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Discussion Thread 🦕 Friday 19 September 2025 (aussie.zone)

submitted 3 months ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I fucking hate itunes/music so much for the way they "remove" files they don't want you to have by renaming them and reformat photo files

and their tv app sucks so bad

but damn they support such good television production and they pretty much give the producers/writers free rein

microsoft , you still have choices, you can choose to not use microsoft

and choose not to play games on line, you can use a pack of real cards if you choose

reminds me, i have to find the unsubscribe button for epic games, they are annoying me

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It’s not that easy to just choose not to use something. (I wish it were.) That’s the monopoly.

It’s going to be so hard to disentangle everything especially when already overwhelmed with other life admin. I have no idea if I even can degoogle or deMicrosoft because it’s such a large complex organisational task and risks me not being able to do things I need to.

I know right now I’m probably not going to be able to play favourite online games if I can’t get them to work in Linux.

And the files I tried sending from a non Windows computer (Mac) aren’t able to be opened on the other end. Kind of important when communicating with organisations.

I think what I’m going to do is break it down in steps.

I have to grab back all my pictures and files from the cloud to local storage before a deadline, I’ve got them off One Drive into a differently named folder so it can’t yoink it back but this computer is getting really full. It won’t handle more from other online storage.

So I’ll back up my old desktop.

Install whatever Linux that has a legit iso.

Then get everything onto there.

Then when there’s time I can try to use Wine or whatever to see if I can get my games working. (These can’t be replaced by a pack of cards and I don’t have the ability or wish to join a tabletop gaming group.)

[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I strongly recommend Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition, I've been exclusively using Linux distros for years, Mint is the only one that for me just works how I want out of the box and stays working.

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago

I was trying to sha the Cinnamon iso and none of the numbers matched for any of them despite trying different mirrors.

I might have to give up and try a different one