heard it's the year of linux on the desktop 2026

[mindshoot@mastodon.xyz]

@babe my 89yo father in law has been running Ubuntu for many years. I gave him a live CD to get some stuff off his broken laptop, and apparently he liked it so just went ahead and installed it for himself...

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@babe I mean, I'd argue it was last year, but I'm probably taking the meme too seriously again.

[stevejb@beige.party]

@babe No crickets here. Wait, let me check my speaker mute. No, we're good. I've lived on Linux since 1996.

[babe@glitterkitten.co.uk]

I'm watching @feff and @JenJen try to install linux mint on an old laptop and it's in to about hour 4 I think? so we will try again in year 2027

[not_a_label@toot.lgbt]

@babe @feff @JenJen I've been here from the beginning and that is the most evil cursed laptop I've ever seen! If I was @feff I'd have resorted to rum and violence by now!

[dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org]

@babe
wow. thats impressive dedication. What were the big hangups? I'm too deep into Linux admin to know what causes trouble, its useful to see what goes wrong though.
@feff @JenJen

[hazelnot@sunbeam.city]

@Forbearance @babe that's a Linux *handheld* ackhshually

[schratze@todon.nl]

@hazelnot @Forbearance @babe handholding? 😳 on linux? 😳

[feff@comicscamp.club]

@dlakelan @babe @JenJen
Likely a corrupted iso from me accidentally pulling out the drive too early one too many times. I was somewhat glad for putting UwUntu on as a joke

[feff@comicscamp.club]

@not_a_label @babe @JenJen
I did resort to actually drinking the rum at one point (probably around the "let's see if UwUntu works I don't care anymore" time)

[filobus@sociale.network]

@babe It's the year of Linux on smartphone