• DannyBoy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      Amount of ads my operating system shows me: 1. I’ve got Ubuntu on an old laptop because I couldn’t get Debian to install and I didn’t know much about Mint at the time So I’ve seen a couple Ubuntu Pro popup ads.

  • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
    701·
    6 days ago

    perhaps it only ‘always’ seems to be that way because you haven’t yet done so…

    complete the task so you can change tunes to…

    “why tf didn’t i do this sooner?”

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      6 days ago

      Yeah, for me, the big thing was that I only found out you could test-run Linux without installing after I had made the decision to install it. Of course, having no real clue what I’d get into massively delayed the decision…

      • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 days ago

        I keep saying the same thing, lol. My latest distraction is the Talon Win11 debloat tool. (Also works, mostly, on Win10)

  • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
    34·
    6 days ago

    The best time to move to linux was 10 years ago. The second best time is now.

    • Kairos@lemmy.today
      55·
      6 days ago

      I’ve never goten this meme. Was the astronaut on the left supposed to gave been kept away from any windows or views of earth the whole time?

      • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
        21·
        6 days ago

        The actual history of the meme… it started as an MS paint sketch where they were looking to a flat earth. With just the first saying “WTF it’s flat” one behind saying “sorry fam”. The more popular follow up was one where they were looking, except the only land mass on earth was a giant state of ohio, and second astronaut responded with “always has been”.

        Oh as far as the idea that they didn’t look at it in transit, no idea… though I suppose it’s more reasonable that this is the first spacewalk or whatever. Would imagine most the trip up, you’d be looking ahead rather than back at earth. Also I suppose depends on the subtletly or lack there of of what earth is “all”.

    • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      At this point, something tells me you could find a compatibility layer for WinRAR support on some dingy forum which has heavy peepshow vibes. Never underestimate people’s fetishes.

      • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
        8·
        6 days ago

        I mean pretty sure winrar runs just fine on WINE.

        Though perhaps it’s about seeing how many years into the 40 day trial you can go.

          • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            2·
            6 days ago

            Clearly it’s time to convert that WinXP partition into a virtual disk file and run it in a VM.

  • Admetus@sopuli.xyz
    9·
    5 days ago

    I kind of did and it took a distro or two… But arch (EndeavourOS) is keeping me on track with all tasks I need to perform at work (one program is wine based, and office is dealt with just fine with libre - I’m a high school teacher by the way) and well … I used the command line to use ghostscript and OCR some documents. This was all right inside Linux by the way, no downloading extra packages. It worked goddamn fine.

  • Matriks404@lemmy.world
    6·
    5 days ago

    Each day it becomes easier and easier to use Linux (e.g. Linux Mint or ZorinOS) when compared to Windows.

    • KnightontheSun@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 days ago

      Well, with general enshittification, Steam’s progress and W10 sunsetting maybe it will tick up the charts a bit more this year. I have laptops and home theater systems and have converted several in the last six months. Mostly Mint and EndeavorOS so far, but I’ll also load up Manjaro and Fedora on the last couple to see how I like them. Linux has come a long way.

  • itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml
    112·
    6 days ago

    It’s a pretty easy move, tbh. Start with a user-friendly distro and don’t look back. The only Windows install I have left is my work laptop and I absolutely hate it.

    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Ironically, managing multiple windows across several virtual desktops really sucks on Windows. That’s the number one issue I have with my work computer. Everything else is actually quite tolerable.