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I’ve already considered Debian, but… I dunno, this isn’t what I’d call the most logical reason, but I just kinda don’t like it as my desktop OS. I’d use Debian over basically anything else for a server, but as a desktop OS I don’t like the vibe.

I was on the same boat as you are, flatpak essentially made it all perfect.

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Fair enough.

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Neither, rock solid Debian + flatpak for the latest software.

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My model is more about the ability to surf the web without SPAM coming at me from all possible sides and avoiding services like Google Drive, iCloud etc not much because of the data privacy aspect but more because I don’t to become hostage of one of those companies because they’ll decide to charge more and/or lock me out of my account without any way to get back to it.

Doing things like self-hosting, using ungoogled chromium, LibreWolf and a bunch of the extensions listed by others fixes the “SPAM and hostage issue” with the added bonus of some privacy.

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You left off the part about this being just your opinion and a lot of people like gnome.

Do you know why there’s KDE, XFCE and others? Because there’s also a lot of people who dislike GNOME.

I don’t dislike GNOME, I just know for a fact that most of what they do is trying to “reinvent the wheel” every three years.

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Yes because constant flashy animations that get between you and the task is the definition of “extremely productive”. The same goes for themes made with CSS and other web technologies and their absolute top notch performance. “Extremely productivity” is clicking a button and getting the window/panel/icon or whatever in front of you before your brain can even register the event, not a 2 second fade in followed by another equally excruciating fade-out animation.

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horizontal virtual workspaces are a major paradigm shift somehow

Yes. I also consider the removal of desktop icons, the default change to going into the activity view and whatnot important shifts and attempts at reinventing things.

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Use XFCE for a day and then come back here and talk about performance. Not that I like XFCE’s crude approach to thing but it is indeed fast and BS free.

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I guess the catch is the fact that they don’t really need it. They have real time location from any Android device anyways (because of that feature that sends the lists of wifi networks around you from time to time), no need to storage the timeline on their servers, it’s only duplicate data. lol

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No, your only option would be to move to something like GrapheneOS if you can. Note that other alternativa ROMs like Calyx will also share some location data with some companies.

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Even Apple is now doing that thing where they’ll re-enable both after a while.

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Well MS being anti competitive as usual. Side note, I like Tuta very much, finally an independent provider, but I would never use it as they don’t provide IMAP/SMTP.

Made the switch to KDE

I’ve been using Fedora for a couple of months now, and have been loving it. Very soon after I jumped into this community (among other Linux communities) and started laughing at all the people saying “KDE rules, GNOME drools,” and “GNOME is better, KDE is for babies.” But then I thought, “Why not give KDE a try? The...

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Xfce works better everywhere and with everything, however it falls to the same pitfall that KDE has, eventually you’ll require some libadwaita application, flatpak and whatnot and then you’ll end up with a Frankenstein system half Xfce half GNOME components and themes that don’t apply to all apps equally. :(

Is the Linux Foundation Certified System Admin (LFCS) worth it?

I’ve been a software engineer for 10 years now but want to work with Linux more in a professional setting (not to mention the number of layoffs in the the dev industry has me thinking a backup plan might be a good idea). I have been using Linux exclusively on my personal machine for about 15 years now so I’m not too worried...

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In some places people don’t even know what LFCS is. Related: lemmy.world/comment/571106

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Docker is questionable open-source and depends on Dockerhub that isn’t open.

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No, but that’s what everyone ends up using and the thing is designed to work really well with dockerhub and not so much with others.

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I would consider buying a refurbished iPod classic on eBay. Simple and elegant. User friendly. Do you really need the Bluetooth part?

The only issue with those is the price + modding the disk to SD card + restrictions on the number of songs the OS can handle and whatnot. They’re cool and great indeed but not as perfect as one would think.

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Here a few more options:

Look up for online reviews for a better picture of what they deliver.

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Yes FLAC and 10,000 isn’t that much. I also have an iPod Classic 6th gen and I love it, but the mechanical hard drive had to go, it eventually slowed down and made noise sometimes. The SD card mod made it way better, lighter, battery lasts longer, transferring songs also seems faster. If it weren’t for the 10k sound limitation I would be more than happy with it, no need for Bluetooth.

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Just be aware you can lose your data. It is really bad with long file names and folders with a large number of files, there are multiple reports online about people losing their data. I personally have experienced this with large file names and once an entire vault that suddenly couldn’t be open.

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Better than nothing. :)

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Here’s a table with multiple solutions and comparisons: www.cryfs.org/comparison

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/930823e6-0012-4aa0-ae50-458ae0345924.png

Just be aware that some solutions like gocryptfs are provided on a user-space filesystem (Fuse). This has a very low performance and most importantly if you require inotify on the decrypted data for some application then it won’t be available. In short inotify is what allows apps to watch a filesystem for changes and act accordingly in real time.

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Recommending our religion Linux to others

Yes… tadeubento.com/…/linux-desktop-a-collective-delus…

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This is a win indeed, but what people don’t see is that most times “exaggerated and abrasive” regulation like that is only proposed to hide up other clauses and proposals that are equally bad or even worse - get the public distracted and thinking they made a difference and that the EU listens to them.

At the end of the day they’re still pushing for installing mandatory SSL root certificates in browsers (allowing for traffic interception) as part of the eIDAS upcoming regulation.

Another thing that people miss, and that most Americans folks would lose their minds about while reading this, is the fact that eIDAS also brings an unique electronic identification for each European citizen company, “a digital solution for proof of identity of citizens or organizations” backed by asymmetric cryptography with the end game of replacing paper documents.

To be fair this isn’t a new thing, most countries in Europe already provide standardized smartcards as citizen identity cards that use asymmetric cryptography so you can electronically sign documents and login to gov services with them. Said signatures have legal value and in some cases - such as lawyers and doctors - you’re required to sign documents and prescriptions with the card. eIDAS just pushed it even further.

Just imagine the potential for a govt/EU to revoke your oficial / legal identity at any time :)

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Great, Google and Cloudflare taking yet another chunk for the Internet. Becoming the middle-man in everything.

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