I feel like I've been gaslit into running FOSS but every success only brings me closer to fighting god
Reddit death > installing mint on my second PC > realising I can run most of the games I play and installing mint on my main PC > start learning Rust as a first foray into programming in a long time > realise I want to go back to uni and study info tech to get out of my shitty marketing job > get a shitty second hand laptop off my parents that struggles to run windows and install endeavourOS to try something different.
It really is a slippery slope. When does it end???
Haha you picked the worst time to try to break into tech.
I've got a pretty good mixture of qualifications and am working in a tech adjacent role so I'm not starting from nothing. I have some decent connections and might be able to carve out something at my current org. So it could be worse.
Nah, just not the best time. That was 1996. 2021 was pretty good too.
Besides some high profile layoffs, there are still tons of tech jobs out there in less visible industries. Widget factories and insurance companies all have IT people, along with every one else in general.
But probably the best time to switch to linux. So far.
It really is a slippery slope. When does it end???
It ends when you open vim. There's no escape.
I already ran Linux when the API blew up but now I'm a girl..
Linux gals are best gals
Lmfao
One of us! One of us!
Talk to your kids about Linux, before a stranger does.
Your post couldn't be more true. Decades ago I was sold on MythTV, this PVR software but it only ran on Linux and you had to compile it yourself. So I gave Linux and MythTV a shot. As it turned out, both MythTV and early desktop Linux were a buggy, frustrating mess. X broke all the time. Incomprehensible, ungoogleable compile errors all the time.
I spent so much time troubleshooting MythTV and compilation problems that I ended up learning Linux inside and out and the C programming language to be able understand the compile errors. I went on to lead a major open source project and have had a long career as a programmer, using all the knowledge I gained that started with fighting MythTV.
In 2018 I went to research why all the sites wanted my cookies so much, today I'm a free software adovocate and a Marxist
Why stop at Ubuntu if you can try a new distro each month?
This is the way, quit your real job and focus on nothing but switching distros
I don't run Linux (though I'm admittedly more interested in it than I used to be) but the reddit API stuff definitely made me learn more about foss, and value it more.
I got pissed off at Google Photos, which led me down a self-hosting rabbit hole. Ended up installing Linux everywhere, even my "gaming" one eventually (I do development, and WSL was a resource hog).
The hardest thing to degoogle has been email - I've used the same address for years. But I use Thunderbird so at least I don't have to see ads in my fucking inbox
There are ads in Gmail?
I guess I've been using ad blockers for far too long...
I quite like Proton mail it's secure and the interface is pretty damn good
Now you just need to remove snaps. And then when Canonical still forces them on you, you move to Linux Mint, but then Linux mint won't be updated as often as you'd like. So then you move to Arch. Then you'll really be one of us
Yes, FOSS will allow you to fight God.
But you will have to assemble him first.
ONE OF US
ONE OF US
sudo hostnamectl set-hostname SOMETHINGNORMAL
git clone https://github.com/popey/unsnap
cd unsnap
./unsnap
The first one will set the name behind the @ sign to something not that long. I recommend just usint "PC" for privacy reasons. Often nobody needs to know your device model.
The second one removes snaps and snapd and installs installed apps as flatpak instead. Flatpak is a universal format, similar to snap, came out a bit later but not only Ubuntu uses it. Snap also works on multiple Distros but people dont like it, it is still slow (now just slowing down boot) etc.
perfect demonstration of culture sharing for a newbie. Like advising them to always trust commands they find online without even explaining them what each command does!
It's a good way to get comfortable with reinstalling your os!
Welcome to the real world Neo. Don't take the pill with 777 permissions btw.
You have been assimilated, resistance was futile.
Seriously, though, I'm glad you're with us. The more people we get to embrace alternative approaches, the more viable the open standards will be.
Fuck did we all go down the exact same pipeline? I just installed Linux last week and I haven't booted up windows since.
If you ever get bored of Ubuntu. You could try fedora kde, the recent versions are so good.
Don't forget to install codecs though.
Just wait till you start the estradiol..
Oh friend-… I’m on the other side. 8 years on T 💪💉. But yes. We’re all queer.
It's the path of many of us here, now you will hate linux if you come from windows, give it a couple of months and you'll ask yourself how the fuck you could be on windows till now.
Wait and see you distrohopping every month for years ending up in a boring stable distro.
Welcome to the community! If you need any help you have the Ubuntu forums and Lemmy because fuck Reddit
Welcome to the club. Your lan port is over there. (Insert broadcom chip joke here)
One of us! One of us
Same. I didn't know what a distribution was 8 months ago, now most of my feeds are Linux distro tier list video.
Same thing happened to me. Moved to pop!_os.I have zero regrets. I've learned a ton. I use tons of apps off f-droid and foss Ubuntu apps. I have degoogled most of my life. I'm also developing an Firefox addon for lemmy. It's usable as a user script addon now. It's called lemmytools. It's my small contribution. All because Reddit got stupid. I don't even browse reddit for answers usually about tech/programming stuff anymore because they block my VPN.
Congrats! Your laptop will be even happier with a lighter but still nice-looking desktop environment like Xfce and you even have an Ubuntu flavor around it: Xubuntu.
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