avidamoeba

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

Of course.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

Crashes on Arch, doesn’t crash on Debian:

Debian > Arch

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

Being able to always rely on the package manager alone, in other words on the built-in repos alone, has never been achievable on a stable system. You have to throw stability out of the window to allow for that to happen. There are huge downsides to that, especially for new users who have no clue how to isolate and work around defects. That’s why sideloading content via third party repos or individual debs has always been a part of the reality of Debian-based OSes. As a result, most open source communities and proprietary vendors provide one or the other.

avidamoeba, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

This is not 2005 when the vast majority’s experience with interactive UX on a screen was Windows. People today operate Android, iOS much more so than Windows. Thus they are able to grok multiple OS chrome paradigms without much difficulty. And then the OS chrome is rather simple and therefore learning it doesn’t cost much or yield significant benefits should you have gotten that knowledge for free. Therefore the argument for choosing an OS based on its chrome is as shallow as the chrome itself. The difficult stuff is things not working due to defects (bugs), finding solutions and implementing them and that’s where the OS choice yields the highest benefit. On that front few options beat Ubuntu LTS other than perhaps Debian, but Debian isn’t novice-friendly.

avidamoeba, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

It’s been pretty good here for a couple of months. The ability to rank up/down, block/pin sources is a really good feature. When it fails, there’s always !g.

avidamoeba, 9 months ago

Search for access panels such as water shutoff valves.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

If you encounter problems you can’t find information on, do Ubuntu LTS next and use askununtu.com, help.ubuntu.com and wiki.ubuntu.com. The existing documentation and the largest community is what makes this the easiest option. Once you gain XP for a couple of years that XP is transferrable to Debian.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago

Solving problems is what becomes more difficult. There’s rarely issues with the happy path. The further away you move from mainline, the more components are different, the fewer of the solutions on askubuntu.com work by simply copy-pasting them. A novice user has no idea what the solutions do and why they don’t work. Instead they have to keep trying other copy-pasta hoping some would work. At best taking longer to solve it, and at worst some copy-pasta breaking something on their system.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago

While you’re right, this expectation is unrealistic. Not only is it unrealistic for novice hobbyists, it’s unrealistic for people who use Linux to do other things, not for the sake of using Linux or learning its innards. For example my family members who use it for work an leisure. They couldn’t and won’t be bothered with learning how hibernation on Linux works. They want hibernate to work. The have me to make it work for them but folks who don’t will go to askubuntu.com, grab a well upvoted answer and copy-paste it straight into a terminal.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago

I was joking. It’s not abandonware, however it’s an atrocious development toolkit compared to Qt.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Yes. It even pulls the image for you if you don’t have it.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago

And yes.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

A single source of truth for software is one way to solve that. There are others with different pros and cons in active use that have shown pretty good results.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago

Yup. It’s bullshit. They just don’t include Flatpak in the default OS from the installation media.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Upstart 😶‍🌫️