There’s a certain value gained from those. Contacts/apps/photos sync and backup. And atleast on Android, you can skip it and use regardless.

This is about MS making the UX worse without any user benefits.

In the same boat but with Arcane

Probably since the infographic seems to be made by Tuta

Jellyfin and Immich jave stayed as mainstays after like 2 dozen projects I’ve tried on. That and a Samba share.

Not enough profit for the shareholders if the school is free. Also, how can they pay for the biggest military in the wolrd if they keep funding needless items like school lunches and resources.

The average user doesn’t install windows though. They buy the pc/laptop with Windows on it already, and use it till it’s in the ground.

And I cannot just install ubuntu/mint on a laptop for someone and walk away either, cause if/when anything breaks, the fix isn’t approachable. And trying to tell someone to use the CLI when they’re not tech savvy is not user friendly.

I’ve been running debian as my main and my home-server OS for a couple years now. And I’m really happy for it.

But it hasn’t been smooth sailing. I’m even on fully AMD systems. There’s a bunch of stuff, biometrics and otherwise, that just doesn’t work without random workarounds or even not at all.

And this elitist approach and tone is what turns a lot of folks away from even trying linux. Also, sure CLI might be great for a lot of devs, but regular users do need a GUI. And that is not fully there yet.

Just waiting on what the Standard Notes collaboration pans out to. Also wish they’d flesh out their side projects fully before adding more and more new toys to the suite.

I totally see your point and I tried GNOME first to have a uniquely Linux experience. I do agree with you. But the inflexibility of GNOME by default made it a much harder flip. I tried it with PopOS too, after using Debian for a while.

Plus tbh, I don’t think with still how much you need to use the terminal for linux, anyone would be mistaken in the transition. Windows has kludge from the 90s for their settings and linux still needs terminal.

I tried PopOS and the pop store is not the best, and gnome is too foreign for someone coming from windows.

And also, too fiddly to make it work with a number of third party extensions vs the customization being built in.

KDE is heavier but also seems more streamlined and Cinnamon is fairly decent too.

I’m doing exactly the same 😁😁

I’ve been using Omnivore, with Obsidian plugin to have local copies of the pages.

India did this and Instagram reels is the main one that benefited. Probably be the same for US if it pulls through on this.

There’s usually an interface material when using resisitive heat. And there’s heat loss from heating the interface material before the heat getting to the actual material that needs to be heated.

Inductive heating can be applied directly without heating the interface material.

Though this is probably more applicable to cooking vs industrial kilns and furnaces.

Resistive, sure. Inductive, not necessarily.

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" I have a home server on debian and after a bit of setup woes(partly linux still being so reliant on CLI, partly my inexperience with it), it’s been running super smoothly. Have multiple dockers and it has been a joy. And same for the steam deck, it just works. Some glitches here and there with controller support but that’s just PC gaming. But I installed it on my laptop as well and that was a shitshow. All biometrics wouldn’t work, wifi kept dropping in and out, phantom touches now and then. Sure I could have done some cli technical wizardry but I gave up after trying to make it work half as smoothly on my workflow as in windows. And the windows 11 on it is utter garbage. Partly this is manufacturing not having linux drivers available and partly it is linux just not having guis for essential functions. Hope steam is able to have enough of a push to get much needed consumer friendly guis for more system functions. "

Recent years of 2021, 22, 23, and 24.

As someone who has tried it on multiple devices in recent years, it still isn’t smooth enough. And I’ve been assembling computers for 2 decades now. So not entirely technically illiterate, but just not adept in linux. Definitely heavily reliant on use cases for how smooth the experience is. The server side is very well developed with years of linux leaning heavier on that side, but the splintering of frontend has a bit of an android effect. Lots of really cool things but still some jank that you can’t get rid of.

Exactly this. To both points actually. I have a home server on debian and after a bit of setup woes(partly linux still being so reliant on CLI, partly my inexperience with it), it’s been running super smoothly. Have multiple dockers and it has been a joy. And same for the steam deck, it just works. Some glitches here and there with controller support but that’s just PC gaming. But I installed it on my laptop as well and that was a shitshow. All biometrics wouldn’t work, wifi kept dropping in and out, phantom touches now and then. Sure I could have done some cli technical wizardry but I gave up after trying to make it work half as smoothly on my workflow as in windows. And the windows 11 on it is utter garbage. Partly this is manufacturing not having linux drivers available and partly it is linux just not having guis for essential functions. Hope steam is able to have enough of a push to get much needed consumer friendly guis for more system functions.

So, I’ve been using Bitwarden as an autofill service in Android and that works just as well I feel. Atleast for login details.