Can I share an episode?
We’re a Window$ free house; Linux is the daily driver on every single computer we have.
I have school age children. They have IT classes. I set up a machine with Mint, clean install, to serve has the school workhorse. Not one task assigned at school can not be done in the Linux box. My child came home a few worried a few times because the teacher disliked having a linux box in the room.
What happens is the teacher is terrified has they cannot load a single piece of software on that machine, as they do with all the other students, at will. The notion of explaining to all the other students they need to go to some site to download some program while my child just needs to fetch it (or already has it pre installed) from a secure repository is baffling. The knowledge that that humble and rather older machine can not be trivialy tampered with is mind disturbing.
At some point the teacher explained how to maintain the system (clean temp files and random junk Windows collects over time by just having programs installed and removed) and looked at my child and chidded that was something she could not do.
I taught my kid how to do basic system maintenance. Through the console. Like a boss. They upgraded the system while they colleagues were “busy” hunting down temp files.
Hey as someone who kinda grew up in that scenario, I really reccomend you show your kid what a windows dual boot is
Your kid doesn’t exist in a vacuum. They have friends and inevitably your kid’s going to be in a situation where their friends are like “hey, want to play this game with us?” And they can’t because it’s got a kernel anti-cheat that doesn’t work with Linux. They’re going to try and get into a hobby, only to find that the software everyone uses doesn’t work on Linux and the alternatives that do are badly maintained and frustrating to work with. They’re going to encounter a programme they need for school that just straight up does not work on Linux.
Sure you might be able to find a work around to all these things but like, can your kid? Because I speak from experience when I say that feeling like you have to be constantly running to your dad every time something doesn’t work doesn’t foster a sense of mastery, it makes you feel like you can’t do anything on your computer because you’re too small and dumb.
The teacher probably isn’t “afraid” of the Linux box, they’re probably frustrated that they don’t know what’s going on and can’t help if something goes wrong. The programmes they’ll probably teach your kid aren’t a perfect 1-to-1 match to their Linux alternatives and they’ll be left sitting in the back confused and upset while everyone else is learning about stuff in word and excel that you can’t do in libre Office. You’re not going to be known as the cool hacker dad, you’re going to be put in the same category as the crunchy mum who doesn’t let their kid eat sugar and needlessly restricts something that’s just so petty to the layman.
Saved it.
dual boot.
So that I miss out on nothing.
Isn’t this that one comic artist who ended being super racist? Goes by GPrime85 on Twitter / Reddit.
Fun times, lmao
Yeah the memes are mocking this right wing extremist
Not shocking considering what the original one was. (I’m assuming you mean the original author, not the person who created this version.)
Running Linux inside of docker on Windows is still geeky.
Only if you’re doing it on a virtual machine hosted on OS/2.
Remember Cygwin I don’t care how deep you are into Windows, if you do anything with cygwin your Linux geek.
https://www.cygwin.com/cgit/newlib-cygwin/ Wow, people are still committing
Damn. I wouldn’t even be able to imagine where he would send her if that was a FreeBSD household.
Qubes OS with one of the cubes equipped with WINE
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This was my dad. He’s used Linux since 1998. Needless to say I have always run Fedora.
Don’t you call him M’dad?
Does he have an decade old ThinkPad with barebone arch by any chance?
No, he’s gone back on himself and runs Linux in a VM on a Windows work laptop now. I don’t understand it
The role is reversed now but i am guessing they didn’t allow linux so that’s the only way for him to use it?
Yeah that’s probably it
An whole year!
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Last I checked you could get gamepass stuff running through Lutris?
I looked into it maybe a month ago and the answer was still no. Game Pass for PC (Microsoft Store) games are encrypted so you can’t just install/run them on a compatibility layer like Proton. Unless of course you mean XCloud Streaming. Otherwise your best bet is just pirating those games ig.
The new executable format that window store apps seem to not work with wine. They seem to be a very different format from exes and are encrypted, so that’s going to be a tough egg to crack and a lot of work.
Eh, these days, Microsoft has done far more to foster open source development than Arch has in its entire history.
Yes… Microsoft hearts Linux… When it runs in azure selling CPU cycles or maybe WSL
