• TK420@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    As all the cool kids keep saying, now is a great time to try out Linux.

    No, I’m not recommending a distro for you, that is what DuckDuckGo is for.

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      2 months ago

      Can you run windows games on linux without it being resource intensive like using a vm or something?

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        2 months ago

        Gaming in Linux on a windows VM isn’t viable for most systems. Most games run really well through proton with little to no effort. Some even run better on Linux than on windows. You just can’t play a lot of the most popular competitive online games because it flags their anti cheat.

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        2 months ago

        Ubuntu is actually falling down the ad hole lately. It’s not great, even if you leave out the technical issues that the distribution leans into these day (snaps, amongst other things)

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            2 months ago

            In the system update dialog, you’ll see something like:

            You’re not getting 53 critical security updates! Join Ubuntu Pro to keep yourself safe!

            Ubuntu Pro is a subscription service.

            This is seriously at the level of Norton “AntiVirus”, and it’s truly absurd and nakedly predatory.

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          2 months ago

          does kubuntu have the same issues? kinda want to go for a debian or ubuntu based kde distro and kubuntu is always highly recommended.

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              2 months ago

              way too difficult to set up, i don’t have a lot of free time so i need an “out of the box” distro

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                2 months ago

                LMDE? The comfort of Mint with the stability of Debian. I picked it for my wife, who doesn’t want to mess with configs and tinkering around. I play tech support for her system when something goes wrong though.

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      2 months ago

      Actually to find a good distro and instructions on how to install them i recommend using an ai chatbot.

      Majority of people have never created a bootable media but its easy enough ai can guide them step by step.

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        Eh, just look up a reputable YouTube channel and guide. Chatbots can randomly make dumb mistakes that a total newbie won’t recognize, potentially causing them a lot of headache.

        And no, I’m not one of those diehard anti-AI people. My work has its own custom GPT model and I utilize it almost daily for menial tasks. But even having it generate script boilerplate and whatnot, I sometimes notice it writing stuff that won’t work and/or does it in a really verbose/weird way.

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          You cant ask a youtube channel what distro best suit your specific usecase.

          Also realistically no one wants to sit trough a video to check out a strangers recommendation for linux.

          I do get that people are worried about the incompetence of AI but this topic and procedure is so bog standard i have more faith in chatgpt doing it then a human.

          If you dont believe me, try it.

          Ask chatgpt/claude/gemini “How to make a bootable linux media from windows” you will have to spend a long time trying before you find it fails on something this boilerplate.