• Emma Liv@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 days ago

    LMDE user, trans woman, and I never wear clothes at home, including socks. Prisons of the flesh I say!

    However, this chart does accurately show how high my Doc Martens are.

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    8 days ago

    I’m a mint guy and cis, but I wear my socks at more of an ubuntu level. Is it because I also like functional programming?

    Shout out to all the cool trans geeks, though.

    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
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      8 days ago

      Like, yes and no.

      For people who are somewhat familiar with Linux, Ubuntu is certainty recognised as being about as mainstream as any distro is able to be, and a safe haven for Linux noobs for decades.

      In recent years however it’s Mint which has for whatever reason been constantly recommended as a go-to distro for people fleeing the evils of Windows, ramping up especially with the discontinuation of Windows 10.

      So right now, Mint might be more of a beginner distro than even Ubuntu.

      • dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 days ago

        Mint which has for whatever reason been constantly recommended as a go-to distro

        I can bring my anecdote to the table:

        I was able to mess up my initial ubuntu install so bad, that any time I deleted a file, the system thought I threw out that piece of drive with it. Maybe I reigned back on my careless ‘sudoing’, but Mint was able to take me all the way to the Arch variants without breaking.

        Now I just do whatever Endeavour tells me. Next step will be to start messing properly with Arch (and kin), and see what all the fuss is about around FOSS.

      • PNW clouds@infosec.pub
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        8 days ago

        I’m using mint in fluffy warm house socks. In my defense, I’m using Mint because I may have to install a super user-friendly linux on the old computers of two boomer family members who are using win 11 and macOS respectively.

        I need to make sure I know it really well and can do whatever tech support I need to do. And lock it down for them.

        But I’m also digging it. Especially since it’s not Weyland, I’ve been able to lock all the inputs and still watch movies

        Edit: to protect from my cat, who just knocked my phone out of my hand and butt submitted this before I was ready. Now to clean my screen

        • Bluewing@lemmy.world
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          7 days ago

          If you are going to provide support to non-Linux users, I would highly recommend an immutable distro. Choosing something from Fedora or it’s clones will keep uneducated users from being able to mess with the underlying OS. Yet it allow users to install/uninstall software through flatpacks with no need of sudo and the risks it can bring. Updates can be set to automatic and they will never need to do updates themselves. And if something does go boom, then you can easily roll back on reboot to get a working desktop until you can fix things for them.

      • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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        8 days ago

        Mint is considered the best replacement for Windows because Cinnamon more closely resembles Windows. Personally I can’t stand GNOME, but I’ve heard it more closely resembles macOS