For non technical readers :
the programming language "Rust" is being used more to make new Linux kernels.
Traditionally, the main language for that use was the one by the name "c".
They're talking to me. I use Mint. I've never opened the terminal. Just because some of us aren't savvy doesn't mean we aren't at least casually interested. You could totally be joking too, I guess.
Man, your attitude is why Linux is still so fringe. That purity test shit is a real turn off.
For a casual user like myself, all that matters is my computer boots, is navigable and runs programs that do what I need. Mint/Cinnamon does that. It does it with no fuss. And every time some great FOSS warrior comes along to tell me it's not Linux enough I like it even more. I'm not interested in distro hopping, at all. To be really honest, I'm not interested in my computer. I just use it.
I still don't get why Mint with its legacy Cinnamon desktop is recommended to new Linux users."
Now, we're not fighting, but I need you to see what you did. This right here is just a milder version of what I had to sort through just to get started. I started using Mint before I came to Lemmy, and Reddit's Linux subs are just as helpful, forgiving and accepting as the community here. Long time users are snarky, snobby and honestly not very helpful. It's not just Arch users. It was like Muscle Beach, but digital. Just flexing, no help at all. Then a user suggested that Mint would be a painless transition and they were right. It worked on the first install and within an hour I had Thunderbird opening my email, Blender set back up just like I had it on my poor dead windows 10 desktop, had my slicer. I haven't argued with anything. I've never opened the terminal. That's why Noobs are often pointed to Mint. And I won't leave it without a mighty good reason. My computer gets used for some of my hobbies, but computers quit being a hobby for me nearly 30 years ago.
Because mint is familiar. The GUI and most of the keyboard shortcuts are similar to windows. The install is quick and easy, and for the most part everything will just work and be similar to what they’re used to.
Some people just want to be able to turn on their computer and do stuff without having to get used to a whole new UI.
39 Comments
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 140 pts · 192d
Is there a /c/linuxdadjokes ?
StellarExtract@lemmy.zip · 55 pts · 192d
It was replaced by /rust/linuxdadjokes
alecsargent@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 192d
damn, that was witty.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 44 pts · 192d
Not yet
Eheran@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 192d
I know it is a joke, but please do not fragment things into oblivion.
marcos@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 192d
How dare you say something like that in a Linux focused community?!?
(Oh, and this is a joke, don't read it seriously.)
Ooops@feddit.org · 14 pts · 192d
We just need to create that one single ultimate community for good linux jokes.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 192d
Until it splits into c/ubuntudadjokes c/archdadjokes and after that, there is no return
mech@feddit.org · 10 pts · 192d
I want an entire instance dedicated to the welcome messages you get from a Slackware terminal.
DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 192d
... and now there are 15 ultimate communities.
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 191d
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 192d
But the fragments there aren't the ones they like. So they want theirs in it too.
It's like reinventing rugby as yank football.
RomulusCornflakes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 191d
It’s treason then.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 191d
Well, there's !dadjokes@lemmy.world
A_A@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 192d
For non technical readers :
the programming language "Rust" is being used more to make new Linux kernels. Traditionally, the main language for that use was the one by the name "c".
lmr0x61@lemmy.ml · 100 pts · 192d
Non-technical readers? In my Linux memes community??
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 47 pts · 192d
They're talking to me. I use Mint. I've never opened the terminal. Just because some of us aren't savvy doesn't mean we aren't at least casually interested. You could totally be joking too, I guess.
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 192d
It's a joke, yeah. Well, or rather a meme. This was a real advertisement, before it got memed on pretty hard:
poinck@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 191d
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 191d
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 191d
Man, your attitude is why Linux is still so fringe. That purity test shit is a real turn off.
For a casual user like myself, all that matters is my computer boots, is navigable and runs programs that do what I need. Mint/Cinnamon does that. It does it with no fuss. And every time some great FOSS warrior comes along to tell me it's not Linux enough I like it even more. I'm not interested in distro hopping, at all. To be really honest, I'm not interested in my computer. I just use it.
poinck@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 190d
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 190d
"Actually ...
I still don't get why Mint with its legacy Cinnamon desktop is recommended to new Linux users."
Now, we're not fighting, but I need you to see what you did. This right here is just a milder version of what I had to sort through just to get started. I started using Mint before I came to Lemmy, and Reddit's Linux subs are just as helpful, forgiving and accepting as the community here. Long time users are snarky, snobby and honestly not very helpful. It's not just Arch users. It was like Muscle Beach, but digital. Just flexing, no help at all. Then a user suggested that Mint would be a painless transition and they were right. It worked on the first install and within an hour I had Thunderbird opening my email, Blender set back up just like I had it on my poor dead windows 10 desktop, had my slicer. I haven't argued with anything. I've never opened the terminal. That's why Noobs are often pointed to Mint. And I won't leave it without a mighty good reason. My computer gets used for some of my hobbies, but computers quit being a hobby for me nearly 30 years ago.
poinck@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 187d
Zron@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 191d
Because mint is familiar. The GUI and most of the keyboard shortcuts are similar to windows. The install is quick and easy, and for the most part everything will just work and be similar to what they’re used to.
Some people just want to be able to turn on their computer and do stuff without having to get used to a whole new UI.
astropenguin5@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 190d
I like my mint and xfce tho :(
Shipgirlboy@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 192d
It's more likely than you think.
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 191d
Surely the main language is still c?
A_A@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 191d
Yes, "c" is still the main language for the Linux kernel... if i read correctly at :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel
Also, no usable stats (about lang. uses) on the "git" that i could get at :
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
... disclaimer : non my domain.
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml · 36 pts · 191d
Well, duh: People keep running it on bare metal.
snek_boi@lemmy.ml · 36 pts · 192d
Shoutout to the developers who work on making Linux safer. Adding memory-safe languages to Linux seems like an uphill battle.
It’s such an uphill battle that some people have altogether stopped contributing to Linux. An example is the former Asahi Linux lead developer.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 192d
Come on, you guis, seriously?
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 192d
Wheres wd-40 linux?
Johnmannesca@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 192d
typicalDude778@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 191d
I'm gonna bash my head to this fucking joke
AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 192d
The Rust community on Lemmy had been foreshadowing this all along.
sed ‘s/c/rust/g’
Homesnatch@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 191d
The Rust rustommunity on Lemmy had been foreshadowing this all along.
AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 191d
A rustleverly rustonrusteived and rustharmingly rustomirustal rustomebarustk.
Thank you.
liquidator@piefed.social · 9 pts · 192d
Damn that's dry joke. Good one.
Lembot_0006@programming.dev · 9 pts · 192d
Doctor: Can we talk about C++?
Linus: A-a-a-a-brrrrrr, brbrbr, lololo!!!
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 192d
sirico@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 191d
Yo dog I heard you like rust so we installed it to sda1 so you can have rust on your rust
-old so very old
FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 192d
texture@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 192d
yuck yuck yuck
finally a joke for the dads