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!

Nutomic has said some problematic shit, and is one of the devs of lemmy/admin on lemmy.ml.

This isn’t anti-commie nonsense, dudes transphobic.

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.

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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.

I’ll pass on further debate, thank you for understanding! <3

I’m gonna be honest, its been so long since I’ve actually had people to set it up and use it with that even I would need to spend a day and a half figuring out how to set it up again.

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

I less have an issue with people getting trapped in software they understand is insecure, and more with people who will push shit like telegram and pretend its the most private and secure thing ever invented. If they want to use discord, sure, fine with me. As long as they know not to do their activist work on discord I’m fine with it. People doing activist work/planning over telegram will never make me not cringe.

Signal isn’t something I personally want to use, but its tolerable, and it was doing a good job of replacing telegram in activist spaces I felt, but I’ve recently seen a few different groups using telegram again because they don’t trust signal.

xmpp with omemo is what I wish I could get people to use but uh, well, that just will never happen.

https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/

“The legacy 32-bit PC (i386) architecture is supported only as a co-architecture for running 32-bit software on amd64”

You can’t just install 32bit debian anymore.

Granted, bookworm will be supported for a while still.