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Welcome to libre

A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.

The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.

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Resources

Free Software, Free Society provides an excellent primer in the origins and theory around free software and the GNU Project, the pioneers of the Free Software Movement.
Switch to GNU/Linux! If you're still using Windows in $CURRENT_YEAR, flock to Linux Mint!; Apple Silicon users will want to check out Asahi Linux.
Social Media Recommendations:

The Linux Experiment: Weekly news host for Linux/libre software related news.
Nicco Loves Linux: Developer for KDE who makes interesting videos.
David Revoy: An incredible artist with a cool webcomic, all done with GNU/Linux.
Michael Horn: Makes videos about his various experiences with Linux.

Rules

Be on topic: Posts should be about free software and other hacktivst struggles. Topics about general tech news should be in the technology comm or programming comm.
Avoid using misleading terms/speading misinformation: Here's a great article about what those words are. In short, try to avoid parroting common Techbro lingo and topics.
Avoid being confrontational: People are in different stages of liberating their computing, focus on informing rather than accusing. Debatebro nonsense is not tolerated.
All site-wide rules still apply

Artwork

Xenia was meant to be an alternative to Tux and was created (licensed under CC0) by Alan Mackey in 1996.
Comm icon (of Xenia the Linux mascot) was originally created by @ioletsgo
Comm banner is a close up of "Dorlotons Degooglisons" by David Revoy (CC-BY 4.0) for Framasoft

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Windows users, why don't you use/try Linux? (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm curious as to what everyone's reasons are! The Linux desktop has came quite a far ways in the last few years and is improving every day. I'd say for most people, Linux could easily replace Windows as their daily driver nowadays.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I have tried many, many times in the past, and intend to try again in my next build this next summer. However, Linux just did not work for me.

Biggest issue for me is quite literally any use of terminal is too much use of terminal. If I have to open up terminal at all, windows immediately becomes the preferred OS. I don’t care how easy it is to copy / paste some lines of text that someone else wrote (I have no idea what those commands I’m pasting in do), I just do not ever want to open a terminal.

I have a steam deck too, and I somewhat enjoyed using it as a desktop with a dock. It seems to run fine! However, I have some issues with apps not updating and whatnot.

Also, there’s just the issue of learning a whole new os. I did it 5 years ago when I got a new job and it came with a MacBook, and now I honestly love Mac OS. Way better than windows imo, which is promising for me to like a Linux distribution as learning wasn’t so hard!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Asking out of curiosity, why are you so averse to using the terminal?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not op but it's just a pain in the ass to learn esoteric, poorly documented commands and navigate a string of cryptic error messages just to access my slop when I'm too tired to exist after work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I guess that's fair, except the bit about "poorly documented". It's one of those things though, where you look back and think "yeah that was definitely worth learning".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You are doing your handle justice lmao, respect

Idk I just can't be arsed to learn what sudo rf | -m --po "pigpoopballs" -f does, sudo is gibberish, rf is gibberish, | is gibberish, - is gibberish, -- is gibberish, m might as well stand for "meaningless", and I don't want to spend an hour on stackoverflow reading a five-way argument written at a technical depth that is several university-level classes beyond my understanding, just give me a gui that works and has nigh-universal support. I look at my computer and I'm like "English mfer do u speak it???"

If I was setting up a hardcore coding environment or like doing a project with a raspberry pi then I see the utility, but not to connect to my projector at 11pm

Just my ignorant ass opinion tho

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Referring to another reply I made here earlier, it might be worth looking into something like Linux Mint when you get around to your next build. It's should feel fairly familiar if you're coming over from Windows and it has simple to use interfaces for all the common day to day things like handling updates, installing packages & drivers, and changing all your settings which is a huge plus for someone who doesn't want to mess with the terminal.