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good points all!
Somthing here that is quite important is noting that we aren't officially-official. I don't know if ppl have heard, but @/firefox-official got banned recently for being unofficially-official.
We should also be letting ppl know that they CAN ask us for Linux help!
At the same time tho, it's important to remember this is very more a place to have fun talking about Linux, rather than a support center.
I want to thank the asker for being a critic btw! this is how we improve ourselves!
I am willing to give you or anyone else on tumblr the skills and advice the helped me get my dream job
the idea of working for TEK a few months ago would just be a fantasy
my background in education is English. I learned what I know now on my own and only by random chance.
This is why I am so critical of the linux commumity on tumblr.
They're tagging themselves as -official when they can't provide casual end user support.
They're entirely too horny to be in this sphere. Computers and linux should not be about how much you want to fuck/be fucked by X
it will deter end users
This is very cool that you will help other tumblr users with this stuff; i may actually take you up on this at some point :3
(my tone here is /g, /pos, /nm, /lh)
I do, however, kind of disagree with the other points. I think that for any other social media it's correct, twt or fb does not have the culture to make these sorts of parody accounts viable or not-counter-productive to increasing the linux market share. But I don't think that tumblr is the same.
I think that tumblr does. I think the tumblr community has always been this somewhat ephemeral yet perpetual inside joke culture where almost every user is in-the-know, and new users to the joke are able generally able to catch on quickly to it due to their general understanding of they way tumblr communities operate.
IMO, it's a somewhat quick pipeline of:
\> find first "x-official" blog -> assume it's real -> see them horny posting about xenia -> infer that RH corporate would probably not approve of such a blog
I can appreciate that it might be intimidating to seek out help as a new linux user, and especially a new linux & tumblr user, but looking through these blogs, you do see them helping out people ^^. heck, my last post was helping someone getting wayland working on an nvidia system.
The main goal of these blogs is not to be a legitimate CS service to general end-users. they aren't affiliated with the software their blog is named after, so in many cases they *cant*. The goal is instead to foster a community around linux, creating a general network of blogs of the various FOSS projects that they enjoy.
I think that final sentiment, of these blogs detering end users, is most likely counter to their actual effect on end users who are considering switching to linux.
We all know a lot of tumblr is 20 or 30 something year olds who have just stuck around since ~2012ish, and new users to tumblr join with pre-existing knowledge of the culture and platform. Almost anyone coming across these blogs are going to be people who can see the "in" joke, and acclimate. I do highly doubt that a random facebook mom who's son convinced her to install mint on her old laptop would find tumblr, find a -official blog, scroll through said blog, and be detered from using mint.
The other side of this is that any tumblr users who come across these blogs, be it with an inkling of desire to switch to linux or not, will see a vibrant and active community that fits very well into the tumblr community. They remember, or have heard of, the amtrac & OSHA blogs, and are therefore probably aware that this is a pre-existing meme on here.
In all likelyhood, this will probably further incentivize them to make the switch, as they would be more attracted to a community of their peers over a community of redditors telling them to read the arch wiki repeatedly
I can, on the other hand, definitely see that for people who have difficulties with parsing tone, and especially sarcasm, would have trouble with this. TBH, I have these difficulties (hence when I was speaking to you yesterday I used the /unjerk indicator, as I couldn't tell what the tone of the conversation was), and so it took me a little while of being in this weird "I'm 99% sure these *aren't* official, but what if?". I have been there forI think that maybe being more transparent with the fact that the blogs are parodies is probably important. I'm guilty of this, and after i post this, i'll add it to my bio.
Yep
also minecraft
Of course you can play video games on a Linux PC. We have:
Every boomer shooter via source ports
Basically every emulator
Morrowind via openmw
That's basically every game that matter.
Perfect software is amazing. The difficulty comes of convincing others that it's perfect.
@emacs-official is perfect because it's everything. Unfortunately it's bloated meaning that unlike the vim variants you won't find it preinstalled on servers.
Emacs is also meant to be customized which stops it from being as universal to use.
So while on its own it's perfect, Emacs fails when told to be more than everything.
Bad news.
@/i3-official has been deleted (by tumblr), reason unknown.
You can currently refollow at @i3-unofficial.
Let us hope that all blogs retain their unofficially-official status.
shoutout to @layover-linux-official for being the 1st [actually] official blog in the Tumblr Linux space!
my computer: ubuntu -> arch -> back to windows -> debian dual boot -> just debian -> nixos -> I'm about to jump
my laptop: endeavor OS
Reblog with your distrohopping journey.
My house of (metaphorical Linux) cards trembles as I place my 5 monitor setup onto it.
Yet it holds.
I remain happily cis.
Corelation remains separate from causation.
The statistics people live another day.
And I lose another follower for only ever posting about being cis.
yay
the linux user to transgender pipeline IS real and WILL happen to you 🫵
So, my spouse has been exploring his gender lately; he also just built himself a new laptop. Today he told me that he in an attempt to process some genderfeels through metaphor, he made a post on a trans forum along the lines of: "I'm a lifelong Windows user and I think I'm pretty good at it. I want to find out what Linux has to offer but I'm afraid I wouldn't be any good at it. And how do you choose the right Linux distro, anyway? Do you have to try them all?"
The responses, he said, were a mix of useful advice about feeling out your gender and useful advice about choosing a Linux distro.
I love trans people so much
it is a cute lil machine tbh
So I'm doing the 32-bit challenge from Linux Unplugged. This Gateway Netbook was the only system I could get working. Wish me luck.
(Current OS: CrunchBangPlusPlus)
So I had to drop #!++. It's a really cool distro, just not ideal for this hardware. I installed Antix, which has been WAY more fun to use. The project also labels itself as proudly anti-fascist <3
So I'm doing the 32-bit challenge from Linux Unplugged. This Gateway Netbook was the only system I could get working. Wish me luck.
(Current OS: CrunchBangPlusPlus)
Day 3: apt upgrade put the lil guy in a situation
Touching grass is not enough I need to install the gorilla theme
(Source)
Try Ubuntu Desktop, it’s great
