I have a lot of friends who knit. Some of them get wool from other friends or bargain bins while others will buy lots of nice wool, which can get rather expensive. Though I still think as a hobby its sound and fair to peend some money, especially since you usually get something usable out of it.

I work in an environment with a lot of people that are not very technically skilled. We run Ubuntu (GNOME) in their Laptops.

If I install Linux for family members etc. I install Ubuntu.

My reasoning is:
Ubuntu/.deb based systems are very wifely supported. If you google “how do u do X on Linux” most likely an answer tailored to Ubuntu may come up. Which is however mostly important if the Users will be doing some stuff themselves.

Also, I believe Desktops make a huge difference because that’s how people interact with their Computer. And in my opinion it’s not super important what desktop you start people on, its important it stays cohesive. My parents PC’s run MATE for that stability* (and for the “classic” usage scheme they learned back in the XP days) but even GNOME has a pretty stable usage paradigm these days …

Tl;dr: My reccomendation always is Ubuntu with a Desktop that resembles what they are used to.

* though with the MATE project seeming less active these days I’ve been looking for an alternative with low switching friction

I might just show my age but I feel like, in Germany most Millenials and older will recognize him? I certainly did.

Also mouse not pictures

I was frantically searching for it, then i opended the post to See if the comments found it …

Depends on what your using/how its set up.

GNOMEs native password manager “Passwords and Keys” has the opportunity to store the Browsers Keyring. So if you store passwords in Firefox/Chrome they get stored in Passwords and Keys (and then auto gilled in the browser).

KeePassXC has a Browser plugin, as long a your password databases is unlocked it will autofill inside the Browser.

Its Linux, so there is not one solution and it won’t simply work across all apps.

Yup.

Since we have a living room now (decided to stay 2 when the last roommate moved out) we have the luxury of space and my roommates parents wanted to get rid of theirs.

It has Doors with windows at the top where we actually put our China. The button cupboards are for various Household stuff (cleaning utensils, tools etc.)

Seriously how do they do it? Its like a superpower.

Here they recently dug up a trunk disconnecting part of the Airport.

Ja ist ja auch ein fairer point.

Ich hab mich bis vor kurzem nicht wirklich mir UV werten auseinandergesetzt und achte wenn eh nur auf die Zahl in der Wetterapp, das ist natürlich eher unpräzise deswegen fand ich spannend das es dafür so kleine Messgeräte gibt. Aber kenn mich auch zu wenig aus um den need jetzt zu beurteilen.

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Selbst der Blick auf den UV-Index in der Wetter-App verrät nicht immer die tatsächliche Belastung. Mehrfach gaben uns solche Dienste grünes Licht mit einem harmlosen UV-Index von 2, während die tatsächlichen Werte deutlich höher lagen und für einen Sonnenbrand reichten. Denn die Angaben zum UV-Index werden nur an wenigen Stellen gemessen, meist sind es reine Vorhersagen, die lokale Gegebenheiten nicht erfassen können. Wie hoch die tatsächliche persönliche UV-Belastung ist, lässt sich daher oft gar nicht genau sagen.

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Laughs in german

“Frei fahrt für frei Bürger!”

/s

As much as I like to sometimes drive fast I totally agree there should be a speed limit here, for all the reasons you stated.

OK. Finally got your point. That’s a fair argument and I guess one strategy to approach it that way.

Though I do feel like the takeaway most people had from Linus’s failure is “If Linus can’t figure it out how can I ever?” So I would argue in that way the challenges sort of falsified the truth?

But yeah got your point now, sorry for being slow.

Sorry I still feel like we have a misunderstanding here.

I was saying that Linus is not an Average PC user so he would not simply click yes. I feel like you’re reasoning the other way round? I.e. an Average PC user would just click yes so Linus I not an averge PC user but that doesn’t make sense to me since he did simply click yes?

I’m sorry I keep on about this and if I’m completely misunderstanding you I just wanna figure out what you mean

Which is my point exactly:

As much as Linus tries to claim it whenever he fucks up in Linux, he is NOT the average PC User.

If you gave a scrolling wall of terminal text to the average PC user and then asked “yes or no”, they will just say “yes”.

As much as Linus tries to claim it whenever he fucks up in Linux, he is NOT the average PC User. Yes he is a Windows power user foremost but a lot of knowledge and concepts translate broadly. For example: if you get a warning you have to read it before pressing yes like a monkey.

I agree what happened to Linus should not have happened, but the fact that Linux distros just let you shoot yourself in the foot like that is part of the freedom Linux offers.
“You wanna remove THAT? Sure go ahaead” in this case they even put in a “You sure you wann do that? This will break things”

I don’t need a gateway or broadcast to talk to my SO just .0 for me and .1 for them

Oof. I’m actually using the USB Hub on my LG Monitor like that (with my Laptop connected to the USB-C) and recently thought “it would have been practical if it had an Ethernet port” now I’m quite happy it doesn’t. Thinking they could just be running a simple embedded Linux to show ads and forwarding the Ethernet connecting that would be sneaky … (Tough I would wonder about an additional Device on my Network)

Back un 2016 I built my first proper Gaming PC upgraded over time, running Linux since the beginning. Since I got my Steam Deck I’ve barely played on the Desktop. This little device is simply amazing.

The thing is … I kind of agree with both takes.

I have been using Arch since ~2013 back when I still had time to mess around with it and learn the ins and outs, these days I work as a sysadmin so I want my systems at home to mostly “just work”, however Arch also is that Distro for me for the most part. Most of the times I actually encountered breaking changes it was because of my process not breeing quite refined. For example I didn’t regularly update my config files, so when there were changes in the PAM config syntax my login was borked, so now I check for .pacnew files on every update and sometimes I have to move over some changes. I also don’t update as often but just when I have a few minutes while I’m using my machines.

So in short I consider Arch to be a valid option for a Stable Desktop OS (if you take some precautions and don’t mess with it too much).

However for servers etc. I do usually go with Debian because the packages are usually simply a bit more matured and I do major version updates as you described (explicitly setting aside some time to possibly fix arising issues).

I’ve had that Laptop and ran Arch (and other distros) on it with those working no issue. I’ve since passed it to a friend who also uses it with Debian and hasn’t complained about issues. Are you certain this is a Software issue? Are the TrackPoint and buttons actually plugged in? Do they show up?