To be fair. This can be applied to apple and windows users sometimes.

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    Isn’t this mainly an Arch meme? I think most Linux users who have been using it for several years don’t go around talking much about it anymore. But I admit the meme kinda does depict mid-teenage me who had recently switched to Linux.

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      It’s actually really easy, the best is to start with Linux From Scratch. That’s how you get a couple of hours of heartwarming fun and games.

      Start on your grandmother’s PC she can join the fun

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        Great, thanks. But isn’t she going to be confused by the lack of anything to click on? She doesn’t know how to “hack” or “code” or whatever you Linux brainiacs do lol…?

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          She will catch right on, just trust my advice. A “mouse” is overrated, I haven’t used on in years. Once you memorize the man pages(just a few minutes) should be smooth sailing

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    My brother jokes about this referring to me, but lately he has been noticing the power of Linux and FOSS, he switched to Lichess from Chess.com and immediately noticed the benefits and how the are totally worth the downsides.

    He also noticed how quick my system is, and how cool is that I can hibernate my laptop.

    I just hope my efforts make them all switch (at least their personal computers) to Linux at some point.

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      I’m as much a Linux fan as you, but windows computers also hibernate without issue

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          What do you mean set it up from the installer?

          It’s there, by default. You don’t have to set it up. If you want it to behave a certain way, it’s a few clicks. If you wanted, you could script it via powershell, command line (batch), or a reg file.

          I’ve never met anyone who’s changed the defaults, other than me, and I’ve been supporting Windows since before it was what most people know as Windows (ever seen Windows 1?)

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            Ah, great then. I meant to set up a swap partition (and its size), and all that. I just wanted to know how could one do it because I want to teach my family to hibernate the computer instead of regular suspend on their computers. I’ll look it up, thanks!

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              You can add the setting to hibernate to the normal power menu and also make it automatically hibernate when they press the power button/close the lid etc. from somewhere in the power settings. So if they just press the power button or whatever you can make it automatically hibernate instead of dealing with trying to teach family a new thing lol.

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              Windows suspend is now hibernate, or something, or Poweroff with fastboot is hibernate. I forget. There was a time when their terms meant the thing it did, but they actually switched things around. If you need a full power off for hardware reasons its a restart, because power off doesn’t do a true power off any more. Something to that effect

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    I’m the opposite, I generally don’t mention it because I know that I won’t be able to keep myself from talking too much about it. If it’s someone who’s at my place and they ask what I’m using or I just see them looking confused about what’s going on when I’m using it I’ll gladly show them but never do the whole speech thing about why and why they should too etc.

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    Holy crap maybe that’s why I’ve been in such a trash mood for a few weeks

    Btw I don’t use Arch

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    For Arch users it’s only 5 minutes. MX Linux users it’s 3 1/2 minutes.

    Edit: I actually meant to say NixOS users, but MX Linix users probably feel the same.

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    I dunno, I’ve never head anyone evangelize Windows.

    Apple, yes. But honestly Linux users seem to have overtaken Apple users with their evangelizing.