Loucypher

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Loucypher,

Man, I feel you. Sometimes you just want to get on with your life without babysitting the OS. Debian will stay out of your way and just work. Enjoy it!

Loucypher,

LMDE is really great. Just migrated an old 2013 iMac to it today. Everything works out of the box. Everything easy like you can expect from Mint and stable like on Debian. Difficult not to love.

The only thing you have to like is Cinnamon.

Loucypher,

You can pay a lifetime licence for 10$ apps.apple.com/fr/app/…/id1126386264?l=en-GB

Loucypher,

For some apps this is just annoying. Like on Cryptomator

Loucypher,

Yeah WiFi requires proprietary drivers… it is less of an issue in 2024 as even purist distro like Debian now ship with those. The screen bug sounds annoying though… on which iMac did you experience this?

Loucypher,

Oh yeah forgot about Nvidia!!! Is that tricky to get to work on Debian? Possibly easier on Mint LMDE

Loucypher,

Yeah, the idea is something simple and stable. Stable because I don’t want to babysit the OS (I already do that at work), and simple so my wife can also use it in case of need. She only know windows so anything the comes close in terms of UI is “ok” for her. The real choice was between KDE or cinnamon. Eventually opted for Mint/Debian

Loucypher,

Just finished the install :) everything worked out of the box with Mint. What an absolute pleasure!

Loucypher, (edited )

Yes, I also had a positive experience with Ubuntu on a 2012 MacBook Air :)

Loucypher,

That is because search engines are shittier by the day

Loucypher,

Yeah that is annoying. I get that problem with Cryptomator

Loucypher,

Wayland is better at segmenting each app. On X any app could potentially see/record what happen on the entire screen while on Wayland that requires you do manually grant the rights. Similar to how macOS is requesting you to give each app the possibility to record your screen or not.

Loucypher,

I tried both Obsidian and Logseq and… Obsidian is just a pleasure

Loucypher,

Essentially Linux has today the market share OSX had back in 2005 or something like that. That is kinda encouraging! Now we just need for Microsoft to keep fucking windows up!

Insight on how the ADs network is built?

Does any of you know firsthand how the ad industry works? I hate them with all my heart and I already go out of my way to block them but maybe you have been on the other side of the fence and can share some internal insight on what to focus on to really disrupt the data collection. I.e. even if I use uBlock can the ad network...

Loucypher,

In other words it would be better to not block them and try to blend in? Does this count for DNS level blocks? In theory the ad networks will not see me connecting to them

Loucypher,

PiHole is great but eventually moved to AdGuard Home as it is easier to maintain and has lot of features out of the box

Loucypher,

I can understand the logic but… the web is a horrible place with no adblockers

Loucypher,

My threat level aim at reducing passive analytics, not active ones

Is Ubuntu deserving the hate? (lemmy.ml)

Long story short, I have a desktop with Fedora, lovely, fast, sleek and surprisingly reliable for a near rolling distro (it failed me only once back around Fedora 34 or something where it nuked Grub). Tried to install on a 2012 i7 MacBook Air… what a slog!!! Surprisingly Ubuntu runs very smooth on it. I have been bothering all...

Loucypher,

Yeah I guess it really comes down to that.

Loucypher,

Same. The idea is to have a machine to code, not to babysit

Loucypher,

Thank you for the through answer, really put things in perspective

Loucypher,

Long live the Fox

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