@brigrammer@Humpleupagus@tk@J@anemone@graf@sun Don't be intrigued, just pick any mini computer with a Gen 2 onwards CPU with integrated graphics and min 4GiB RAM + 128GiB HD for <$100 at Ebay. Deploy Linux Mint XFCE on it and start getting familiar with it.
Just don't treat it like windows, Linux is its own thing, with regards to the community it is as good and as bad as mankind/the internet is good or bad.
@Aeder@anemone@mischievoustomato@sun On a company that I join once I was given a powermac (like picture) with dual xeons, because the Linux people use macs, or so I was told, I had never used MacOS X, I couldn't bear it for less than a week, I installed Linux on it, plugged a regular PC keyboard on it and boy was I a happy camper. The best Macs are those running Linux. 👍
@Will2Power@sickburnbro If America is an idea all they have to do is replicate it in Africa and India, shrimple as. 🤦
it is very telling how moronic that thought is but because (((intellectuals))) kept repeating it for 70 years few dared question it. Same with other (((intelectual pearls))) such as (((Judeo-Christian)))
@teto >>it's not buggy at all. Stop living in 2016
KDE is responsible for me not adopting Linux sooner, the very first Linux machine I had the "displeasure" to interact with (decades ago at the time) was using KDE as a desktop and it was buggy as fuck which led me form a really bad opinion of Linux at the time.
For decades each time I have tried KDE either it crashes in like 5 mins or some component does. Last time I tried around December I had Konsole and Dolphin crashing on me consistently.
@sun I liked Ubuntu, I really did, they played a pivotal part back in the day for Linux to gain wider acceptance, but since they started doing shit with the updates and the snaps... Debian for servers all the way.
@sun If you can do that and it worked that's fine.
In my case I tried to do the upgrade path recently from 18.04 and 16.04 to 20.04 and it failed miserably, so I said: "Fuck it, this is a debian distro" and jumped to 22.04 directly. No issues.
@sun No, you don't need to, you can jump from any version to literally any version using apt dist-upgrade if you replace the repositories with the one of the version you want to jump into.
What happens at times is that you get a circular conflict where package A depends on B and vice versa.
Use apt to force install A and B and then reinstall A or do another dist-upgrade and it generally works fine.
I have been doing this for years and it always works fine. Ubuntu is based on debian dist-upgrade behaves the same.
@graf@Appalachian_Crusader Vox as intelligent as clever as he is, still falls for propaganda every now and then. Sadly we all do at some point or another. 😑