nexussapphire @ nexussapphire @lemm.ee

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I get why people do it. I just hate the proposition of throwing out a perfectly good computer that's potentially upgradable and certainly more repairable compared to a Mac.

Ask anyone who had their Mac break and the answer is usually it can't be fixed get a new one. Their hardware feels nice but reducing e-waste is a high priority in my book. MacBooks in particular don't have a great track record for longevity when heavily used, most cheap laptops don't.

An interprise computer designed to be repaired would always be a better option for professionals and individuals alike but even better is one that you already own.

Really wish people gave Linux a fair shot instead of considering a $3,000 notebook from Apple. Maybe it's mostly journalist that talk about it every time Microsoft fucks up.

I wonder if some distros disable it for some reason.

Honestly never used tutorial videos. That sounds like a horrible way to learn. So slow and filled with unexplained steps you have to hunt for to understand.

Just follow the wiki it takes like 20min to an hour to get to the desktop based on your comfort and experience with computers. Like 10 minutes if you know what your doing, five minutes if you just want a basic system that boots and connects to the internet.(No desktop).

I used kde on my arch system hassle free for years, I really don't get the stereotype. If you constantly tinker with your system I get it but that's true for any Linux system. I also thought having to role a package back was a rare but unique problem for arch until I had to do it on Debian and fedora.

I learned arch out of necessity because at the time no other distro would install on my desktop thanks to poor support for Nvidia graphics and fedora being fedora broke almost instantly after the installer.(I've always had bad luck with fedora) I'd say you really have to live with arch to understand how painless it is to use daily.

I probably would have liked fedora if it didn't brick it's self after a fresh install on my system. I just can't figure out what was making it not boot, I suspect it has something to do with selinux.

I never ran into one in the wild. Where are you running into snobs?

Allen's candy cane!

Yeah, it has definitely caught me off guard a couple of times when installing Arch. At that stage if there's no grub it didn't install or the ESP flag isn't set on EFI. If there is grub but no options it's usually the config.

One time it was because I forgot to install the kernel, it took me a while to figure that one out.

It's grub.cfg not grub.conf. it's really easy to miss because everything else is .conf.

Mounted root to a game folder on home and sudo rm -rf ~/games/* because I accidentally copied the home folder into the games subvol which turned out to be the root subvol. Thanks btrfs!

They're still people at the end of the day. If they really disagree with the direction of the company they'll typically leave and find work elsewhere. Coming from a company like Nvidia, there's no shortage of options for those individuals.

Don't forget framework was started by a group of talented individuals from various ODM manufactures fed up with the direction laptops were going in the industry. Also look at the talent leaving game studios to create their own studios free from the influence of publishers.

I do agree with you, sometimes you gotta do things you don't want to do. The good has to outweigh the bad or generally they'll be left demotivated.

It is great to see I'm not alone, yeah, I wish people would realize that it's just hardware at the end of the day. The company does crappy stuff but individuals who work there, most of them are smart individuals just trying their hardest to develope something they can be proud of, that people can enjoy, and that might benefit society in some way.

Mostly engineers but you get my point.

I don't like meta, Twitter looks like a dumpster fire, and reddit started to feel real toxic. Some days on Lemmy I feel like ditching social media all together or braving Twitter sorry x. People are just too extreme at times on Lemmy and a lot of communities are one sided echo chambers.

Archlinux if you don't count the time when I was five. I install Ubuntu then a series of packages to make it "look and feel" like Mac os. After that I was disappointed with how janky it was as a Mac clone and switching back to windows.

I was crazy about macs when I was a kid. When I finally got one, I enjoyed the polish but ultimately found it limiting. After 15 years; about six years on macos, seven on Windows. I played with archlinux in an emulator for a few months before I nuked my system and never went back, thanks wine/DXVK!

After not realizing there were updates available for over three years, you notice a little exclamation point in the corner and apply all of em.

I can stop whenever I want. Buys a pallet of busted Thinkpad.

Maybe refrigerator until the battery catches on fire!

Shit post!

Stop using social media, go hike, and go somewheres you enjoy that has lots of new faces.

Big titties bitches

Oh shit, wrong place.