Linux Community?

yabana

yabana

Active Member
Joined
Sep 15, 2024
Messages
87
Reaction score
28
Hello,

As a dedicated user of proprietary software such i.e. Apple Sheep and Windows Slave, I find it increasingly concerning that the Linux community is gradually being marginalized or silenced. Reflecting on my college days, I recall a time when there was always a Linux guru in our class who would challenge the status quo, acting as a voice of reason. However, today it seems that everyone is conforming to the demands of these tech giants and proprietary software, with AI becoming the new norm. Have we, as a society, handed over our free will and independence in the process?

Looking forward to your thoughts on this matter.
 
yabana said:
Hello,

As a dedicated user of proprietary software such i.e. Apple Sheep and Windows Slave, I find it increasingly concerning that the Linux community is gradually being marginalized or silenced. Reflecting on my college days, I recall a time when there was always a Linux guru in our class who would challenge the status quo, acting as a voice of reason. However, today it seems that everyone is conforming to the demands of these tech giants and proprietary software, with AI becoming the new norm. Have we, as a society, handed over our free will and independence in the process?

Looking forward to your thoughts on this matter.
Click to expand...
WAT
Is someone preventing you from using Linux?
 
Don't know. My Dell Precision seems to ship with Linux but I don't know how to use it or get started. Unless it's just a place holder

1729791464728.png
 
yabana said:
Hello,

As a dedicated user of proprietary software such i.e. Apple Sheep and Windows Slave, I find it increasingly concerning that the Linux community is gradually being marginalized or silenced. Reflecting on my college days, I recall a time when there was always a Linux guru in our class who would challenge the status quo, acting as a voice of reason. However, today it seems that everyone is conforming to the demands of these tech giants and proprietary software, with AI becoming the new norm. Have we, as a society, handed over our free will and independence in the process?

Looking forward to your thoughts on this matter.
Click to expand...
yeah, as a collective we as humans became numb to the norms of Facebook and social media intrusion etc. No more activism in this space, at least not what I've seen lately.
 
yabana said:
Not really I am looking for online community / forums I can join to learn more about the OS and starting using it.
Click to expand...

Download vmware or virtual box.
Download a image of Linux you want to use (ubuntu is probably the easiest).

Or

Enable Wsl2 in windows to get a Linux terminal in Windows. Great way to get the best of both worlds.

www.c-sharpcorner.com

How To Install Windows Subsystem For Linux (WSL2) On Windows 11

In this article, you will learn how we can install a windows subsystem for Linux on Windows 11.
www.c-sharpcorner.com

Start messing around with it untill you are comfortable then shift over to running a pc full linux. Set a 3 month only using Linux.

I did this 10 years ago and I am still using Linux. Only my gaming pc runs windows because Linux sucks at gaming or even getting graphics card drivers working.
 
Quite the contrary - I see Linux being adopted more and more on the server/ hosting side.

On the desktop it's still not common for various reason with primary one that new hardware ships with Windows 99% of the time.

I have resurrected / refurbished / repurposed 100's of old Windows machines and passed them on with Linux (usually Ubuntu LTS) to non-profits / people who could not afford a pc.

The majority were used with no issues and work perfectly for internet access / creating documents & spreadsheets / printing.

The quickest way to learn is to start using it - install in a VM or on a spare machine and hack away.

There are countless online resources/forums online to help you when you get stuck. (Eg. howtoforge.com)

Nb - my daily drivers (desktop at work and home + laptop) all run Linux.
My servers are all Linux/BSD of various flavors too :)
 
yabana said:
Not really I am looking for online community / forums I can join to learn more about the OS and starting using it.
Click to expand...
Look to our very own...
PaulB_ said:
This Oracle free tier has given me an opporunity to build, and develop, and tweak on a scale that I have never done before. I owe my ability to work with Linux solely to Oracle Cloud...
Click to expand...

I got my first Raspberry Pi when I started Uni. After messing around with that for a few years, by the time I started work, I was more proficient on Linux than any of my peers at the company. More proficient than most of the people, tbh.

As mentioned above, even though most people don't use Linux for their desktop, once you actually get into hosting stuff on severs, Docker, Kubernetes, etc, it's all Linux. I use a Windows machine for work but do everything via WSL as it's a much better experience.
 
yabana said:
Hello,

As a dedicated user of proprietary software such i.e. Apple Sheep and Windows Slave, I find it increasingly concerning that the Linux community is gradually being marginalized or silenced. Reflecting on my college days, I recall a time when there was always a Linux guru in our class who would challenge the status quo, acting as a voice of reason. However, today it seems that everyone is conforming to the demands of these tech giants and proprietary software, with AI becoming the new norm. Have we, as a society, handed over our free will and independence in the process?

Looking forward to your thoughts on this matter.
Click to expand...

Not sure I'd ever call the Linux geek a "voice of reason", they were usually the strange ones.

But no, the Linux community is stronger than it has ever been before, but Linux struggles on end user machines because people have got used to the 2 mainstream OS's and the market will deliver what the customer wants.

But to equate OS usage to a societies free will and independence is batshyte craycray boss.
 
At workplace we have been gradually switching over from Windows server to Linux, mainly fedora.
btrfs and zfs over ntfs, especially for backups
 
PaulGherkin said:
Corporates, that's why.
Very resistant to anything like Linux.
Click to expand...
Once the finance department finds out that they are going to lose Excel any thought of transitioning stops.
 
  • Old laptop
  • Install Mint Xfce
  • Do updates
  • It installs new kernel
  • Everything breaks
  • Finds out grub isn't designed with fast boot in mind
  • Change kernel to lower ver. branch
  • Try use Google Earth desktop or watch videos
  • Massive screen tearing on HDMI
  • Manually add in dri3 to the intel config file
  • Everything works

I hate Linux and I want to stomp it's head in. 8/10 would recommend it.
 
garyc said:
Once the finance department finds out that they are going to lose Excel any thought of transitioning stops.
Click to expand...
As they should, productivity is more important than "but my Linux corpo freedom".

LibreOffice is nice for home, horrible for work.
 
garyc said:
Once the finance department finds out that they are going to lose Excel any thought of transitioning stops.
Click to expand...
Yeah, 2 out of 3 CEO's were once a FM or CFO. That's why most large Corpos are actually large Accounting firms with a "Hospitality" or "Retail" racket front-end. And we wonder why most business has lost touch with customers.
 
A few weeks ago I had a hard drive crash or should I rather say a Windows 10 crash I could not fix Windows 10 so I decided to recover my data from that hard drive, I then decided to give Linux a go, in this case I installed Zorin OS 17 Core, first I had to check whether my hardware was compatible with Zorin OS and this includes a HF radio amateur transceiver, USB cable (running as an virtual com port) from my radio to PC and an external USB sound card at first I could not get the radio to communicate to my PC with the radio control software (FLrig) and with the help of a fellow radio amateur I was sorted in no time (I had to run this command sudo -a -G dialout username. Using Zorin since September 2024, no issues at all.
I'm still new to Linux and learn new things as I go on.
 
I still run vanilla Linux and BSD on my homelab devices and wont be giving that up anytime soon.

Used to run Gentoo then Ubuntu and finally Arch as my daily driver. Problem is as my salary went up I just went with Mac as my daily driver. Still tinker a lot for my own projects but there is a lot of abstraction these days such as serverless in its variants from various providers, Kubernetes .etc
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter