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niisyth

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  • Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper

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  • 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.

  • I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows

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  • 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 spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • People doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome?

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  • 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.

  • People doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome?

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  • 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.

  • Which link/bookmark manger do you prefer, and why?

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  • I'm doing exactly the same 😁😁

  • Which link/bookmark manger do you prefer, and why?

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

  • ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US

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

  • How to Escape From the Iron Age?

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  • 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.

  • How to Escape From the Iron Age?

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  • Resistive, sure. Inductive, not necessarily.

  • Linux hits 4% on the desktop 🐧 📈

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  • Copied from another comment I made

    " 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. "

  • Linux hits 4% on the desktop 🐧 📈

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

  • Linux hits 4% on the desktop 🐧 📈

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  • 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.

  • Linux hits 4% on the desktop 🐧 📈

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  • 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.

  • 10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox.

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

  • Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)

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  • This is just factually untrue with the numbers lemmy by itself has being having. Not to say anything of Mastodon and et al. There wouldn't be a mass exodus of highly engaged folks from reddit to lemmy if users just didn't move anymore. Threads got big but then instantly deflated to a much lower number immediately.

  • Migrated from Windows to Linux. Decided to share list of answers/statements I was looking for before did it (and could not find).

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  • Anecdotally, Mint broke file permissions and then the mounting points for my home server setup. And I find Cinnamon to be quite ugly imho.

    I tried Fedora and Debian and much prefer those two vs Mint. Also, KDE is incredibly beautiful on the Steam Deck.

    P.S. Fedora and Debian work with secure boot OOTB. Helpful for a laptop install. I know you can make it work with Arch and Mint as well, and there's issues+opinions with secure boot, but I just wanted something to work. I am not as adept with linux and the guides assumed a particular level of experience with it.

  • Microsoft Finally Realizes Nobody Wants Its Windows 11 Preinstalled Bloatware

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  • It's truly ridiculous how much Linux gaming leapfrogged with the Steam Deck. I'm contemplating installing a debian partition for my main PC since I don't really play a lot of games that need anti-cheat.

    The madlads really did it.