you’re probably making them feel like Linux is second class. kids are smart and they’ll know that elementaryOS isn’t macos. All they’ll think is that they got the “cheap version” or something

yeah that’s exactly what I’m saying, mods for the windows binary sometimes don’t work on the linux binary but it’ll work just fine on the windows binary running through wine

I think they’re talking about mods not working on the Linux binary, not the windows binary running though proton

try it

don’t you need some persistence system for that to work?

konqi

if you’re being targeted that much, using windows is a huge no no in the first place

if you’re going to be too time pressured to have fun with Linux, probably don’t for now

hell yeah living windows free is great

if this is your first time, then please buy a new SSD for Linux. You can replace the windows drive with the new drive, and have no worries of deleting data you might have forgotten.

Your data is worth a lot more than the cost of an SSD.

they’ve had a few SSL certificate renewal issues and the way they dealt with that was very dodgy (asking to just ignore it)

also manjaro beginners seem to often use the AUR which isn’t really supported for manjaro and break their install in the process

same, that’s why I like neon/debian a lot

there’s:

• KDE neon (sorta dodgy but always has the newest KDE release on top of ubuntu)
• Kubuntu (KDE on ubuntu but a bit old)
• Debian+KDE (KDE but a good few months old)

I wouldn’t recommend manjaro, they’re very dodgy

Opensuse is pretty good, iirc they have a GUI for most configuration items and you get the newest packages for everything. it’s like easier arch

maybe? I think knowing how to reinstall your boot loader at least is very important though, for the inevitable case of having to deal with a windows dual boot computer somewhere

yes I know archinstall, no I don’t think it should be how someone installs arch for the first time.

the manual install for arch is pretty simple if you just read the wiki and you learn so much troubleshooting information from it. if someone is trying arch they should definitely go through the manual process

plain debian maybe? it’s a bit more manual but not to the extent of arch, and the netinstaller is really nice

if you are motivated to learn Linux I really can’t recommend trying something basic like debian, arch, fedora etc enough

ah yeah, that’s fair.

i’ve found the fw13 keyboard and the thinkpad xx30 keyboards are pretty good, but even the xx30 ones are extremely dependent on the age and manufacturer, so it’s basically just luck at this point

how do you find the keyboard? I’ve tried typing on a few macbooks but my fingers could never get used to it

i think it does global syncing by default

old T (until t440p) you could upgrade the cpu as well, and they are dirt cheap on aliexpress