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TimeSquirrel, (edited ) in I feel like breaking my windows install was a rite of passage
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My right of passage was trying to run hobby websites in the early 2000s using a pirated copy of Windows Server with IIS. Then I discovered Apache and Linux LAMP stacks and realized how much IIS sucks and it was all over from there.

I even was inspired to get back into programming due to wanting to learn PHP ( I only had some QBasic experience at the time). Now I can do PHP, C, C++, and JS (granted they all have extremely similar syntax)

GustavoM, in Why do you use the terminal?
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Why not? It’s simple, lightweight, has a lot of interesting commands that fills its respective niche really well (btop, for instance) and (the best of all) it doesn’t explode my PC everytime I run such commands.

GustavoM, in I feel like breaking my windows install was a rite of passage
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My “rite of passage” to the magical world of GNU/Linux was… well… boredom. My Windows install was run fresh, with TCPOptimizer, with some things removed out of its core… until I took the decision of “trying to figure out how to use Linux even if it means losing my sanity.”

…and here we are. Sanity is still intact tho…

…I think. :^)

barkdoor, in Is anyone here using their hardware TPM chips for credentials?
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100% Yes

  • Currently using systemd-creds to displace any secrets in env
  • Spending time getting to grips with Keylime
wrott, in What distro(s) do you use?
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Debian 12 for now is a great investment for the next 5 years, tho.

digger, in Linux Mint vs... Linux Mint (Debian Edition) | Veronica Explains
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I moved to LMDE 6 when it came out, moving over from regular Mint. It’s so nice and boring… Which is exactly how I like my computer to be.

Unyieldingly,

I have been using LMDE6 with some back ports, it has been working very well so far also with flatpak.

Luffy879, in Why do you use the terminal?

Why should i open discover, wait half a year for it to load, search for vlc, wait half a year, look if its not a flatpak, realise its a flatpak, repeat

If i could just type sudo pacman -S vlc?

Or search how to update my grub config if I could just type grub-mkconfig -o /mnt/Boot/grub/grub.cfg?

SpaceCadet, (edited ) in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?
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I ditched Ubuntu LTS for my homelab virtual machines around 20.04 when they started to push snaps, netplan and cloud-init, meaning I would have to spend a significant amount of effort redoing my bootstrap scripts for no good reason and learning skills that are only applicable in the Ubuntu ecosystem. I went with debian stable instead, and was left wondering why I hadn’t done that sooner. It’s like Ubuntu without all the weirdness.

moonburster, in Why do you use the terminal?

Because googling a command line works way better and faster than any other form.

wuphysics87, in Need Some Total Noob Advice for Installing and Running Linux

Install popos play with arch in a vm

Gutless2615, in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?

Linux mint waaaaaaay back when it first launched.

danielfgom, in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?
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Manjaro. Because it blank screened in the first update after installation. Never touched it again.

popekingjoe,
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I wish I had learned that quickly. I dealt with it for like four months before just going straight Arch.

s0phia, in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?
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Any distro that uses apt. I’m ok with Fedora and Arch.

ultra, in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?

MicroOS. I didn’t switch from losedows to still have my PC restart on me while I was working. Also, it kinda broke and was annoying to configure, and had way too little documentation.

BCsven,

Did you use this tool ? Simplifies ignition/combustion opensuse.github.io/fuel-ignition/edit

ultra,

Isn’t that just for the initial install? I was talking about post-install configuration

BCsven,

If you scroll to the bottom in the combustion section you add packages you want, and custom scripts. OpenSUSE also haa auto yast for cloning your system and applying it to another machine

Lmaydev, in I feel like breaking my windows install was a rite of passage

Good job. It’s a great feeling when things finally click.

Unfortunately stuff like this is exactly what is holding Linux back from mainstream adoption.

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