay... TIL that Linus Tech Tips is not by Linus Torvalds.

I'm like why tf would he not promote his own system...

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

A big part of the POINT of Linux is that it's open source rather than proprietary, making it not his system nor his responsibility to promote it..

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally what everyone tells me: I tried it 8 years ago and it sucked (used really weird distro or Ubuntu)

[–] HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is Ubuntu bad?

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It’s not bad, and it used to be one of the only noob-friendly distro’s, but things have improved since then. Upstream Debian has gotten easier to install and Fedora has become the best starter distro imo.

[–] thehellrocc@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Linus tech tips, despite having some criticisms, had a rather positive opinion of Linux as far as I can remember

[–] passepartout@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It can't even wun micwodowt owwice :(

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It can't even run [popular proprietary software]! How am I supposed to [action which can be performed with FOSS]?

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I switched most of the software I used daily to FOSS cross platform alternatives that ran on Linux. It made the switch a lot easier.

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that makes it easier.