Adderbox76

joined 1 year ago
[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Hard to pin a number on it, percentage-wise.

  • Desktop and laptop are both running Linux.
  • Chromebook wiped and running Linux.
  • Most software, but definitely not all. Steam, Resolve being the two biggest non-foss items on my desktop, while my ex-Chromebook has a proprietary screenwriting program, as well as OnlyOffice instead of LibreOffice because I need much better Excel compatibility for work and LO still isn't quite there for it.
  • Phone android. But not entirely de-googled. Replaced drive with syncthing, keep with Joplin, photos, phone, and messenger with their Fossify equivalents and disabled the originals. Replaced gboard with heliboard, etc...

But can't/won't completely replace the OS yet because both google pay and android auto are essential to me and getting them working on most replacements is still a royal pain in the butt.

So let's call it 80%, maybe a bit more?

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's been a long time since I last installed Linux on a two hard-drive system, so take this advice as "likely not necessary, but will probably fix your issue"

The installer asks whether or not you want to "replace" the existing OS or install alongside. And if you're fairly new to linux (like I was at the time) it can be tricky to see at a glance which hard-drive you want to install it to and which you don't.

So to be doubly cautious and make sure that didn't happen, I simply unplugged my secondary harddrive during the install so that the installer would automatically be reading the correct one. Then all I had to do was choose "replace" or "install alongside" without worrying about anything else.

The drawback to that was, once the install was complete and I re-attached my second drive, I had to configure it to auto-mount and do some work on that, but at least my computer was working.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If I'm being honest, So many little distros just come and go that I've stopped bothering to learn about any of them until they have enough support that I know the devs aren't going to just vanish in six months.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 24 points 5 months ago

"Lying Shit Heads Say Lies" More Breaking News at 11

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Technomancer next please.

Spider is, despite the janky play, really really good at making original narratives.

Say what you want about the movement and combat smoothness, but I've never seen a Mars set game quite like Technomancer. And I've never seen a high fantasy RPG that leans quite as bluntly into saying something important about the role of colinizers in our own 18th century.

Big ideas and good games with juuuuust barely too little budget to be amazing.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They quite literally tried to claim that they invented the rectangle with rounded corners....

https://www.engine.is/news/category/in-apple-v-samsung-scotus-sided-with-reason-over-rounded-corners

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

That's my strategy as well. I just don't know how many of us there are that are that committed vs the people who are "temporarily irate" and then go back with their next purchase because its "easier".

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I get that. And, playing the devil's advocate here....what happens in a couple of years when the time comes to purchase a new Laptop/desktop that comes pre-installed with Windows? Will your current ire and consternation hold up until then, meaning you'll take the effort...long after this current "trust crisis" is over...to install Linux once again. Or, with this current scandal a faint memory from a few years back, will you just kind of shrug and say "Hey...it's there, I might as well just go with it."

I mean no offense, and I by know means want to presume your answer here. But I'd be willing to bet 90% of the people who, in a pique of ire, replace their current windows with a linux distro, won't bother to do the same when they purchase a new laptop down the road.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

That is very true. Good point.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yes.

Anyone who says differently is confusing "necessity" with "efficiency".

When I first started in Linux I rarely used the command line at all. But as time went on and I became more familiar, I found that there were some things that were simply faster to do in the command line.

I can't think of a single "everyday regular user task" than needs the command line, tbh.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Windows only sadly. I'm on Linux

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