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.

  • 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.