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milicent_bystandr, in Using Fedora Atomic is like...

“Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping”

possiblylinux127,

*Terabytes

IuseArchbtw, in It's (usually) already installed
@IuseArchbtw@feddit.de avatar

I recently heard that manjaro cinnamon comes with Vivaldi pre-installed

Pantherina, (edited )

Is vivaldi FOSS now? In tests by mike kuketz it had nonexistent Fingerprint protection and bad privacy settings OOTB

redcalcium,

I think Manjaro devs accept, uh, sponsorship.

Perfide,

Is vivaldi FOSS now?

No

woelkchen, in That’s why KDE needs to be riced
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

I’m not congratulating anyone moving to an Ubuntu derivative. They count towards Canonical’s update server access stats, inflating the user count of a distributor who’s hostile towards openness with their Snap stuff even if the derivative doesn’t even use Snap.

ratman150,

How often do you go outside? You seem to care a lot about silly things that really don’t matter.

Also Kubuntu is awesome and I hope that upsets you.

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

I hope that upsets you.

Weird fanboy

kattenluik,

Those aren’t words actual people use by the way.

abbadon420, in No tearing support discussions for me

Also, I’ve got like 9 of them. So that’s 9 times better.

018118055, in No tearing support discussions for me

Headless + ssh

fatbeer, (edited ) in alias 2024='echo "YEAR OF THE DESKTOP"'

Here’s my experience using Linux for 3 yrs now. I was excited enough to try a new OS that I learned how to install a new operating system on a new laptop I bought. I never could get rid of a drivers alert on every start up, even though I knew there was nothing wrong there. Googling the problem, the top 5 results were 5 completely different solutions. Whatever it’s a small problem so I ignored it. Months later my sound started screwing up, like distortions. (Ok, so maybe there is something wrong with my drivers.) But could never figure it out and could resolve the sound problem momentarily with a restart. With the sound issue happening more frequently, I thought I should get a new laptop, this time built with Linux pre installed by a company that knows what they’re doing. I bought a $1200 laptop from System 76, with specs that I could easily pay $500 less for. I don’t understand why the volume buttons don’t work out of the box and the auto update of snap packages has been ridiculously frustrating cause all my firefox tabs close and seem to be lost. Again, googling the issue gets a dozen different solutions and I don’t know what route to take. I only need an internet browser & word processor, ffs. I feel too stupid for Linux. I don’t even have kids or much of a time sucking job and I feel like learning this OS is too time-consuming. I’m probably getting a Mac for my next laptop and wish I didn’t feel like I have to.

BURN,

I’ve had a lot of similar experiences that just make me not want to use Linux on the desktop. There’s always something breaking, and if you like to tinker with your computer and don’t mind spending an afternoon fixing audio or Bluetooth or a monitor configuration it’s not too bad, but if you just want something that works Linux is definitely not it

captainjaneway,
@captainjaneway@lemmy.world avatar

I have no idea how you’ve run into so many issues. People shit on Ubuntu here but I’ve always used it as a “Mac OS alternative” since the flavor feels similar. My wife uses it all the time and has very few issues. The only issue we run into is Bluetooth, but I have Bluetooth issues with every OS I’ve ever used: Android, MacOS, Windows, etc.

4am,

So, snap auto-updates don’t close your browser?

captainjaneway,
@captainjaneway@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve had no major issues with my Ubuntu distro. Snap updates work without closing any software - as far as I know. I just tested a snap refresh, but I didn’t have any out-of-date software.

I would argue I push the boundaries of common Ubuntu usage as well. I have 8TB of mixed HDD and SSD storage which I use for gaming, Unity development, Blender, Plex server, and random programming projects (e.g. k8s cluster work). I don’t have any major issues.

People complain a lot about Ubuntu and I just don’t get it. It’s a good software for the average consumer, in my opinion. My wife uses it for her computer and has pretty much no issues.

I do want to switch to Linux Mint someday since people are adamant that it’s better than Ubuntu but I think I’ll stick with Ubuntu since I’ve setup so many things on this machine and I don’t want to redo this work.

Tippon,

I use Xubuntu on my media server, and have never had that happen. I get a notification saying that the Firefox snap is going to update in 14 days, but closing the browser, updating, and reopening brings all my tabs and windows back. I get the same if I close the browser and restart the computer, letting the snaps update automatically.

I wonder if OP has got the restore open tabs setting turned off.

nebula42, (edited ) in alias 2024='echo "YEAR OF THE DESKTOP"'
@nebula42@lemmy.world avatar

Tbh it kinda comes to the reason why there are some people still using Windows XP in 2023: they refuse to let go. If another operating system can give them the same experience as Windows 10 with the latest support for all applications, hopefully they’ll take that as opposed to using an outdated version of Windows.

Source: my main gaming rig is switching to arch once windows 10 reaches eol

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling,
@ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

If you’re gaming, you should be using a distro that is stable. Arch is not worth the effort if you are just doing normie stuff like front-end work

iloverocks,

To be honest it is reliable on my system and the best thing is that I don’t have to think about updates, out of date dependence, package versions or packages in general. Just paru package done. As long as you are fine with setting some stuff up manually Arch is pretty amazing.

nebula42, (edited )
@nebula42@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve used arch before because of it’s philosophy of KISS. So far, no distro has been able to provide me with an experience as smooth as arch has. Plus I’m not just doing normie stuff I like to program sometimes.

TLDR: it’s just what I’m comfortable using so idc if using another distro is easier for what I do.

AngryCommieKender, (edited ) in Distros bad

I don’t drink coffee… From what I can tell from this thread, I should be Amish

callyral, in How do I exit vim?
@callyral@pawb.social avatar

Wait, has he entered Vim in his mind??

fl42v, (edited )

That’s what everyone who starts learning it does. Then you.jjjj websites or :wq documents, and eventually end up installing vim-like plugins for everything

wuphysics87, in Distros bad

God damnit… Btw

banneryear1868, in Distros bad

RHEL is the lukewarm but effective coffee provided by your boss from the economic but agreeable coffee shop chain.

Harpsist, in The most secure OS named windows

How is it whenever I see a post about ‘what anti virus should I use’ people are always saying ‘just use defender - def don’t use avast!’

Honytawk, (edited )

Because defender has an amazing malware detection rate with few false positives.

Much better than even the paid antiviruses like McAfee and Norton.

Avast used to be good, but then it started to show ads every day.

Plus, Defender uses close to no resources to run.

isVeryLoud,

Because if you’re gonna use an antivirus, Defender does just fine.

They all more or less use the same viral signature database and definitions, and are mostly feature-matched with each other. Why look beyond what your computer came with unless you’re installing something integrated with an RMM tool?

neshura,
@neshura@bookwormstory.social avatar

Because, in addition to the other valid points raised, modern “Anti”-Virus Software is often worse than an actual Virus.

There are way too many pop ups, the menus are confusing and constantly try to upsell you. If you want to remove the damn thing usually it doesn’t work, or doesn’t work completely, or has a separate auto-updater that reinstalls it after the next boot.

False positives screw you over good (Kaspersky killed the Ethernet Network on a buddy’s PC. He couldn’t use the internet on it until he managed to remove that piece of shit from his system completey) and are not less frequent than with Windows Defender but certainly more annoying (see above example)

If you paid a subscription getting rid of that is a pain as well (BitDefender tried to scam me out of 130€ by sending the billing notif to an email address they shouldn’t even have anymore)

Not all of them are shit like that but most are so sticking with the preinstalled Windows Defender that does 95% of the alternatives results in users having a better experience.

rtxn, (edited ) in Distros bad

Windows user: a stovetop percolator because they’ve had it forever and the coffee it makes is perfectly fine!

(Narrator voice: it’s not perfectly fine, the coffee is bitter and burned).

Octopus1348, (edited ) in So sad when it happens

I have a pretty good streak without Windows, I use macOS and Linux, and everything I need is available. If not, I can use Wine, and it works. And Proton is just amazing, the number of games you can play with it without ONE SINGLE PROBLEM is just insane.

nogrub,

sadly my count will stay at zero because my work laoptop has windows 10 on it

Doombot1, in How do I exit vim?

Freak out and force-power-down your PC, and never accidentally open vim again

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