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downhomechunk, to linux in Flathub Grows Past One Million Active Users
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I am not one of the million, but I’m glad flatpaks exist. Anything to increase ease of use and hopefully wider linux adoption is a good thing.

downhomechunk, to linux in What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?
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Oh man, you really owned those libs

downhomechunk, to lemmyshitpost in Get to work, crackheads
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I don’t think dubious scrappers taking obviously stolen copper are paying fair market value. You’d have to throw in a vcr or two amd haggle a bit to get enough for a dub.

downhomechunk, to linux in AMD P-State Preferred Core Support For Linux Tried A 13th Time
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I’m happy with my abundance of p-cores! Hopefully they don’t nail it.

downhomechunk, to linux in Old ass chromebook distro recommendation [request]
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This is the first I’ve ever heard of a write protect screw. That’s so silly!

downhomechunk, to linux in Linux reaches new high 3.82%
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I’ve been on slackware almost exclusively for 2 decades-ish. I’m team kde. I always liked it, but I had shitty hardware from like 2010 - 2020, so I was on xfce because it’s a lot lighter. But I always had kde installed so I could use some of their native apps.

downhomechunk, to linux in Linux reaches new high 3.82%
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3rd, but I recommend getting the kde variety (used to be called kubuntu). This will give you the most windows like experience. Regular Ubuntu ships with gnome and has a different feel to it.

Also, gnome suxxxxxxxxxxx! There, I said it!

downhomechunk, to linux in Linux reaches new high 3.82%
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Probably linux mint. Everything tends to work out of the box and function the way you’d expect. If you’re used to windows then cinnamon will have a familiar feel to it. I like xfce myself, but I move things around to make it feel like windows 95.

downhomechunk, to historyporn in OJ Simpson freeway chase, 1994
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Holy crap. I thought he was driving the car. I didn’t realize he was a passenger holding a gun to the driver’s head.

downhomechunk, to linux in Writing program
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KDE comes with its own office suite. I’ve always preferred libre office so I don’t have much experience with it, but it’s there.

downhomechunk, to linux in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?
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Come say hi at # on libera.chat if you are so inclined. We’re a group of wild slackers who all met on the main irc channel.

downhomechunk, to linux in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?
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Holy crap, how did I forget that existed? I would use that for complex stuff like vlc back in the day.

I’ve not heard of ROCm, but I think I get the gist. It’s something like Cuda for AMD?

Are you going to upload and maintain it if you get it working?

downhomechunk, to linux in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?
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Are you your own dependency manager too?

Some day I’m going to get someone in one of these “what distro should I try?” posts to install slackware and fall in love with it.

downhomechunk, to linux in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?
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That’s actually next on my list to check out.

downhomechunk, to linux in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?
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Nah, I’m just a hobbyist. I’m a n00b compared to all the regulars in the slackware channel on IRC. But I love tinkering and learning. I’d need your help to install vanilla arch, just like you’d probably need mine to get started on slackware. (The slackware install is actually super easy).

I’ve been trying to distrohop the past couple months, see what else is out there. I wasn’t paying attention installing Garuda and borked my EFI partition. I did manage to chroot into my still working slackware partition, but I couldn’t figure out how to re-install grub. So I formatted and did a fresh slackware install.

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