foofiepie

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[–] foofiepie@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please make more of these. Thanks for sharing.

[–] foofiepie@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Oh so true. Also, have ever looked at a word for long enough that it just doesn’t make sense?

[–] foofiepie@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not weighing in on opinions about the fella as I’m British and ‘not my politician’ but, just showed this to my wife who is a specialist in geriatrics for the NHS and she said she’d refer him for a scan querying either a vascular event or vascular dementia.

[–] foofiepie@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago

Amun, am I going nuts or are the words moving around the slab?

[–] foofiepie@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do not speak of the Griffin Interchange Format.

[–] foofiepie@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I hate Windows with an unbridled passion. I’m forced to use it lately for work and it absolutely sucks (Win 10 anyway).

[–] foofiepie@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes sense and stacks up against my experience of it as seeming unfinished.

Is it Gnome / KDE as standard or are there other environments available?

[–] foofiepie@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve heard about Mint and it seems to have a good rep. My tech lead at work recommends it. I’ll look into all of these.

Dummy question but, I assume the commands/syntax across Mac terminal and whatever the bash/shell equivalent are similar/same?

[–] foofiepie@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve had a look through system76’ site and pop looks interesting, def a contender. Their hardware is a tad pricy. I assume like most of this the hardware is something to research carefully if you choose a distro first, compatibility, drivers, support etc.

It’s a bit of an experiment for me so I won’t be dropping a grand on some HW.

[–] foofiepie@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don’t actually know. It was Unity I think, whatever that is. Felt a bit, um, amateur and not very polished. Best way I can describe from what I remember.

I will be seriously researching every response here. Very grateful for the help.

 

Hi!

I’m a long time Mac user, but I want to set up a laptop or mini desktop (something not too old but powerful enough for image editing, really just for photography workflow), and try a Linux distro with FOSS tools for this purpose. I’m done with Adobe.

I’d like to scale one day to having a NAS of some kind.

I’ve experimented with Ubuntu before but it felt a little noddy, I just didn’t like it. Any recommendations? I’d like something with a decent community that would tolerate my noob questions.

Many thanks.