• NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
    2202·
    2 months ago

    Yes! then you can have other mental health problems to distract from your existing ones.

    For best results, try Gentoo.

  • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
    1191·
    2 months ago

    Can’t focus on mental problems if you’re too busy reinstalling arch.

    • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      I’m about to need some therapy with the computer problems I’m dealing with, I tell you what.

  • Doomsider@lemmy.world
    752·
    2 months ago

    I used to be all fucked up on drugs, now I am all fucked up on Linux.

    Hooked on Linux worked for me!

      • davidagain@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 months ago

        I have nightmares where the borrow checker is shouting at me incomprehensibly about the literal bugs and I shoot them with the clone laser and the borrow checker stops shouting for ten seconds, but now there are two bugs for each original bug and Tim Berners Lee floats by saying it’s not very idiomatic and I shouldn’t expect to get to work on time if I just keep stopping along the journey to spend all my time cloning the bugs.

        • fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          Haha. On a more serious note, it gets better over time. I recommend keeping a really functional programming style in Rust and only opt out to imperative programming, when it just makes sense (e.g. to optimize, avoid allocs etc.). I’d say Rust is currently my most productive programming language, because I mostly avoid the time-consuming debugging part due to the strictness.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      303·
      2 months ago

      There’s a fine line between liking something, and obsessing over it to the point you’re evangelizing strangers against their wishes.

      • bluewing@lemm.ee
        61·
        2 months ago

        Every church needs their evangelists and missionaries. And the Church of Tux is no different or better than the churches that have gone before.

        It’s a people thing.

      • marcos@lemmy.world
        41·
        2 months ago

        You mean the people commenting on the Linux communities?

        Not much “against their wishes” if they keep looking there.

      • Shapillon@lemmy.world
        42·
        2 months ago

        Yeah but what if your option is objectively better even if not anyone has your exact usage?

        refrains real hard from proselytizing

    • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      You know what, this is the first time I realized this even though it should be obvious. It makes so much more sense now.

  • 5PACEBAR@lemmy.world
    534·
    2 months ago

    In all fairness my mental health IS better since I’ve moved to Linux.

    Turns out constant ads, AI crap I can’t disable, the feeling of being spied on and other corporate tech-bro soul-sucking shenanigans is not great for one’s mental health.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      24·
      2 months ago

      Funny enough my mental health has been improved by watching Star Trek. Whenever I notice myself doomscrolling at home I’ve started watching it instead. It’s something I’d always meant to watch and I’m enjoying the concept of people trying to live up to higher ideals

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      I think you just described why being on social media is bad for our mental health. Or most of the internet now really. I’ve never had ads or AI shit in the tens of thousands of Windows deployments I’ve had to push out at companies. I also don’t have them on my families personal machines.

      It’s a bad move by Microsoft to include that shit… But it isn’t them that got my mental health this way. They are just falling into the well if everyone is shanking public mental health and making money off it … I guess we have to as well otherwise our shareholders quite literally will sue us for not attempting to make them more money at every stage all of the time reguardless of the harm it could cause.

      Turns out capitalism might not be good for our mental health…

    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
      134·
      2 months ago

      I feel you’re vastly overstating how bad Windows is, to be honest.

      Although I am still running 10.

      • Steak@lemmy.ca
        9·
        2 months ago

        Yeah fr I’ve been on windows 10 for years. It works fine. I don’t have ai or ads everywhere.

        • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
          4·
          2 months ago

          I was talking to a friend of mine about this, very techy guy, has run Linux in the past etc. He said he just ran a de crapifier script on his current machine and carried on with his life.

            • Steak@lemmy.ca
              3·
              2 months ago

              My recall what now?

              I think people here assume everyone’s a computer person. I know how to get windows on a pc for free and it works fine. If anything ever goes wrong I just re put windows on my pc again and bam it’s new. I don’t have 5000 terabytes of anime I’m afraid of losing that’s separated across 20 different solid state drives. I stream shit or just re download it in like 720p so it’s fast. Windows works fine. I promise you my life will not be affected in the slightest when some criminal makes off with my recall database lmfao.

            • IntangibleSloth@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              2 months ago

              Oh, no! If only I could open the local group policy editor and set the recall policy to disabled! If only I could also enable bitlocker on my drive to prevent and *criminal *from being able to get to data on my drive! Whoever is going to steal my laptop is going to simply take it to a pawn shop to sell it, they’re not looking for the pictures of my cats anyways.

            • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
              32·
              2 months ago

              The noose around your computer’s neck isn’t gonna get any looser, until and unless you cut it off.

              You legitimately need help.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    441·
    2 months ago

    It’s not even over when you switch to Linux as I found out.

    “You’re not using Arch? What’s wrong with you?”

    “Mint is for idiots who don’t understand Linux.”

    Etc.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        I jumped into Garuda headfirst. Whenever I get around to hopping I’ll probably pick something Debian based. There’s more support

        • jim3692@discuss.online
          1·
          2 months ago

          I tried using Debian 12 instead of Arch. I ended up installing my apps with the Nix package manager. Debian provides Firefox ESR and an old version of NeoVim. I didn’t want to add more repositories to apt, as I have had some bad experiences in the past with conflicts in backports packages.

    • itsJoelle@lemmy.world
      13·
      2 months ago

      Eh, fuck ‘em. I’ve been riding my Fedora install for nearly 3 years. Never distro hopped. Never found an issue with it.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        20·
        2 months ago

        It just pisses me off that people told me for years to switch to Linux and when I finally did, it wasn’t good enough for a lot of them because I wasn’t using the right flavor of Linux in their view.

        But yeah, Mint is fine for my needs- a web browser and a handful of applications- and I’m going to stick with it.

        • jiberish@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 months ago

          I can relate. if you let people tell you what you should do, you will never feel satisfied because there is no consensus. People are addicted to pointing out negatives and telling others what they should be doing. I am an arch user because of imagined people telling me I should.

          I realize now I that this has impacted my life in many ways. I am working to uncover the difference between what I want, and what I think i should do because of what my brain thinks people expect of me.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 months ago

          It’s the hobbyist issue. “You don’t [hobby]‽ Learn it!” Followed by “Do more [complicated/expensive/expert] version.”

          I’m really glad I switched, but I’m a casual. I shouldn’t’ve taken the die hards into account when switching. You don’t need or want to learn an instrument on the most expensive version. You don’t need or want a high end carbon fiber bike to get into shape and do grocery runs. And you don’t need or want to learn on arch unless you’re certain you want to spend a lot of time learning.

          In the past 5ish years linux has entered viability as an “I just need a computer and this seems like it might be better for my needs/wants”. We should trust them about as much as the people saying to drop thousands of dollars on a top of the line bicycle for groceries.

        • MataVatnik@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          And you’re programming you can still do most of the terminal shenanigans that are enabled by linux

      • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Fedora was actually the last version of Linux I used, back in high school on my old HP e-Vectra. Fedora Core 4. What made you pick Fedora? I’m going to be switching to Linux before Win 10 is end of life, and there are so many more options than there were in the early 2000’s.

        • Synapse@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          Fedora is a very solid, no nonsense distro. It gives you a vanilla Linux experience, with sane defaults out of the box. You get major updates every 6 month shipping newer version of the core stuff (kernel, desktop environment, etc). The Fedora community is dedicated to deliver a reliable OS and tests a lot before shipping updates.

          It’s my favorite desktop/laptop distro for many years.

          However, there are a couple a pitfalls to avoid. If you go for it, follow some beginners guide to get you sorted out with things like codecs and proprietary drivers. E.g: Things to do after installing Fedora 40 - itsfoss.com I would definitely recommend to do steps 2, 3, 4 and 5 from this guide.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    361·
    2 months ago

    It’s useful if your mental health issues are caused by Microsoft. For example, if I ever have to go through another license audit, I may have a psychotic break.

    • ConsistentAlgae@reddthat.com
      5·
      2 months ago

      You put it out in the universe. You’re doomed to go through another one!

      (I’ve been in IT for 10 years, I don’t wish this on my worst enemy, sorry for your luck.)

      • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        My company did (via dell) for employee workstations. Microsoft puts you though a site audit if you have anything they ever made. And if you have some products you also end up paying prices for things they didn’t make. “You have network connect phones on the same vlan as a windows server? Here’s a license for each phone, that’ll be $8000 please. Now lets talk about all your printers…”

  • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
    351·
    2 months ago

    If based on reality, I’m sorry to hear it and how it gets better soon. As a Linux user for over a decade, this is extremely funny.

    Now, have you heard of Plan9 from Bell Labs?.. /s