I didn’t say there were no issues.
My 4-monitor setup at work functions considerably better in both ubuntu and debian based Linux Mints than it does in Windows. Just your standard corporate Dell laptop & docking station.
No computers have zero weird stuff wrong with them. But over time the design intent has mattered more and more versus just the bugginess of the execution.
In my experience though, Linux has pulled ahead in both. And by a lot.
Yeah, my old machines (and work laptop!) are all nvidia, and it’s nice how seamlessly it works.
With the main version of mint that’s based on ubuntu, you get a driver manager so that you can choose between driver versions if needed.
With Linux Mint Debian Edition, it worked fine for general use out of the box with the open source driver. I went looking for info about the nvidia driver out of curiosity, and after stumbling upon some forum discussion I went ahead and tried “sudo apt install nvidia-driver” and it freaking worked!
edit to add: it did a LONG setup process to enable the nvidia driver too. I think it compiled some kernel modules and stuff too. But I like reading all that lovely monospaced terminal text scroll by with those details most users can ignore.
Go install Linux Mint and you might just realize that line is already way behind microsoft.
To a huge extent, I don’t think they know there are other options.
Or they are well aware of different cultures but know to their core that the USA is the greatest society to ever exist and God’s chosen or some shit. So all those progressive policies sound nice, yet they have produced abysmal results in every single European country! This is true by definition when every place outside the US is utter trash in your lead-addled brain.
Oh I want those things too. The current size of Lemmy is not my ideal. It’s just really really nice in its current form for me as a unique little nerdy place hidden in plain sight from what most of the internet has become.
It was more the juxtaposition of how the world needs all these open technologies that people band together to create for the good of all, buuuuut if nobody notices this particular one then that will serve my personal interests. And to be clear I’m not hoping for that or trying to hold it back. Just pointing it out. :)
American here, and one who grew up in what is now trump country. Well, I guess I still live in a republican area now, but I started out rural.
Your conclusion about how the society as a whole is sick is 100% spot on.
I don’t do much international travel, but I did get to spend a little bit of time in europe in the past couple years. Most of it in scandinavia of all places!
The difference is crazy, even not counting all this recent crazy shit. On the surface things look similar. But being immersed in it let all the little details sink in simultaneously.
There’s an air of dignity and respect that I am just not used to in american society. Even just the instances of “we couldn’t have that, somebody would immediately ruin it” were constant.
Yep, I’m ready to read the news that this platform surpassed the user base of Lemmy on the first day and never looked back. And I am ready to not be bothered by it.
Good on them for any pain they inflict on reddit. And I do hope the fediverse takes over the global media landscape because that is better for humanity than corpo-governmental gatekeepers. But if Lemmy’s user base just hangs around in the tens of thousands rather than the tens of millions, I am content.
Oh no, the US’s military strikes now have press-only events, information embargoes, and street dates like it’s the damned video game industry?
You have to love it when people whose frickin’ job is the law just stand there and say “unlawful” followed by a word from the bill of rights.
I mean, we are way past that, but still fuck this guy.
Fun, fun, we skip along together!
Swirling towards the center…
Where there is no pain and we are truly together, forever.
…
Eat at Arby’s
In Mint right now if I hit the menu and type “photo” I get five options and GIMP is one of them. But it doesn’t say GIMP on my screen, it says “GNU Image …” next to the icon.
If I type “image” then GIMP is second in the list after photo viewer.
Normally though I just hit super - g - i - m - p - ENTER. Because I wanna run GIMP damn it!
Because the standard version of Mint uses the ubuntu repositories. You get to utilize most of what makes up ubuntu, but decoupled from the stuff Canonical wants to push. It has some added polish as well.
It was more of an ubuntu-specific reply rather than “what’s the best distro” thing.
But now that you mention it, there is also Linux Mint Debian Edition! :D
I might actually start using LMDE at work, since we have some stuff that’s more focused on debian than ubuntu.
If they want ubuntu, let them Linux Mint! :D
Everything is a wave if you dig deep enough.
At least, as far as we know right now. But the standard model and quantum field theory have been really solid with really precise predictions for many decades at this point. (not any kind of expert here, just find it interesting)
“You think maybe he’s a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him?”
Fuck his feelings.
source: all of his supporters.
That’s the thing that binds together the youngest techbro and the oldest oil baron.
Antisocial “might makes right and I’m going to win” mentalities.
I don’t think so. Serious answer.
You lumped together democrats, liberals, and leftists. If you go look up the whole of humanity’s political spectrum, that coalition you mentioned would cover about 2/3 of it, while american conservatives are a little circle off to the right.
I’m an American raised in a conservative catholic family in the 80s. I know that Lemmy feels like some kind of little leftist radicalization forum to somebody used to living in “real-ass non-coastal heartland America.” Like, for verification, ain’t nobody got time to watch all the games but I was watching the latter part of that Ravens@Steelers game and did you SEE that shit?
But I also love learning about the world. There are SO many people out there doing things SO many different ways, that lots of really helpful and successful things get tried in the real world with real people. Like if you’ve ever seen one of my posts that mention the bathrooms in Sweden, it’s simple and genius.
That doesn’t mean we change it tomorrow, it means it might be worth learning from and finding improvements. But that’s just one small example.
Big picture, I think I can put the problem two ways:
First is best practices. In past jobs where I was engineering support for manufacturing and operations, in that world terms like “benchmarking” and “continuous improvement” are commonplace. I don’t see the US doing that.
Second, on the political spectrum of this place, I notice that the two groups that get shit on the most, tankies and republicans, are basically on opposite ends. I think authoritarians and fascists might just suck.
My fellow americans and I look at this concept and tilt our heads to the side like confused puppies.
Your use case sounds perfect for using LibreOffice as a drop-in replacement. Opening a Word doc or an old Excel spreadsheet is effortless. You don’t sound like the “I use Excel every day for my job and there is no replacement” folks with very specific needs.
And I will echo what the other reply said: try Linux on your laptop! Not only will it probably work fine, it will probably also feel much faster and more responsive.
Trying most of the big Linux distros is super easy and zero commtment, too. When you boot from the install media, it loads directly into the OS desktop running natively on your hardware! Then once you’re ready to install it, there’s usually a shortcut on the desktop or something.
I recommend trying Linux Mint. It is so simple to install and full featured out of the box, plus being based on ubuntu and being very popular itself, information and help is everywhere.
It feels like there are about 100 million of us in the states scratching our necks like Dave Chappelle and saying “y’all still got any of that ‘regime change’ we been handing out?”