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1. It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 14:45:07 JST It's FOSS

   How true is this? 🤔

   #linux

   • el_haych2024 (el_haych2024@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 14:52:39 JST el_haych2024

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     @itsfoss and if it has no proprietary software.

   • Jimmy Sjölund (jimmysjolund@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 15:52:06 JST Jimmy Sjölund

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     @itsfoss It's how I practice mindfulness. Not because I have to, but because I want to. It's working perfectly fine without my tinkering (and usually better as my tinkering often breaks things). 😁

   • More Seaweeds (moreseaweeds@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 16:03:34 JST More Seaweeds

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     @itsfoss I spent more time trying to change the timezone in Windows 11 than in any Linux distro.
     I think in the long run Linux might save you some times.

   • Stelek (stelek@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 16:28:17 JST Stelek

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     @itsfoss if you don't game in very specific ways, not true anymore. That said, Linux isn't intuitive for most. When it has issues, boy does it suck.

   • Smiles99 (smiles99@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 16:32:43 JST Smiles99

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     @itsfoss what does that mean?

   • ZigcBenx (zigcbenx@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 16:46:25 JST ZigcBenx

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     @itsfoss When I see Mac or Windows users struggling in the terminal, I realize Linux has saved me money, time, and sanity.

   • The Gym Nerd (thegymnerd@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 16:47:23 JST The Gym Nerd

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     @itsfoss the point is, it's kinda true.

     I run the same distro on my notebook since years now and don't have any troubles. Everything just works. So it would be free for me.

     However I don't actively work on the Kernel or any distro. Those people are paying. We should give something back to them.

   • Franz Strebel (franz_strebel@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 17:00:26 JST Franz Strebel

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     @itsfoss anything takes time to learn but once a point is reached, Linux is just simpler to manage as it keeps it simple.

     Nothing beats working with text files to configure stuff and then there is the excellent #ansible to do things en masse.

     I have done admin for other systems as well and I find Linux the less time intensive, by a large margin.

   • Desdinova (eternal_light@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 17:23:37 JST Desdinova

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     @itsfoss I'd agree, but add it's not like Windows is exactly trouble free, and even macOS needs a lot of configuration.

   • Mārtiņš (mr_te@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 17:24:19 JST Mārtiņš

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     @itsfoss i wouldnt say selling my sanity is free but there arent many places that accept it as a payment.

   • shycake (shycake@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 18:54:22 JST shycake

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     @itsfoss My recentset uses some of the most recent hardware and unfortunately I wasn't able to use Linux Mint. After looking into the problem I discovered I needed to use the linux kernal 6.11 and on. Without conferguring everything, I resigned myself to opt into Ubuntu 24.10.
     From there it's been a lot of troubleshooting.
     Thanks to the most recent bios update and removing "quiet splash" almost everything is working. At least enough for me not to worry about

   • shycake (shycake@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 18:56:52 JST shycake

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     • shycake

     @itsfoss @shycake
     At this point, I think the free mean more about freedom. As microsoft and apple are making the users the product nowadays.

   • Mek75 (mek75@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 19:00:12 JST Mek75

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     @itsfoss Linux used to be hard, nothing really worked. Now mostly no issues (been using it 20+ years)

   • Jesse Sealand (jessesealand@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 20:27:57 JST Jesse Sealand

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     @itsfoss I don't understand the connection between the cost of something and how you value your time. There's no message here to respond to. If someone said this to you in person it wouldn't merit a response.

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 20:43:55 JST It's FOSS

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     • mbeddedDev

     @mbeddedDev Mint and Debian are quite straightforward. 😃

   • mbeddedDev (mbeddeddev@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 20:43:56 JST mbeddedDev

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     @itsfoss In my case: There was some learning curve in the beginning end sometimes a little bit from time to time. But in general: I need less time (and much less stress) compared to some other OS where every update breaks something or results in data-loss and restoration.

     I mean: I heard that Arch should required a lot of time to understand everything. With Mint and Debian I'm running fine :)

   • Atreides :linux2: (atreides@tkz.one)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 20:45:54 JST Atreides :linux2:

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     @itsfoss
     1. Trading time for money was never a good trade. 2. If we understand Linux as a hobby, the time to learn is an investment for our knowledge.
     3. If we understand Linux as a profession, working Linux is a way to trade time for money, so we would be in the first case.

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 20:45:54 JST It's FOSS

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     • Atreides :linux2:

     @Atreides Agree 😄

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 20:48:25 JST It's FOSS

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     • Mek75

     @Mek75 Yep. 😄

   • Make (markku@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 20:48:42 JST Make

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     @itsfoss Because I habe never wasted time on windows 🥹

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 20:48:42 JST It's FOSS

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     • Make

     @markku 🔥

   • It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 20:49:17 JST It's FOSS

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     • Mārtiņš

     @mr_Te 🤣

   • N0tSure (n0tsure@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 20:52:25 JST N0tSure

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     @itsfoss That's right. My time has no value. It's invaluable because it's mine and mine only. Get your fucking paws off my life.

   • Ajay Kumar Singh (ajaykumarsingh@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 04:56:48 JST Ajay Kumar Singh

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     @itsfoss so true!

   • Alex (rarawls@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 23:44:04 JST Alex

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     @itsfoss Entirely false