• Zephyr@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Add all the windows refugees with Zorin flooding forums with easily searchable questions and the gaming refugees with nobara complaining their community supported software isn’t as full featured or polished as software produced by a multi-billion dollar company.

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      3 months ago

      I can confirm that with a fresh Zorin install to replace windows 10, I am/will be one of the described persons. So far my qwant searches and AI searches have kept me off the forums, but I know the day will come.

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        3 months ago

        It happens. I remember back in 2008 having quite the time learning about Linux with zero awareness of anything. I remember being kinda shocked there was a whole OS that wasn’t windows or Mac and it was free.

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    3 months ago

    Weird. Just turned 47 and I JUST tried Debian tonight.

    So far it’s very good.

    Get off my lawn

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    3 months ago

    Speaking as an Arch btw user, my socks match, thank you very much. How rude.

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      3 months ago

      Same here, except on servers, where I prefer debian.

      Because I’m old and tired, and I just want to install and be up and running in as short of a time as possible without dicking around.

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    3 months ago

    Cis straight male Arch user checking in. There’s all kinds of us, everyone is welcome to wear what they like and feel what they feel.

    Ask for help and help you shall have. (It’ll just… it’ll be someone giving you a link to a wiki page, or the wiki page, or saying “check the wiki”, BUT YOU WILL BE HELPED BECAUSE THE WIKI IS GO(O)D!)

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      3 months ago

      Migrating my workflow to NixOS right now, and it’s really made me realize just how good Arch Wiki is. NixOS and Nix are a bit disjointed in terms of documentation and learning resources. But Arch Wiki usually helps me gain intuition for which software does what and what traits I’m able to configure.

      Non-Arch-Linux Linux users should absolutely consider the Arch Wiki when troubleshooting or learning about the Linux ecosystem! I’m not sure there’s a better broadly-applicable resource out there.

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        3 months ago

        Arch wiki is awesome, I’ve been using Debian and Debian-derivatives for 10+ years and Debian’s documentation is frankly embarassing compared to Arch’s. There’s some good stuff like Debian Administrator’s Handbook (outdated tho) and the upgrade instructions for each stable release, but a lot of the Debian wiki information is outdated and riddled with dead links.

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        14 days ago

        The Arch Wiki is the resource to go to. It’s usually one of the first places I look for info, and one of the first I recommend – for users of any distro. Has been for a long time.