• palordrolap@fedia.io
    68·
    2 days ago

    You do not want to see an old-school greybeard dressing like this.

    You might think you do when you first imagine the concept, but no, you really don’t.

    Source: Am at the very least greybeard adjacent.

    • TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world
      46·
      2 days ago

      That’s funny because seeing that meme, I thought how interesting it was that the “hardcoreness” of a Linux user went from being measured by the length of the greybeard to the height of the programming socks.

      Although, I guess back then, the distros mentioned would probably have been revolving around Gentoo, void, slackware, and Linux from scratch. So I suppose greybeards don’t necessarily need the high socks.

      Damn shame if you ask me.

      • DigitEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Upvoted, for being the only one to mention

        void

        so far.

        :)

        • TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 days ago

          I mean, if your beliefs in the unix philosophy are still strong enough to do away with the convenience that is (or can be…) systemd, you deserve some respect.

            • TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 days ago

              I am happy with my system and won’t distrohop again, I am happy with my system and won’t distrohop again, I am happy with my system and won’t distrohop again…

              • DigitEnglish
                2·
                2 days ago

                Distro surfing on the side (e.g. with virtual machines, or pendrives, or multiboots, or spare machines), rather than distrohopping for the main daily driver, kept me sane as I surfed (probably) over 1000 distros between 2003 and 2012. Really only had 3 long lasting daily drivers in that time [on my main rig], from suse, to sabayon, to gentoo [and crunchbang and others on the thinkpad].

                All my rabid distro surfing (~ not distrohopping, honest! lol) stopped, when I found the cheatcode…

                cheatcode to end distrohopping

                https://bedrocklinux.org/

                … Just in case that mantra fails.

                • TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  2 days ago

                  … Damn you.

                  Here comes a number of hours procrastinating tinkering with my system to make me more productive on one of the numerous side projects that I will, for sure, finish now.

  • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    i use openSUSE and i usually don’t wear socks

    here it is warm enough for sandals to be practical, but i do have some Linux Mint socks for when i wear hiking boots

    i should get some NixOS socks

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      2 days ago

      You should just wear socks with sandals, I hear it’s fashionable

      I actually use openSUSE too, but my socks are between Mint and Ubuntu.

  • DigitEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    is this real?

    ~ Kinda.

    Under the skirt, going up, there’s Gentoo, Exherbo, and LFS.

      • DigitEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        If you like Grey alien penis slippers.

          • DigitEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            I’ve not asked everyone.

            …

            It’s not something I ask anyone.

            So I don’t know.

            Oh…

            Except, I know there’s at least one who does not.

        • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          What’s best is the #49 model of the extremely successful alien penis line of slippers is my favourite

          Loss of people prefer the retro #20s designs but I like the modern ones with the obvious caterpillar tracks

      • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I believe it is a MoYu RS3M but I don’t know how to confirm that. It’s been so long since I bought it and I lost the actual box and accessories somewhere in my last couple of moves

        • Andrew@mander.xyz
          2·
          2 days ago

          Ah, I thought that GAN is the only one with pointy corner peices near the center. I also have MoYu, but Weilong GTSM3. It’s pretty old now, but with lube it is still very satisfying to rotate. Though not much time to cube compared to when I got it.

      • Buffy@libretechni.caEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I thought cubers were crazy before I held a GAN cube. That is 100% a GAN or at the least one of those knock off GAN (that are still way better than a regular rubix).

    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      2 days ago

      Like, yes and no.

      For people who are somewhat familiar with Linux, Ubuntu is certainty recognised as being about as mainstream as any distro is able to be, and a safe haven for Linux noobs for decades.

      In recent years however it’s Mint which has for whatever reason been constantly recommended as a go-to distro for people fleeing the evils of Windows, ramping up especially with the discontinuation of Windows 10.

      So right now, Mint might be more of a beginner distro than even Ubuntu.

      • dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        6·
        2 days ago

        Mint which has for whatever reason been constantly recommended as a go-to distro

        I can bring my anecdote to the table:

        I was able to mess up my initial ubuntu install so bad, that any time I deleted a file, the system thought I threw out that piece of drive with it. Maybe I reigned back on my careless ‘sudoing’, but Mint was able to take me all the way to the Arch variants without breaking.

        Now I just do whatever Endeavour tells me. Next step will be to start messing properly with Arch (and kin), and see what all the fuss is about around FOSS.

      • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        2 days ago

        Mint is considered the best replacement for Windows because Cinnamon more closely resembles Windows. Personally I can’t stand GNOME, but I’ve heard it more closely resembles macOS

      • PNW clouds@infosec.pub
        1·
        2 days ago

        I’m using mint in fluffy warm house socks. In my defense, I’m using Mint because I may have to install a super user-friendly linux on the old computers of two boomer family members who are using win 11 and macOS respectively.

        I need to make sure I know it really well and can do whatever tech support I need to do. And lock it down for them.

        But I’m also digging it. Especially since it’s not Weyland, I’ve been able to lock all the inputs and still watch movies

        Edit: to protect from my cat, who just knocked my phone out of my hand and butt submitted this before I was ready. Now to clean my screen

        • Bluewing@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 days ago

          If you are going to provide support to non-Linux users, I would highly recommend an immutable distro. Choosing something from Fedora or it’s clones will keep uneducated users from being able to mess with the underlying OS. Yet it allow users to install/uninstall software through flatpacks with no need of sudo and the risks it can bring. Updates can be set to automatic and they will never need to do updates themselves. And if something does go boom, then you can easily roll back on reboot to get a working desktop until you can fix things for them.