>install Linux Mint for the wife >she says to me after 30 mins "I like it, I will use it for work and install Wordfast" >I tell her Wordfast has no Linux version and she'd have to pay for a compatibility layer >"I will do it anyway" >she says the touchpad on the laptop I installed it on isn't working >I look at the computer, it has about 10 instances [not tabs] of Firefox open >she is hitting the touchpad and saying it's broken, it's not, it's just very slow to respond, surprisingly >she says "you think I'm a stupid girl and can't use a computer" >she opens terminal >types in 'penguin' >"why is there no penguin"?
Idk senpai, wine worked great for getting Totala to run for me and it didn't cost me a cent. I might try red alert 3 later this week if I'm bored enough. It's so simple you must be an absolute failure at life to not be able to double click on an exe in Linux or use Google.
Carson Campbell
>wife >the jej >implying
Ryan Martinez
more proof that arch fucking sucks and mint is the true enthusiast platform, I bet these cucks expect me to go the south pole and compile my own penguin because it's "the arch way"
Asher Russell
>Installing some obscure distro. >For person who is too... not-smart to deal with linux mint (and probably windows also).
Michael Rogers
>"her" existence >implying
David Ortiz
>"I like it, I will use it for work and install Wordfast" >"I will do it anyway" >"you think I'm a stupid girl and can't use a computer"
For some reason just from this I can only imagine your "wife" as a robot or Tommy Wiseau because of how stiff it is.
Jace Anderson
I actually when i reinstall OS for family/friend PC, i allways install linux mint (64bit cinnamon for stronger computers and 32bit xfce for weaker computers). Of course before i do that stuff i allways ask what programs they use. If they NEED to use something what is windows only, i check out does wine can take care of it.
Not to mention, if there is any outside program what has linux version, it usually has it in .deb package (sometimes also in .rpm, rarely in tarballs) so they are compatible with mint.
And also mint xfce 32 bit runs easily and fast on over 10 years old laptop having problems with windows xp.
Charles Murphy
>Obscure distro >Within the top 5 most popular distro Are you alright user? You seem a little deluded and brain damaged
It's gotta be a relative of Tommy
Xavier Harris
>cinnamon
Tyler Brooks
Post latest cinnamon version mr. smartass
Anthony Hill
>Mint xfce How is that different from Xubuntu or any other xfce based Debian derivative?
Eli Thompson
>Mint has best driver manager.
Charles Flores
Linux Mint Cinnamon is the only distro that holds a candle to Windows or MacOS out of the box. It actually outshines both. It is the best distribution of Linux, and as of Christmas 2017 it is the greatest operating system of all time
Cameron Lopez
>Driver manager >Big community >Stable >Codecs, java, flash player >Flatpak
Andrew Adams
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Grayson Turner
An easy way to get penguin on Mint would be to ask her boyfriend Tyrone to install penguin. It werks everytime.
Christopher Morris
my Linux Mint did a christlike thing a few days ago. my windows 8.1 install fucked up and wouldn't boot, I had mint on same ssd so I just copied all the fuckhuge programs (games) I had on windows to the shared 2nd hard drive, used mint to grab a Windows 8.1 iso from Microsoft and then used Mint to burn a DVD, clean intalled Windows 8.1 on the same ssd. to be clean I killed the Mint installation and formatted the whole thing again. All my games are safe and Linux Mint died for them
Brody Gonzalez
>install Ubuntu for my mom >delete all the bloat >set up Brave, Viber and Thunderbird >mfw it just werks
Kevin Cox
Anyone can use Windows, it is designed for the stupidest people imaginable.
Jacob Lewis
I doubt it. If that were true, there wouldn't be as many stupid relative greentexts.
Mac OS was the one designed to be used by retards.
James King
No, they both are for retards. They're both like riding with two sets of training wheels. What difference do you think makes OSX easier to use than Wangblows?
Hunter Jackson
>viruses >fucking around with settings can mess everything up for the normie >temp folder always full of shit, needs to be cleaned manually >registry needs to be cleaned manually >etc
It requires at least some maintenance to use, otherwise it will inevitably become slow and full of shit over time, whereas you just set up Mac OS, turn on toddler mode and let the retard use it forever.
Colton Sullivan
No normie is gonna notice when their computer slows down, their tolerance for that is too high. They're used to using bloatware, because they're Windows users, so running slow is normal to them.
Chase Lewis
>Brave, Viber
you done guffed faggot
William Jones
>>"why is there no penguin"? Well?
Christopher Moore
>c-cinnamon i-i-is sh-sh-
Luis White
Hurrr durr i hate cinnamon so i post some outdated pics with visual bug from past.
Isaiah Miller
>delete all the bloat >install other bloat huh?
Landon Clark
how is it better than KDE5?
Gabriel Young
>Patchwork quilt of Ubuntu packages that any monkey with a netinst of ubuntu or debian could make without the bloat. >awful upgrade support >Multiple happenings of mint team fucking up security Yeah ok.
Ryan Davis
How autistic do you have to be to stress over something like this?
Jace Rivera
WTF I love cinnamon now
Lincoln Robinson
>Mint >Not Debian or Fedora
Zachary Gutierrez
last time I've checked Wordfast had a GNU/Linux version.You can't use a Word addon, though...daa That being said - Linux is not a great OS for a professional translators or anyone who is actually using a PC for work for that matter (devs aside).
Justin Baker
Mint's repos are some outdated shits.
Samuel Perez
>giant random ass gaps between taskbar elements >i wanted to rename a terminal tab and... oh, wait >same expose shit i can do in mate or kde, except i dont really care for animations so ill just turn them off WHY ARE THEY STILL ON REEEEEEEEE >giant gaping wasted space in the file browser sidebar is still a thing
William Moore
>>giant random ass gaps between taskbar elements >>giant gaping wasted space in the file browser sidebar is still a thing >what is the difference between left-, center- and right-aligned elements? >>i wanted to rename a terminal tab and... oh, wait tabs can be renamed in the XFCE4 terminal that's being used in the webm... what are you talking about, retard? >>same expose shit i can do in mate or kde, except i dont really care for animations so ill just turn them off WHY ARE THEY STILL ON REEEEEEEEE don't ever forget to take your autism pills
Adam Bennett
>needing to install a better DE's terminal cause the one that comes with yours is gimped
Grayson Brown
>Christmas day 2017 >Cripple your wifes laptop with shitty Linux crapOS
You're so smart man but you'll be crying and trying for weeks to figure out why she left you for another man.
Levi Martinez
>the one that comes with yours which is gnome-terminal congrats, user, you're very smart
Grayson Jackson
>wifes >implying
Parker Jenkins
Just buy her a chromebook.
Ryan Barnes
>open terminal >type "install dark souls" >doesn't work The absolute state of....
Joshua Allen
>her
Tyler Green
>she'd have to pay for a compatibility layer Why don't you just try wine? Worth a shot at least.
Evan Rivera
>she'd >implying
Jayden Ramirez
crossover devs do a majority of the work on wine. given that crossover is just a fancy layer over top wine
chirst, you turbonerds suck at this
Benjamin Allen
>have to pay for a compatibility layer Why would you just lie to your wife?
Oh yeah you made her up just like this whole story.
Gabriel Rodriguez
Aaaand this is how her productivity halts and eventually gets fired at work.
T-thank you neckbeard senpai
Jeremiah Wood
>"her" existence >implying
Adam Jackson
> (OP) >Why the fuck don't you install Windows 7 anyway? >I tried _once_ to install a Linux distro to a non-autistic person, never again. This might have been true 20 years ago, but not anymore. My mom is not a tech person at all, but asked me to install Linux on her laptop after it updated from Windows 7 to Windows 10 without her consent and she didn't like it. I set her up with mint and she is happy with it