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Cake day: July 8th, 2023
  • meathorse@lemmy.worldOPtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Return of the Dumb-arse!
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    1 month ago

    So far, so good but I haven’t really thought about it since. It may not suit a purist, hardcore or someone who tweaks their system endlessly but for someone like me, I don’t want to spend me free time fiddling, breaking, then fixing my home gear.

    Until Win10, I never liked to “upgrade” any OS, preferring a clean slate approach and from what I understand, that’s what I’ll get here. A clean new OS with each upgrade that eliminates any gradual degradation due to a build up of clutter and abandoned packages. All while the flat packs and my data/config reside safely in the use partition (anyone, let me know if I’ve got this wrong!)

  • meathorse@lemmy.worldOPtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Return of the Dumb-arse!
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    1 month ago

    Agree - software is the greatest blocker these days. My recent software restriction was simply a tool I was only using for study.

    I was still skeptical that it would be so easy as I’ve been burnt before by Linux on YouTube or articles that exclaim just how easy it is but I usually run into at least a couple of major issues that become a pain to overcome. Not so this time! Every PC I’ve cut over during this process has been painless.

    Literally the only issue I’ve had to date was my monitor not waking from sleep - a minor fault that was fixed by selecting any colour profile that wasn’t the default.

  • meathorse@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•What distro do you use and why?
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    10 months ago

    Began moving all my hardware to Linux this year since none of them will run win11 without fk-about-ing - and I just don’t want to. So my server, media box and laptop are all cut over, only my main desktop left on windows a bit longer but it’s goose is cooked too.

    I’ve tried dozens of distros over the years but I’ve settled on Fedora KDE.

    The why:

    • Skipping x11 and head straight into Wayland so I don’t have to worry about that in the future.
    • I wanted something more up to date than debian-based and less cutting edge then Arch-based.
    • Stability and support of being in the RHEL family
    • Flatpaks
    • Tried to get on with gnome to get away from the ‘start menu’ paradigm but ended up getting on with kde better.
  • meathorse@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why does the media print rags to riches stories?
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    1 year ago

    Can I assume by that comment that you’re also a self-made millionaire?

    No? Oh, why are you so lazy? After all, it just requires hard work. There are over a thousand self-made millionaires in my small town alone. The media call us a “statistical anomaly” but they just don’t see how easy it is if you just put down your 9-5 and get to work.

    /s

    Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely believe that hard work can get you there but it is very, very uncommon. I work bloody hard, have a good paying job, no debt and investments but will only have enough for an ok retirement.

    Friends with their own business who are more driven, work even harder and longer than I do and are absolutely better off, but they’ll never earn the level of money like this article suggests.

    My issue is with the disingenuousness of the article. This sort of success requires a huge amount of work, a once in the lifetime (for most people) idea or market to kickstart and even then often still requires a bucket of 7-leaf clover levels of luck. But it’s sold by the media as others have detailed “if you just work harder…”