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.
Any clue how it handles Illustrator?
Unfortunately not. But I’d imagine flawless. You know of a free way to test?
Can you test. paint.net for me
Lol really? Edit: oh! My bad thought this was something else. Gimme a minute I’ll run through it
Why would you want that on Linux? We already have qemu KVM which can be used via libvirt. Just install virtual manager and be done with it.
The speed you are seeing is the same as KVM
Why would you want that on Linux? We already have qemu KVM which can be used via libvirt. Just install virtual manager and be done with it.
Slow down. VMware can be one click and done. All these alternatives and extras and configurations are the reason windows people don’t try Linux. Don’t over complicate a simple thing. If they want new or more they can figure that out at a later date.
VMware is much harder to setup as it requires additional setup
You just install virt-manager and reboot. That’s it.
sudo apt install virt-managerVMware requires you to click on the downloaded install and click yes a bunch of times before it’s finished.
This is great. Just to let you know, whatever decision you make is wrong. Cheers!
Still works though!
Why?
The only people who hate Linux users more than windows and Mac users are Linux users who think you chose the wrong distro
I’ve always felt good about using Ubuntu and derivatives. I get their opinions and they have some good points, but I’m not sure why I’d let that change my flow.
Because Ubuntu sucks! 👎 Here’s a list of why:
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Snaps = 👹
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Ads in start menu (they did this before Winblows!)
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Unity is sooo fucking slow and stupid. That dumbass bar of most used apps always present taking up screen space 🙉
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Canonical doesn’t give a shit what users want🖕
But the most important part is that I really don’t care. I don’t use your computer. You do. So use whatever the 🔥hell🔥 you want. Use a version of Winblows 🪟 themed to look like Arch 🤭, wallpaper and all👌, then post screenshots on the Internet about your superiority 💪.
Live how you want! And if someone shames you for it, kick them out of you life 😎
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Because there’s always going to be someone who says the distro you liked the most is not the distro you should be using. (I use Arch btw)
Arch is unstable and time-consuming to maintain, and should never be reasonably used as anything but upstream for something usable, you’re wrong!
Jk, you do you :)
Debian, add Mint, Backbox, Opencpn, Navigatrix, Marinux, Mozilla, Kismet and several other depots. It’s a monster at the end and I have to pay attention when updating and booting, but it gets all the jobs done for me all of the times.
NixOS
NixOS
but am looking to move away because of the lack of SELinux or even AppArmor
Linux Mint. Cinnamon. With a Windows Vista theme. It confuses and/or irritates everyone who sees it.
Nice! Not my thing but I’m glad that you can enjoy the Vista theme (I remember enjoying it when it came out)
What’s it called?
Not sure but it’s by B00merang-Project. Check their site.
Windon’t
^ this ^
Linux does what Windont?
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.
LDME/Cinnamon
I was going to go Mint/Cinnamon, but now I’m going to more.
kde has some impressive windows themes that are REALLY convincing
Anakin no doubt uses Oracle Linux
Just curious does anyone actually care about what distro people use or more just a meme?
Home server: Proxmox (Debian). Redundant DNS: Raspbian (Debian). Parent’s server: Debian (Debian).
Gonna be honest, I mostly live off my phone and a retroid pocket.
Nobara! switched 2 days ago, deleted my Windows partition 3 hours ago because it’s smooth sailing and quite the different experience compared to bashing my head against debian jessie ages ago.
Whatever it is it’s the wrong Linux
You dropped this -> /s
They’re deadly serious. Every Linux is the wrong Linux.
BSD is the only way.
(hears the rumble of the hurd in the distance)
This is dumb because it’s making it out to seem like there are Super Distro Wars and not just folks calling out bad decision makers like Ubuntu and Manjaro, and non-free-as-in-beer distros like Zorin and Elementary
I’m pretty sure outside of those two categories nobody really cares
Fuck it, I’m switching to TempleOS
I’m not doing that unless it has its own compiler.
It has. Now learn HolyC.
Has anybody tried to get TempleOS to run Doom?
A quick Google search says… Yes! they even implemented a basic sdl2 library in holyc to access the full potential of the video hardware.
Does it get any holier than practicing combat against the forces of hell? Lol
Put any distro in front of me and provided I don’t need to master it, I’m good. Ubuntu is fine. Debian is fine. RedHat is fine. Fedora is fine. I even have a tiny low-end system that is using Bohdi. Whatever. We’re all using mostly the same kernel anyway.
90% of what I do is in a container anyway so it almost doesn’t matter; half the time that means Alpine, but not really. That includes both consuming products from upstream as well as software development. I also practically live in the terminal, so I couldn’t care less what GUI subsystem is in play, even while I’m using it.
Went with nix about a month ago and it started off great. Slowly learning to not really like it. A lot of problems that are really hard to fix
I’ve been a Windows… Let’s say a power-user, no expert but I could install it, find a way to troubleshoot most problems. Then at high school a friend lent me a bit outdated Knoppix CD. I never managed to make ppp work on that so no internet, but I loved the old KDE. Somewhat later, when we had a normal DSL line with a proper router, I got Fedora. Then Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Debian for a while…
Finally I found Gentoo. And there I am, some 10 years later, still on that. After a bit of a bumpy road of the first install (no automation, but the handbook is very helpful if you know the basic Linux and HW terms) it was almost flawless. I remember two problems, and both of them were my own fault. The first one was some testing kernel version that had a bug where small files on ext3 filesystem would get randomly corrupted. The second was when I was trying to remove some hidden files, mangled the command and ran basically rm -rf /* (seriously, don’t do that, it will delete everything on your system). I reinstalled the system (I had data on a different drive that either wasn’t mounted atm or it didn’t reach them before I Ctrl-c’d that command.) and all was well.
Finally I did last clean install when I bought new (used) Ryzen build to replace my old i5-2500k, I would’ve had to recompile world anyway and I had pretty much dependency hell of my own making at that point (I was testing tons of unstable stuff, new Plasma 5 from testing repo and so on).
Now I’m running mostly stable system with only bunch of packages unmasked from testing and there are no problems with that. I never had that with any other distro. No matter if Deb based, rpm based, sooner or later I inevitably ran into some variant of “I need a package that’s not in basic repo, and the package I found requires a version of some library that’s not available as well” or something like that. In Gentoo, the packages either compile against the version you have installed, or if not possible, you can have more versions installed at the same time in different slots. Also if you need something that’s not available in repo, you can just write a text file that downloads and compiles the version you need and it integrates in the package manager automatically, no need to create whole Deb/rpm package.
