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@nago-

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• high school dropout (proud)
• professional computer toucher (remorseful)
• my organic brain was replaced with a NEC V810 when i was 8
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three space indent @nago-5/22/2024, 12:52 AM

on the other hand I have been working professionally on Linux for over a decade and if you do want to try it out, I will help you to do that. If you use the Fedora distro, I can and will help you try it out, answer questions, give free tech support, etc.

(Including getting steam running on it - I run steam on Fedora too - but I will warn you that it is kinda fiddly at times. Steam targets the Debian ecosystem more than the Fedora one, so there's some hiccups sometimes. but, it DOES work. Can't promise it'll be perfect, but it's something you could try if you wanted to.)

I can sorta try to help if you use another distro, but I'll just know less about it.

#linux #free technical support

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three space indent @nago-5/22/2024, 1:02 AM

I work on linux for a living but like. I like Fedora because it has (IMO) a good balance between "the new hotness" and "It just works". I am extremely lazy and like you, I do not want to waste my life debugging random failures of my computer just to accomplish basic tasks. I just want stuff to more or less just work. I got shit to do.

Only real downside to Fedora (to me, subjectively, etc) is that the support window is short: If you install Fedora 40, for example, you will need to upgrade to Fedora 42 when it releases to continue getting security fixes. This is about once a year. Upgrades are generally "pretty easy" these days, but I can't pretend that stuff doesn't go wrong occasionally, just like with those bi-annual Windows updates when it goes "Welcome! We've changed some shit around on you!" and you have to decline the Office 365 subscription again. It usually works, but like. Y'know. Sometimes it doesn't.

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