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[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 164 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Your fault, bro. Just install Linux. I use Arch, BTW.

[–] Neon@lemmy.world 74 points 10 months ago (2 children)

petition to rename Arch to btwOS

[–] livie@iusearchlinux.fyi 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I use btwOS btw doesn't roll off the tongue tho

[–] LostXOR@kbin.social 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You have to pronounce it like "Buh-twoss".

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Kialdadial@iusearchlinux.fyi 15 points 10 months ago (5 children)

My favorite part of Arch is reinstalling it over and over again. That first successful boot after the install gives too much dopamine.

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[–] shellsharks@infosec.pub 98 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I am a pretty heavy “Fediverse user” (Mastodon + Lemmy/Kbin) and my feeds have VERY little Linux talk. There is an incredibly diverse set of folks on the ‘verse but admittedly discoverability is hard. If the only people in your circle are Linux nerds then that’s all that might be boosted into your timeline. Put some effort into finding other folks and unfollow some of the Linux-only voices :-).

[–] RandomStickman@kbin.social 58 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Maybe people aren't used to curate their own feed anymore.

[–] Jagermo@feddit.de 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's the biggest thing. My Mastodon is very curated as is my subscribed feed. Put work in, get quality out.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How do you curate your mastodon feed? How do you find interesting people to follow? I haven't created a mastodon account yet because I honestly not sure how to do this.

[–] shellsharks@infosec.pub 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Here’s some tips for discoverability and building out a Mastodon follow feed - https://shellsharks.com/notes/2023/08/17/mastodon-discoverability

Here’s some tips for paring a feed gone mad down… https://shellsharks.com/notes/2023/08/10/curating-mastodon-feed

Happy Fediversing!

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[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

I think it's mostly people viewing the "All"/"Community" feeds. Which I feel like you have to do in general as the niche communities haven't really gotten to a self sustaining point where you can check your "Home" feed and not run out of stuff to doom scroll.

Not to mention that if you happened to mention certain things in communities that are tangentially related (Windows/Nintendo/Apple) then it usually starts another off topic discussion on linux/piracy/whatever.

Honestly the linux stuff doesn't bother me as much as every topic seemingly turning into a critique of capitalism.

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[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 60 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Getting really tired of this "the fediverse needs to cater to normie interests because we're here now and it's what we deserve" attitude. If you can't find a community to click with, you can always create one, join one you don't know much about with an open mind, or don't use the fediverse if it doesn't have the content you like. Sorry to say it but you're not special and no existing users on any social media platform is obligated to go out of their way to make you feel comfortable on the platform.

Same with the "your open source, community developed platform/client sucks! I demand you make the UX better because I the user deserve better! No I'm not going to donate to your development fund because you suck and need to be better before you deserve my money!" sentiments that I see on Lemmy more and more now. Seems like everyone just expects corporate level user experience and customer service from people developing open source software mostly for free as passion projects. Even after the numerous corporate boondoggles that drove people to the fediverse in the first place people aren't the slightest bit willing to change their paradigms regarding how social media should be run.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You forgot "Lemmy is developed by tankies so someone that isn't me should fork it and work their asses off so I feel more comfortable for some reason."

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[–] ExLisper@linux.community 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We need moar Linux memes!

Seriously, more Linux memes please.

[–] Rubanski@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago (11 children)

What about Linux Tech Tips?

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[–] BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 10 months ago (47 children)

Let's do it right here!
Sway is a Wayland i3 implementation and you really should be using Wayland instead of X.

[–] taaz@biglemmowski.win 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I would love to but 1. I love my simple awesomeWM setup 2. Nvidia shenanigans.
:(

[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nvidia shenanigans

i know that feel bro :(

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[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I love Linux and playing with it and I still feel the same way. I don't want to talk about it all day. Stackoverflow exists.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, or at least keep it to c/Linux

We don't need all communities to devolve into Linux conversations.

[–] plague_sapiens@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (6 children)
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[–] Iapar@feddit.de 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like a skill issue.

[–] CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lmao, I'm tempted to say "skill issue" any time someone comments about me using Linux over Windows now

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 10 months ago (3 children)

this is the future

  1. join fediverse

  2. get linux

  3. post on unixsocks

  4. overthrow capitalism er uh i mean .. uh.. gotta go

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[–] Nightsoul@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (4 children)
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[–] Worstdriver@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Used Ubuntu Linux for a year back around '08-'09. Didn't have a great experience and went back to Windows. Since then I've never had a reason to try it again. That said, I've nothing but respect for those that use a flavour of Linux or Mac OS. At the end of the day doing the things you need done is what matters and if a different OS than mine gets you there, that's awesome.

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[–] murph@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Your Mastodon feed will be entirely about who the people you follow are talking about, so follow different people, (or hashtags) and the conversation will change.

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[–] ZMonster@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Self hosting, at least for lemmy, is absolute trash. I have been told a few times when asking questions that, "it is expected that you are thoroughly experienced with Linux" to be able to follow the mediocre guides. And they are trash if you are a newbie.

So people like me, who would love to use Lemmy for non Linux things, am posting almost entirely about Linux problems.

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I wouldn’t expect running a publicly accessible server on the internet to be easy or a great idea for someone not familiar with the OS they’re using. Great way to learn, though.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I've got a proxmox cluster and I've been using Linux for decades but I wouldn't dare host something that a LOT of users are going to access. I don't know nearly enough about netsec and I can guarantee my vlan practices probably aren't perfect, etc.

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[–] Thann@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If you never used windows before and were trying to do something complicated like self hosting on it, you would be having nothing but issues....

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[–] the_q@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Linux community as a whole has a real problem with being snobs to new users.

[–] Nobsi@feddit.de 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)
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[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Some days most of what goes through my feed is Linux stuff, c/FuckCars, and hardcore communism and it feels like I'm in the wrong place. Most of the time I enjoy myself though.

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[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 10 months ago (6 children)

You just have to find communities that share your interests.

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[–] Nobsi@feddit.de 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I install Ubuntu LTS
I try some things
Something fails
I look at forums
I find only cunty answers to ever problem
I delete the vm and install server 2022 core

[–] droans@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had a problem with some software I was using a few weeks back. I googled the error and the one result was a closed GitHub issue matching it exactly.

The sole reply just said that the poster should stop being lazy because the problem has been discussed in other issue reports.

Except that was the very first issue created for that repository.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I've been wondering if we're losing users. My "Everything" feed sorted by Active is full of posts with zero comments, and a great deal of them are just news article links that were probably automated.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Active is kind of a lackluster sorting method imo, Hot is awesome bc you get fresh posts (like Trending on that other site) aside from a couple 3M old posts that show up, Top 6h, 12h, Day are good too. New comments is cool if you want well engaged posts.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Sway is better because it uses wayland

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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I don't see that much linux on my feed, you can always unfollow the Linux community.

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[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I setup i3 after seeing so many posts here. Now I would never go back

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[–] Octavio@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

That's interesting I've been on Mastodon for just over a year and nobody has mentioned Linux yet.

[–] Steak@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago (6 children)
[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's a penguin that lives in your computer and does math equations.

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[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yet another post about Microsoft making windows even shittier, somehow:

Me: Its time to sing the songs of my people!

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