Fubarberry

This is all fair complaints about Linux, but I don’t really feel like windows is much better. I’ve had windows break on me or family members a lot over the years. Sure I’ve had some Linux distros break with an update and fail to boot (namely Manjaro), but windows has broken itself with updates dozens of times for me. The whole reason I started using Linux at all was because windows was breaking so often on my computer that I needed to try Linux to make sure my hardware wasn’t defective.

You talk about having to fall back on the command line in Linux, but that’s also true on windows without 3rd party software. I’ve had to use windows command line utilities to fix drives with messed up partitions and to try to repair my windows install after windows update broke it. A couple weeks ago I had to help a friend on windows do checksums using the windows command line because windows doesn’t support that through the gui. Meanwhile dolphin on KDE let’s you do checksums in the gui from the file properties screen.

I honestly feel like Linux isn’t really that much harder or more prone to breaking than windows, people just have less experience with it. The smaller user base means there’s a lot less help available online as well.

To be fair, those are both issues with flatpak too. You can change the file system permissions with a command or flatseal, but I don’t know of a fix for the password extension issue.

I had a 3-4 year old gaming laptop, and a mandatory windows update would corrupt the hard drive forcing a fresh install. I say mandatory because it installed no matter what I tried. Disabling updates in settings and registry never would prevent this update from wrecking my computer. I could get a few days to a week of use and then it would crash and require a fresh install.

I installed Ubuntu to see if it was a hardware issue, and it ran great. Years later when I finally got another computer I tried windows again, but quickly realized how many things I hated about windows. I deleted my windows partition and have never looked back since.

This is the what I did. My wife still uses windows so I configured the mouse on her computer, saved the configuration, and have it working smoothly on my PC.

While it was easy to set it up this way, I really don’t like the idea of needing windows to configure my mouse though. I really wish logitech would start offering official Linux support.

Thanks!

Pretty useful, definitely going to save this.

My home IP almost never changes, so I’d hate to pay for a static IP.

Depends, I was mainly active on small subreddits that were focused on things I was interested in. Here those small subs don’t exist yet (or are very inactive), but the lower overall user count means I’m interacting with a lot more communities than I would on reddit.

https://fee.org/articles/un-deletes-article-titled-the-benefits-of-world-hunger-was-it-real-or-satire/

So it was a real article, but after criticism UN deleted it and claimed it was a poor attempt at satire.

However the writer of the article said it wasn’t satire, but was rather meant to be provocative by showing how many corporations benefit from world hunger.

Honestly degenerating whole instances (particularly the larger instances like with beehaw and Lemmy world) is pretty harmful to the health of the fediverse imo.

Really hope communities can find a better way forward.

Your profile should have options to check if you’re a bot account, as well as if you want to see bot accounts.

So I’m sure bot accounts are possible, I just don’t know any specifics.

There are some distros out there intended for low power machines, but usually you’ll be fine installing whatever distro you want and using a lightweight desktop environment for it. Any distro running a DE like Xfce or LxQt should feel pretty decent on older hardware.

Yeah same, I’m from FMHY as well and I’m really confused as to why everyone is saying FMHY.

I picked it because I skipped over the first couple large communities looking for smaller ones that allowed everything. Didn’t really care about the piracy aspect at all.

I usually use tiling add-ons for Gnome or KDE. So pop-shell or bismuth.

Current focus with apps seems to be on mindlessly consuming content. TikTok/Facebook/reddit/etc all are trying to just be a feed of content where you just sit down, scroll, and consume.

I’ve always preferred to look over a lot of posts/content and choose what to engage with depending on what’s interesting to me or what conversations I feel like I can meaningfully contribute to. I don’t want to just mindlessly scroll memes, that leaves me feeling depressed and numb.

I’m not against “user-friendly” UI, but I don’t like it when it’s non-customizable or hampers my ability to choose what I interact with.

I’m guessing the way the official app and new reddit has everything so large. I prefer to view reddit posts as a list where I can look over a lot of posts at a time and engage with the ones that look interesting. 3rd party apps and old reddit are good for this, but new reddit and the official app are clearly intending for me to mindlessly scroll through content looking at every single post in the feed. I can only see a 1-2 posts at a time, and it makes it very slow to find content worth my time.

You’re at the top of the bell curve.

It used to be worth it, but Linux can run so many more games now thanks to Proton and other improvements. Most of the games that won’t run on Linux now don’t run due to anticheat, and many anticheat programs don’t like VM/GPU passthru.

So basically I don’t consider it worth it anymore.