If you want a stable system that just works, that doesn't require tinkering and closely monitoring updates, and those are your only two choices? Yeah, Ubuntu is a much better choice than Arch.

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Sturgist 5 points 23 days ago

Stock Arch, yeah, sure...ish. I have an Arch install that's been running fine with no fuckery for 3 years, and there's Arch derivatives that are really stable.

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InternetCitizen2 8 points 23 days ago

I have tried it and its not bad either.

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HairyHarry 20 points 23 days ago

I installed WSL, to install Ubuntu, to install Hackintosh, so I could VNC my self into it on my work laptop for testing apps on it.

So yeah, not bad.

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valkyre09 14 points 23 days ago

Hold up. You’ve virtualised Mac OS via WSL? That’s pretty bad ass

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HairyHarry 15 points 23 days ago

Wouldn't call it bad ass. It was just a bit weird installing a bad OS on a nice OS on an evil OS.

Also, there are good instructions online to achieve this.

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morto 3 points 23 days ago

Makes me remember that old meme about being able to play mario bros inside another mario game inside another, inside another emulator inside linux inside the matrix

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gastroglizzy 72 points 23 days ago

Is Proton a Debian-based distro?

Why use Wine? All it does is emulate Windows.

WSL invalidates Linux's existence.

Linus is the Colonel of Linux.

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Sturgist 40 points 23 days ago

Linus is the Colonel of Linux.

Love it

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TheDarkQuark 49 points 23 days ago

How to piss off a Linux guy in 3 steps:

Step 1: Use Windows

Step 2: Encounter a computer problem and ask the Linux guy for a solution.

Step 3: When they say they don't know Windows, mock them for being so stupid despite staying in the terminal playing pretend hackerman all day.

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witty_username 10 points 23 days ago

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bridgeenjoyer 8 points 23 days ago

Go back to the retirement home grandpa. Computers are grok prompts now with subscription tokens. Pass me the verification can gramps. Heil musk!

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forbiddencherry 4 points 22 days ago

Really old people seem to be the heaviest AI users, or at least they are in my bubble. So maybe pa is getting it on with an AI granny in that retirement home.

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9point6 6 points 23 days ago

A good one is saying windows is the best Linux distro because you can just run exes straight from the shell

~/dev/foo $ msbuild.exe MyProject2026UltimatePro.sln | grep Error(s)

Try it and confirm there is no god

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captain_aggravated 5 points 22 days ago

I legitimately don't know how to administer a Windows system anymore.

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SaharaMaleikuhm 5 points 22 days ago

Just tell them to ask Copilot to fix it

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daddycool 5 points 22 days ago

I had an experience something like that once. The guy snorted at me and said: "I thought you knew about computers". I just stood up and said: "You know, you're absolutely right. Good luck fixing the issue." and I left.

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heliotrope 44 points 23 days ago

Terrible choice, but if it works for you...
For some use-cases, sure.
wine program.exe
"Then what have I been playing Pong on all this time?"
It is, actually. WSL isn't "proper" Linux, but it's there!
Yeah, imagine...

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j3tt 7 points 22 days ago

2. I would treat this as a hypothesis and answer: "Debian"

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tengkuizdihar 6 points 22 days ago

wow this post works!

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Luffy879 4 points 22 days ago

About 3.:

Thats how to break your wine prefix. Always use either a prefix manager like bottles or at least set your WINEPREFIX= variables

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morto 31 points 23 days ago

"I'm also into linux, so I got a chromebook"

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OwOarchist 13 points 23 days ago

I did get a chromebook ... and then I put Linux on it.

(Not bad for a $0.50 purchase.)

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kaidenshi 8 points 23 days ago

I mean, ChromeOS is immutable Gentoo, so yeah.

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SethTaylor 28 points 23 days ago

My dating tip?

YY/MM/DD

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copygirl 44 points 23 days ago

No love for YYYY-MM-DD?

If you see a date in that format, it's pretty unambiguous.

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BionicBeaver3000 5 points 22 days ago

Also great for naming files in the filesystem, and thereby giving it both context and a sorting space.

I started doing so in my company on the shared network space years ago, and many colleagues have started using this as well.

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SethTaylor 1 point 22 days ago

You're right. I literally forgot the first two Y. Or rather I assumed they were implied.

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j3tt 3 points 22 days ago

/ are also not valid for ISO-8601

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zitrone 8 points 23 days ago

iso 8601 or get out

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chaogomu 2 points 23 days ago

See, my dating tip is the exact opposite.

DD/MM/YY

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bridgeenjoyer 2 points 23 days ago

The worst date format. Even worse than Americans mm dd yy

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Jankatarch 17 points 23 days ago

Might I suggest Y/MM/DD/YYY ?

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ddplf 4 points 22 days ago

Thanks, but Y/M/DD/M/YYY already does it just fine for me

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chaogomu 4 points 23 days ago

Days are shorter than months, which are shorter than years.

Makes sense to go with smallest to largest.

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JoeBigelow 5 points 23 days ago

It might make sense but that doesn't make it better

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BCsven 2 points 23 days ago

I prefer classifaction in descending order.. Narrow down the yearx then the month then the day then the hour then the seconds. Absolutely nobody wants seconds first then minutes

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JcbAzPx 2 points 23 days ago

Ah, but the month number set is smaller than the day number set. It makes just as much sense to order by sets.

Plus, starting with the month gives you time to remember what day it is without having to sit there awkwardly.

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bridgeenjoyer 2 points 23 days ago

I prefer large to small imo, plus computers prefer yy mm dd too

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DmMacniel 2 points 22 days ago

But this would lead to files from the first of any month and any year to be bunched together.

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protogen420 4 points 23 days ago

salty murican detector going offf

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threeonefour 24 points 23 days ago

Ugh you don't need to write 30 million lines of code to install a browser. You need to compile 30 million lines of code to install a browser. 🙄

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tordenflesk 13 points 23 days ago

You get to compile 30 million lines of code to install a browser. :)

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Blaster_M 1 point 22 days ago

Only if you run Gentoo or a fully vegan install from source setup

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arc99 22 points 22 days ago

#5 is actually true. Install Ubuntu for WSL from the Windows store. WSL is great BTW

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embed_me 6 points 22 days ago

That's what makes it so triggering

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Neverclear 20 points 22 days ago

1- No, Windows 11 mains you

2- Yes, ubuntu is much larger than arch

3- We have many ways to install anything

4- No, but neither does Windows, who at Microsoft is troubleshooting your games?

5- Yes! But Windows works much better on linux than linux does on Windows

6- Imagine 30 million lines to fix your last update

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0x0 7 points 22 days ago

4- hey windows actually has a useless troubleshooting wizard, and when cortana gets good enough they might just revive clippy

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PattyMcB 9 points 22 days ago

I miss Clippy. Sure he was obnoxious, but you could tell him to fuck off and he would listen.

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narinciye 0 points 22 days ago

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9ncc7jnqp53t?hl=en-US&gl=US

4- kind of yes, if you count wsl

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rmuk 17 points 23 days ago

For three, say "command prompt" instead.

In fairness, several major distros are available on the Microsoft store.

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bennypr0fane 14 points 23 days ago

You forgot: "Why do you have to recompile the kernel all the time?"

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grue 9 points 23 days ago

Recompiling the kernel is a privilege, not an obligation!

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saltnotsugar 13 points 23 days ago

How awesome is Windows? I mean the way it runs so smooth…you can like process a lot of processing with the processor. Like if they added AI to the ESC key, that would really be awesome.

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weps 8 points 22 days ago

7 I tried Linux. It didn't work.

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archchan 7 points 23 days ago

Fuck you. Take my upvote.

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LovableSidekick 6 points 22 days ago

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

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SatansMaggotyCumFart 6 points 23 days ago

Linux doesn’t run Fortnite and that’s all you need to know about that shovelware.

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PattyMcB 4 points 22 days ago

Just to be clear. You're calling Linux shovelware, right? /s lmfao

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Cris_Citrus 5 points 22 days ago

#6 fuckin sent me lol

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captcha_incorrect 1 point 22 days ago

I don’t get that one, could you explain?

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Cris_Citrus 8 points 22 days ago

It used to be a meme that you need to recompile your kernel any time something goes wrong on linux, or to do anything.

Its just a fucking outlandish nonsense critisism. The joke is that it sounds like the way some people have criticized linux without realizing they don't know that they're talking about, and it's exacerbating how silly it is to being cartoonishly absurd

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captcha_incorrect 3 points 22 days ago

Thanks for explaining!

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Cris_Citrus 3 points 22 days ago

Happy I could help! ❤️

Have a lovely day!

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justme 5 points 23 days ago

half of them i would problem not even understand. macroslop has a shop now? I'm so happily out of the loop :)

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late_pessimistic 7 points 23 days ago

They have had their Store for over 10 years now. I envy you if you haven't had to deal with Windows for so long. It's not even user-friendly anymore, it just hates it's users and constantly tries to scam you with ads and pop-ups

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JustAnotherKay 7 points 23 days ago

Tbf if you’ve only used windows at home and not for work, it was pretty easy to just not know about the Microsoft store at all until pretty recently.

I used windows all the way up to last year and only found out about the windows store after swapping to Linux

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magnue 5 points 22 days ago

Say there's no need for Linux when you have WSL (but pronounce it W.S.L.)

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Funkt4st1c 3 points 22 days ago

Wait, is that a faux pas? Weasel?

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Vgcjt 4 points 22 days ago

Yo, that last one though.....

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Grass 4 points 23 days ago

fuck just kill me while you're at it...

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Diplomjodler3 4 points 23 days ago

You can always tell a Linux user by the body order. Oh and they're all hackers and on a government watchlist.

Edit: odor, not order

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palordrolap 17 points 23 days ago

My body order is head, shoulders, knees and toes (knees and toes). I have no idea how that flags me as a Linux user.

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Diplomjodler3 6 points 23 days ago

That's just what an Arch user would say.

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palordrolap 3 points 23 days ago

Given the reference, it would have been a decent burn if you'd said Mint or Ubuntu.

I'm an LMDE user which is a sliver more advanced, but not by much. The song might even fit better. I can point at and name parts of the system and maybe even work with them, but most of the time someone else is looking after me.

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PlasticExistence 8 points 23 days ago

Excuse you. I’m on a government watch list for entirely different reasons. I am not a hacker.

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Diplomjodler3 3 points 23 days ago

Everybody knows all Linux users are hackers.

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SaharaMaleikuhm 3 points 22 days ago

Damn, you're a furry, huh?

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PlasticExistence 2 points 22 days ago

I do like foxy women

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ILikeBoobies 3 points 23 days ago

./example.exe

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pdxgncfsczv?hl=en-GB&gl=US

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Redjard 3 points 23 days ago

if the kernel isn't set to forward .exe to wine, wine example.exe also works.

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ILikeBoobies 1 point 22 days ago

I thought it was under Window's terminal since that's what the person uses.

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Jankatarch 3 points 23 days ago

You jest about number 5, but there were people asking if it's on the vscode extensions before.

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CosmicTurtle0 10 points 23 days ago

Isn't Ubuntu available on the Microsoft store? I could have sworn it was

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Jankatarch 5 points 23 days ago

That was WSL ubuntu.
(I guess technically counts?)

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this 3 points 23 days ago

Best of luck with that
If it works for you then great, that's the power of freedom/choice
Get good
Used to be true but nope.
I Don't know and don't care.
That's not code, it's a progress bar, but better.

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PattyMcB 3 points 22 days ago

I installed Nobara just yesterday and the installer had a game to play

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Skullgrid 4 points 22 days ago

I did some distro hopping, that was impressive to me.

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OliMoli2137 3 points 21 days ago

Say "folder" instead of "directory"

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ToiletFlushShowerScream 2 points 23 days ago

Someone just give this guy a big thumbs up and go back to ignoring him

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distal 2 points 23 days ago

Arch is Ubuntu thanks to SystemD

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REDACTED 1 point 19 days ago

"So you're single?"

runs away

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graphito 1 point 22 days ago

Is that written by @madthumbs@lemmy.world? 😅

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