I feel like 75% of Mastodon are people talking about Linux. If you don’t care about Linux you feel alienated. I enjoy Mastodon and Lemmy, but the lack of more diverse subjects gets to me if I browse for too long.

Update: I took your advice and purchased a laptop for Linux, and now I care about it! Problem solved.

  • ScrubblesEnglish
    132•2 years ago

    There’s a lot of other stuff here too, granted Star Trek is 60% of my feed - but it reminds me of the old internet so I’m content.

    What else do you like?

          • The Picard ManeuverEnglish
            6•2 years ago

            I haven’t seen one. Everyone here seems like an expert already… I already have a PC set aside to do it, so it’s just a matter of taking the plunge one of these days.

            Probably start with something noob friendly, like Ubuntu?

            • Aniki 🌱🌿English
              5•2 years ago

              I used to be a very big fan of Ubuntu and I run it on my work laptop right now but what they are doing with snaps is very not-good and Debian is close enough to Ubuntu that you can still use the vast majority of the documentation. Snaps are one of a few different paradigms of packaging dependencies and binaries into one single file or install, only somehow snaps are kinda shit and best to avoid.

              So Ubuntu without snaps is ok. Debian is basically Ubuntu un-fucked without snaps and my recommendation.

              • The Picard ManeuverEnglish
                5•2 years ago

                I had heard Debian was also very noob friendly, so I’ll probably go with that then. I don’t really have much of a tech background other than amateur hobby stuff, so I definitely need to pick one that’s going to have a lot of instructional content out there.

                • Aniki 🌱🌿English
                  4•2 years ago

                  Debian is fantastic. You can also make use of Arch’s documentation as well. So if you get stuck you can check three fantastic repos of knowledge. And chatGPT can answer generic questions as well.

                • Aniki 🌱🌿English
                  1•2 years ago

                  I actually am going to install debian 12 in qemu to check out how it is now a days.

              • @grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2•2 years ago

                Canonical’s pushing of snaps sucks, but in my experience Ubuntu “just works” on every piece of hardware I throw it at in a way that even Debian sometimes doesn’t. (IDK why, and – having gone through my Gentoo-tweak-everything phase 20 years ago – I can’t be bothered to care.)

                Point is, Ubuntu is fine. Just let the noobs use it; don’t put them off with quibbling . It’s fine.

                • Draconic NEOEnglish
                  2•2 years ago

                  Pop_OS or Mint solves the issues with Snap by cutting it out, I’d recommend other people use those because Snaps introduce many minor frustrations that don’t make sense unless you know what you’re doing and that you’re using snaps.

                  TL;DR for those who don’t know about snaps, Ubuntu has a thing that makes some apps not work quite right all the time, Pop_OS and Mint don’t have that thing or have a different thing that works better most of the time.

      • The Picard ManeuverEnglish
        17•2 years ago

        I believe Technology is the top active community.

        I feel you on gaming though. I try to be active in niche subs for games I’ve played recently, like Armored Core and Baldur’s Gate. The demographic on Lemmy is no doubt perfect for building up gaming communities - I bet a venn diagram of Lemmings and people who you would find at a con is practically a circle. I think we just need to get some more started.

        • @remotedev@lemmy.caEnglish
          10•2 years ago

          I bet a venn diagram of Lemmings and people who you would find at a con is practically a circle

          None taken

        • Aniki 🌱🌿English
          5•2 years ago

          I’m more likely to be at a ST con than a gamer con but then again the only actual conferences I’ve made it to were FOSS cons sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

      • Snot FlickermanEnglish
        14•2 years ago

        Just gonna go out on a limb and say most cheap tech projects are probably running on some open source code.

        You are limiting yourself a little bit by not being at least slightly interested in it.

      • ScrubblesEnglish
        3•2 years ago

        There’s a few specific gaming communities. They’re small, but I can say growing daily. I’m actually a mod of !satisfactory@lemmy.world for example. If one doesn’t exist and you feel up to it, make a community too. I’m sure there are people who are interested. The communities are small, but through nurturing we can grow them up to a nice size.

        Check out https://lemmyverse.net/communities, I don’t know how many are active but it only takes one person to make it active!

      • @yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        You need to follow more tags, like game-specific tags and specific tech tags. Sometimes I think federation fails to show all content in the tags, so following more people might help too