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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 80 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)
  • !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org is VERY unique both in content and in what gets posted.
  • Almost everyone running Linux (or at least it seems like it 😉)
  • Pretty diverse where people are at location-wise. Feels like early internet instead of services trying to bubble you into your place/content.

Im sure there are others. Looking forward to what everyone else says!

.....Also Beans. Yeah didn't expect that.

[–] pmk@piefed.ca 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It may seem like we all run Linux, but some people run BSD too.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah yes, devil Linux.

Ill see myself out.

At some point im going to have to give it a try. I like playing around with alternative OSes for fun (like 9front, UXN, LFS, etc...).

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

At the end of the day bsd and linux are cousins.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago

some also uses illumos :)

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

I don't always use BSD, but when I do
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“unknown argument ‘--help’”

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it really feels like reddit in 2009

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago

It really does.

[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I recently posted the question "What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?" and I think it's interesting the spread of OSes people are talking about:

https://mander.xyz/post/44082963

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

I saw that thread! I really appreciated how I disagreed with a lot of the opinions there, it felt like a thread of actually unpopular opinions

[–] droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I dual boot because I still haven't figured out how to game on Linux because im dumb :P

[–] Tuuktuuk@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 day ago

Here's an article on where the Proton checkbox is in the Steam settings. Just now I'm playing CIV4 and I had completely forgotten to think that it probably doesn't work on Linux. Because it does now, absolutely fine :)

(The original FFVII doesn't, though. But that's the only Windows game I've encountered to not work!)

[–] Tuuktuuk@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 day ago

If you use Steam, there's an option in the settings to always enable using Proton to handle Windows games. Works very well! Many games work faster than on Windows, but sometimes there are minor bugs.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago
  • !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org is VERY unique both in content and in what gets posted.
  • Almost everyone running Linux (or at least it seems like it 😉)

I believe that the unix_surrealism guy is a BSD person.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

.....Also Beans. Yeah didn't expect that.

You must have never run into r/beansinthings or r/ooer then

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago

Bröther, I nëëd lämp