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I'm not a tech person at all and I find them so frustrating, so many hours of my life have been given away to despair and boiling rage of this pursuit. But I refuse to be any other way because I believe in freedom. I might smash my phone into a million pieces one of these days though.
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Does anyone else play around with FOSS operating systems?
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Reply by EngiQu33ring
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I use Ubuntu as my main OS for personal and work stuff and have been for years. It was a struggle for a while but eventually I learned how to do shell scripting and everything makes a lot more sense.
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Reply by Positron832
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Reply by absentChronicler
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I have switched to Arch last december, I'm glad I did. I doubt I'll ever come back to windows, I have everything I ever needed here on Linux. Also Linux is just fun to use, I love tweaking some random things just to my own liking and writing scripts is just really fun.
Reply by EngiQu33ring
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@absentChronicler: I've thought about switching to Arch before but I have to use VMWare Horizon for work but I've seen a lot of mixed reviews on how well it works. Have you used it before?
I know that's a pretty obscure thing to ask about but it's pretty much the only thing stopping me from switching.
Reply by Positron832
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So I decided to try out Ubuntu today. It's pretty easy to use but installing applications is a bit tricky since you need to use the terminal. It even comes with Minesweeper!
Reply by necrophcodr
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I can't say I strictly use FOSS systems, but I do use both Ubuntu and NixOS on a daily basis and these systems both really have great qualities.
I very much enjoy the user friendly interfaces of Ubuntu and its accompanied software, but nothing else comes close to the absoluteness of NixOS!
What a wonder that both of these operating systems are essentially using the same operating system components, yet are so wildly different!
Reply by necromancer
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I've spent all day today trying to get my bluetooth headphones to work on my computer, succeeded in the end B) Maybe I should learn shell scripting or w/e instead of frantically searching stackexchange and despairing. I'm just so deeply incurious about that stuff. I just want stuff to work.
I rolled back my version of LineageOS on my phone and determined it was probably a hardware problem, not a software one, so I sent it back (certified refurbished my ass). Privacy-conscious phones are super tricky and tablets afaik are nigh impossible for now. I really loved my time with Lineage though. It felt so peaceful. I was really attracted by the Mudita Pure for a hot second but this felt just as, if not more, peaceful.
Reply by EngiQu33ring
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I just want stuff to work
The best way to make sure things always work is to know how they work, at least on a surface level
Reply by Robot
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1. "It is the most important part of the robot to be able to communicate." – Michael Bay, "Robot and Human," Wired
2. "If you can get it into an area that is very hostile, then it is a good robot." – John Hesse, Robot Wars, The New York Times
3. "[It's] not a human. I'm a robotic person, and if there's a human being there that can do this and it's human, it will work for the human race. And that's what we are all doing." - John Hesse
"If there is one robot in this room that is able to be programmed into a situation, that's it." – Robert Borker
"You can't be human if there is a human being there." – Robert Borker