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squaresinger,

Does Mac prohibit other browser engines like they do on iOS?

Doesn’t do a lot of good, that they let you use other browsers if they are just reskins for Safari.

squaresinger,

It was, 25 years ago. Same as Windows’ security was absent at that time.

But people never update their prejudices, so all the jokes are from the last millenium.

If you want an OS that is really malware-free, you need to run temple os.

squaresinger,

I never said that Temple OS is usable ;)

squaresinger,

Well, anything unpopular that doesn’t use any software (even low-level software) that is also commonly used in popular environments. For example, game consoles, embedded devices or car entertainment systems often use outdated versions of popular browser engines. So to hack these, you don’t need to be a highly skilled hacker, you just need to be able to try some older vulnerabilities.

And there are enough malicious websites that will just automatically check for these vulnerabilities. And then it’s enough to accidentally open one of these malicious websites and even though nobody wrote the hack specifically for your car, you might catch some malware regardless.

squaresinger,

True, but when it was unpopular it also didn’t use code/software that was commonly used on a more popular system.

squaresinger,

Is that so different than in previous generations? Even back in the C64 era most kids just played games from disks they bought.

If you got into computers any time from the mid-90s, you would have been using Windows and that’s it.

Smartphones always came with their predetermined OS without a command line or programming tools on them. (There where apps for that on many systems, but in general, that wasn’t a thing most users used.)

From the 80s on, programming wasn’t required to use a PC and most users never learned it.

In general, people would just use pre-made software, because they use a PC/smartphone as a tool to do what they want to.

It’s kinda like with any other tools. People buy a hammer because they need to get a nail into a wall. Only very few people are interested in a hammer itself and get into the art of making their own tools.

squaresinger,

Don’t start with the tinkering aspect first.

Ask yourself, why does your kid use Windows?

Probably to play games, access the internet and maybe do their homework. Most probably, they don’t use Windows because they specifically enjoy working with Windows, but because it easily lets them do whatever they actually want to do on a PC.

Spending 5h on fixing some weird incompatibility between the Nvidia GPU, your DE and Proton might be fun for some, but it’s most probably not what your kid wants to do when they could be gaming or doing whatever they actually want to do. Problems like that can scare them off quickly.

So first setup the PC so that everything they usually do on Windows works without issues.

The next question is, why would your kid want to run Linux instead of Windows?

The usual advantages (FOSS, free to use, better for developers) don’t really matter to most kids. The only things I can think of right now are:

  • Runs on PCs that aren’t Win11 compatible
  • Some games like Minecraft run faster (but some games also run slower)

With the setup completed and advantages thought of, you can let the kid use Linux quite similarly to Windows. When the kid wants new software or has an issue, work together with them to get everything running. First do everything and let them watch, later let them do more and more of the process.

That’s basically it.

squaresinger,

I’m running Xorg, because I’ve read a lot about the Nvidia+Wayland troubles.

squaresinger,

Are you using a laptop that can switch the GPU or are you running Nvidia only? What GPU and driver version do you have?

squaresinger,

Tried it with and without, same result. It starts on the GPU and the whole system freezes.

Do you use xorg or wayland?

squaresinger,

WSL is really easy to setup by now. In the beginning it was really terrible.

Now all you need to do (if you are fine with Ubuntu) is open CMD with admin rights and input wsl --install.

If you want another distro, it’s wsl -l -o to check the available distros and wsl --install -d to install it.

More documentation here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

squaresinger,

Vim can do much more than nano, but for it to work, quite a few specific stars need to align, and if they don’t you are screwed.

Nano on the other had just works. If it exists in your env.

squaresinger,

All that blue milk needs to come from somewhere.

squaresinger,

Next time get high after doing the troubleshooting ;)

squaresinger,

This is actually backed by research.

squaresinger,

If a significant amount of people live in their cars, it means that the housing market and the wages are seriously out of whack, and the government has not been doing their job for the last decades.

squaresinger,

Part of the issue here is that if you own a car, it’s often cheaper to take the car than public transport, because most of the car expenses are paid independent of the immediate usage.

Car value deprecation, taxes, maintainance, all of that cost you money no matter whether you drive into town today or use some other means of transport.

I think it would be much better to put all taxes onto the fuel price. If you pay €5 for a litre of fuel, instead of the ~€1.5/l that we are currently paying, it would make more sense to take public transport some times.

squaresinger,

Don’t forget that even if you have a lawn and a few trees/flowers on your single-family home backyard, that area is mostly dead to nature.

So spreading the suburbs out that much means that much more nature will be destroyed.

squaresinger,

Sure they can. I’ve been doing that for quite a few years until climate change warmed my city up so much that snow and ice don’t really happen anymore.

squaresinger,

And if you’d plonk down that solar panel onto a roof where it catches much more sunlight, it would be able to produce even more electricity!

squaresinger,

But are all sides of the car in the optimal angle towards the sun? No trees or buildings near your parking spot that could shade your car?

There is a pretty huge demand for solar panels right now. If these panels didn’t go into a car, someone else would mount them to a roof instead.

squaresinger,

Well, they don’t want a mobile Linux. This is going to be a minimalist, locked-down distro that does nothing more than start a webrenderer.

Nobody’s gonna see the underlying Linux system.

It’s kinda like how my car entertainment system is running Linux. You wouldn’t know it if you don’t read the license file that comes with it.

squaresinger, (edited )

Sounds like a great laptop to run Windows on /s

Edit: quite surprising how many people don’t understand the /s.

squaresinger,

A consistent system settings app that actually handles all configs without requireing manual editing of config files.

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