pathief

pathief, 1 year ago

It’s awful for most new users, though. They don’t even know what the options are, how can they choose anything?

Not every new user is the same but if they are absolute newbies they should start with a user friendly distro, which Arch definitely isn’t.

pathief, 1 year ago

Power to you, friend. But with current snap store out of the box it’s really hard to recommend Ubuntu to anyone. Linux Mint seems such a better choice to newbies.

At the end of the day it’s not really a big deal, people should just use whatever feels best.

pathief, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

If you use apt-get you aren’t using snaps, you are unaffected.

Snap is a format created by Canonical which has a really funky proprietary back end. The default application store in Ubuntu uses this format and has been plagued with an impersonation problem. Since everyone could submit snaps there was a lot of spyware posing as legit software. My main gripe was when the snap store just decided to unilaterally close and update my Firefox while I was using it.

Linux Mint does NOT have snaps and even had a debian based version. Pretty neat

pathief, 1 year ago

I don’t agree with this. It creates a monetary barrier to starting a new channel. If uploading costs money the number of uploads is going to reduce considerably, no one likes to throw money away.

pathief, 1 year ago

You are not supposed to be an inanimate object. You’re supposed to listen, acknowledge, talk about the topic at hands. Empathize, ask questions to better understand the problem. Show interest in your significant other, show them you care about what is upsetting them.

Sometimes people get stuck on the “have you tried the most basic and simplest answer?” questions and it’s frustrating as hell. You can just ask “wanna brainstorm about it?”, at least you’re setting the mood in the right direction.

pathief, 1 year ago

They mean the user will happily pay for the new windows version instead.

pathief, 1 year ago

Linux Mint should be the default answer for newbies. Tech savvy users can probably find “the right distro” themselves.

pathief, 1 year ago

Congrats to the devs!

pathief, 1 year ago

I don’t think anyone is an X11 fan boy. We all know Wayland is the future. I would be using it if it worked on my machine.

pathief, 1 year ago

X11 development is dead so it really is just a matter of time before Wayland is the norm and you’ll be saying stuff like “back in my days we used X11 and we liked it!”

pathief, 1 year ago

Waiting for the driver to reach the repos to try it out. I am hopefull in an Hyprland future! You know, some day!

pathief, 1 year ago

Yeah, I share the feeling. Not sure if the problem lies on Wayland or Nvidia but hopefully if Wayland becomes the standard they’ll address the elephant in the room!

pathief, 1 year ago

Your description didn’t persuade me to try it, friend.

pathief, 1 year ago

Seems like it’s still pretty green :/

pathief, 1 year ago

I can only hope plasma6 has serious improvements on Wayland compatibility with nvidia drivers because plasma5 is unusable.

Yes, I know it works on your machine. It doesn’t work on mine :P

pathief, 1 year ago

I guarantee there are way more pathetic individuals than you, friend!!!

pathief, 1 year ago

It’s a corporate app so it’s harder to reach the actual end user.

pathief, 1 year ago

Who wouldn’t want a ton of feedback about the service provided?

I wish my costumers provided me with all their genuine feedback, all the things they hate about our app and why.