So proud : linuxmemes

[-] Rhabuko@feddit.de 111 points 11 months ago

What's the problem here? That's how I started with Linux.

[-] sneaky_b45tard@feddit.de 67 points 11 months ago

Idk seems like gatekeeping to me. Why don't they wipe their disk and install Arch like real sigma linux users?

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Then get traumatized after having to wipe the entire system again because some package rendered the bootloader or the system completely useless.

[-] Pyroglyph@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Why stop there? Can you even call yourself computer literate if you can't manually flip the bits in your RAM to perform basic tasks?

[-] MyFairJulia@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Potentially relevant xkcd here: https://xkcd.com/378/

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

I don't even think VMs were a thing when I started. I remember dual booting back to Windows to google shit to fix drivers then then back 😂

[-] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Technically VMs are older than Windows, but it was not super accessible in the 90s and early 00s which is when I'm guessing you were doing this.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

My system can barely handle windows 7. A linux VM on top of that? Fuck no

So installed mint

[-] loutr@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What's this "Google" thing you speak of? Back in my days you bought a huge book which came with a red hat or mandrake CD-ROM.

[+] LastoftheDinosaurs@lemmy.world 97 points 11 months ago

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[-] Damage@feddit.it 11 points 11 months ago

The repetitive summary alone deserves all the downvotes

[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 5 points 11 months ago

It allows people to keep using windows. If they had no alternative, they would install Linux natively

[-] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 8 points 11 months ago

If they had no alternative, they would stick with Windows.

[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Depends. As an IT student, my mates have no choice but to use Linux

[+] skillissuer@lemmy.world 89 points 11 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 17 points 11 months ago

And if you do it the correct way it's WSL2.

[-] dan@lemmy.fdr8.us 24 points 11 months ago

I don't usually downvote on Lemmy, but this is a real test of willpower.

[-] style99@kbin.social 57 points 11 months ago

What's with the 19 👎️ in that pic? I guess people really do hate Oracle.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Probably stuck up Linux users mad that someone wants to virtualize a distro instead of just installing it bare metal.

[-] DLSchichtl@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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[-] Alto@kbin.social 37 points 11 months ago

Eh, that's still a decent gateway drug

[-] BURN@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

I’d love to run Linux as the primary env, but without a second GPU for GPU passthrough windows is basically useless for gaming.

So for now windows is the primary environment

[-] dan@lemmy.fdr8.us 13 points 11 months ago

I stuck with Windows for the longest time because of gaming, but for my needs that's no longer necessary. If it's been a while since you tried Steam on Linux you might want to give it another try.

[-] BURN@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

I play games that are almost exclusively not Linux compatible. CoD, Destiny 2 and iRacing are all still windows only and they’re about all I play

[-] style99@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

Those games all show up on Lutris.

[-] BURN@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Anti-cheats don’t work, even if the game runs. It’s the curse of always online gaming.

[-] Pyroglyph@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I heard that with the rising popularity of the Steam Deck, EAC is working on Linux compatibility (at least through Proton). In fact, I think it's been available for developers to switch on right now.

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's kinda the Linux curse. It works for almost every use case and the use cases it works for are increasing every year. But it's still not every use case.

For work I can live with terrible teams for linux and prospect mail. But for my private main PC, there are just too many use cases that are important to me, that still don't work.

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[-] lazyslacker@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Don't even need virtual box. You can just install Linux directly on Windows using what they call "WSL" (Windows subsystem for Linux)

[-] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

They're doing it the wrong way round, VBox was actual garbage on Windows the last time I tried it. On Linux it just works and on Windows I considered myself lucky whenever something worked.

[-] pewpew@feddit.it 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes, Linux (maybe it's just an Ubuntu problem) does not run well in Virtual box. I could get it to boot 1/10 times and was quite unstable. But that was two years ago, maybe things have changed

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Interesting. Linux runs fine in Linux (in a virtual box, or other similar visualising mechanism). I realise I've never tried VirtualBox in Windows.

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[-] kquote03@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

I don't get it? I first experienced Linux on Virtual Box (back when it was by Sun Microsystems, somewhere in 2011)

This is a really good way of introducing people to desktop Linux, it's miles better than telling them to run WSL /etc

I'm sorry but this is just... Toxic?

[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

Can you install Linux, to install windows, which has a copy of Linux installed? I assume the only end system resources?

[-] Davel23@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

Here's Windows running in Virtualbox on Linux, which is running in Virtualbox on Windows.

[-] lungdart@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

You'd need nested virtualization enabled on your CPU, but yup, you can do it.

[-] Luky3000@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

I hope today is Opposite day!

[-] bappity@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

gross

[-] Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 11 months ago

Vmware? eww