Post 48447 by shadowbottle@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #45763 by lynnesbian@deadinsi.de
2018-09-16T10:01:57Z
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the people who call ubuntu "noobunto" and shit on people for using it are hilarious. it's great to discourage people when they're just beginning to learn how to use linux, or to attack people who've been using ubuntu for years for no other reason than "it's popular". such a great idea haha it's so funny
(DIR) Post #48418 by hal@slime.global
2018-09-16T12:00:55Z
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@lynnesbian Linux dudes' mentality is fucking something
(DIR) Post #48447 by shadowbottle@mastodon.social
2018-09-16T16:17:45Z
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@lynnesbian (I also use FreeBSD/XNU-kernel MacOS because frankly I'm too damn old and tired to be shoehorning ever-changing user interfaces into something approaching familiar, but I still want to maintain the majority the utility of a nixie system >_> I'm also too old to give a shit how "modern" neck beards feel about that, so... grain of salt there for you :p )
(DIR) Post #48603 by cosullivan@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-09-16T16:43:37Z
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@lynnesbian They are actually being like my son at age two, when at the library's children's section he approached a four-year-old with a Barney DVD she selected, pawed at his extracted tongue, and said "Barney yucky." My child had naivete and toddler social skills for excuses -- what are the adults' excuses?@Shufei
(DIR) Post #50893 by Shufei@mastodon.social
2018-09-16T20:05:31Z
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@cosullivan @lynnesbian People seem to enjoy this as a facet of cheap ego building. I enjoy wine, for instance, but am cognizant of how famously this effect is present in the culture. And it’s ridiculous. I love wine but it’s mouldy grape juice.
(DIR) Post #57791 by Ocean22@niu.moe
2018-09-17T07:12:13Z
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@lynnesbian And then people don't recommend Ubuntu for new users because of this circlejerk and then we have people who end up never using GNU/Linux because the first distro they tried was too hard
(DIR) Post #3515132 by twylo@mastodon.sdf.org
2019-01-29T17:10:45Z
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@lynnesbian @erkin Seriously. Amen! I’ve been a Linux user since 1992. My first distribution was SLS 0.98 on a pile of floppy disks. I’ve recompiled hundreds of kernels and configured XFree86 by hand. I put in my time. And you know what? I use Ubuntu now. I don’t begrudge anyone else’s choices in what distribution they use, so long as they enjoy using it. I wish they afforded me the same decency.
(DIR) Post #9ga9RXnNBc4Xt75qpk by Ocean22@niu.moe
2019-03-09T03:36:06Z
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@lynnesbian Anytime there is a new user trying to pick a distro
(DIR) Post #9ga9YTFCVQEhnePdGi by Ocean22@niu.moe
2019-03-09T03:37:21Z
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@lynnesbian I think ideally it'd be best to direct someone to something that is 100% free software, but for a new user that is just unrealistic and will 100% scare them away from the whole thingUbuntu provides a safe playground to learn all the shit, and then a year or so down the line they may wish to move to a Free Distro when they actually know what they are doing
(DIR) Post #9gaAYTNc6L0GAtud3w by tleydxdy@pl.smuglo.li
2019-03-09T03:48:38.008697Z
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@lynnesbian it's funny when Ubuntu scared me away twice, once in middle school and once in high school, it's only later when I spend a evening installing Arch did anything made sense to me, and started distro hopping everywhere. even now I'm still scared of Ubuntu and uses debian.