I’m trans and I really don’t want to federated with these people if their mods are defending the -tard suffix and they aren’t getting de-modded and banned. I also don’t want to be federated with them if they ban critiquing western chauvinism.
Someone who is an admin and with more of a level head than me RN please talk to their admins about it.
I’m just basing it on my experience with Linux. Most people install Linux on a particular machine for technical reasons (not wanting to put up with Windows, wanting to install a modern OS on an old machine with XP, wanting an OS that’s more suitable for servers than what Microsoft has to offer) or for hobbyist reasons (wanting something to tinker with, wanting to see if they can get away with running a certain DE on a certain physical device, distrohopping in general). The ideological reason is there, but it’s rarely the main focus. If ideological reasons were that strong, Firefox wouldn’t be losing this badly to Chrome.
Point taken.
Oh, just wait until Chrome gets rid of adblockers, then you’ll see! :P
So far my only real experience with Linux has been in a virtual machine. I’d been planning on switching my laptop over to Linux in 2025 with the end-of-service of Windows 10, but with the amount of obnoxious ad notifications I’m already getting on Windows these past few months, I just might push the switch to be by the end of this year… So anyways, how’s your experience with using Linux been? Let me live vicariously through you!
This is one of the differences between Linux and Windows (and MacOS). Linux doesn’t go out of its way to constantly remind you that you’re running Linux.
I have been using Linux for around a decade although I’m no expert. There are people here who definitely know their Linux more than me. For me, I switched over to Linux because of the fiasco with Windows 8 not having a start menu.
I would say if you want to switch over to Linux, you shouldn’t be overwhelmed by the many distros and should distinguish between a distro and a desktop environment (DE). Pick something based on Ubuntu or Debian because that’s what guides are tailored towards.
Yeesh, has it really been that long since Windows 8? I guess it feels newer to me since I skipped that version of Windows entirely.
Way ahead of you. :-)
I’ve been on Linux for like 17 years so I can’t really share an “I switched” experience that will be comparable to yours - I was a teenager and wanted a fully 64 bit OS when those were brand new and windows didn’t yet support it. my only option at the time was gentoo and I had to do a full install by hand - it took two weeks of work cause I had no clue what I was doing and building toolchains takes forever.
luckily, that’s all in the past now and you can just install a distro that’s ready to go with a nice graphical installer. just pick something reasonably popular like Ubuntu or Mint and you’ll be good to go.
Well, Windows just became harder and harder to use over time with Microsoft increasingly fucking with the workflow and layout to get things done, not to mention the fact that the OS itself is spyware and massively bloated. I just got tired of fighting an endless uphill battle that trended steeper and steeper the longer it went on, so I backed up any files I needed and nuked the hard drives of Windows.
I installed a Linux distro in its place and found joy in being the upstream decision maker for 100% of what’s going on with my OS. To use Windows meant I had to fight with it constantly, yet Linux did exactly what I told it to do without a fuss. I was so over Windows and proprietary software that I set out to rebuild my entire workflow from scratch, opting to use FOSS (preferably GPL-based) equivalents. My resolve was so strong that I accepted going cold turkey on something if there wasn’t a FOSS competitor available (gaming shit, mostly).
It’s been over 4 years since I did this, and I’ve never missed Windows. Linux and FOSS in general is basically free real-estate and has proven to be highly resistant to rug-pulls. I did like a lot of the proprietary software I used to use, but let’s be honest here, the TOS of all that shit increasingly required a one-sided, arbitrarily abusive marriage to the company itself. You can only take so much of an abusive relationship before the pain of transition becomes more worthwhile than staying in it. So, I divorced Microsoft and every other company I depended on Windows to run properly, and life’s been good ever since.
Having full access to what’s under the hood and tinkering around, shaping and tuning things up to suit your needs and your personality is an art. Quite satisfying expressing yourself in that regard, and having it all work for you.
Think about it this way: Minecraft is what Microsoft wants it to be. Minetest is whatever you want Minecraft to be. The latter is far more flexible, far more optimized, and offers a vastly superior experience and set of packages (mods) to suit your specific needs. The actual userbase itself is the upstream, not a company. Thus, power scales horizontally (among the working class, you might say), resulting in a stable upward trend in Quality of Life improvements.
I’d never heard of Minetest. I’ll have to look into that.
https://www.minetest.net/
Plenty of info provided on the homepage of the site. It’s really cool. Planes, trains, nuclear reactors, computers, books, pride flags (custom flags can be added and I noticed you like making flags (so do I))
Edit: https://content.minetest.net/ for the mod database.