Linux Furs @pawb.social Southern Wolf @pawb.social 2y ago

Welcome to Linux Furs!

With all the refugees from Reddit seeking better places on the internet, I figured I would go ahead and create a community here for Furries who use, or are interested in, Linux to come, hang out, and ask questions.

Whether you are a newbie just starting out, or a seasoned pro who just finished compiling Gentoo, all Linux Furs are welcome here! :)

(I'll come up with some concrete-ish rules later. Just follow the instance rules for now and you'll be fine)

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Hello fellow open-source fluffs. :3

I started on Mint several years ago, and have since settled on Debian for my daily driver, though I'm considering trying other distros like Manjaro or Void for fun. I still use Mint for games (Steam + Proton). Haven't booted Windows for home use in quite some time and I plan to keep it that way.
mandatory "i use Arch, btw" comment
- Lol! You win the award for the first "IuA, btw" comment. xD
I’ve been using Linux for..not quite 30 years, but getting there, and I’ve been a Linux sysadmin for over 20. I started on Slackware, ran that for about 15 years, went to Fedora, ran that for 12 or so, and I’ve been on Arch since.

So yeah, I know some things ^^
- Heh, you've been using Linux about as long as I've been alive... xD
  
  Running OG Slackware is pretty cool though! That's one that you don't hear a lot nowadays, but definitely has some giants that built off of it. Given the length of time you've been using Linux for, ever try out Yggdrasill Linux from back in the day?
  
  I vaguely remember Yggdrasil Linux, but I never ran it as it wasn't freely available and I was saving my money for Super Nintendo games, hehe. Slackware was free, though it took a long time to download over a 2400 (maybe 14.4) modem onto a stack of floppies, all while hoping that nothing got corrupted.
  
  Then, the actual installation was quite a learning experience but I managed (somehow, far too long ago to remember exactly how) to get it running. Didn't have a graphics card for XFree86, but having multiple ttys/multitasking available after using DOS for so long felt extraordinary. ^^
Hi! I use Linux daily and am definitely interested, but am not really knowledgeable regarding it.
Hello Linux users!
Hello, ArchLinux (btw:tm:) and Nix/NixOS user here :D !
- Nice! NixOS is quite fascinating I must say. I don't have a huge use for it per se, but I can see huge potential if I ever wanted to make a custom distro to ship out. The Nix config file thing would be super handy!
  
  Yeah the configuration is just really nice, and with flake you can bring litterally anythink into it. Truely an awesome piece of software.
  
  I think the thing i like with nixos is the atomic upgrades, and the fact that you can rollback to an old system configuration if something is messed up. I tried using btrfs on arch before, but it was really confusing to me and i didn't like the readonly snapshots (i might have done thinks wrong too here lol). It's just better way of doing thinks imo.
  
  (it took me while to wrap my head around the configuration syntax tho xD)

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