Lemmy in a nutshell.

Now, if you only had a Star Trek distro of Linux running in the background.

Windows grew?

Looks like the US sucks in comparison.

We have the government we deserve.

Force PlexPass first, get money, then change terms.

Coordinated big-brain evil.

Big plus - identify all accounts interested in privacy. Thus = suspicious accounts.

This is the path for Plex to become Digg, Playon, and reddit.

Almost had me believing, but I couldn’t understand this sentence and it’s all over

"In this case, yank is the verb and the second y is a synonym for y_. "

Huh? What the hell is y_?

Only 41 minutes! So brief (for her)

No

Such a good rabbit hole. I miss him, but he left a lot behind.

I just love the community getting together having a good time

Is this real? I can’t wait to post it on Facebook

Ah, I see. But is that ALL it is?

Yes, but this one has LAVA LAMPS

Dutch public television ain’t fooling around.

¿Porque no glaciers?

Then why make GUIs, or software installers, or update managers? Let’s keep the people in TOP FORM in case of an outage!

Hey, it’s not like I don’t agree with you, but actually I found myself learning faster in spite of the help. Having someone guide you through something is very educational, and getting things wrong is (sadly) a method of contributing a LOT of detritus into your brain.

“Let’s see, I did this last time, but was that when I fucked up or when I fixed it?” I like it better just learning the right way only.

Claude can pay me if they want to. So far no paycheck tho.

You didn’t used to have to say “homemade ranch dressing,” that’s the only kind there was.

My first computer was an Atari 520ST with GEM operating system. Are you older than that?

It’s all about support, and enough people not wanting to put up with being annoyed. Windows has the bulk, the sheer hulking size of userbase, that there are myrid tools to help you do almost anything. You don’t need to search manuals, the answers are easy to find.

Not so Linux. Sometimes the problem is my Ubuntu, or maybe my hardware, or maybe the Cinnamon desktop, the wrong kernel (I didn’t realize I shouldn’t update to the most recent kernel…That I should wait and only use the kernel that Linux mint was using.)

So yeah, it’s not just “complex system” problems, it’s federation complex system problems.

Keep making the product better. Eventually they won’t be needed. It’s much closer than it was back when I was dual-booting in 2009.

Yep. But you do understand a lot of us don’t want to be students of Linux. We just want to do things we want to do. Without having to dig through forums and manual pages to find the solution.

If you want a culture where your niche operating system is dominated by people who read through forums and manual pages to find the needle in the haystack for the problem they’re trying to solve, then continue with the mindset that downvotes something that tries to help people who are novices switch to your system. (Because newbie, Claude.ai will help you)

BUT If you want a system that is opened up to people switching from Windows to it, then you need to make it a shit-ton more accessible.

If that means having a virtual assistant who will patiently walk people through the arcane commands required to make scripts to configure WLANs and whatever other required bash commands necessary to get things done…

Not to mention diagnose graphics or whatever problems that they’re having and solve them without having spend days weeks or months not being able to use their system…

Then open up your minds a little bit to the idea that AI may assist you in getting there.

But I think that’s my point. It was surprisingly not shitty. In fact it was as though someone who knew Linux was on call 24/7 and willing to sit and walk me through very patiently all the steps necessary to do things.