Linux Elitists Are Frauds - Making Their Linux Life Harder To Look Cool DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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insuna
Just got this video recommended, hadn't seen your older videos only your new stuff and thought: -wow, that is very uncharacteristic of him...-
To be fair, I don't think it's good to -call out- -elitists- for things like tiling window managers or vim/emacs preferences etc. they're using what works for them and it makes no sense to criticize them for it. I used tiling wm's for years and the constant maintenance -I- had to do made me ultimately annoyed at them and now I'm using Gnome. Yeah Gnome has a lot of drawbacks, but it actually doesn't get in my way at all. Same with vim and emacs. I hate emacs, because I just do, but I often use vim for editing stuff when in the terminal, but I do also use VS Code for developing, because it just fits my own workflow better.
I think that's great, because on Linux we can pick and choose exactly what kind of software we use.
The only negative thing about this is what to recommend to noobs. I genuinely think Arch is the best beginner distro and I also think noobs should start with Gnome. You can -graduate- away from Gnome later, still, but for the start it's great because it pretty much works out of the box and there are not as many weird decisions that you can find in KDE for example.
The most important thing tho is instilling people with the will to experiment with stuff.
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Just got this video recommended, hadn't seen your older videos only your new stuff and thought: -wow, that is very uncharacteristic of him...-
To be fair, I don't think it's good to -call out- -elitists- for things like tiling window managers or vim/emacs preferences etc. they're using what works for them and it makes no sense to criticize them for it. I used tiling wm's for years and the constant maintenance -I- had to do made me ultimately annoyed at them and now I'm using Gnome. Yeah Gnome has a lot of drawbacks, but it actually doesn't get in my way at all. Same with vim and emacs. I hate emacs, because I just do, but I often use vim for editing stuff when in the terminal, but I do also use VS Code for developing, because it just fits my own workflow better.
I think that's great, because on Linux we can pick and choose exactly what kind of software we use.
The only negative thing about this is what to recommend to noobs. I genuinely think Arch is the best beginner distro and I also think noobs should start with Gnome. You can -graduate- away from Gnome later, still, but for the start it's great because it pretty much works out of the box and there are not as many weird decisions that you can find in KDE for example.
The most important thing tho is instilling people with the will to experiment with stuff.
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pillmuncher67
I use Gentoo on an ancient laptop (with openbox) and an even more ancient home server. On my desktop machine i use Solus Linux Budgie, but will most likely switch over to Gentoo in time. It's not as hard as it's made out to be, at least for a programmer like me. After all, I installed my first Linux (SuSE) in 1995 or so and haven't touched a Windows machine since XP went EOL. And MacOS? Thank you, but no.
When some noob would ask me what to install, I'd tell them either Solus or something based on Debian, probably MX, Mint or Pop!, but not vanilla Ubuntu, because I don't care much for Canonical. I also hear good things about Endeavour and Manjaro. Endeavour I haven't tried yet, and Manjaro I didn't like somehow. Can't remember why, so I probably will play around with it again in the future.
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I use Gentoo on an ancient laptop (with openbox) and an even more ancient home server. On my desktop machine i use Solus Linux Budgie, but will most likely switch over to Gentoo in time. It's not as hard as it's made out to be, at least for a programmer like me. After all, I installed my first Linux (SuSE) in 1995 or so and haven't touched a Windows machine since XP went EOL. And MacOS? Thank you, but no.
When some noob would ask me what to install, I'd tell them either Solus or something based on Debian, probably MX, Mint or Pop!, but not vanilla Ubuntu, because I don't care much for Canonical. I also hear good things about Endeavour and Manjaro. Endeavour I haven't tried yet, and Manjaro I didn't like somehow. Can't remember why, so I probably will play around with it again in the future.
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Sam
I run a free, open-source integrated library system (ILS)- that requires a Linux machine (Debian or Ubuntu). I have had to learn basic Linux, enough to keep the poor dear up and running.
I initially trepidated because of my fears of the command line. Well, it turns out I didn-t have to fear all that much. What I really needed was decent instruction. After months of watching videos, I finally got enough of a handle that I think with trial and error, I can run the ILS properly. It isn-t all that hard after all.
As with most other things in life, it requires patience and tenacity to figure it all out. I am far from being a power user by any means. But at least I amn-t afraid of the poor dear any longer.
And I can mess up on a Mac or Win PC with just as much alacrity as I can on a Linux machine.
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I run a free, open-source integrated library system (ILS)- that requires a Linux machine (Debian or Ubuntu). I have had to learn basic Linux, enough to keep the poor dear up and running.
I initially trepidated because of my fears of the command line. Well, it turns out I didn-t have to fear all that much. What I really needed was decent instruction. After months of watching videos, I finally got enough of a handle that I think with trial and error, I can run the ILS properly. It isn-t all that hard after all.
As with most other things in life, it requires patience and tenacity to figure it all out. I am far from being a power user by any means. But at least I amn-t afraid of the poor dear any longer.
And I can mess up on a Mac or Win PC with just as much alacrity as I can on a Linux machine.
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Zeckma
About the bloat issue, lemme give an example. Imagine being a kid who really likes computers, but, well, never had one personally, so on Christmas, they decide to give you a laptop. Yes, nowadays, a lot of laptops package with 8 GB, at most, from what I have seen. However, they decided to go for 4 GB, and ya get an i3.
Wellllll, at some point, they're gonna install Linux because they need to save everything. That's what I did, and I panic when it reaches 3,000/4,000 MB. I love having space, because I like legitimately breathing. It's like saying you're gonna stick to Windows because ya gotta use all of your tech's power.
. . . Why the hell did ya switch to Linux, again?
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About the bloat issue, lemme give an example. Imagine being a kid who really likes computers, but, well, never had one personally, so on Christmas, they decide to give you a laptop. Yes, nowadays, a lot of laptops package with 8 GB, at most, from what I have seen. However, they decided to go for 4 GB, and ya get an i3.
Wellllll, at some point, they're gonna install Linux because they need to save everything. That's what I did, and I panic when it reaches 3,000/4,000 MB. I love having space, because I like legitimately breathing. It's like saying you're gonna stick to Windows because ya gotta use all of your tech's power.
. . . Why the hell did ya switch to Linux, again?
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The
I actually do like to use tiling window managers, not for style points but because it helps me focus. I have a really hard time staying on task (mental illness is fun) and having all those options visible on my screen doesn-t help when I need to get work done. I don-t need to remember -all those keybindings-, I need to remember the keybindings to open programs, close programs, and switch workspaces. It-s not an elitism thing, it-s a minimalism thing to eliminate distractions
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I actually do like to use tiling window managers, not for style points but because it helps me focus. I have a really hard time staying on task (mental illness is fun) and having all those options visible on my screen doesn-t help when I need to get work done. I don-t need to remember -all those keybindings-, I need to remember the keybindings to open programs, close programs, and switch workspaces. It-s not an elitism thing, it-s a minimalism thing to eliminate distractions
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Andre
Not to look cool but for more views with some click bait, linux is becoming more and more popular on desktop.
I would definitely not recommend for a new user to start with slackware for example as there are these days more user friendly distros.
i use slackware64 but i rarely see people making videos compiling programs from source maybe is the next big thing. LOL emacs what is that....
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Not to look cool but for more views with some click bait, linux is becoming more and more popular on desktop.
I would definitely not recommend for a new user to start with slackware for example as there are these days more user friendly distros.
i use slackware64 but i rarely see people making videos compiling programs from source maybe is the next big thing. LOL emacs what is that....
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Mark
I use EndeavourOS with Gnome, I don't fully understand the differences yet but I know I can use Gnome. I do like using the terminal because it-s a learning curve and that-s one of the reasons I started using Linux. I-m a boomer, I-m not going to make a living out of computers, I just want to keep the brain cells working.
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I use EndeavourOS with Gnome, I don't fully understand the differences yet but I know I can use Gnome. I do like using the terminal because it-s a learning curve and that-s one of the reasons I started using Linux. I-m a boomer, I-m not going to make a living out of computers, I just want to keep the brain cells working.
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Steve
Recently I had a boot issue. Was.booting to busybox, solved it with one command. Then had an update issue, solved with one command. Command line isn't a place to show off its just a place to get stuff done. The idea nobody should use it is preposterous.
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Recently I had a boot issue. Was.booting to busybox, solved it with one command. Then had an update issue, solved with one command. Command line isn't a place to show off its just a place to get stuff done. The idea nobody should use it is preposterous.
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Dan
I'm pretty sure VSCode is open source. But you linux elitists keep using your command line editors like it makes you a better programmer or something smh (You can also use VSCode mouseless, on cmd editors its just required).
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I'm pretty sure VSCode is open source. But you linux elitists keep using your command line editors like it makes you a better programmer or something smh (You can also use VSCode mouseless, on cmd editors its just required).
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Dakota5488
I often get called out for sharing screenshots of running Gentoo. I never intended for it to be seen as showing off, since really I'm just proud of running the OS and using it to its fullest potential
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I often get called out for sharing screenshots of running Gentoo. I never intended for it to be seen as showing off, since really I'm just proud of running the OS and using it to its fullest potential
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