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  • EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.detoLinux@lemmy.ml•Why?
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    1 year ago

    I had used 95, 98, and 2000 at that point. All of which I mostly enjoyed. Me I used in my grandmothers computer and yeah…it was rubbish.

    However I’d say it was less of a “Big leap” and more of a “Quick give us something that’s almost as good as 9x!”


  • EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.detoLinux@lemmy.ml•Why?
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    1 year ago

    Because Windows XP was a hot pile of garbage.

    One day, my network driver broke. None of the discs worked. None of those incoherent “wizards” Windows loves to use worked. Reinstalling Windows broke more things. I couldn’t get online for about 2 months.

    One day I was at the bookstore and saw a Fedora Core book with an OS disc. I thought it was cool so I convinced mom to get it. Went home, blundered my way through the install and everything just worked.

    I cannot for the life of me understand how XP is routinely loved by everyone. It looked like a muddy fisher-price toybox.


  • British Food is awesome. It’s not very colorful or ultra complex but it’s the kinda food that warms the soul.

    • A good Sunday Roast with yorkshire pudding, lamb, roasted potatoes, peas, and gravy
    • Fish and Chips served with a good curry or mushy peas
    • Fresh warm scones with clotted cream and jam
    • A proper fry up with a cup of tea
    • Beef Wellington
    • Pie Mash
    • Meat pies
    • Bridies
    • Scotch Eggs
    • Minemeat Pies
    • Spotted Dick (Yeah yeah)
    • Treacle Tart
    • Banoffee Pie

    There are few things that bring me more joy than popping into a Greggs on a cold rainy morning for an overheated cup of generic tea and a sausage roll.



  • It was abandoned for awhile but a few months back someone has taken up working on it and made a bunch of headway. Looks significantly better than the screenshots on that website.

    That said, I think the UI of choice for Linux machines is going to be Steam Big Picture Mode. I’ve been using it as my SmartTV for awhile now and I really can’t think of anything else I’d want. The excellent controller support just makes it untouchable.



  • Bazzite is the option for Windows converts that want a gaming focused Linux desktop. A lot of people are going to nitpick it to death, because they want “Literally Windows but without Microsoft”. Which isn’t happening while Linux has the market share it has. You either accept a few annoyances (while advocating for those annoyances to be fixed), or go back to Windows and accept Microsoft’s authoritarian control of your computer.

    Bazzite is a solid desktop that’s going to be really hard for a regular user to break, comes with Steam, Lutris, and Heroic built in, proprietary nvidia drivers installed, and is based on Fedora (Modern, stable, well supported).

    The only downside is KDE can be really easy to break if you’re a new user unfamiliar with how customizing it works, but if you leave it default you’re fine.