Just accept the winning side.
So, mind-skipper in that you forgot to pick one up when they were being handed out?
This is bait right? It HAS to be…surely.
No. I am not joking.
You are the whole joke I’m afraid.
This is for you, good sir.
You don’t sound so bad for pushing 120!
I’m not into programming, and I’m an LGBTQIA Ally. Just genuinely curious. Are 90% of Linux users really young white femboys with anime body pillows? Or is Lemmy just a heavily skewed demographic?
Dual booters are fem-boys with anime body pillows.
Those brave enough to take the full plunge and single boot Linux are fem-men with anime body pillows.
No… The true Linux users are white, mid-40 men who only use Arch Linux on an old Thinkpad and who will comment “I use Arch BTW” under a video with a random dog eating a ball just to prove that the dog should use Arch as well, because it is objectively better than anything else.
Yeah, that’s what I said. Fem-men with anime body pillows.
I use Arch BTW
You just made my day better, I had to laugh. Thank you ;)
It’s just Lemmy!
LGBT people are over-represented in IT, as it is less judgemental of such things compared to many other professions. Also, people who had to hide their identity, or question it, or read more about such hard to access topics, probably learned how to use the internet, and may have even developed an interest in fields like privacy and digital equality.
As for anime, Japan (and China, Korea etc.) are major electronics manufacturers and designers, so their culture has influenced the internet, and particularly the more nerdy parts of it.
But there are plenty of people with very different political views in the Linux community, from RMS’s infocommunism to Eric Raymond’s right-libertarianism.
To extend your statistical research I’m a GNU/LINUX. user, i have never watched an anime, I’m white, extremely racist and a lgbtqia hater.
I hate that I had to check your history to see if you were joking
judging by lots of comments in [email protected] I’m going yes
Not so young anymore (🥲), not a femboy and no body pillows here. Been using Linux for almost 20 years now. More than 10 exclusivly Linux.
The young, single, femboys just has more time to creat more memes.
these comments always remind me how small the amount of my peers here probably is. i wonder how many other lemmy users have cooked crack
✌️… not proud of it though… and it was heroin, not crack.
My impression of linuxmemes (what’s the lemmy word for subreddit?) is mostly that it feels like the regular posters don’t use Linux. Either that, or it is automated and reposting stuff from 10-20 years ago that isn’t very accurate or relevant.
We call the comms, short for communities 😉.
No, but I find it funny, so I am willing to propagate that myth. We are also all furries, you forgot that part.
It’s mostly just a stereotype. I know plenty of young white femboys who use Windows, and I’m a Linux user who is young and white but definitely not a femboy. I would say 90% of Linux users probably know how to program though.
Or at least are very friendly with the terminal and know all sorts of scripting languages… which is not that far from programming either.
I think only 60% linux users know how to program
Heavily skewed demographic IMO. LGBTQ+ supportive liberals is what makes most of it, but I would bet that there are republican IT workers out there (or rightists, in general, if not from the US) or users that maybe like most of what the right has to offer, just don’t agree with everything all the way, like let’s say libre software.
And I stole the meme, I wouldn’t have used that image for the meme, I’m in no way into anime 😂. Sure, Akira and legendary stuff like that, but that’s just a really good movie TBH, it doesn’t matter if it’s anime or not.
What Windows? I got Debian, and some shit that tests my memory.
Your memory or your computer’s memory? Huge difference.
“I forgot”
Doesn’t seem to work…
How?
No dual boot here, Windows is confined to a VM. Even in the ancient times I had dual boot, last century, Linux was always the default.
That is all good and fine, unless you need it to interact with hardware, which I do.
Then still you can set Linux as default. Lilo had an option to reboot with an option to set a 1 time default. (that was neat) On dual boot hardware, I always set the one I want to default boot, which is in my case always Linux. (must still have a dual boot laptop somewhere)
Linux is my first option, I just need to have a second (Windows). And grub also has the boot once thing, but it doesn’t work with BTRFS 🤷.
I don’t trust btrfs. Software that relies on not breaking is b0rken in my opinion. (Unless they finally fixed that)
Yeah, it doesn’t break any more. Rock solid the past few years, not a single problem.
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There’s also the possibility of selecting the last booted OS by default instead of a specific entry
I’m glad I never found that option. ;)
The same applies for the other way around when I need Windows for something.
I apparently magically attract computers with a horribly slow UEFI so it takes a while to reboot regardless of the OS.
If it takes too long to load the EFI binaries, that might be BIOS setup issue. Have you tried other filesystems except FAT32 for the EFI partition? I’ve had luck with just FAT (FAT16) on some rigs that just refused to read FAT32 (still don’t know why).
Also, make sure the drives are in AHCI mode. Though this is mostly the default nowadays, I’ve seen weird BIOSes that defaulted to IDE mode.
You can quite easily set grub to remember the last picked option
That is not the problem. It’s whether I wanted to pick Windows or Linux in this reboot that’s the issue.
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People are still using GRUB to dual boot? It’s not 2010 anymore. systemd-boot is the objectively superior choice.
does systemd-boot require a distro that runs systemd or is it just the name
It’s part of systemd, just for those that use it.
Good for people that use systemd… what about the rest of us…
All six of you Luddites? You figure it out.
You should really take a closer look at the Void user base…
Loud doesn’t mean numerous. Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Fedora, Arch, and Manjaro take up almost all of the desktop install market.
Yeah, and it’s a big market… all 6% of it.
My point was, systemd is not the only init system, there are others. Just because it’s used by over 90% of the Linux distros out there, doesn’t mean it’s the only one, thus offering a solution that is tied to systemd is not exactly a solution. Grub already has it figured out, why complicate things further.
Is systemd-boot a bootloader?
It’s a boot manager, technically.
How does it compare to refind?
I just unplug the exposed SATA cable from one ssd and plug it into the other SSD. I am the bootloader
laughs in rEFInd
also systemd-boot is just worse GRUB, CMV
I have no desire to engage with an objectively incorrect view. However, you are the second person to mention refind which I am unfamiliar with and I’m intrigued.
systemd-boot is GRUB but without customization and fewer supported features (LLVM root etc). What more is there to say?
rEFInd is (as the name implies) an EFI bootloader that, on every boot, scans all attached storage devices for a bootable partition and presents all those found in a boot menu with a quite nice graphical theme
lmao imagine not using MINIX as your main OS
People with newer Intel CPUs are way ahead of you. Even if they’d really rather not be.
lmao
I haven’t booted into my windows 10 drive in months, I fear the amount of updates it will force apon me if I accidentally do.
Use Windows Update Blocker to block them.
I was in that situation a while ago, so I booted in to try and keep it up to date. Well, in reality I booted into recovery mode as it decided to die. Anyway I’m now duel booting arch and tumbleweed
remove windows if you’re not using it
At that point I’d just get rid of Windows entirely. I used to have it on my laptop, and the updates it installed after booting for the first time in months broke networking. I never used that install so I decided to use the storage space for more sensible things.
When the windows update bricked my OS I sighed in pure relief as I could finally stop using windows forever. As an added bonus I didn’t lose any work because the drive was fully accessible to arch… after windows said it had encrypted the drive.
Absolute trash operating system and I have zero regrets leaving.
Yup a Windows update messing with the bootloader before gracefully failing (blue screen) was the nudge for me to remove it once and for all
Same, Windows also bricked my Grub install (which was on another drive). Too bad I have to use that trash for school
I very much understand your pain, my drive died mid-year while I was at university, I just cleaned it up and added it to a virtual machine with win10 to finish projects with the windows based programs.
Worked surprisingly well. I used virtual machine manager on arch (and now endeavour, I can’t stop distro hopping but I’ve stayed on endeavour the longest)
Windows is installing update 2 of 48…
Admittedly, when you run apt-update on a freshly installed system, you get a whole lot more updates. But at least they finish in a a few seconds, compared to Windows’s somewhere between now and the end of time. Who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The are no forced updates ever, no forced restarts, and by golly no multiple restarts.
Admittedly, good point. I completely forgot by now how annoying the experience was :)
Yeah, that was back in the WinVista/7/8/8.1 days, it doesn’t show the number of updates any more. Plus, a lot of the updates are cumulative, they abandoned their earlier model.
And, I have to admit, the update process is a lot faster now and a lot less error prone.
it doesn’t show the number of updates
Huh didn’t think of that.
Ahh it’s the Java laptop.
Skill issue. Can’t click a Windows entry if you don’t have one!
same thing happens to me but with temple os
