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vortexal, in what caused you to get into Linux?
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I switched to Linux for two reasons:

  1. I believe that it’s always a good idea to support alternatives.
  2. I prefer to use products and services that I actually support.

I do still use Windows occasionally because not everything works or at least has an alternative available but Linux is and will probably always be my primary OS. Even if by some miracle Microsoft, Apple or Google actually start listening to their users and make their OS and business models perfect, I would still use an alternative like Linux as my primary because there would be nothing preventing these companies from reverting their decisions.

Astaroth, in What are people daily driving these days?

Arch Linux with i3wm

Fish, Alacritty, Rofi (dmenu replacement)

Reil, in what caused you to get into Linux?

Despite being an ECE major, I didn’t really bother doing anything with Linux until two things happened at the same time:

  1. I started having to work in several different build environments that were just easier to set up in Linux
  2. I started running Minecraft servers/doing server modding (starting back in the days of Hey0’s server mod and carrying up through Bukkit).

I wouldn’t call myself an evangelist at all. If you’re doing something that I think will be specifically easier to do in Linux (mostly servers and specific kinds of software development), I’ll point out how… but I find that a lot of people’s advice on “use Linux and X FOSS tool” ends up being akin to giving someone bike shopping advice on which welding torch to use to construct their bicycle frame.

luthis, (edited ) in FOUND file in device by hex content using wxHexEditor

Tried a different way:


<span style="color:#323232;"> filefrag -v testfile 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Filesystem type is: ef53
</span><span style="color:#323232;">File size of testfile is 6 (1 block of 4096 bytes)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> ext:     logical_offset:        physical_offset: length:   expected: flags:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   0:        0..       0:    4660742..   4660742:      1:             last,eof
</span>

Went to offset 4660742 in wxhexeditor, but still when I copy out the hex and convert to ascii, it’s nonsense

timicin, in what caused you to get into Linux?

in the fall of 2002 the windows millennium installation on my computer broke, trapping an entire semester’s worth of work on the hard drive and i was a starving college student with less than $20 to my name, so i couldn’t afford to buy windows xp and didn’t know anyone where i could get a pirate copy from.

i bought a mandrake linux cd pack for $8 from circuit city and used google in the computer laboratory to learn how to mount the hard drive, install drivers for ntfs and copy my all my work to a usb drive and i’ve been using linux ever since. i switch to 100% only linux both professionally and personally sometime around 2010.

Holzkohlen, in What are people daily driving these days?

Garuda Linux. In just love arch, but I’m too lazy to do it myself. One day maybe

AutVincamAutPeriam, in What are people daily driving these days?

I’ve been using Mint Cinnamon for a while now. It runs beautifully with fewer firmware issues than Ubuntu on my XPS. Even though it shipped with Ubuntu.

schnurrito, in What are people daily driving these days?

Debian testing. Seriously. That is reasonably easy to install and configure unlike Arch or Gentoo, but doesn’t come with “user friendly” corporate crap like Ubuntu and its derivatives.

dan,
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I used Debian testing on my production servers for a long time. They say not to use it in production, but even as a “testing” release it’s still more stable than some other distros.

I use Debian stable on all my servers now, though (except for my home server which runs Unraid). I don’t have time to keep a rolling build up-to-date like I used to.

pchem,

Despite the memes, Arch isn’t that hard to install nowadays. The Wiki is stellar and archinstall is a thing (as well as EndeavourOS).

But Debian testing is a fine choice as well, of course.

ExLisper,

I tried arch once and Netflix and my printer didn’t work. Doesn’t it use some alternative c library or something?

pchem,

No. Both CUPS and Netflix work perfectly fine for me on Arch.

You’re probably confusing it with Alpine.

ExLisper,

Yes, that’s exactly what I’m doing.

authed, in 100% vanilla distribution challenge

S&M

uis, in My first year using Linux: My experience
@uis@lemmy.world avatar
  1. Hold your ponies. You might want to wait, because tearing control isn’t wiedly used in games.
  2. Praise Faust!
InternetLefty, in what caused you to get into Linux?

Embedded Linux is such a huge part of embedded software in every industry. I’ve done a bit with build root but mostly Yocto. There is just no replacement for the Linux kernel. If I need to know how the kernel actually handles a platform driver, I can just look up the relevant source. This is just impossible with Windows (IoT or otherwise)

hemko, in what caused you to get into Linux?

Curiousity, wouldn’t say I’m obsessed but I’d hate to switch Windows now since I’m way more familiar on Linux. And I’ve satisfied (killed) any curiosity in Windows server and desktop in professional life

moreeni, in what caused you to get into Linux?

Privacy and programming communities. I tried to stay at Windows at first, but when I was bith recommended GNU/Linux for privacy and had to use it for programming, I knew I couldn’t keep the resistance up.

Three years later and I have 0 regrets. All games I play work, except for, recently, TF2 because of a weird malloc library issue on Arch-based systems. All apps I need just work, and whenever I need something Windows-only I have a VM setup just for that. Developing and managing your system on a Unix-like system is just so much easier.

RickyRigatoni, in what caused you to get into Linux?
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I wasn’t happy with windows vista’s prformance and wanted to try something different. Didn’t make the switch permanent for a decade because I needed games in my life but I always ran linux on my laptops when I got them.

randombullet, in what caused you to get into Linux?

PiHole and then Minecraft actually all through CLI.

Imagine my shock once I found out about screen and SSH. I didn’t need to walk back and forth between my computer and the server.

I didn’t touch a GUI for about 4 years.

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