Just came here to say this.

The suggested videos are terrible.

Was a Ubuntu user from 9.10 until 20.04; snap shittyness caused me to hop around for a while. Settled on Mint a few years ago.

It’s stable, gets out of my way and lets me get my work done.

I like it that the site says the max length…this is not common. I wish it was.

Not really, i first used Linux in 2001 or 3… It’s been some time. I think it was fedora 1. I was 21/3.

First installed Linux in 2008, Ubuntu 8.04 and started daily driving Ubuntu 10.04 in late 2010.

Since then I’ve used a lot of different distros, I’m now running mint.

In saying that, my son has only had Linux (and Chromebooks at school), I got him to help install his own system, he was 7 at the time.

I think at this point XKCD should be a TLD.

I would join lemmy.xkcd in a heartbeat.

Onion writers currently crying into their morning whiskey.

Well at least it is bullet proof…not sure about missile strike proof though.

I only have one monitor so I didn’t have this issue when I upgraded my GPU a few weeks ago.

Shutdown -> remove/install GPU -> startup #JustWorks

In fairness, I did have to update to the latest kernel (6.14) to get all of the features of the GPU working.

A few years ago, I installed mint 21.1 on my mum’s old NUC; a 2013 model; was running Win7.

I said, it doesn’t meet the minimum for Win10, so it was either buy something new or try Linux.

Just got back from visiting them, I updated it to 21.3, still running fine. It still does everything they need.

Mum even said, “it always just works”. A great endorsement, as a non-technical user mum needs a no fuss distro, mint works so well in this regard.

I started on Ubuntu, tried 8.04 and went back to windows XP, tried 10.04 and stayed.

20.04 was my last Ubuntu, bounced around for a while, but I have settled on Mint. Been running it for 3 years now.

Mint isn’t too fancy, it is just there and lets me get my work done, very much the way Ubuntu used to be.

I’m running the 6.14.2 kernel, to get the latest drivers for my RX 9070, I’m playing around with local AI… Mint isn’t fancy, but you can do almost anything you want.

I tried Deepseek Coder 33b; it runs at around 2 words/second which is really slow.

Deepseek Coder V2 16b; seems to run as fast Gemma3

I don’t know, it is running much faster than I can read.

So I’m not sure why more performance would be needed, the only thing I was looking for was big VRAM, and AMD gives much more bang for you buck (especially in NZ). To get 16GB of VRAM on an NV card in NZ would have set me back an extra $800…not something I was willing to do.

q4_k_m

8.1GB file size

I have ollama running locally on my RX9070, I have to use kernel 6.14 since it’s such a new GPU.

The 16G VRAM means I can run decent models, faster than I can read… currently running gemma3:12b, it’s crazy fast.

Ok, why does it seem like I first read a few months ago… Went it came out.

Have I been reading XKCD for 20 years… FFS

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/exploits_of_a_mom.png

Works perfectly on my Asus Zenbook.

I don’t use it much, but it works.

• sshfs (mount a remote file system locally)
• sshuttle (tunnel your traffic over SSH, ephemeral VPN)
• mirror a remote port to a local port (I use this to manage syncthing on my server)

Nice work bro, you landed on the first try.

It is the 2nd of April, the rest of the worlds (mostly) April fools day.