linux propaganda time
Running any modern OS especially windows on 4GB of RAM is not a pleasent experience
I quite happily run HAOS on my raspberry pi 3 to control the lights, my Roomba, and various other devices in my home.
Interacting with it via the home-assistant Android app, or the web interface, I’m never waiting for anything, and interacting via mosh is quite pleasant.
Part of what makes Linux nice is that you can use just what you need.
If what you need includes something like a web browser, then yes; 4 GiB of RAM is going to be a bad time, and 1 GiB is going to be unusable.
I’m doing quite fine with 3.7 GiB, most of the time I barely hit 3 GiB in usage.
I have had a good experience with Arch and XCFE on 4gb of ram, on a $40 ebay chromebook I use for travel. It is enough for moderate browser use, new 2D games (Celeste mostly) and old 3D games (such as Portal, Half Life 2). It didn’t run as smoothly though in a previous Fedora installation with Gnome.
I’m currently daily driving a 2009 MacBook with Debian 12 XFCE, essentially on 3GBs of RAM because I’ve also got an Ubuntu server running for a little sysadmin course I’m doing (Linux upskill challenge if anyone’s interested), and I really can’t complain! If anything, the 2.4 GHz wireless card is an issue, but that just makes my downloads slow 🤷♂️
I got a really great deal on a server recently by getting a workstation from a local university surplus store with an i7 6700, and was able to fit it out with a 256gb ssd and 16gb of ram from ebay for a combined total of $70. I’m just using it for a video game server currently but I plan on possibly hosting a personal website there in the future.
It was probably a bad idea to get the drive used but it was only $15 and I’ll start backing it up once I get some files on it that I actually care about.
Arch/Debian with DWL and Firefox should be a pleasant browsing experience with 4GB of RAM.
Facts since some peoples can install Linux on a washing machine
Psh, my washing machine came with Linux out of the box
Regularly users mostly don’t give a shit about any of that. They care about ease of use or if the box and compatibility. Y’all get so pissed off at Linus because he actually understand what most people care about.
what
people made fun of linus for running something that specifically said he should think thrice about before running as much as they made fun of system76 for somehow not checking their packages before releasing that iso
Honestly 99% of new linux users ignore warnings like that.
who’s saying were pissed at him, I agree with him
🤷♂️ the general consensus I mostly get from the Linux+lemmy community is that he’s an idiot to stupid to use Linux. And you put him as the dude above the Chad. You made that choice for a reason.
Linus is an idiot cause hes just another robber baron wannabe who got his dirt aired out internationally. We crack on him cause hes an asshole who treats his employees like shit. Use him however you like, he sure does that to his employees.
so pissed off at Linus
Who’s pissed off at Linus? Linus is “unfathomably based,” as the kids say
now I’m confused if we were talking about linus from ltt or linus torvalds. if we were talking about the face of ltt, I hate that guy so much, he’s really annoying
That user was talking about Linus from LTT, but I thought they meant Linus Torvalds too. I also hate the LTT guy lol. Here’s another comment from that user:
🤷♂️ the general consensus I mostly get from the Linux+lemmy community is that he’s an idiot to stupid to use Linux. And you put him as the dude above the Chad. You made that choice for a reason.
I didn’t even realize the person in your meme was Linus from LTT until they said that. I thought it was just “random confused person.”
I didn’t make the meme, but I take it that isn’t talking about linus directly here, its just to show the opposite of chad, the expression is just perfect.
honestly he could be a capable user if he were just pointed in the right direction by emily at first, just like everyone else. maybe if that happened I would watch the video 😅 or if emily made another linux video on their channel
I take it that isn’t talking about linus directly here, its just to show the opposite of chad, the expression is just perfect
I agree with this. I don’t think the meme is really about Linus from LTT at all. It’s really just Windows vs. Linux.
Does anyone know how she’s doing as of now?
When searching for Emily Young’s YouTube channel, I only get her re-introduction and sadly transphobic videos made by some terrible people.
Is she doing ok for herself?
no idea actually, that’s the last I’ve seen or heard myself. I know she has an account on mastodon but its also inactive. of you do know anything please do reply
Actually, I did find something:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ybR3VAvBkXY&si=Ay6j4w63DKsCXteh at 5:44 (for about 10 seconds);
sorry, YT app seems to lack timestamp-link feature.The comments on that video are neither nice nor transphobic, as everyone’s just interested in another clip that started beef between LMG and Gamers Nexus instead.
Unfortunately, Linux has the requirement that a user needs IQ > 80. That’s why it’s only at 4% desktop market share.
But 90% of people have IQ > 80
I thank you for thinking I’m smart enough to use Linux, but, homie, I’m Patrick trying to do a DIY project. I’m big dumb.
Ironically, I find Windows much harder to use, but maybe that’s because I’m constantly trying to stop it from doing ridiculous things like installing drivers for devices I don’t own, updating in the background, and prompting me to create a le microsoft account.
The only reason I continue to use Windows 10 on my gaming computer is I’ve got years of regedits and gpedits invested before being introduced to Linux.
No means yes right? I’m gonna say no means yes, have 100G of smartphone games and spyware disguised as a web browser or an AI assistant!
Oh and were gonna do it now in the middle of you compiling a big project or running a fluid simulation. Also when we’re done punching your dick in we’re gonna ask you to try office 365, teams, and onecloud like we did the last 50 times.
Yep, so on top of the regedits, I should have mentioned the need to run additional software just to get it to behave. Things like BC Uninstaller to remove the bloat and MSEdgeRedirect to force the baked-in URLs to use my default browser.
Linux is so much easier imo. For full disclosure, I’m “only” using Mint, but still – what an improvement!
I just love how during install you can already specify what you need and dont need on linux, and even after install I end up having more programs on windows, half of which is just programs like 7zip, vlc, notepad++, wacom software, I could go on, and this all built into kde plasma
I wish someone had told me all this years ago! I always heard people claim that you had to be super techie to understand how to use Linux, so I stayed away until last year when someone on lemmy finally convinced me to try it on an old gaming laptop of mine – a laptop that could barely run Windows anymore. It works just fine with Linux!
People are good at different things depending on what they spend their finite time and energy on.
If something like KDE Neon came preinstalled on a PC they’d be fine tbh. It’s the act of having to install a thing that makes it undesirable
i get this is just supposed to be a joke but it really boils down to “non-linux users are stupid” and that’s just sad
I hate it when people gate keep. If someone who doesn’t care about computers at all but finds windows annoying can switch (my mother) anyone can.
At the same time, there is an expectation for people to try to get used to how different Linux is just like with switching to macos. It’s not great dealing with people switching to Linux expecting it to be almost identical to windows. I think it’s left some of us a little bitter.
Tbf, i know a lot of people that struggle gravely when installing windows even
Ngl Windows is more annoying to install than Linux Mint or Ubuntu. The average user can just click through most of the default settings just fine unless you’re trying to have a fancy dual boot setup
Don’t forget the uptime differences!
Windows: It’s been 10 minutes, can we reboot for updates now??
Linux: Uptime- yes
Unless your on archlinux! Every once and a while you get a buggy package that makes your system a little unstable. I remember when a kernel update made the system freeze up if something tried to sleep or stop the wifi module.
It was like an infinite loop of a module failing to stop and a service repeatedly killing it.
I once upgraded my system on Arch and it updated the kernel…and deleted the running kernel and its modules. Which was annoying when I had a video conference, and I plugged in my webcam for which the module had been removed.
(I used Arch btw. But I run Debian now.)
In fairness to arch, they do tell you on the wiki that kernel updates do that and you should restart
PSA a bunch of distributions have dropped i386 and older 64bit cpu support.
You’d be surprised how often I have CPU compatibility issues in Linux. Completely unheard of in windows as long as you have the processing power.
its kinda how i see it. windows cuts off support if something is not enough/too slow, linux cuts support if its too niche that no one wants to support it.
distro support aside, in the case of the kernel specifically it’s usually dead code
nobody maintains it properly, nobody asks for it to be maintained, it continues to rot and get overrun with issues until eventually somebody suggests just removing it altogether
if there are no real objections, it gets pulled from the kernel
Debian Linux running on TP-LINK Wi-Fi router with external GPU running open-source reverse-engineered version of GTA Vice city: https://youtu.be/bcjuoEZg8rI
The article: https://kittenlabs.de/real-gaming-router/
Wait what, reverse engineered vice city? Since when?! I know about Mario 64 and ocarina of time being reverse engineered, but vice city? These N64 games I thought must have been a living nightmare to decompile, but like, decompiling a GTA game!? How? That must have been so much work
Hard drive: (Optional)
I mean you can boot Linux entirely from RAM
All systems copy the kernel into RAM before running. It needs something to store the kernel/OS when it’s off so some kind of non-volatile storage like hard disk/usb disk is needed
CPU: (Optional)
I’ve seen that meme, but is the CPU actually optional?
Technically it’s required, but I saw an article where someone was able to install a form of Linux into a machine that didn’t have one!
Alas, my cursory searches are unable to pull it up right now. I feel like DDG is getting worse, it used to actually be pretty dope…
Doesn’t DDG essentially act as a middle man between google? So if google search gets worse so too does DDG.
Bing, not Google
luv linux
You can get around the requires internet thing (at least the one for the OOBE, not sure if it forces the issue later) and in the same token the Microsoft account requirement. Of course, it’s very difficult to do and obscure knowledge, plus they may be trying to force the issue in 12, so the point stands.
You will have a really bad time on Windows with 4GB ram and 64GB storage, though.
Oh, absolutely. Especially the second one. I won’t go into too much detail but the company I work for has a virtual desktop service. 4GB is the cheapest, and it shows performance wise. Still, 4GB at least works. We used to have something like 80GB as the C: drive, but we had to force most clients to ~120gb at the minimum, since just windows, office, and updates eat all that up, especially if cached mode got involved for email.
Going back to RAM, personally I would suggest a minimum of 8-16gb for Windows, and I personally use 64Gb. If you want to know why I’m not on Linux yet, mostly the switch would be a bit of an effort to do and I’m not ready to do it yet. I doubt I’ll get another Windows version though.
Someone got Linux to boot (very slowly) virtualized on an ESP32. For context, you can get a board with an ESP32 (basically a tiny computer without a power supply or interface) for around $2.
Computer is a stretch. It’s usually called a microcontroller or system on a chip. It works off 1.8V input voltage and so will run off a USB supply. Raspberry pi which is a computer is called System on a board.
People call the control system of the Saturn V a computer when it is less powerful and capable by any measure you choose to compare. I’m really just calling it a computer though because a lot of people don’t know what the word microcontroller means (this isn’t a tech specific community)
I kinda fuck with Linux, but I also have ADHD and don’t enjoy OS tinkering enough to switch. When I find a way to make it fun, I’ll do it. When I have a specific problem that only Linux can solve, I’ll do it.
I just don’t care enough about privacy right now. I only care about privacy in regards to critical matters. I assume all my actions online are public and try to only do things I would be willing to defend or admit to.
I had a ton of fun with Linux today, I found a terminal app that makes a cow give you Chuck Norris jokes lol
My one piece of advice for if you ever end up switching to Linux is to not use an Arch-based distro. I’m sure there’s one that requires no tinkering, but every Arch distro I’ve used required me to tinker
