Happy birthday 🎊🎉 GNU/Linux.

Today GNU/Linux is 32 years old.

It was thankfully released to the public on August 25th, 1991 by Linus Torvalds when he was only 21 years old student.

What a lovely journey 🤍

  • lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    10 months ago

    I love GNU/Linux.

    Before I used Debian, I’d constantly fight with my operating system. Every time I opened michaelsoft binbows(which would take ages to open), I’d make sure that simplewall is running, so that bill doesn’t get any more info, after every 180 days, I’d run MAS to renew my office 365. I’d manually sync time since windows would use that same domain to send telemetry.

    Now everytime I turn on my computer, the swirl of Debian greets me in a flash, my i3 being ready even before I sit.

    I can spend hours doing work without any mandatory updates . It is an operating system that never makes me feel its presence. For that I’m grateful to people like Ian, Stallman, Linus, among countless others making my life better.

    • Polar@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      10 months ago

      I can spend hours doing work without any mandatory updates .

      Weird way to say spend hours fixing something that just randomly borked your PC.

      Seriously, though. Windows has a fuck ton of issues, but it seems like every distro I install I am eventually greeted with something just completely breaking for no reason whatsoever and spend the next 6 hours scouring Linux forums for a solution, where everyone is just hostile as fuck screaming at people to “figure it out yourself” and to “use Terminal”.

      Glad it works for you, though. Wonder how many downvotes this cold take is going to net me lol.

      • lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        10 months ago

        Weird way to say spend hours fixing something that just randomly borked your PC.

        by work, I meant actual work, and not fixing something.
        Last time I fixed something was a few weeks ago. It was MPV needing an update(which was totally my fault, as I often forget to do updates) as a yt-dlp script wasn’t working.

        As for something breaking, my experience has been the opposite. Probably because I don’t own any newest hardware and don’t do much gaming, or any other stuff that might require some proprietary service for optimal functioning.

        Also, my experience with the community has been excellent so far. Even my basic questions(e.g.: dual boot) were answered promptly and nicely by the community(I mostly use #linux on IRC, or distro-specific forums like linux mint forum).

        I’d suggest you to give GNU/Linux one more try. Probably try out something like Nobara if you’re into games. Or maybe Linux mint if you want it to just work.

        Maybe you just weren’t lucky the first time.

        And don’t worry about fake internet points. They mean nothing.