Thread 106283854

I just had the displeasure of installing linux for the first time in 8 or so years. As I get older, I understand Applefags more and more. Their shit just works.

>>106283854 (OP)
That none of the installers can handle hidpi displays properly still is frustrating.

Too bad Apple hardware is locked down, soldered on chinkware garbage. If they sold the OS separately and let me install it on a custom PC build I would unironically switch to Mac.

>>106283926
This but unironically. Someone send an email to Tim Apple and ask him about selling just the os without hardware.

>>106283957
>>106283926
I bet they could make a fuckload more selling it even for as much as $500 a pop (or equally shitty subscription), without tipping the balance away from Mac hardware buyers. Many, perhaps even most, users would bolt at the prospect of having install an OS for once in their lives.

I had basically the opposite recently with fedora
genuinely impressed.

>>106283854 (OP)
Skull issue

which distro

>>106283926
The hardware is locked down for a reason. Developing the hardware and software in tandem specifically to work together is the best way to ensure you get something that actually works and works well.

Apple figured this out four decades ago but tinkertroons still think they're smarter than them.

>>106286071
Shame the hardware is poor quality and prone to break.

>>106286052
based

Just wait until you hear about Haiku!

>>106286052
and redpilled

>>106286052
based

>>106284219
This. I don't know how somebody who came back now after 8 years would be disappointed.

>>106283867
Arch is fine on hidpi. You can set the font to be 4k 20 inches compatible.

>>106283854 (OP)
Everything just works on Fedora. Just missing good professional software alternatives and more developer support.

>>106283867
Man typing xrandr --mode 1280x800 is so hard.

>>106283854 (OP)
debian =/= linux

>whole thread is just “dude just know this magical incantation lmao”
Year of the Linux desktop will never happen

>>106286097
5 years now, not a single issue with mine.

>>106283854 (OP)
There is no reason whatsoever to buy an apple

>>106283854 (OP)
>he fell for the loonix meme

>Linux is bad because I don't have the capacity to learn anything.

Crybaby. Just use Windows. You're not ever going to be one of the kewl kids.

>>106284626
Nice ai faggot.

>>106283854 (OP)
It never gets any better, does it?
Last time I tried Ucuntu (22.04 or something), the installer just froze with a blank screen. Tried again, did it again. On the third try, it let me partition the disk - then went blank and froze. Only on the fourth run-through did it actually install.
This is supposed to be a "flagship" distro - yet it brought back bad memories of installing OS/2 2.0 on unsupported hardware in 1992.

>>106284626
I never noticed Morbid Obesux was wearing glasses until now.

>>106289861
i'd like to cut off one of his tits, render out the fat in a cast iron skillet on low heat, then fry up some french fries in the grease.

>>106284626
Get you a girl that looks at you the way that slop girl looks at arch guy's gunt.

>>106283854 (OP)
understandable
your brain just doesn't work

>>106283854 (OP)
>>106287438
Installing Debian today. I'll let you know how it goes.

So far, the only bad/confusing thing has been finding the right image file. They do not do a good job explaining what each image file is. The "manifest" they say is supposed to explain what each image does hardly goes into any detail and leaves a lot of lingo/acronyms in the mirror directory unexplained.

And the "netinst" image that supposedly installs the minimal base system and then downloads the rest from the net wasn't even in the mirror but instead linked out from a random nested help page. There was a folder in the mirror with several versions of "netboot". But are those the same as "netinst"? Who the fuck knows??? The installation guide also said normal installations have multiple CD isos with GBs of data, but the downloadable CD isos seem to be mutually exclusive one-off versions consisting of about 100MB or less total.

>>106290560
what you're doing is unironically having anal with you on the receiving end

>>106286052
fpbp

>>106290560
don't install debian please we don't need retards like you

>>106283854 (OP)
>flash a live mint onto a stick
>run "install permanently" when booted in
Or just run the archinstall command.

>>106283854 (OP)
>muh just works
lol
lmao even

>>106287342
Apache open office
Davinci resolve
What software are you looking to replace?

>>106291238
The only thing I seem to consistently have issues with in both of my distro experiences, both mint cinnamon and arch kde, is this really weird inability to click a window into fullscreen and the visual window actually raises to the top of the page. The mouse and inputs for the monitor treat it as if it were full screen but graphically it doesn't look like it.

>>106290782
How is Debian raping me in the ass?

>>106287342
virtual machine or wine

>>106291164
Nah, I'm gonna do it. And there's nothing you can do to stop me.

Also
>Shitty documentation is the end user's fault
>Pic related is supposed to be self-explanatory
>netinst image not being available in the mirror of official instance media is le good!
Whatever you say bud.

But really, every other part of the install guide has been pretty good. This one (important) piece is just poorly explained for some reason. Even stranger is that the install guide says it's written with the assumption that the reader knows nothing about the Linux kernel or Debian installation, yet the documentation on selecting image media presupposes both. But don't worry, after I install I'll contribute actually good descriptions.

>>106291885
>loves anal
told ya

>>106286052

lmao

>>106283854 (OP)
>he fell for the meme

>>106291164
>>106292876
Twas easy as long as you are able to figure out what the correct installation instance is. It even detected the wifi adapter on my chink laptop and let me download all of the packages without any workarounds needed. Took like 15 minutes once my laptop got here. Even a retard can do it on chink hardware it seems.