I feel like I’ve been gaslit into running FOSS but every success only brings me closer to fighting god

  • @Yerbouti@lemmy.ml
    20•1 year ago

    Same. I didn’t know what a distribution was 8 months ago, now most of my feeds are Linux distro tier list video.

  • @GameGod@lemmy.ca
    77•1 year ago

    Your post couldn’t be more true. Decades ago I was sold on MythTV, this PVR software but it only ran on Linux and you had to compile it yourself. So I gave Linux and MythTV a shot. As it turned out, both MythTV and early desktop Linux were a buggy, frustrating mess. X broke all the time. Incomprehensible, ungoogleable compile errors all the time.

    I spent so much time troubleshooting MythTV and compilation problems that I ended up learning Linux inside and out and the C programming language to be able understand the compile errors. I went on to lead a major open source project and have had a long career as a programmer, using all the knowledge I gained that started with fighting MythTV.

  • @Corr@lemm.ee
    16•1 year ago

    Welcome. I just started using linux recently myself and have been loving it. I would Definitely recommend checking out all the desktop environments to see what works best for you! I’ve done a bit of shopping and I think I’ve landed on KDE, myself.
    Good luck with the transition!

  • Howdy
    20•1 year ago

    Same thing happened to me. Moved to pop!_os.I have zero regrets. I’ve learned a ton. I use tons of apps off f-droid and foss Ubuntu apps. I have degoogled most of my life. I’m also developing an Firefox addon for lemmy. It’s usable as a user script addon now. It’s called lemmytools. It’s my small contribution. All because Reddit got stupid. I don’t even browse reddit for answers usually about tech/programming stuff anymore because they block my VPN.

    • Corgana
      3•1 year ago

      There are literally dozens of us! I’m running Zorin. The Reddit debacle really hit home for me that free alternatives to commercial projects work best when everyone pitches in a little.

  • @dontblink@feddit.it
    26•1 year ago

    It’s the path of many of us here, now you will hate linux if you come from windows, give it a couple of months and you’ll ask yourself how the fuck you could be on windows till now.

  • @bnjmn@lemm.ee
    51•1 year ago

    I got pissed off at Google Photos, which led me down a self-hosting rabbit hole. Ended up installing Linux everywhere, even my “gaming” one eventually (I do development, and WSL was a resource hog).

    The hardest thing to degoogle has been email - I’ve used the same address for years. But I use Thunderbird so at least I don’t have to see ads in my fucking inbox

    • @EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world
      8•1 year ago

      May I recommend Proton Mail? I used gmail for years then decided to finally switch and it was easier than I thought, tho tbf I also don’t have a lot of people who need to email me, it was mostly services where it’s easier to tell them to switch over to the other mail.

      EDIT: I read your later comment nvm

      • @bnjmn@lemm.ee
        2•1 year ago

        I’ll have to check it out! Same here, mostly services on my end - but I’ve accumulated enough of them to make it tiresome. Still, I’ll have to do it at some point

    • @sadcoconut@lemm.ee
      4•1 year ago

      What are you using instead of Google Photos?

      I’m the other way round, email was the first thing I degoogled. It’s Photos I don’t know how to replace.

    • @BlanK0@lemmy.ml
      2•1 year ago

      You could switch to proton mail and synchronize the gmail account to proton, saves the hassle 👍

      • @bnjmn@lemm.ee
        9•1 year ago

        Yes… They don’t seem to show up in the primary tab, but they’re there nonetheless. Nowhere is safe, and nothing is sacred.

          • @bnjmn@lemm.ee
            3•1 year ago

            I DO have an ad blocker. I still ended up seeing an ad, that one time. It might’ve been on mobile. Or I might have had my ad block turned off. Either way, I’ve gone out of my way to make sure I never see an ad in my email again. Used mobile devtools to uninstall the Gmail client, Firefox with uBlock add-on, etc…

      • @PlexSheep@feddit.de
        13•1 year ago

        I use them too, they have some good stuff, but are pretty behind in usability.

        • No Linux file sync client, making the drive pretty useless for me.
        • Android file sync is only bloody images for some reasons
        • The android proton Mail Mobile app is missing some features, like select all
        • You can’t use any other app than the official one on android (If you don’t use something special to access their server)
        • You need the proton bridge to be able to access their servers on regular computers. This only works for Mail, so no calendar or contacts sync. You can only host the proton bridge on localhost, meaning that automating SMTP for a server with containers or vms just isn’t possible. Every host needs to run the damn bridge.(proper SMTP is apparently available for businesses)
        • Can’t sync the contacts to my phone (only upload my contacts)

        I just wish they did usability a bit better, it can’t be so hard. There is probably more that I didn’t think of right now. Don’t get me wrong, they have big potential.

        • They do pgp (yay)
        • They offer hosting mail for your domain (just set DNS to their values, it just works and there haven’t been any problems with that part.)
        • Pretty pro open source
        • Seems like the best alternative we can get to megacorp data stealer clouds, besides Selfhosting perhaps
        • I’ve never had any downtime, which is why I switched from Selfhosting Mail to proton
        • I’m sure they have much better security than my selfhosted mailcow
    • cally [he/they]English
      4•1 year ago

      Related: does anyone here have any thoughts on Tutanota and how it compares to Proton Mail? I’ve considered using it in the future.

  • Ashen44
    34•1 year ago

    Fuck did we all go down the exact same pipeline? I just installed Linux last week and I haven’t booted up windows since.

      • Blaster M
        6•1 year ago

        Xubuntu is still too heavy, you have to strip it further and go for Lubuntu. Nothing like a 400 MB idle memory load on the desktop

      • @entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
        6•1 year ago

        I’d recommend Linux Mint with the XFCE desktop over Xubuntu, because they’re mostly the same thing but Mint doesn’t use Snap packages by default while Ubuntu does and Mint is better suited for desktop usage due to their various nice little config tools.