• shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Used to build “little old lady” computers for neighbors and such. Say someone gave me their shit PC to fix. Fine. Throw in whatever extra hardware I had, clean it up, new thermal paste and whatnot, small SSD, Linux Lite, Chrome, “Here’s how you get email and internet.” Never once heard from them again.

    Here’s the secret sauce; I never once mentioned “linux” or even began explaining what I had done. No need to talk OS, it was “windows” to them! I was there to fix computers, not evangelize.

    • cRazi_man@europe.pub
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      2 months ago

      As long as you “put the internet on the desktop”, most boomers won’t know the difference. I got my dad a new laptop and he asked me to “install Google maps on it”. I put firefox on his desktop and changed the icon to a Microsoft Edge icon and that was easier to do than try to explain what a browser is and that he should use a different one.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Yes! I’ve forged the icon more than once. “Just as ever, click the blue ‘E’”.

      • Nikola Tesla's Pigeon@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        My dad once had trouble with Internet explorer crashing a computer in an auto shop he was working in.

        I installed chrome which worked much better but he would not stop trying to open the Internet explorer icon.

        Changed the chrome icon to IE icon. Problem solved. Lol

  • sanderium@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The fact that one can use a wm/compositor to make the desktop lighter is sick. I was using 350MB idle with Alpine + River, it is so damn snappy.

    I came to Linux for freedom and stayed for the performance.

  • Underwire@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I was running Plex, Jellyfin, Nginx, rtorrent with 3k torrents and few other containers and they were running on a very old machine with 4GB of RAM and only 2GB were really used.

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Well sure, but did you also run a hundred unterminable processes that analyzed your behavioral patterns in real time and fed that information into a surveillance pipeline directly hooked into Microsoft data centers?

      Because if not, then what are you even doing with your life?