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Except the first Suicide Squad.

The heck? That movie’s trailer slaps hard.

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Yet they scream when their 6 months old un-updated windows install wants then to update

The problem isn’t the OS being out of date I wouldn’t think, it’s the applications they actually use. Flatpaks are kind of a solution but not really.

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It’s a hard sell explaining to new people that they will have software up to a couple years out of date.

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No, we are sad because the decrease in posts lately have left behind the worst parts of reddit.

How so?

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I wish I could just edit text files as sudo with the default gnome text editor instead.

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Does ’sudo gedit’ not work?

If my memory doesn’t fail me it used to. But gedit isnt the default text editor anymore. The new one is quite cool and clean.

It doesnt work with sudo though sadly. It’s not the biggest problem tho, just a small annoyance, using the occasional sudo nano to edit files isnt a big deal.

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They obviously were landing pads for alien ships.

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. I couldn’t use gnome online accounts as that’s blocked by policy

Oh that explains a lot, thank you.

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I love the idea of kdeconnect but it wreaks havoc on my battery, on both phone and laptop.

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I can get the clients to fetch the e-mail atm, the issue is what I wrote above, is there a simple way to get thunderbird to fetch them from the moment I turn the pc on and give me notifications about it?

How do y'all deal with programs not supported on Linux?

I’ve been seeing all these posts about Linux lately, and looking at them, I can honestly see the appeal. I’d love having so much autonomy over the OS I use, and customize it however I like, even having so many options to choose from when it comes to distros. The only thing holding me back, however, is incompatibility issues....

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It would be easier if you told us specifically what programs you need that aren’t supported.

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Install Plex Radarr Sonarr and Jackett.

Select jackett as the indexer for both sonarr and Radarr.

Select your torrent program as the main torrent program for both radarr and sonarr.

Point the Plex library to whatever folder you selected to use on Radarr and Sonarr.

And that’s it.

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These are the ones I install on every system:

ttf-caladea 20200113-3

ttf-carlito 20230509-1

ttf-fira-code 6.2-2

ttf-liberation 2.1.5-1

ttf-linux-libertine-g 20120116-7

adobe-source-sans-fonts 3.052-1

adobe-source-serif-fonts 4.005-1

noto-fonts-cjk 20230817-1

noto-fonts-extra 1:23.11.1-1

Currently trying otf-monaspace though and I quite like it.

FOSS Firefox Dark Theme Extension?

I’ve tried using firefox’s built in dark theme but it doesn’t quite do enough. I’m looking for a dark reader that’ll invert most websites’ white background and dark text. I was wondering what privacy friendly dark readers people here would recommend, as some that I’ve seen have reports of harvesting user data and...

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Faster in what sense? Doesnt seem to me as if dark reader makes things any slower.

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if a distro becomes really really popular is inevitable that sooner or later some kind of corporation will put it’s hands on it.

Not how it works. And more so in general if you’re interested and curious do some reading on copyleft licenses. It’s truly a marvelous thing and they work quite well at keeping projects open.

I know Fedora is mostly just Gnome, but you can’t deny it’s probably the best implementation of it in any distro.

I absolutely can, what. It’s about the same as all other distros that don’t add much or at all to the upstream version.

And Arch is definitely not easy to install for a newbie.

If you are interested in trying it some time, once you’re in the installer type “archinstall”. It’s a default installation script that makes it easy to install. There isn’t nearly as much upkeep as the memes would suggest.

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I’ve been using Fedora for months now and it was my first time using Linux. Is probably the most modern and best working distro right now.

I’m not gonna suggest to you to switch distros or whatever. But most of the modern feeling you are seeing is just the DE, which you can use whichever one with whatever distro. As far as Fedora’s own stack the centerpiece which is the package manager is actually really slow comparing with anything else.

You think Arch or Mint wouldn’t become just like Red Hat if they had the user’s numbers?

Yeah. They wouldn’t. I think they actually already do have higher number of users than fedora actually. If they don’t, then Debian surely does.

Red Hat is a for profit company, and their first goal will always be that even if that means squeezing you and making the experience worse for you.

Community distros are explicitly about the community and not about profit, and it works quite well.

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I tried really hard for about a year to use gnome without extensions.

I’d say at best in the end it wasn’t annoying me too much.

Recently tried dash to panel again and yeah. I’m not going back.

I do not understand how people manage multiple programs open without a tray. Do they just memorize in what workspace everything is at all times ?

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Haven’t watched GOT. The last season is what’s been keeping me from watching it.

The first four seasons are the best thing that has ever been on TV.

Season 5-6 are like… They lost track of what made it great and went for spectacle, it was good if that’s what you are into.

Season 7 was bad.

Season 8 was actually offensive. It’s not just a meme that it made everything that came before worse.

If you have never watched it, watch s1-4, and tip your toe in s5-6, dont go any further.

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Only thing that isn’t bullshit is be nice and be confident.

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well gnome software and epiphany app stores just work.

Man I wish I had time to boot up a vm with a big distro, open both stores and try to install something, it’s immediately obvious.

There’s a reason everyone online says “oh yeah, the stores exist, i still use the terminal though”

They do not work.

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Your points are all entirely fair. It also surprises me how quite a few people don’t get it.

And it’s not that many requisites to fix it either.

A) don’t break shit on updates. This is the worst thing that could happen.

B) There needs to be a clicky app store. Just one. No options. No pick your repos. No pick between flatpak and whatever else. Just a visual app store you click an app and it install. You click to remove it gets removed.

It’s seriously not that much you’d think.

Having that said. If you do choose to endure through the learning curve. It’s mostly worth it. But fuck. It’s such a dumb self imposed learning curve.

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If you think that’s the case. Check some big forums for each big distro right after a point update to read the tales of woe and breakage.

My personal experience with this has been:

Pop_OS broke after an update. Unrepairable as far as I could tell. And I tried hard. Happened to multiple.people there was a reddit thread about it.

Fedora broke on an update. Not sure if repairable. I didn’t try. I had the most boring vanilla installation possible.

Arch has been unbootable twice over the years. And had to do many manual interventions. Both times it was fixable.

People are not lying to you when they say it breaks randomly. Just because it wasn’t your personal experience doesn’t mean it isn’t a common experience. You just have been lucky so far.

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protonpass for sure.

Bitwarden is great, but it’s way too easy to lock yourself out of it if it’s your first pw manager ever.

What's the point of buying new phones every years?

Other than your carrier give it for free or cheap, I don’t really see the reason why should you buy new phone. I’ve been using Redmi Note 9 for past 3 years and recently got my had on Poco F5. I don’t see the point of my ‘upgrade’. I sold it and come back to my Note 9. Gaming? Most of them are p2w or microtransaction...

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I’ll ride this pixel til it dies.

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