I know it's a joke, I hate to be that guy. But this meme feels old and obsolete now. I can't remember the last time I had to tweak my Linux. The fun is gone
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Do you have multiple monitors?
Yes - Don't buy a mac
No - Still don't buy a mac
I have a Mac with multiple monitors. It handles them a hell of a lot better than my PC at work.
I mean, yeah, donβt ever buy a Mac, but whatβs up with the multiple monitors? Do they struggle with it?
$ pacman -Si god
error: package 'god' was not found
Take that, theists!
I can be as rich as god and wouldn't go for windows or apple. I would rather invest the money in good Foss development
Probably the reason as to why you aren't rich in the first place
I can objectively state the contrary.
Mac don't cause riches to customer.
Riches cause Mac customer.
I have tried templeOS. It is amazing one guy built all that. It feels like it needs training sessions to make better use of it, and also it is wacky as hell
Everyone always forgets the "it just works," easy, normie distributions like Fedora. I guess people figure if you're looking for an OS like that, you might as well just use Windows, but I'd rather not.
At first I thought this was cursed
No! PonyOS uses its own kernel, built from scratch
Now I think itβs very cursed
EDIT:
Ok after investigating the kernel is forked from https://github.com/klange/toaruos so itβs slightly less cursed
Haha, it amuses me to no end that ever since I watched a "Down the Rabbit Hole" video on Youtube about TempleOS a few years back I have seen it crop up in varies places from time to time as I don't remember ever seeing anything about it before.
Makes me wonder if it was always there and I just didn't notice it until I was familiar with it.
"Baader-Meinhof phenomenon" or "frequency illusion."
There's a name for this phenomenon which I will notice all around me once I remember the name of said phenomenon.
Where's Hannah Montana Linux?
Let say I want to try Linux but I want to keep my Windows OS intact (for now), and I only have 1 SSD in my PC.
Is there a solution that I can just partition the drive, install Linux, switch between OS by just restarting without affecting the other, AND later on remove one OS without wiping the SSD?
Yes, first you need to resize the partition to accommodate the new OS. Usually 40-60 GB is good enough for minimal linux installation if you didn't do any gaming or other massive applications. The resizing can be done in windows using disk management utility baked into windows, or some other partition manager (easeus, magic tools, etc). After that, linux can be safely installed in the free space as a single partition.
Now, sometimes the bootloader is fucked, but it is quite easy to fix. In fact, if you use grub, it usually runs os-probe for you to check for any other OS. So sometimes, fixing it is as simple as rerunning grubmkconfig. But there are other times where it is not as simple. It will vary depending on what happened and too long to list here. Arch Wiki usually covers a lot of the topic so you could try searching there, especially on the topic of boot sequence.
Lastly, if you need to move the partition, the data already inside will need to be moved too. This can take time depending on the size. But it is doable and safe.
If, later down the road you want to remove either OS, you can simply remove the partition after moving the data first. Linux can mount ntfs natively so no problem there. On windows, there is a program called ext4 explorer or something along the line to browse and copy from linux filesystem (which is usually ext4). Don't forget to remove the boot information too after you're done removing the partition.
Now there is also the other suggestion to use a live environment but I didn't suggest it since the experience can be lacking and more hassle in and of itself.
I want to add to this that Windows sometimes has its own ideas and decides it owns the disk. I had a dual boot with Windows and Linux and Windows updated and fucked up the file system. I was able to recover almost everything without that much issue, that it did require some extra tools and some knowledge. The boot partition I never recovered though. (I was able to fix it to get it to boot into the Linux install again, but not Windows no matter what I tried.)
This was about a year ago, maybe a bit more. The issue I had with Linux prior to this, which is why I was dual booting, was gaming. At this point gaming was perfectly fine for me to ditch windows, so I just grabbed all the files I needed to keep and set the drive up new with a fresh install.
Thanks, but on second thought I don't want to risk anything as I'm not quite the "technical" kind. I don't even know how to dual boot 2 different windows version. I don't think I'll be able to fix it if anything broke.
So I'll buy another cheap SSD and put Linux on it while unplugged my old SSD. Then I'll be choosing the boot drive during POST.
I'm damn sick of Windows BS, I hope this'll work out.
I'll add that id highly recommend making a backup before doing anything. You can more safely try out linux in a virtual machine as well
Hey in have a Mac and can confirm I am poor π€£
Buying a Mac didn't help.
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