Most distributions have detailed instructions on their sites, like Linux Mint. But overall, it amounts to:

1. Choose disteibution
2. Download it’s installation image ( I recommend LiveUSB version - it will allow you to check if you like it first and most distributions have them )
3. Prepare bootable usb stick ( I recommend Rufus for that )
4. When done, reboot your computer choosing usb drive as boot
5. If LiveUSB version, check out whether you like what you see and if everything works. If you like it, there should be install app on desktop
6. Proceed with install process. For most linuxes, it’s 1:1 windows installation process, minus ads and forcing you into online stuff.
7. Enjoy linux ^^

Edit: Also, you can simply download distributions en masse and boot them up in VirtualBox or something to check them out without making USB each time. Allows bypassing requirement of LiveUSB too - you can just install it in its box. However not all distributions like being virtual boxxed

Short Hipocrisy version, because people I also wrote books there:

Windows sucks your data and tries to put ads everywhere. Linux is a type of operating system, that is free and open source - everybody can make their version. Thus, there are no ads, and the moment they try to spy on you, community picks up the torches. So, people who know their stuff rally behind linux. HOWEVER. Linux isn’t windows - it doesn’t support the same programs and needs you to fight off command line anxiety.

Today linux is basically botherless to work with, but even then, I still had to boot up command line to install some old ass drivers or some shit.

Heck, what’s more - there’s only one/two version of active windows, but there’s many linux distributions (which are the “made by other folk” version I talked before), so you can pick the one that fits you. Most folks recommend Linux Mint as it’s the most Windows like experience, but if you like chromebooks there’s also Peppermint OS, and if you want full versatility there’s also Debian.

As a windows user WIN+R -> CMD -> TASKKILL /F /T /IM “<appname>*”

… I use it too much. Appa often block my screen :|

Welcome to 1,000 games of minesweeper/tetris/flappybird! With, maybe, two or three more advanced games like Thrive or Endless Sky.

Nononononono

Whaaaa, noooo. Belt off, helmet’s for pussies, gas is meant to be floored, and ppl need to feck off. /s

Although I do drift with forklift irl…

Courage - I know the consequences and can bear them to achieve what I need

Stupidity - The risk is calculated, but I suck at math.

Meanwhile men don’t have access to support groups, are not supported by anyone when they admit it, get straight up ridiculed for this ever happenning by both everyday people and justice system…

It happens to both genders. But we managed to build fundamental lattice of support for one of them (fundamental as in there’s still so much to do), while failing to even recognize the other one faces this problem too. We do not have to compromise on helping one side to help the other - that’s straight up not an option. But we should help, and recognize the need of help, for both.

About lemmy.world - when running from reddit, it was literally first on the list of advised ones everywhere. Also, biggest, so it had most communities. I am actually pretty much only aware of .world, .dbzer0 and sh.itjust.works. From the normal ones anyway.

lemmy.ml is basically an instance made by creators of lemmy from what I know.

The gas is meant to hug the floor tightly, engine is meant to roar, adrenaline to be pumped, and zoomies to be upheld.

…in a race. However, zoomies apply everywhere.

Similiar, however I absolutely love walking fast. Hell, I am always trying to top my speed.

Except at work. Cuz then things get done too fast and I land at 10 on the scale. :(

Truly lazy. Memorised layout. Light is meh, only intruders trip now.

Then I trip on intruders.

Not USA, but I am somewhat patriotic. For those who actually don’t understanding why burning a flag irks some folk: Flag is a symbol of a country. People who feel pride for their country, who feel like they really are a part of that country and root for it, are feeling something akin to being spat on when the flag is burned, as it shows disrespect for country and what it stands for, them included.

I don’t judge people without context tho, as often burning the flag is a method of showing major dissatisfaction with how country is being run - in a sense, showing that one doesn’t feel this connection anymore.

And when done “for fun”…well, idiots are everywhere, whatever.

I…what? Never said 7 was better than 10, nor that quality goes up. Just that every second windows is good.

Every second windows tho. Xp good, Vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 10 good, 11 bad…

Not only in Russia. Lived in one. Cockroach problem was constant. But overall, if you modernize them, they are great.

Reminds me when I got off diet. I was so desoerate that I took a whole ass bread, cut it horizontally, put a lot of veggies and meat inside and ate it in one go.

God it felt good.

God my stomach hurt.

Fair…though funny you mention cancer. My partner went through that and brushed with death and she has pretty much the same approach as me.

I…still cannot wrap my head around the fear of death. If you’re dead, that’s it, done, your warranty is void and all that. What to fear?

I fear consequences of my death - shit people close to me will be put through. But death itself? It’s like fearing time. Shit’s just there, always was, always will be, touches all of us and nobody can do shit bout it.

Voice and intonation dictates how I perceive characters and such. And if it’s read in monotone, no way in hell I’ll be able to focus on it.