• Victor@lemmy.world
    2·
    8 months ago

    Hot take (?): For anyone who has made the switch, it was the year or the Linux desktop. 🤷‍♂️

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        Same 🙂 Around 2004 ish I started experimenting with live CDs of some KDE distro. I managed to also corrupt one of my hard drives doing so. Not a fun day I remember. But I learned some valuables that day, for sure.

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      8 months ago

      Mine will be this year, I only have 1 system left to put Linux on.

      I’m just currently learning some RAW photo editors before I cancel my Lightroom sub.

      Fusion360 was dropped a few months ago when FreeCAD went 1.0 (after I learned it enough of course)

  • KindaABigDyl@programming.dev
    1·
    8 months ago

    I’ve had this in my .zshrc for a while: alias $(date +%Y)="echo 'YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP'"

    If you type the current year in your terminal, it will say “YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP” lol

    • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      5 months ago

      Yggdrasil was the first company to create a live CD Linux distribution. […] [1]

      Neat! Though, from a brief search, it’s not clear to me if that means that they were the first “live CD Linux distribution” overall, or just the first company to release one.

      References
      1. Type: Article. Title: “Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X”. Publisher: “Wikipedia”. Published: 2024-11-23T19:32Z. Accessed: 2025-07-11T23:31Z. URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X.
        • Type: Text. Location: ¶2.
  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
    0·
    8 months ago

    I’m more surprised at PewDiePie, tbh. Jason runs a Mastodon instance, with the account notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com (I’m hoping that by leaving out the @ sign before the local username, that won’t send him an unwanted notification), so the fact that he’s also a Linux user is less surprising. I don’t watch PDP, but I gather he has a very large and impressionable audience, so him promoting Linux should be good!

    • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      […] I’m hoping that by leaving out the @ sign before the local username, that won’t send him an unwanted notification […]

      Personally, I think it’s okay to ping him. I would think it’d be neat to see where and what conversations are occurring.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        If you want to mention him, I won’t try to stop you (not that I could if I wanted to). For me though, I’m pretty sure he’s already aware of the existence of !notjustbikes@feddit.nl so he has the resources to follow threadiverse discussions of himself if he wants, and I’d rather leave it in his hands to control that rather than have it thrust upon him.

        • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.worksOP
          2·
          5 months ago

          If you want to mention him, I won’t try to stop you (not that I could if I wanted to). […]

          Ha, nah it’s okay. I think it’d be silly for me to ping him further down in the thread after the fact. I was mostly voicing my unsolicited opinion 😆

        • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.worksOP
          2·
          5 months ago

          […] I’d rather leave it in his hands to control that rather than have it thrust upon him. […]

          I think that’s fair, and I appreciate your considerateness 😊