I think I’m about ready to switch to something QT based. Whether that is LXQT, KDE, or Trinity is still to be determined.

I’m a long time xfce user and my battle with CSD has ended with me losing. Too much stuff just breaks. I’ve more or less been forced to use adwaita as my theme for everything.

Hell, I’m already running plenty of QT software already.

Any AAA game that hasn’t proven it can retain a playerbase for longer than 4 years is overhyped.

Average Redhat shill post

In the same way that your friend who drinks a couple beers a day after work is probably fine, you’re probably fine spending a few hours after work playing games.

😱 😢

TUI stuff is so underrated. I’d gladly run them exclusively.

I so badly want to do the “old man yells at cloud” meme and be angry that Bazzite is so popular.

I want to do it, I’m resisting hnnnngg

Atomic bad because different and I don’t like things that are different. 🧓

The average day of a “computer wiz” on debian (me):

sudo apt install ./randomshitfromgithub.deb

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list pastes stuff in

“Oh no something isn’t working right!” Pastes some slop from chatgpt into the terminal

9 months later

“This shits fucked beyond repair, time for a clean install!”

Honestly? Not much different than my experience with windows. ;P

I vastly prefer/recommend stable LTS distros. There are really 2 main families of distros for this:

1. Linux Mint / Ubuntu LTS / Debian Stable (Ubuntu is based on Debian, Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS):

Basically endless amount of packages. Most people in the linux world have some familiarity with these so it shouldn’t be hard to get help if you need it.

2. Rocky linux / Almalinux / RHEL (Rocky and Alma aim to be compatible with RHEL software):

For desktop systems people usually opt for fedora, but that distro does not meet my own criteria. Biggest reason you’d use these is for professional VFX software support. For whatever reason a lot of that stuff only has official support for this family of distros. Not sure why!

Get good at 1 of these families of distros. If you aren’t vibing with one its okay to switch to the other. Both have more cutting edge options if you desire them.

Linux Mint is a community favorite and very much is built with a desktop user in mind, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to subject someone to learning any of the others even if they are more server focused. Everything I listed has atleast 5 years of support! If your fiancee isn’t super tech literate, you’ll probably be the one doing a lot of the system maintenance so keeping those major updates sparse is a very good thing. And of course, if you don’t wanna learn 2 different sets of tools, try and keep in the same family of distros.

Also, for desktop environment don’t choose anything crazy obscure. KDE & Gnome are most common, Cinnamon & XFCE are less common but IMO fine. Venture into others at your own peril.

Transfer process depends on what you mean. Transferring your files will probably just take time. I’m hopelessly unorganized so for me backing stuff up takes a few days of combing through a bunch of junk and copying to a flashdrive or cloud storage. Other people might have more efficient ways of dealing with this though.

If you mean software Libreoffice is great local office software, SMplayer is imo a good media player, GIMP, Inkscape, and Krita got art stuff covered. We’re also at the point you can more or less run most windows software on linux with enough fiddling, but that obviously isn’t ideal.

Your biggest hurdle moving to linux full time will be understanding commands when you inevitably do need to change configuration of something with the terminal. If you need help there are usually forums, IRC, matrix, etc.

Happy computing!

I support the antix project for sure, but non-systemd can be a lil tough. Not that other init systems are inherently more difficult, just systemd is far more standardized/widely used and that helps with troubleshooting.

In general, following as many standards and defaults as you can is helpful when learning. Debian, Ubuntu LTS, RHEL, SUSE, and anything most things derivative of them. All get a person used to a certain set of commands and software, all have sane defaults, and all are stable.

Im 25, but probably an even 30.

Lot of older folks will not hang with people under 30. They still see them as kids. I’d like to avoid that social issue if I’m gonna permanently be an age forever.

I try my best not to talk with them. End up talking with them more than I’d like.

Disengage.

“Allow harm”

Harm was going to happen no matter what you do in the trolley problem. There is no situation where harm does not happen, but there is a situation where you directly are causing harm.

If you give 100 different variations of the problem, I’ll answer 100 different ways, because 100 different questions were asked. Almost none of them actually having a real world application, because there are very few situations in life where a 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc option does not exist.

Personally, if I could go the rest of my life without hearing about the trolley problem that’d be great actually.

I don’t remember the trolley problem being a question with a right and a wrong answer.

Why not? You (usually) just click the check box during install, and you have 1 extra password when you boot up your system. Doesn’t seem too hard but I might be missing something.

It seems for the last 5 years or so, Ubuntu has done a good job of making everyone hate them.

Not a parent, but here’s my perspective.

My mother always made me work for it. She had a door open policy among other things. She didn’t actually care if I was doing the things I wasn’t supposed to be doing, she just didn’t want to find out. If she found out, it meant I was being too careless/stupid. It’s actually a really good way to build up your risk evaluation skills! I did occasionally get myself in trouble (not with sex but other things), and she would help me out of the situation. Id get a lecture about what I did wrong afterwards, but honestly she was pretty good at teaching me.

Anyone suggesting a rolling release distro to you is setting you up for failure, especially on a 2014 laptop that will absolutely not benefit from it.

Use Linux Mint. It’s still Linux, you can still break it customize it as much as you want.

edit: Y’all are absolutely insane to downvote this when we are talking about a NEW linux user using a 11 year old laptop.

I had an aggressive gambling problem as a teen. 2016 would have been my worst because I was still gambling on counter strike skin sites. I’d save up every dollar mom would give me to run to the store or whatever (I’d lie and say things were more expensive than they were), throw it onto prepaid visas and just waste it.

I can’t even begin to describe the amount that I spent.