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    [–] Skyline969@lemmy.ca 221 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    Linux Mint. Cinnamon. With a Windows Vista theme. It confuses and/or irritates everyone who sees it.

    [–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 3 months ago

    I was going to go Mint/Cinnamon, but now I'm going to more.

    [–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 months ago

    kde has some impressive windows themes that are REALLY convincing

    [–] dan@upvote.au 16 points 3 months ago

    I'm using the Windows XP Bliss wallpaper on my Fedora PC at work. I've had a few people ask about it haha. Most of the company uses Macs.

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    [–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 118 points 3 months ago (12 children)
    [–] Forester@yiffit.net 54 points 3 months ago (1 children)
    [–] superkret@feddit.org 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    RebeccaBlackOS > Hannah Montana Linux

    [–] Forester@yiffit.net 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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    [–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (13 children)

    So going off the chalice in the movie, the distro that will save you from judgment is the plainest one – the one with the least bloat? That tracks.

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    [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 3 months ago

    Possibly a perfect use of this.

    [–] Wooki@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

    Is it really a choice?

    TEMPLEOS

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    [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 83 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    This is why you just fucking lie and say "Arch btw"

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    [–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 79 points 3 months ago (19 children)

    Screw that You're all great everybody from slackware to steam deck.

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    [–] atmur@lemmy.world 67 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    For as much as Linux nerds (myself absolutely included) complain about distros like Ubuntu and Manjaro, I'd still take either one over Windows or MacOS any day.

    [–] OpenStars@discuss.online 28 points 3 months ago (34 children)

    Mac OSX isn't bad... so long as you sell it your soul, and don't want freedom in return, it's great 👍.

    I kid... mostly - it's iOS that is horrifying, but Mac OSX is still Unix (tho not GNU), so not anywhere within leagues of Microdick.

    And - possibly dumb question - couldn't you always just run a Linux VM at near-native speed, and get the benefits of both?

    [–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    MacOSX is great, other than the fact that it only runs on insanely overpriced, un-upgradeable and irreparable hardware. And that you have what I would consider limited control over it.

    [–] OpenStars@discuss.online 16 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Other than all that, yeah:-)

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    Still not comparable to Windows though, imho.

    Its sins are just of a different sort - e.g. you don't need to repair or upgrade those machines so often, bc they work so well for so long as it is, plus other than for gaming, who even upgrades machines these days to begin with?

    For non-gaming, Macs are great machines. So too are Linux. While Windows sux ass no matter what. Thus that's the dividing line, imho.

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    [–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 62 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    That's all well and good, but can we talk about proper use of this meme template?

    [–] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 months ago

    Eh it works just fine 🤷‍♂️

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    [–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 49 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    This is great. Just to let you know, whatever decision you make is wrong. Cheers!

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    [–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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    [–] AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 38 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Fuck it, I'm switching to TempleOS

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    [–] TheKracken@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Just setup Mint last night and have been troubleshooting how to get everything to work. So far I'm liking it. Last thing I setup was Lutris for gaming so that's nice.

    [–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 28 points 3 months ago (6 children)
    [–] Unbecredible@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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    [–] fluxion@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Anakin no doubt uses Oracle Linux

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    [–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (13 children)

    Mint, judge me

    PS anyone have any favorite resources for absolute tech illiterate noobs? I'm trying, but without a baseline understanding of the subject, it's hard to find the right guides

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    [–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Just a humble Arch Linux user here

    [–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

    It's wonderful how the expression "humble Arch Linux user" manages to pack a contradiction in a mere 4 words.

    [–] kemsat@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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    [–] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

    I run distro, btw

    [–] Agent641@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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    [–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I'm an unwashed Mint peasant. Tell me how inadequate I am.

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    [–] SerpentPeaked@lemmynsfw.com 23 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912 Distro

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    [–] meliante@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    Fedora Workstation 40.

    On windows until last year, after trying 11 on my T440s which made it unbearably slow so had to start over but instead of going back to 10 tried a bunch of distros.

    Fedora stuck, mainly because of gnome vanilla (I really like the paradigm, don't care about deep personalisation) and how everything just worked great.

    Fight me?

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    [–] Petter1@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

    Reactions:

    Ubuntu: 😮why?

    Manjaro: haven’t you managed to kill it yet?

    Mint: ex windows guy?

    Debian: 😃nice, how did you got to that decision?

    Endeavour: 😃nice, how did you got to that decision?

    Arch: 😃nice, how did you got to that decision?

    Nix: 😃nice, how did you got to that decision?

    OpenSUSE: 😃nice, how did you got to that decision?

    [–] janAkali@lemmy.one 21 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Ubuntu: 😮why?

    For a lot of people Ubuntu is the linux. Canonical is just good at marketing. For all it worth, Ubuntu is not the bad choice for average user who's not into ricing and not bothered by bloat.

    Manjaro: haven’t you managed to kill it yet?

    I've been using Arch and Manjaro for couple years each and in my experience they both break regularly. But, for some weird reason, Arch Linux is praised, when Manjaro is shamed upon.

    Mint: ex windows guy?

    Aren't we all?

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    [–] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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    [–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)
    [–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (10 children)

    I've been on mint for a while. Here's a tip for anyone who needs some windows apps that won't work in Linux.

    VM workstation 17 is free and is fast as balls. With plug and play pass through too.

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    [–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)
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    [–] barsquid@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

    So true. But this is (usually) more like sibling rivalry instead of actual disrespect. It is kinda fun if you're in the mood to poke at your peers.

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