My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes


There are more than a billion PCs in use and, according to StatCounter, only 71 percent of them run Windows. Among the rest, about 4 percent run Linux. That's tens of millions of people with Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, etc as their desktop operating system. I envy them.

Windows 11 has become more annoying lately as it shoves ads for XBox Game Pass in my face, pushes AI features no one asked for and demands that I reconsider the choices I made during installation on a regular basis. Plus, it just isn't that attractive.

I'm ready to try joining that industrious four percent and installing Linux on my computers to use as my main OS, at least for a week. I'll blog about the experience here.

It's hard to give up Windows forever because so many applications only run in Microsoft's OS. For example, the peripheral software that runs with many keyboards and mice isn't available for Linux. Lots of games will not run under Linux. So I think it's likely I'll be using Windows again, at least some of the time, after this week is through.

However, for now, I'm going to give Linux a very serious audition and document the experience.

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My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/31142642

There are more than a billion PCs in use and, according to StatCounter, only 71 percent of them run Windows. Among the rest, about 4 percent run Linux. That's tens of millions of people with Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, etc as their desktop operating system. I envy them.

Windows 11 has become more annoying lately as it shoves ads for XBox Game Pass in my face, pushes AI features no one asked for and demands that I reconsider the choices I made during installation on a regular basis. Plus, it just isn't that attractive.

I'm ready to try joining that industrious four percent and installing Linux on my computers to use as my main OS, at least for a week. I'll blog about the experience here.

It's hard to give up Windows forever because so many applications only run in Microsoft's OS. For example, the peripheral software that runs with many keyboards and mice isn't available for Linux. Lots of games will not run under Linux. So I think it's likely I'll be using Windows again, at least some of the time, after this week is through.

However, for now, I'm going to give Linux a very serious audition and document the experience.

in reply to dwaem

@dwaem Ale to trzeba robić z głową, a nie wersjonować PDFy xDDD Git może i by się jeszcze nadał, ale GitHub i podobne byłyby do tego absolutnie bezużyteczne.

Podstawowa wartość takiego VCSa wynikałaby z wykorzystywania go przez parlament. Dzisiaj aby jako obywatel ogarnąć, nad czym właściwie toczy się głosowanie, musisz włożyć olbrzymi wysiłek w rozwiązywanie referencji w projektach i poprawkach - albo zapłacić za komercyjne opracowanie. To sztuczna bariera informacyjna.

in reply to Sebastian Krzyszkowiak

@dwaem To tak żeby uściślić - marzyłby mi się publiczny system pozwalający wygenerować tekst ujednolicony (nienormatywny) na każdym etapie procesu legislacyjnego, włącznie z propozycjami poprawek w Sejmie i Senacie, a także wyświetlający czytelnie różnice między takimi tekstami i rozwiązujący referencje.

Większa tego część jest już dostępna na rynku komercyjnie - a powinna być publiczna, zintegrowana z systemami informacyjnymi Sejmu, Senatu i RPLem.

in reply to Sebastian Krzyszkowiak

@dos Otworzyłem akurat losowo github.com/ProjektyUstaw/Ustaw… i tam jest Markdown.

Oczywiście, że ma się nijak do naszego procesu legislacyjnego, ale w teorii można byłoby na bazie zwykłego repo w git stworzyć taki system. Wtedy marszałek by mówił "głosujemy teraz nad PR #123" - "X głosów za, Y przeciw, PR zmergeowany" 😁

@dwaem @mateusz @razem

in reply to Łukasz

@hlukasz @dwaem No i to jest właśnie chłopskorozumowa droga donikąd, bo teksty prawne funkcjonują na zasadach które nie mapują się zbyt dobrze na gitowy koncept merge'a.

Pewnie jakby się uprzeć to dałoby się zbudować sensowny system z gitem pod spodem, ale raczej wątpię by była to najlepsza opcja. Natomiast GitHub/GitLab/Codeberg etc. i koncepty takie jak PR/MR będą tu kompletnie bezużyteczne.

La chanteuse Nicole Croisille, interprète du célèbre « Da ba da ba da » d’« Un homme et une femme », est morte


#musique #chanson

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Arch user looks for ease of mind


Whelp, here I am. Been an Arch user for over 10 years now, and to this date I love it. But something is bothering me lately. Almost two years ago I jumped ship and completely switched to Wayland (using Plasma first, then Sway). I tasted modernism with all its features and it was sweet. But those last two years were a timeframe where I had to troubleshoot quite a lot compared to before where I used XFCE which was a very stable and reliant experience.

I am at a stage in my life where I do not have the time, nor the energy anymore to troubleshoot problems on a regular basis. I am now almost afraid of installing updates, because something new could fail again.
But I cannot go back anymore. Wayland is too sweet.

So although I still love Arch, maybe it is time for me to look for something else which gives me more ease-of-mind. I am specifically looking at immutable distros now since the concept seems to be exactly what I am looking for (stable, low maintenance, up-to-date packages, easy rollback). But I am a bit lost with the options and hope that you can help me with some recommendations.

  • I mainly browse the web, watch movies, game, do some scripting and run qemu VMs
  • I am comfortable with the terminal
  • I don't do fancy customizations
  • I don't like GNOME
    Distributions that I find interesting so far:
  • Aurora
  • Bazzite
  • NixOS

I am still trying to wrap my head around what the differences between NixOS and the other two are. Afaik, with Nix you can configure your system once (including what packages you want to use), save this configuration in a file, and load it up whenever I need to set it up again. And it seems to have the same concept of updates, such that you can easily roll back if needed.
But it seems to be aimed more at professional users and that I might overshoot at what I was aiming for.
So for someone who likes to setup a system once and then just wants to use it indefinitely without too much maintenance what would your recommendation/advice/critisism regarding my situation be?

Edit: thank you guys so much for all your recommendations and thoughts!
After some further analysis I decided to install Bazzite for the following reasons:

  • shares a lot of similarities with other Atomic distros
  • but has all the nice gaming related things pre-installed and configured and it uses a properly pre-installed Steam (not the Flatpak version) (the main reason why I chose it over Aurora, which would have been my next best pick)
  • my qemu virtual machines run perfectly fine (also the shared folder)
  • some dev stuff already pre-installed (don't think I need more than there already is)
  • fast and the OS feels like made out of one block, very consistent
  • I was ready to use my machine like I want to in basically no time
  • I already love the atomic way of handling updates
  • so far no issues

The only thing left for me to do is to figure out how to properly install SyncThing and Zerotier-One, then I am absolutely set.

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in reply to wewbull

Noooo that's a terrible idea 😭

If six months from now you decide that you do need updates, Arch won't like the accumulated six months of updates coming all at once and might throw a tantrum.

Also not updating is a bad idea in general, you do need security updates for stuff like your browser. Please don't use an out of date system. If you want, install something like debian which will give you only critical updates that won't break stuff until the next release.

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Military Activity Along I-90 Westbound Towards i-405 Southbound 6pm June 4th 2025


Was curious if anybody knows what the military convoy along I-90 westbound past Bellevue towards I-405 Southbound? Lots of weird armored vehicles that had four large tires on each side instead of tracks, also asphalt paving equipment. Made it impossible to get from Bellevue to I-5 because they wouldn't let me in to get to the other side of the freeway.

Kirn kommentiert ironisch: „Wir bringen jemanden dazu, George Orwell wegen Gedankenverbrechen zu verurteilen, und zwar in dem Buch, das er über Gedankenverbrechen geschrieben hat.“ Er schloss seinen Beitrag mit den Worten: „Also, danke für Ihre Warnung vor ‚1984‘. Es ist das verdammt ‚1984‘-mäßigste, was ich je gelesen habe.“

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#Orwell #1984 #Gedankenverbrechen
#WOKE ist #Rassismus
#Demütigung wegen #Hautfarbe
#Faschismus #BILD #LINKE #SprachPolizei #Sozialismus #Gedankenverbrechen #Orwell #1984 #Neusprech
#Diktat #Diktatur #PoliticalCorrectness #Tabus #Untersagung #Verbot #Sprachregelung #Zensur #politischunkorrektesWort #Mimosen #Überempfindlichkeit #EigeneGefühleVerantwortungsLeugner
#Bevormundung

in reply to ija chouf

Do they? I am sorry but I do not believe that and I feel that this child has been abused by those that have used her to push their propaganda. She is simply a tool. She is spouting dumb rhetoric that I grew tired of 30 years ago although then it was the Amazon rather than the car etc. but it was the same tactics and comments "If you do not do as I say the world will end in 5 years". The world did not end. Have you bought an electric car yet? Do you actually believe you will save the world in doing so? They produce more CO2 in their lifespan than an ICE car but that is not their point, they are throw away and they get the public to finally stop cutting down on pollution by buying things that last and buy cars that you throw away after 8 years. If people buy a new car every 8 years rather than every 30 profits soar. The ultimate in pollution. The world is much cleaner today than it was 30 years ago but that has nothing to do with people like her. It is because of normal people who do not shout at you. The earth will continue to get cleaner if we continue as we have but those abusing her want us to spend more to make them richer and stop caring about the planet. We can buy an electric car and believe we are saving the planet even though we are in fact increasing the pollution by 400%.

How stupid americans are with using a.i. and the companies using a.i.
HOW THE GOVERNMENT CAN SPY ON YOU WITH YOUR WATER PIPES AND MANY OTHER WAYS ...
Zombies are a fast moving rabes bug or virus that changes the brain...

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Meet Smile


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An animation showing ESA’s Smile mission watching on as the Sun’s solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetic field. Video: 00:02:27 An animation showing ESA’s Smile mission watching on as the Sun’s solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetic field.

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Drôle de nouvelle... C'est Netanyahou !

Le bureau du procureur général israélien a déclaré que Netanyahu avait utilisé la phrase « Je ne me souviens pas » au moins 1 788 fois lors de son interrogatoire dans les affaires pour lesquelles il est jugé.

C'est celui qui rêve de répéter le modèle « Churchill » et qui s'extasie sur la « victoire absolue », et derrière lui se trouvent Ben-Gvir et Smotrich !

C'est une malédiction sur leur « entité » !

"#Canada's federal police have launched a criminal investigation into Israeli soldiers who hold dual Canadian nationality, on suspicion of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in #Gaza.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (#RCMP) confirmed it was conducting the probe under Canada's Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Program (CAHWCP)."

👀

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#FreePalestine

tout a une #fin mais se renouvelle sans cesse...

FRANCE-CULTURE
#cosmos #physique #science #cosmogonie #univers

Alain Riazuelo, juste la fin des mondes


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Publié le mercredi 28 mai 2025

Sur le long terme, le devenir des résidus de l'évolution stellaire dépend de la stabilité de la matière. A nos échelles de temps d’observation, la matière est stable. Que se passerait-il si, à des échelles de temps beaucoup plus longues, la matière était en fait instable ?


Avec

->Alain Riazuelo, astrophysicien, chercheur CNRS à l'Institut d'astrophysique de Paris (IAP)

L’astrophysicien Alain Riazuelo vient de publier l’ouvrage "Dix scénario pour la fin du monde". Quelle est l’espérance de vie de l’univers ? Et connaîtra-t-il nécessairement une fin ?

Comme l’aurait dit le physicien Niels Bohr, "les prédictions sont très difficiles, surtout lorsqu’elles concernent l’avenir". Concernant le destin de l’univers, autant le dire tout de suite, l’incertitude est notre seule certitude. Et nous n’avons que des spéculations. Les derniers jours du cosmos sont-ils comptés ? Ou à l’inverse, est-il parti pour s’étendre indéfiniment ? Est-ce littéralement l’éternité qui l’attend ? Tentons de nous projeter dans ce futur extraordinairement lointain, à 1 gogol d’années, 10 puissance 100 ans. Et promis, ce ne sera pas triste !


Et si la matière était instable ?


Les articles d’Alain Riazuelo pour le magazine ‪Pour la Science

Vidéo. Le futur de l’Univers, Grand entretien d'Alain Riazuelo (Association Française d’Astronomie, 06/05)

Vidéo. Marathon des Sciences - Le futur de l'univers et la fin de toutes choses par Alain Riazuelo (Festival d’Astronomie de Fleurance, 2021)


À lire aussi

Fin de l’univers : et après ?

La Méthode scientifique

Alain Riazuelo : "La relativité générale d'Einstein n'a jamais été réfutée par l'expérience" (Sciences & Avenir, 2014)

L'Univers aux limites de l'éternité (Pour la Science, 2010)

Dix scénarios pour la fin du monde par Alain Riazuelo (Tana Editions, 10/04)

Les trous noirs - Des objets obscurs enfin révélés par Alain Riazuelo (De Boeck Supérieur, 2024)

L'incroyable aventure de la Terre par Alain Riazuelo (HumenSciences, 2023)

Pourquoi E=mc² par Alain Riazuelo (HumenSciences, 2022)

Pourquoi la Terre est ronde par Alain Riazuelo (HumenSciences, 2019)

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Les références musicales

Le titre du jour : La fin du monde par Youssoupha

Le générique de début : Goca dünya par Altin Gün

Le générique de fin : Pingpxng par Yin Yin


Chroniques

Le cèdre ramené en France par le naturaliste Bernard Jussieu

Comment Alain Riazuelo songe la fin cosmique

Songer rationnellement la fin cosmique est un exercice vertigineux. L'astrophysicien Alain Riazuelo nous invite en promenade au Jardin des Plantes pour confier sa démarche sensible sur l'idée de fin et d'éternité, dans cet espace symbolique et stimulant.


La Science au labo

Pourquoi la lune dispose-t-elle d'une composition en éléments volatils si différente de la Terre ?

Éléments volatils : la Lune a tout perdu dans sa jeunesse

Pourquoi la lune dispose-t-elle d'une composition en éléments volatils, notamment en eau, si différente de la Terre ? L’analyse de météorites lunaires confirme qu’elle a bien perdu ces éléments très tôt dans son histoire lors de son refroidissement après formation.

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Robert #Doisneau (expo "Instants donnés" au Musée Maillol, Paris, jusqu'en octobre 2025, hommage)

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Bonjour à toutes et tous !

Mon amie Addie vient de publier un enregistrement "live" d'un concert que j'avais fait avec elle en... 2018 à Chamonix (souvenirs, souvenirs...) Vous pouvez écouter gratuitement et/ou la soutenir financièrement ici : addie.bandcamp.com/album/addie…

N'hésitez pas à écouter, c'était vraiment chouette, et à la soutenir si vous le souhaitez/pouvez : en plus d'avoir beaucoup de talent, elle a un grand cœur...

Merci pour elle et belle journée !

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The 1965 super hit “The Guillotine” by The Executioners has the problem that no one has ever heard the B-side, “I Was Wrong.”

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#Executioners #garage #guillotine #instro #music #vinyl

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