Ah, that name was left from when they’ve been open-source, which us why I advocate for the emergence of GPL-licensed projects.

The open-source license for GPT model was very relaxed, which OpenAI took advantage of and, once it could afford their own programmer staff, closed the code with all the contributions all the programmers from all over the world have made.

It’s an extremely dick move, and it was repeated by Google, too.

People are crazy when they promote closed-source AI (okay, okay, generative model) projects like ChatGPT, Bard etc.

This is literally one of the most important technologies of the future, and after all the times technology companies screwed them (us) up big time and monopolized the Internet, they go into the same trap again and again.

First they surrendered the free Internet, now they surrender the new frontiers.

Wake up, people. Go HuggingFace, advocate for free AI, and ideally - for a GPL one. We cannot afford for this part of our future to be taken away from us.

Sluzhba Bezpeki Ukraini = Security Service of Ukraine, SSU Basically, Ukrainian intelligence

I see

While we may sometimes use such terms since Lemmy is populated mostly by tech-savvy people, it’s absolutely not required for you to be one to successfully install and operate Linux!

I’ll tell you what to do.

But first, a quick explainer on the terms, so you could get savvier too. It is in no way super required for you to be on Linux, but you’ll be able to understand talks made here way easier:

1.Mint and Manjaro are so-called distributions of Linux. Unlike Windows, which is a full complete system, Linux is modular and is based on the Linux kernel - basically a core of an operating system doing the most important and complicated things. And then on top of that there is a lot of other code that makes slight changes on how it all works called the distribution. Don’t worry - all Linux distribution are good and compatible with each other, so your pick is mostly one of personal liking.

2.VM - virtual machine. Basically software that allows you to launch operating system within an operating system. With virtual machines, you can launch Linux out of Windows, Windows out of Linux, and any other combination with pretty much any operating system you can imagine. VMs are good for checking something out or when you really really need something in another operating system (very advanced stuff). In fact, you can try out Linux using a VM - just load an image (more on that below) into program like VirtualBox and you’re all set. Still, VMs are limiting, and for a much better experience I recommend you to go for a Linux install (more on that below).

3.Dualboot - a type of operating system install that lets you choose which operating system to go to when you turn your computer on. For example, I’m on Linux full-time, but if for some reason I’ll need to turn on my PC and go to Windows, I can. And so could you.

Now, install!

This part is super easy.

First, you need a USB flash drive (8+GB) and a flashing software like Balena Etcher. Download and install it.

Then, you need to choose system image - basically, what you’ll put on your USB stick and what will end up on your computer. Images for Linux Mint are here. They only differ in looks and performance, but if your computer runs modern Windows, you can take anything you like. Cinnamon is the most common. Images for Manjaro are here - if prompted to choose architecture, take x86_64. Choice of image is - again - matter of looks, just don’t go i3 or Sway, those are advanced. I recommend going with the most default option - Plasma Desktop, i.e. KDE. Pick just one - either Mint or Manjaro, whatever you’d like, both are excellent choices. Unsure? Mint is most common recommendation, but looks a little Windows 7-ey. Manjaro with Plasma is super sexy and incredibly snappy, but it’d benefit from you learning more basics about Linux. Still, very good as it is.

Then, put your drive in, open Balena Etcher, pick image, pick your USB, flash. After success, reboot your PC and load into flash drive (you might want to press F8 or other button depending on motherboard when computer turns on again so that it doesn’t just load into Windows instead). Boom! You’re in a live version of Linux. It is very limited, it runs off your flash drive, but you’ll already get to see how it looks. Now desktop will have an icon saying “Install …”, press it and install the system. The installation program is super intuitive and tells you everything you need to know. The only dangerous part is partitioning - you should make sure installation program detected Windows and will not overwrite it (assuming you still need it) - it’ll remind you of that, don’t worry. Ideally, you should install Linux on another physical drive (you’ll be able to choose it), but that’s not strictly required. Then you wait and…

…BOOM! Now every time you turn your PC on, you can choose whether to use Linux or Windows. If anything is not clear, there’s a million of very friendly guides on every aspect of what I just said, including the scariest parts. Go ahead, try it out! You won’t regret.

I’ve always been stifled by people getting born into one of religions and suddenly thinking it is the true one.

Like, how likely it is for you to be born straight into the correct religion when the world is full or heresy?

How do you differ for all those believing, with same dedication, in something else?

I see; I don’t personally use those tools, so can’t tell you anything about it.

Hope they’ll be included soon, one way or the other, if they aren’t!

Thanks for your feedback.

Kinda my gaming experience on Linux right now.

For most games, I install them and they just run perfectly fine.

There are a few games that still need tweaks, though, that is true.

Mostly browsing, document processing, and gaming.

I recognize the arguments you have, but, being more on a power user side, I rarely have to fix anything either. But maybe that’s me.

No other PDF reader/word processor is able to do the same?

There are plenty of both with pretty much exact same functionality.

But if you really depend on those for some obscure reason, Wine should help.

To anyone who reads this: I know everyone talks about Linux around Lemmy, and that you’ve already been offered to install Linux a million times.

I understand how much it puts you off.

But this time, give a try. For real. Try it, there’s nothing to lose.

The reason we don’t ever shut up about it is because Linux is just so much better that many of us don’t imagine how we lived without it. Unironically.

Spend a week on Linux. Install Mint, or Manjaro, and run them - not in VM, use dualboot. You can easily delete Linux afterwards if you don’t like it, straight out of Windows. Run it for a week.

And you’ll be like us.

Slim, to say the least.

Still, you can try getting educational/work visa somewhere in Finland, or France, for example, and go from there.

Or, if you’re in danger other than mobilization, you can try to request political asylum - things get worse with that too, but it’s still possible.

No, he didn’t try and was afraid to break something.

Linux is easier to install than Windows, it takes 5 minutes of your time without any special knowledge to install any distro through Calamares, which is now a standard for most of them.

The reason Windows is the king is that it’s a “standard” and comes pre-installed on most computers today. Most users simply never face Windows installation process.

Solution? Preinstall Linux! A few laptops actually are now shipped with Linux preinstalled, and that’s a good, even if humble, beginning.

There are always Armenia and Georgia, but they are already overburdened with Russians. There are Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, there is Azerbaijan, there is Kyrgyzstan, there is Mongolia, there is Serbia, there is Thailand, there are less obvious/more expensive/more extreme options like Equador, Palestine (eh), the Bahamas, Mauritius, Marocco, Panama, and there are unrecognized countries like South Osetia, Abkhazia, Transnistria. And if you have time to prepare visa in advance there are many, many more options.

Uh, no

I had an absolutely normie non-tech brother who came to me asking me to install him Linux.

It was Debian. He wanted something rock stable.

He never looked back since.

Linux is not just a technomaniac’s dream or a product of our privacy/configurability/something-else-maximalism. While many of us come there looking for that, we end up with much more - a truly snappy system, without bloat, without all distractions, automatic updates, and corporate shit pushed on.

As that same brother said to me: “It’s such peace and quiet. You turn on your PC - and you’re all set to do whatever you have to do”

Also, Linux with reasonable modern DEs doesn’t ever require a normie to go terminal. Like, at all. It’s just that Lemmy users are more techy, and they’d need such advanced features in Windows too.

If you ask me, one of the primary reasons normies don’t regularly use Linux is because they don’t know what Linux even is. For them Windows is computer. Then there are some who know of Linux, but think “it’s more of a server thing”. Then there are some who played around with it in VM, but saw it more as a toy. And then there are brave souls who actually did a switch.

For all I know, most of the latter never looked back.

I’ve been registered on Lemmygrad. Got banned for saying Stalin is not a superhero and that he made both good and bad moves.

Noted, moved to lemmy.world

Uh-huh

Still, Lemmy probably ended up with more people than before. Also, hey, I came from Reddit drama

Russia already has

-Childbirth propaganda everywhere

-Payments to mothers giving birth (“mother’s capital”)

-Strong benefits for people with kids when buying housing

-Generous maternity leave

-Strong infrastructure of kindergardens

-Fairly strict anti-abortion laws

And a lot more. It kinda already does its best.

It is not illegal for military-aged men to leave Russia - only if you already have draft papers on hand.

The question is - which countries are still ready to accomodate Russians on their side.

China is doing that by lifting restrictions it previously had on the number of kids per family.

In Russia there never was a limit, and a driver for change should be different. Putin asking Russians to make more kids won’t magically improve demographics. Russia is fighting battle for demographics for about 15 years now, and it yielded very little result.

Right now people in the country are strongly uncertain about their future, economic changes leave more and more young people out of money to just live, let alone raise kids (and no, not many here will agree to have children regardless of any obstacles), and young males are actively dying on the war.

Unless a radical change is made to the economy, to all those things listed above, Russia will not succeed in drastically improving reproduction rates.

Source: I’m Russian.

I agree with you, but your comment might be worded in a way that triggers a knee-jerk reaction to downvote.

The key point is, cars are not sustainable. Stop pretending that if you switch to electric, they suddenly are. Car industry is extremely polluting (not only with exhaust, but with production, tyres, asphalt for extra roads etc.), cars take immense resources to produce and service, and they are NOT a necessity.

The only rational way of transportation is through public transport. For super rare destinations where public transportation doesn’t go, there can be a carsharing service.

Ditch personal cars. Embrace the new reality, and go green for real.