And what would be those “trade secrets”? The ability to make posts and have them being read by other people? I’m pretty sure every forum software since the '70s has prior art. Elons fragile narcissism know no bounds.

Download BalenaEtcher and burn an .ISO of your selected distro to a USB memory stick - Pop!OS and Linux mint are perennial favorites. Bear in mind that this will erase all data from the stick.

Boot the laptop into BIOS (you will need to check with the manufacturer to see which key you will need to hold to do so) and scroll down to the “boot from device” or similar option. Select “Boot from USB”, save settings and reset your laptop.

If all goes well, and your laptop likes the distro, you should see a bunch of cryptic text scroll by. Don’t worry, this is what Linux shows instead of a loading screen. A menu should pop up, asking you if you want to try out the Live distro, or install the OS. Choose the live distro first, this will create a version of the OS that works from the RAM disk and does not install on the hard drive.

You can now play around with the OS, browse the internet, play games, anything except saving locally to the hard drive (unless you Mount it, but that’s another story). When you are good and ready, you can either choose to dual boot to Linux and Windows, or take the plunge and use Linux as your primary OS!

Hope this explanation wasn’t too rambly. Have fun!

Depends what you mean by “best”. Personally, I use Lubuntu, as it is an ideal combo of features vs. resource lightness for me. Linux light and Puppy Linux are also among more popular lightweight distros.

The only problem that I have with Debian is that packages are several versions behind what would be considered current. If I had to use it, i would use sid, despite the dreaded “unstable” label.

The biggest mistake they made was using the awful new gnome desktop. Seriously, it feels like I’m using those shitty info kiosks you find in poorly maintained bus terminals. Fortunately, I have the option of booting into xfce, and Lubuntu on my laptop has Lxqt.

Snaps do feel like a half baked implementation though.

RMS has never stolen my personal data and sold it to criminals, or deprecated my hardware by deliberately throttling its speed. The worst things you can say about him that he’s a wierdo and a bit of a fanatic. But, he’s a fanatic about personal and societal freedom, which is something everybody should be a fanatic about.

All that work and dedication for some trinkets? If anything, this has been a lesson not to perform unpaid labor for privately owned companies. Let the mug be a reminder to never do that again.

Error: Arch logo detected, coolness not found.

And then there’s me, who copy pastes terminal commands from the net without checking them :3

Ego shooters

Found the German

I am frankly baffled by this mentality. It’s a (federated) website, not a spouse, you will not be run out of town for lurking on R*ddit, but I hope you contribute here as well.

I was one of the original refugees from digg.com. This feels like R*ddit of old - simple layout, techie userbase, friendly community. Feels like home.