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  • [Unpopular Opinion] There are too many distros. The diverse distro-landscape hindering Linux adoption.

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  • No, I dont suggest that there should be another new distro. The existing ones are pretty good at the goal of being userfriendly, at least some of them like Linux Mint

  • [Unpopular Opinion] There are too many distros. The diverse distro-landscape hindering Linux adoption.

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  • It is a problem if the goal is to increase the "personal desktop OS marketshare".

    But diversity is a good thing for itself I agree. I have the feeling that it is a bit sad that it seems that there isnt one or two "main" distros, which one could recommend that tech illiterate family member.

  • [Unpopular Opinion] There are too many distros. The diverse distro-landscape hindering Linux adoption.

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  • Yes, sorry, that wasnt my intention.

    When I talked about "Linux" or "distros" i only ment Desktop OS for personal use. Sorry!

  • [Unpopular Opinion] There are too many distros. The diverse distro-landscape hindering Linux adoption.

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  • Agree! I dont want to dictate anyone and I understand that my rant wont change anything.

    It was more about the hypothetical optimum "if we one wanted to optimize for user-share of the desktop OS market", then there should be fewer but better distros.

  • Epstein puts my morality into perspective

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  • Or specifically bred/GMOd soy and corn which gets used for animal food instead of soy and corn humans could eat.

    (Nothing against GMO, but against our high animal produce consumption)

  • Learn Linux [Command Line] Fast by Playing These Fun and Interactive Games - Make Tech Easier - Lemmy.World

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  • I'd say they are more "Commandline learning Games".

    Idk if you can reduce learning Linux to learning to use the commandline.

  • San Francisco Mayor Daniele Lurie was spotted riding the bus and answered a question from a resident

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  • Thanks :D

  • San Francisco Mayor Daniele Lurie was spotted riding the bus and answered a question from a resident

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  • Yea, I underestimated the car dependency once again. Being "so poor they have to take public transit" is a crazy sentence to me. Our highest executive politicians, the Bundesräte (the left/green moreso than the right ones) regularly ride on public transport, in the more expensive 1. Class, and they expect not to be disturbed.

    I mean its a swiss thing as well. Roger Federer and Justin Biber can just stroll through a city and only rarely get bothered by people for selfies.

  • The most Microsoft support document of all time – OSnews

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  • Not to forget Teams (new)

  • San Francisco Mayor Daniele Lurie was spotted riding the bus and answered a question from a resident

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  • Wow, as a swiss resident this comes across rude. Dont get me wrong, its nice to see politicians in discourse with the people but the guy just kinda said: "Hello, I have a question and now I have another quite hard to answer political question."

    I'd have said: "May I ask you something politics related?" And then accepted a No if the politician wants to have a quite ride.

    Behaving like this is going to encourage private travel in a car.

  • Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how

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  • I instinctively do that as well, on Windows, Cinnamon and Plasma and it didnt work on Gnome, Superkey opened the Startmenu but then typing didnt search. Thats what I wanted to ask, if I miss something obvious or if Gnome doesnt offer that feature out of the box.

    Debian probably changed the Key for the Spotlight-like search.

  • Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how

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  • Short question because thats what made me swap to KDE: How do you quickly open an app, without navigating through the categories with your mouse?

    Now make me look stupid :D

  • Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how

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  • Very true in my limited experience

  • Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how

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  • I upvoted you. <3 My experience was very similar but with the two swapped: After I used Linux Mint (with Cinnamon) I tried Debian, it came with Gnome.

    I struggeled to find the apps (I dont know what they are called on a new OS) but I didnt find out how to search for them. Win+Type didnt search, I didnt see an obvious Spotlight feature like on apple.

    Then I wanted to change some settings and couldnt change them (I dont remember what). I felt like customisation wise I'm using macOS, and thats a bad thing. So like you I reinstalled Debian with KDE after less than 1h in gnome.

    Thats why we need different DEs, maybe they and their variations are more important than the huge selection of distros.

  • Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how

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  • So the preinstallation of all the KDE apps is a choice of the distro?

    On both Linux Mint and Debian+Plasma I got some apps preinstalled. That I can uninstall and that they arent developed by the same people doesnt play a role. For the user they come with the OS, like Win10 preinstalls the calculator and Candy Crush

  • Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how

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  • I tested Gnome and KDE Plasma5 in the last year. KDE Plasma is in my opinion the first DE which is comparable with Win/MacOS. It looks modern, is pretty much feature complete and as an average user its nice to have useful apps preinstalled (calculator, libreoffice, firefox and so on), but no bloatware.

    Its just a bit more customizable than windows, which is perfect and also not fiddly and a pain. It certainly has a handful of quirks, like Windows does, but you get used to them.

    If I have to set up elderly relatives with a computer, I'd strongly consider a KDE Plasma Desktop

  • ich_iel

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  • ... bitte bleib steeeehn, bleib steehn.

    (Rammstein - Zeit)

  • Lachgas am Steuer: Haftbefehl nach E-Scooter-Unfall mit toten Zwillingen

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  • "E-Scooter Unfall" Da hatt ein Autofahrer auf Drogen mutmasslich mutwillig drei Leute töten wollen. Was für ein "E Scooter Unfall"???

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  • Hacking a Social Media profile --> Tearing down a poster

    Hacking a Website --> defacing a facade

    If the blinds arent closed by or a window is left open by accident, some information could get out. If the doors arent locked, the attacker could get access to further information.