I’m right there with you. I feel like everyone I know’s a bunch of hermit crabs lining up to upgrade from soda cans and plastic bottles into real shells

oh huh, really showing my age here heh

Hi, nonprogrammer poking my head in from all. What happened in 2009?

because i want to play the entire gamecube library on my phone goddamnit

promises don’t count if you delete them. everyone knows that

lol fuck that

I, USE ARCH (btw)

sobs in social anxiety

I’m thinking more omikron the nomad soul lmao.

you’re wrong, corsicanguppy

What the fuck, is that a rage comic in the grimdark future of 2025?

We’re only gonna get variations of the “Welcome to Revachol” guy, unfortunately

no way this is true. it might be only 240p but I can stream video in this wrinkly meat computer without buffering.

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this pretty much… i think. I still don’t fully grasp unix surrealism

Thanks for the input ya nerds. Much love from the geek side of lemmy. I’ll be taking the advice of poking around with multiple distros before committing to one, because it sounds a whole lot less painful than I was imagining.

Quick question though, what the hell is a gnome? Or a KDE for that matter?

good insight, thanks

to those suggesting mint, any particular reasons to choose between Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce versions?

Still shopping around, so nothing’s set in stone. I’m not much of a hardware guy either, so the best I could tell you is just that I’m looking for something a step or two above ‘bare minimum’ for 2025. An SSD, fair bit of ram, ports for external storage so I can actually boot with another OS, maybe enough guts to run skyrim modded to the gills. Somewhere in that ballpark.

lol those kids are fucked