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[–] xyguy@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago

Definitely. I can genuinely say that the autotiling in PopOS completely changed my workflow for the better.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 8 points 5 months ago

Absolutely. If Linux was pre installed that's what people would use. Its the switching to Linux from something else that proves so complicated.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mostly just so they know which boot device to pick.

Admittedly that's probably not necessary or the least of someone's issues.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 65 points 5 months ago (27 children)

God i wish. And most everyone here could install a new operating system in about 20 minutes. But nobody else is going to because the learning curve for a regular user to install an os is basically perpendicular. Even if they had a linux installer already on a flash drive.

Oh just boot into the bios and find the option to boot for a flash drive and then boom installed.

Which requires a user to know, What a bios is

What booting means

What boot options mean

What the model of their flash drive is

What button on their keyboard they need to press to get to the bios

What secure boot is

Where they need to go to turn off secure boot

How and where to back up their important files

What a disk partition is

How to reverse the changes made to the bios so that it doesn't boot to usb by default.

And that's assuming they know why they want a different OS, why they care and that they know about Linux in the first place.

Most people dont and never will. All you can do is install Linux for the ones you like the most and say a prayer to your favorite deity for the rest.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago

This video sums up my feelings exactly. Thanks for the recommendation. They are a lot more articulate than I was.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago

I think that's something that gets forgotten. Season 2 gets skipped through a lot during rewatches I know. All anyone remembers is her being racist to data.

She starts out mean to Data but she comes around by the end of the season. She is also a former lover of Kyle Riker, which could have made for a much more interesting dynamic for and with Riker if it had continued.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 14 points 6 months ago

I agree. And its a real shame. I also remember seeing Pulaski sitting in the chair next to Picard relatively often where I think of Crusher being in the medical bay far more. That could just be my own memory though.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Larry David would have benefited from this chair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQPBu3M7h-g&t=217

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The only retirement plan for me is to move somewhere where it doesn't get cold in the winter and be homeless. So far that's what I can afford.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

I actually run mine in a 12 year old castoff Thinkpad. 4 GB ram total. More than enough to run it because I run a DNS server, a dashboard and a speedtest server on the same machine.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago

Local repair shop wants $229 to replace it. Better then the 569 Motorola wanted to fix it. Right to repair for the win.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I think you accidentally put a hex on me. Just this morning I dropped my phone and smashed the front display :(

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