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Anarchist communities often value and revere “back to the land” attitudes. They fetishize a world after the industrial collapse where we are all riding our bikes everywhere and growing our own food. But that’s not a world I can live in. As a person with a disability, I depend on technology to keep me alive. I depend on my hearing aid, and my mobility chair. I depend on my perscription (sic) drugs to keep my immune system from destroying my spine. I can’t afford to “fuck cars and ride my bike.” Anarchist communities who celebrate able bodies, have bonding and strategizing events in inaccessible locations, adopt mantras like “racism is a DISEASE” and “The revolution will not be motorized” are not welcoming or safe places for me. These ideas of what revolution mean are exclusive, and borrow heavily from eugenicist idealogy. They are rarely criticized, because PWDs (people with disabilities) are humiliated by dominant culture AND by most anarchist culture. It’s not a revolution unless everyone is invited.
Wren A.
THIS SO MUCH THIS
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this is why I think Ubuntu Contrabutilism is ablistic and going to be some form of eugenics. It would be, but they say they will have doctors that can cure anything,
Ubuntu is the best Linux distro. You made a good choice.
Instead of using butter for your grilled cheese, you should switch to linux. You can set up a virtual machine to try out various distros to see which ones work best for your needs
Aren't I basically Ubuntu on Nintendo Switch, but Arch based, and on a knockoff switch?
You can install Ubuntu on a Nintendo switch btw. Why would you want this? Idk. Why would you want Ubuntu on anything? We suck.
@ubuntu-official 4 is better than one.
I still hate your distro.
Looks like all the software is compatible!
Discord: good and easy to install through the software store
Steam: good and easy to install through the software store, extra steps needed for running some games
WPS Office: good, but needs a manual install
this writer program: good*
affinity: good*
*only has a Windows version, so must be run through wine, which some programs don't like. Also, it needs to be installed manually.
Seems like you should be able to get this set up pretty quickly!
@ubuntu-official is a good choice for a 1st distro
I'm glad that @windows11-official is bringing us so many new linux users, so thx buddy!
Quick tip: Copy off ANY files you want to keep to an external drive/secondary hard drive/cloud storage solution, and disconnect that device before installing Ubuntu. This will prevent accidental file deletion.
Setting up my ubuntu machine again- lets see if we can get all the programs i use on windows to run. I got a notification that Microsoft is dropping support for windows 10 in 2025, and windows 11 makes it way harder to fuck with os settings than it is on windows 10. And my long term goal is to divorce myself completely from the use of Google and Microsoft products.
Heres my daily use software, that I'll hopefully get to stick with in linux:
- WPS office suite
- Affinity Design and Affinity Publisher
-Cold Turkey Writer
-Discord
-Steam
Yeah!
@ubuntu-official @linuxmint-official
i think people should try a little Linux, just for something different yknow
doesn’t have to be any specific “beginner-friendly” distro or whatever, could just be WSL even . just gives you a different perspective on OSs :)
like if you’re sick of Windows/MacOS and are frustrated that you need to keep upgrading your hardware to run the newest versions, why not experience something else and download VirtualBox n try out a Linux distro for a bit, see if you like it,, I think you might be surprised by some of em :)
i still use Windows 10 for my desktop, mainly for gaming and art etc, but i switched over to Linux Mint on my laptop a while ago and have used it for school, and it’s been running better than when it had Windows on it. does what i need it to do, and using the terminal to do stuff feels fun and kinda powerful with how easy it is to install stuff with it :)
was there troubleshooting involved? yes, but it was often fixed by just looking up your problem and finding answers on stackexchange or linux forums, not too different from troubleshooting windows tbh lol
i’ve also recently got a mini pc to use as a little server for stuff, like discord bots. even tho the specs are a little on the lower side, it’s still able to run stuff pretty well since I installed Xubuntu on it, which is specifically designed to be quite light on system resources, and it’s been great too :)
anyways point is,, try out Linux in some form, why not :) if you have an old laptop/desktop sitting around, try reviving it by installing a lightweight linux distro on it! the less e-waste the better :3
Wait... @manjaro-official and @ubuntu-official are twins!
They have different a basis than each other, but still are twins.
Try to be user-friendly but aren't as user-friendly as they should be
2 package systems (that like to conflict)
strange behavior
instead of these, most people recommend...
Wait... @linuxmint-official and @endeavouros-official are twins!
(rant continues as imagined)
(also not sure if it's Mint or Pop! OS that fits better here)
I felt that addressing some of these points would be good for newcomers, especially those who are interested in/have installed Mint.
@mirqmarq428's impressions and opinions shouldn't be considered invalid. As someone who started using Linux around that time, things were significantly less intuitive and/or user friendly across the board.
While Cinnamon is very reminiscent of Windows 7/10, the welcome screen and documentation encourage the user to customize. I do agree, however, that using an unfamiliar DE is a really good idea for new Linux users. The fun thing about Mint is that you don't have to stay on Cinnamon (or even XFCE/Mate). It's a good platform to experiment and learn.
Snaps are disabled, though it's possible to enable them in Mint (instructions are even in the documentation). Ubuntu does not offer Flatpak support by default, and previously required official flavors to drop support.
Release cycle- Mint is based on the latest LTS of Ubuntu (and on the latest version of Debian for LMDE). It's entirely possible to install more recent versions of packages via flatpak and debs without touching the terminal. Mint's Update Manager can also install newer kernels in a few clicks. If you have cutting edge hardware, there's always the Cinnamon-Edge edition.
Mint also has an update manager that can send reminders, though this can be disabled.
In the end, it's important to use what you enjoy. Despite my concerns regarding Snap, I've been running the same Kubuntu install on my desktop for almost a year now. A handful of the programs I use were either Distrobox'd or built manually. Mint has been just as capable in the times I've used it.
Replying to @fzf
I have no strong personal feelings about mint. It happened to be a good first distro for me, and i like the colors. My disrecommendation of it comes in bullet points:
Mint is touted as a "windows-like environment" on account of the Cinnamon desktop. However, Cinnamon and windows 10 have deceptively little in common beyond the general layout - iv said this before and I'll say it again: don't give people a knockoff of what they're used to, give them something new to learn.
Mint disables, disallows, discourages, and distrusts snap packages. While iv seen a huge amount of hate for these, and the technology had a rough start, they're not any more of a pain than flatpak (and way better than appimages, yikes). In fact, removing them from what was otherwise an Ubuntu system causes more problems than it fixes - for months last year it was a pain to run Chromium on mint because the Deb was broken and snaps were disabled (iirc - might be misremembering. either way the snap war is not a good cause imo)
Release speed - when i got started with Mint in march of 2020, I downloaded mint 19.04 cause that was the version on the website. Mint 19.04 is based on Ubuntu 18.04 which had a 4.18 kernel. Everyone else in 2020 had a 5.2 kernel at least. There is a balance between stable and up-to-date, and Ubuntu has mastered it. Mint, by necessity, lags behind Ubuntu. Heck, there's even the time the mint devs had to beg users to update because of a security issue, and found that most users had never bothered updating!
Ubuntu (gnome) is different from both macos but windows interface in obvious ways that encourage a paradigm shift in desktop usage.
Snap packages are extremely meh, but they ain't here to steal ur freedums (yet).
Ubuntu has the second best software compatibility of any Linux (best is Arch), and a lot of pkgbuilds in the AUR are just extracting debs from Ubuntu ppas anyway so it's really close. Ubuntu tells you to update and makes it easy with the popup which you can close or banish.
So yeah. Mint is just slightly worse Ubuntu
With Xenia's popularity and acceptance as the unofficial Linux mascot, can we as a society accept this wolf girl as Kubuntu's?
Image by Ihara on Deviantart (from 2009!)
Try Ubuntu Desktop, it’s great
2 years ago I decided to install ubuntu on my laptop. Best decision ever.
In the process of switching to Linux so I can't use photoshop and I was wondering why Krita is such a well kept secret? Maybe it's just come a long way over the years, but its kind of the tits?
It's really streamlined and super powerful, not to mention it's open source, free, and wicked easy to install. If yall are sick of Photoshop training it's dumbass AI, I think Krita is worth considering as an alternative. It's dynamic and focused on artists, and the workspace is easy to get used to.
It's rough out there for artists rn, but the Open Source community seems to have our asses covered
Right? Gimp is great for photo manipulation, but I find its wonderful to have two different suites of tools for two different artistic mediums. The learning curve is there, but it's not as steep as I thought it would be
In the process of switching to Linux so I can't use photoshop and I was wondering why Krita is such a well kept secret? Maybe it's just come a long way over the years, but its kind of the tits?
It's really streamlined and super powerful, not to mention it's open source, free, and wicked easy to install. If yall are sick of Photoshop training it's dumbass AI, I think Krita is worth considering as an alternative. It's dynamic and focused on artists, and the workspace is easy to get used to.
It's rough out there for artists rn, but the Open Source community seems to have our asses covered