Serial failed Linux user from Blighty

Coffee break Introduce yourself
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Before I upset someone again for posting something in Support that I shouldn’t be I should probably do the formal ‘Hi there!’ thing :smiley:

I’m a mid-40s nerd in the UK who grew up tinkering with computers, but my PC experience was solely MS-based in my childhood. I didn’t even hear about Linux until just before Uni (studying Electronics, but I eventually ended up as an embedded software developer).

Funnily enough, the first Linux distro I tried was Mandrake back in like 2002 (I ordered a physical CD and everything!). I spent the next decade or so doing a fair bit of distro-hopping, Gentoo, Arch, Manjaro, even went through the Linux From Scratch book once. My server (that barely functions) is currently running OpenSuse Tumbleweed (why I thought a rolling distro as a server was a good idea, I’ll never know…).

Try as I might though, I could never actually get things to work in a way that I would be willing to daily drive or trust myself to be able to maintain the way I’ve instinctively been able to under Windows.

My last attempt at a Linux distro was NixOS, which I actually really really like… in theory… I still think at some point something like NixOS is gonna change everything, but the Nix ecosystem just isn’t ready for primetime (and I would have said they needed 10 more years before they went completely and officially barmy).

Anyway, my last foray in NixOS coincided with their regicidal meltdown, which ended up putting Lunduke on my radar, which is how I heard about you fine people.

I’d put off having another go at Linux due to some IRL stuff, but the impending death of Windows 10 forced my hand as I simply refuse to upgrade. It turns out I’d already given enough of my soul that I’m getting the extra year of updates (which has come in handy as I definitely left it a bit late), but having a hard deadline is certainly a good motivator for me!

So how are things going with OM? I’d say the best sign is that I’m not in a rush to interrupt grub so I can boot the Windows partition. It was always a problem that whatever I wanted to do in the moment of power-on was often something I just couldn’t get working on Linux for some reason. So far with OM, though, everything that has had to work has just worked, and everything that should work in theory (but may not be officially supported) has so far been solvable. The percent of my daily workflow that I’ve gotten working on OM is steadily increasing.

Maybe, just maybe, for me this is the Year of the Linux Desktop!..

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Welcome.

For what it’s worth, grab a copy of Foxclone and make an image of your drive.

Be sure to disable “Fastboot” and you can probably also disable windows hibernation/sleep (in the power settings) and get rid of the windows hibernation file and swap file while you’re at it.

Then make the image. You can now safely remove windows from your system (with all it’s software and spyware intact :wink: ).

Should you need it (for whatever reason) you’ve got it. Just do a restore

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Seriously? Making a direct statement about how Topics are categorized so that you don’t look like an idiot is being “upset?” Welcome to the community and all that shit, but don’t be that guy. Especially don’t accuse people of something they didn’t do.

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Yes, seriously. That’s the impression I got from that thread and, to be frank, your response here only reinforces that impression for me.

Now, in fairness, while that opening sentence was intended as a light-hearted acknowledgement of my faux-pas rather than an attack on you, I can understand how it might be taken otherwise, so I shall consider that another faux-pas on my part.

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Well, my free time is worth more to me than it is to you, and that’s fine. I’m not here to be your therapist. I’m trying to help you not make silly mistakes on our forum. You could do to have some thicker skin and stop making everyone else responsible for your misunderstandings and emotional responses. No one deserves to have their free time abused by ungrateful, keyboard warriors chasing clout. We already have too much of that going on here.

It was a dick move. You insulted the intelligence of everyone else in this community by only telling part of a story that was produced more from your imagination than actual events. It’s text on a screen. Again, no one here is responsible for your emotional well being.

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I guess what’s confusing me is why you find the notion that I thought I upset you so offensive?

At no point did I ask you to be my therapist, although you now seem intent on psychoanalysing me for some reason.

Not sure what else there is say at this point.

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Don’t mistake me telling you something you don’t want to hear with me being “upset.” You need to own your emotional responses and stop making that my responsibility. That’s not a psychoanalysis. Only lazy people are not responsible for their actions and blame the actions of others. I did nothing wrong, and I’m still not doing anything wrong by confronting you.

The facts are these:

  1. You could at any time have read the multiple pinned topics about what is required in the Support topic. Which tells me you did not read them, or you did and chose to jackass around in the topic, anyway.
  2. When you were directly told in a neutral way not to do that and had your topic moved you then proceeded to throw a pity party in your Intro topic as though everyone else here is too gullible and ignorant to inquire about it.

Now that you are again being told and confronted, you are projecting onto me your discomfort. Two of your three contributions here have been entirely meaningless and you have gained no further ground by continuing to pursue them here. The juxtaposition of you wanting some perceived respect you feel entitled to and your absolute lack of being able to do the same for someone else just dumbfounds me.

I guess if you can’t find a way to do better than this, then you probably should just move on. No one else should have to walk on egg shells just because they might offend you by giving you the same advice that would be given to others, in the same direct way it would be (and has been) given to others.

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I can only restate that this post was not an attempt at any kind of ‘pity party’, and I will again restate I can understand why you may think it was.

I get that this will not convince you, but it remains the truth, such as it is.

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Perhaps we can start over then. You can agree not to jump to any conclusions without the benefit of information, and definitely not at the expense of other members of the community. I will continue to speak as I have been without any further requirements to fulfill any unreasonable or unstated expectations. On the other side of that, perhaps we can work together in a more honest way to make OMLx great.

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Sounds good. I can certainly agree to keep any conclusions I may inadvertently jump to to myself.

[edit] dang it, I’ve just posted that and it immediately sounds passive-agressive…

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I didn’t take it that way. :wink:

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Thanks

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I haven’t been here for very long myself. And we have already interacted before, but hey WELCOME!!! :slight_smile: