• Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
        25·
        9 months ago

        Twitter sent me to Mastodon. Reddit sent me to Lemmy. Windows has sent me to Linux. These things are basically promoting the better versions of themselves by becoming shittier versions of themselves.

        • puppy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          Same here. But I had always been on Linux since I was a kid because Ubuntu (Gnome 2 days) was very pretty compared to Windows XP to me.

    • Kbobabob@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      How much searching did you have to do? Be honest. Ever try to mount a network share permanently yet?

      • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
        9·
        9 months ago

        As someone on Manjaro for over a year, I did have a few searches, but they were rare and mostly related to obscure things I needed.

        Not even close to the “search a fix every 10 minutes” experience I was promised.

      • puppy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        No searching at all. I got a new computer last month.

        1. Install open-ssh server on the old computer
        2. Copy the IP address of the old computer
        3. Paste it into Dolphin
        4. Copy paste everything
        • Kbobabob@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          And how would a new user know to find this specific app in the repo? Have you ever actually searched “how to permanently mount a network dive in Linux”? I didn’t see a single one saying dolphin.

      • subtext@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        I did, and it was fairly straightforward according to the documentation I found. This was a couple of years ago but I’m pretty sure I needed to figure out how to use nano, then type some magic words into fstab along with the IP and password, and I haven’t had to mess with it ever since.