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    [–] BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.net 2 points 49 minutes ago

    Huh, and i just installed it on my secondary computer (laptop). Maybe i should setup a dual boot on my main one soon and disable network communications in the windows partition, and then migrate ny files slowly until i can confidently get rid of that partition.

    [–] nifty@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    Linux Mint is easy af, that or Ubuntu

    [–] jose1324@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
    [–] TotalFat@lemmy.world 1 points 42 minutes ago

    Ahh I do love that classic Harley sound..

    [–] Killer57@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 hours ago

    The Steam Deck and it's desktop mode is why I decided to try jumping head first into a single boot of Bazzite on my main computer, it's basically like using a Steam deck, just across four monitors, a year in and I haven't looked back.

    [–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

    I have literally talked to one person at work, that he might want to try out Linux Mint in VM. Dude have never used Linux, but seems to be skilled enough to install it on his own.

    [–] dipcart@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    I started on mint a couple months ago and so far I've tried as many distros as I could find. I liked manjaro but then found out about their controversies so I'm currently on endeavour os. Half of the fun for me has been experimenting with different desktops and whatnot, which has gotten me back into computer stuff.

    [–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    What are these Manjaro controversies?

    Have a look at this and this.

    [–] dance_ninja@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago

    I'm experimenting with Pop!_OS on my aging laptop running it on a USB drive. Was happy to see it supports 2-in-1 functionality.

    [–] Zink@programming.dev 19 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

    Oh is this an excuse to hop on the Mint praise train? Don’t mind if I do!

    For me it was smoother than windows to install, it runs much better moment to moment (it’s like the people that made it were worried about making nice software rather than the business goals being pushed by their managers), and most importantly the fact that it is the “beginner” distro doesn’t compromise its capabilities. I am in the terminal all day every day and I use the machine to work on software for embedded Linux systems.

    [–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

    Mint was so easy to install. I'm pretty new to Linux. Not afraid of having to do things in the terminal, but I don't really know many commands yet. So, I appreciate the graphical managers for updates and drivers. You can definitely tell they really worked to make a polished OS. And I really like Cinnamon. It's a very clean looking DE that has been super easy to transition to from Windows.

    Unlike Kubuntu, I didn't have to do any tricks or install anything from github to get stuff from my Steam library to work, everything just worked. And Kubuntu (or perhaps just Wayland) would crash upon waking my PC from sleep and wouldn't recover.

    [–] HStone32@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

    Jut put my Mother on mint. Her windows 10 pc is reaching EOS, and I finally convinced her that having to buy a new computer every several years is unacceptable.

    [–] somtwo@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago

    I've installed mint on my laptop, I like it so far. Everything was super easy to get set up, even the graphics drivers

    [–] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 31 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    Using roblox to talk about linux

    [–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

    It once played perfectly fine under WINE, then Roblox explicitly blocked it for no good reason.

    sober.vinegarhq.org

    [–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

    I tried mint for a little bit but ended up using Kubuntu.

    [–] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 57 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

    Weird to use a game that decided to drop its official Linux support for this meme

    [–] SeekPie@lemm.ee 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

    At least Sober's working.

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    [–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

    Reminder for Windows 10 users who can't upgrade to Windows 11

    /s/can't/won't

    [–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 5 hours ago

    ¿Por Qué No Los Dos?

    [–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 78 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

    This is the first time I've seen a Roblox meme template 💀💀

    [–] cm0002@lemmy.world 35 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

    The future is now old man!

    [–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

    I'm in my early 20s 💀

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    [–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

    I’ve been learning Linux (Ubuntu) with an old Laptop a friend was going to throw away.

    I like it, but I’m not ready to switch. My biggest complaint… why the hell is it so hard to access an external drive??

    I eventually got it, but now I can’t for the life of me remember the command line I used to set access for the first one to set up another one.

    [–] Zink@programming.dev 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

    You can just use a graphical file manager in Linux like you might have been used to in Windows. When I open mine I see my windows partition and my USB drive listed on the left side.

    I know Mint has one that I use all the time, but I’m not familiar with what’s in Ubuntu out of the box.

    [–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago

    Nothing as far as I know. What’s the one for Mint called?

    [–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

    There may be an easier way to access the external drive, It depends on what you are bar is for difficult. Are we talking about a NAS or an external USB drive?

    What's your current method for connecting to it?

    [–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

    External drive connected by USB, formatted to FAT32.

    Shows up readable, but not writable as default.

    [–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 hours ago

    It's not supposed to be read only every time, The nasty command you enter is likely fixing a symptom.

    A lot of times if you're swapping back and forth between windows and Linux the drive will be perceived as dirty. An fsck might be enough to make it stop misbehaving.

    After you plug it in if you run sudo dmesg, It might give you some insight as to why it's being mounted read only, If you fix the underlying cause you won't have to remember the command anymore

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