I don’t know what functionality those other ones have. People suggest Friendica.

I use Nextcloud for easy photo and document sharing. It has a gallery thumbnail display too. And a choice of privacy levels. I use a free, hosted Nextcloud, as I don’t have a server.

No mention of centralised versus decentralised social media. The thing that makes the biggest difference. No ads. No algorithm. No lock in, swap networks keeping friends and followers. Tune your timeline to suit you. Calling everything social media is trash journalism when those issues are already solved. Clearly he has no clue about the topic.

With many critical apps still running on Windows only, Windows needs to get worse!
To push those software companies over to embrace Linux finally. Then the users can follow.

Non IT people need to back up too you know? And there are many more Windows users backing up compared to the number of IT pros.

Buy an off the shelf NAS for backups. Plug it in to your home router, and you are ready to back up. Unlike a USB drive, a NAS, such as a WD mycloud, is ready to use any time. Smart people like a convenient option. It’s often recommended.

Make it hard to manage, and sure, they’ll need to rely on someone else for help. But as we see on Windows, backing up to a share is easy.

Why ever defend bad usability?

One thing where Windows has an advantage over KDE for non IT people, is applications can directly access network shares. Most KDE applications don’t even show the network in the file browse selector. So for sync or backup apps it only works with mounted shares. Which isn’t necessary in Windows. To mount a share in KDE it’s convoluted and a hack that is no good non IT users. If they expect good usability.

Here is a container of DIR.
Which is called a pen! Hmmm.

deleted by creator

I guess most Windows users don’t know what DIR is or even where to use it.

“Do you use DIR?”
User: “Do I use what? And don’t call me dear.”

Opening a folder in Explorer automatically shows the contents, saving the need for an extra step.

Yes, a directory is a list of items. Like a telephone directory. A folder is a container of items.

In 2009 I added Folder to the Wikipedia page Directory (computing) Explaining the Folder Metaphor in both English and German (Verzeichnis/Ordner). My clarification has been tweaked and altered slightly to bring it into line with Wikipedia standards, but it has stood the test of time.

I always use the term folder in Linux circles when referring to a container of things. It’s useful to stress the importance of the user interface, which is often misunderstood by many there. Be proud!

I joined Github and others, years ago to report bugs in software. But now I rage quit Github. No more bugs from me unless you move your application to a more acceptable platform. I suggest every bug reporter user do likewise. Screw Microsoft.

To a non IT person who hasn’t heard of apt, needing to start the update manually, and needing type some magic words in precisely, is the worst it can get.

It’s clear why many Windows users won’t switch to Linux, when people show them they’d need to use strange IT tools to use it. While, annoying, Windows doesnt need you to be an IT nerd. Linux doesn’t either, but to people outside of the Linux bubble, this is how it gets presented. That Windows update sure looks easier than some manual hack.

Maintenance is another huge benefit of EVs.

Some places have plenty of open space that nobody sees. Solar farms there are usually fine. Some places are beautiful countryside with hills between small villages. The nimbys are probably right. Quite ugly, unless they are somewhere you can’t see. Additionally, industrial buildings and city rooftops should be used, as well as car parks if you can keep the costs low.

More than a decade ago I joined github among other systems, in order to report bugs to FOSS projects. Now I quit GitHub as it’s too risky being on there. So if a project wants bug reports, go somewhere users data is not put at risk. Or go without bug reports.

If only they knew what the word average meant.

I’ve only heard the name gimp is used by some in a bad way. I don’t know, nor want to know, what they use it to mean.

Yes. Gimp is the photo editor.

I’d heard some sickos in some place use the word Gimp for something bad. Some sick minority are the last people to listen to about the name of software that’s used world wide by people who don’t know about those sickos.

Which is what the name has not been changed. Put your own house in order.

Apple stuff is super expensive here, so few of my friends have iOS. But it’s their work phone.