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1. It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 13:30:56 JST It's FOSS

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   • dev.php (dev_php@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 14:26:57 JST dev.php

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     @itsfoss getting steam/VR up and running... each kernel upgrade. Got it in first place working with:
     Option "AllowHMD" "yes" 
     Serval Updates later, games says 'no vr device'... new driver, no more AllowHMD..

     snap packages:
     firefox runs in a container... kerberos ticket not found...
     Lxd keeps updating, lxd.sock service could not be executed, os wasn't upgraded...

     snap is a nice idea, but not thought through to the end.

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 17:20:31 JST It's FOSS

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     • Germán Enríquez

     @geillescas 😓

   • Germán Enríquez (geillescas@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 17:20:32 JST Germán Enríquez

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     @itsfoss
     I once had to bring my whole desktop to university for a project because the assembly code I had written would only run on #Linux and they didn't have it installed

   • LeonLucas (leonlucas@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 17:24:08 JST LeonLucas

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     @itsfoss I switched in January and have had alot of challenges, but nothing impossible. Tried to install Linux Mint on my HP laptop and it couldn't even start after the installation. Tried Fedora Cinnamon instead and since then no (big) problems. On my small, old, slow, Lenovo miix, (Fedora xfce) almost everything had to be tweaked after installation. The screen was rotated in the wrong direction, standby didn't work and so on. I've learned a lot and I've never been happier with my computers.

   • LuckyStoat (luckystoat@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 18:59:57 JST LuckyStoat

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     @itsfoss
     Well, back then, wifi drivers were a lot more finicky. Sometimes it was a several hour long endeavour to get the wifi drivers working on some new piece of hardware.

     Fortunately, things have gotten better since then and a newer kernel usually fixes it, but USB wifi dongles still sometimes require building a custom driver. Since then though, documentation has gotten better, but it could just be that I'm more comfortable now I'm a dev myself.

   • Paul Tourville (taobear@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 19:33:32 JST Paul Tourville

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     @itsfoss It was along time ago... Late 90s... I really didn't run into any serious problems. There was some sound hardware I couldn't get to work... but as long as I paid attention to the "known working hardware" lists when setting up new machines, or buying new boards... it all pretty-much worked. To this day I have not had any success setting up advanced audio hardware or any kind of DAW on Linux, but other than that... it's been great.

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 20:40:39 JST It's FOSS

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     • LeonLucas

     @LeonLucas Great!

   • Torsten Materna (torstenmaterna@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 21:04:40 JST Torsten Materna

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     @itsfoss I was bored because there were no more creepy ads in the navigation menus and no more annoying notifications. #kidding

   • @drewscorner (dragonbite@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 21:52:25 JST @drewscorner

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     @itsfoss When I was switching to Linux I gave myself the challenge to "do everything I do in Windows but in Linux".

     Took a while (this was early-mid 2000s) but I can say that just about everything (or an equivalent) I have achieved (and more) since then.

     Like I was programming in ASP and ASP.NET at work, but did PHP on LAMP at home.

     My needs, though, changed like my son got me into games that don't run well enough in Linux (on this hardware).

   • ulak (ulak@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 22:38:23 JST ulak

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     @itsfoss I don't remember,it was 19 years ago,I've never used windows since.

   • Back To Analog (backtoanalog@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 01:55:53 JST Back To Analog

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     @itsfoss

     Biggest issue I had when I switched to Linux about 12 years ago, were WIFi drivers and crashes after updates. I don't remember the distro I started with, just that it was Ubuntu based, but I quickly switched to Arch based distro - Manjaro, slow, bloated and crashed literally every 2 days! Now I am using Garuda with KDE, but I must admit I am playing around with QTile and if we ever have WM with Wayland compositor based on it, I am definitely switching.

   • iuvi (iuvi@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 06:17:17 JST iuvi

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     @itsfoss a lot of cool foss programs that don't have graphical interface and works only from command line + some interface and settings (such sending shortcuts to desktop)

   • somosamb (somosamb@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 07:53:36 JST somosamb

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     @itsfoss WOW so many but thanks to AI now I can get quicker solutions not having to read so long like it was before AI chatbots.
     The first obstacle is how not to ruin the boot and loose Windows along with all the information stored in its partitions. It was a big blocker for me who retained from installing linux.

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 20:00:07 JST It's FOSS

     • Nazo

     @nazokiyoubinbou True, many games do not play nice with Linux.