Just a cat wandering about Tamriel.

  • 0 Posts
  • 11 Comments
Joined 9 months ago
Cake day: May 1st, 2024
  • Maiq@lemy.loltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a movie that you were probably "too young" to see, when you first watched it, but you're glad you did?
    4·
    3 days ago

    Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers… Choose DSY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away in the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself, choose your future. Choose life… But why would I want to do a thing like that?

  • Maiq@lemy.loltoLinux@sh.itjust.works•I'm newly retired, and I wanna go all in. Starting place?
    0·
    16 days ago

    Coming from the Mac world transitioning might be a bit easier as you already have some experience with how the filesystem is setup. Root and users home folder.

    I know its a bit intimidating at first glance but installing is really not that hard. The first step is choosing your distro. I think mint is a great starter distro. One thing that you might not like is the default windows close, maximize, minimize buttons are on the right. Not sure how easy it is to change it back to the left anymore. Below is a link that should get you started with mint.

    https://www.linuxmint.com/documentation.php

    Or you like your close, maximize, minimize buttons on the left I’d recommend using KDE as everything is very customizable. You could use kubuntu which is KDE + Ubuntu, just like mint is based on Ubuntu but with the cinnamon desktop enviroment.

    However I defiantly recommend using KDE fedora spin.

    https://fedoraproject.org/spins/

    All three of these choices have great documentation and communities, relatively easy to install. They should have almost all the software you will need from their repositories as well.

    The basic steps are

    1. Download your distro of choice.

    2. Create your installation medium. There are programs that can help you do this but I don’t know the best one for Mac. I did do a quick search and grabbed this link: https://superuser.com/questions/63654/how-do-i-burn-an-iso-on-a-usb-drive-on-mac-os-x#226148

    If you are familiar with the terminal the dd command can easily write the image to USB. Be careful with the dd command and make sure you are writing to the USB drive and not any other drive as it is not very forgiving if you make a mistake. There is an example in the link above.

    This is the hardest part, burning the iso to USB.

    3: now you have to boot from USB. here you will have to get into your bios. Most computers use an F-key, you can probably search boot from bios + your computer model to get the right key.

    Then look for a setting in there to boot from external drive and boot from your USB.

    4: here you will be greeted by either the installer itself or a live desktop environment depending on what you picked. If you choose a live iso you can test drive the distro before you install it to your computer.

    5: follow the install steps, you can refer to the disteo you have chosen documentation if you have any questions. Or post back on lemmy and someone will come along and help you out I’m sure.

    That’s about it. Pretty easy. Sounds worse than it is!