Speed is relative to the task. On my window’s machine, I’m running a 7 year old gaming computer and never thought that my computer is super slow. Also, after installing Mint on it, the speed is barely noticeable at best.

I was more talking about lower power computers, not gaming PCs.

Old hardware support? Shoot, Mint could barely get new hardware working properly.

This is because hardware manufacturers regularly never release the specs for their devices, so the drivers have to be reverse engineered first (or the manufacturer’s proprietary drivers installed in whatever weird way they dictate). Old hardware has already had this done, so it absolutely works. New hardware is irrelevant to this.

I’m trying to snap my windows to different ratios or tile out of the box. Mint, PopOS and Ubuntu does not have these features and I was trying to install it first from Flatpak and then in apt-get. Both failed.

I still don’t understand what you were trying to install? You can’t install features, you install programs. This is the same for all operating systems, it’s not unique to Linux-based ones.

Good, I can check it out. Mint and PopOS and Ubuntu does not have this feature.

Kubuntu is the KDE spin of Ubuntu and it should work too.

What is inaccurate? That I had a hard time trying to install a very basic feature on Mint and failed? Seems pretty straight forward.

That you’re saying Linux can’t do these things.

Don’t get me started on installing Tailscale. While I was ultimately successful doing this in terminal, I would not want my mother in law trying to figure it out.

Why would your mother in law be installing Tailscale?

Regular, non tinkerers people, normies have different needs, none of which Linux has a advantage on.

Speed, privacy, old hardware support, benefits from community modifications (gaming performance kernels etc).

Can KDE snap to 3 screens evenly? Or4? Or 1/4, 1/2, 1/4? Because Win11 does it out of the box.

Yes

I started with the GUI flatpak interface first and after those apps didn’t work, I went to google/forums. At the end of the day, I still didn’t accomplish a simple task Win11 has out of the box.

I still dont understand what you were trying to achieve that you couldn’t have done, at worst, in Synaptic package manager (a GUI program).

You saying I’m spreading misinformation implies you don’t acknowledge my frustrations and grievances.

I don’t mean to say you’re doing it intentionally, just that when you state Linux can’t do these things it’s not exactly correct.

I’m obviously going to be downvoted for this, but the second you ask me to use the terminal is the second the OS is not ready.

Well then I suppose Windows is not ready if every update you need to run a PowerShell script to debloat and disable telemetry.

I spent a few hours in terminal trying to install something after trying everything in flatpak.

And you didn’t consider to use the graphical package manager which can do the same thing?

Windows 11 split screens out of the box. It can even tile. You can even use hotkeys to snap left and right.

So can I, on KDE Plasma. Admittedly, I don’t know what the situation on Cinnamon is.

In order for normies like me to switch, you have to make the OS at as easy to use as Windows.

For non power user use-cases it is absolutely possible to use as easily as Windows.

Respectfully, please dont spread misinformation about what Linux is and is not capable of.

You’re assuming that the GPL protecting freedom and protecting itself are mutually exclusive. They aren’t. Again, the GPL is written to ensure the code remains free forever.

Also, I’ve already pointed out the flawed nature of licenses like MIT and BSD, and if the GPL could be relicensed to them, it would provide a very easy way for proprietary developers to strip the freedom from the GPLed code when passing a derivative on to their users.

It is unfortunate that it cannot be relicensed to other copyleft licenses, as that would not pose such a problem, but without an explicit list of licenses it can be relicensed to I’m not sure that’s even legally possible under copyright.

I fail to see how the share-alike nature of the GPL is “authoritarian” and “doesn’t respect your freedom”.

It is built to guarantee the freedom of the user. It’s imperfect, as it has to work within the constraints of the copyright system, but it’s a hell of a lot better than licenses like MIT for propagating freedom to end users.

Here’s a real world example:

If I want to root my android device with KernelSU or build a custom ROM, I need to recompile the heavily customised kernel built by the vendor for my specific device. Because Linux (the kernel of android) is under the GPL, the manufacturer is compelled to give the user the same freedoms that were given to them, which means I can download the source code and do this.

If Android were based on, say, the FreeBSD kernel instead, this would be impossible. There would be very few, if any, android custom ROMs, because the vendor could, and would, withhold the modifications they made to the kernel.

The only “freedom” the GPL infringes on is the ability to take the freedom the code originally had away from an end-user.

Well, FSF would have trademarked “Open Source” if they could.

I don’t think they would have?

A) The FSF doesn’t even like the term

B) They haven’t attempted to trademark “free software” or “software freedom” either.

TIL. Was it in the past?

That’s the signal app. The software which runs on their servers is proprietary.

I wonder what their thoughts on the unnatural spike in left-handedness are?

That first link talks about how it requires an unlocked bootloader, therefore verified boot is disabled and the device is less secure.

While that is true, I think that’s a bit of an unfair thing to hold against it considering on most Android phones, you need to unlock the bootloader to run anything the OEM doesn’t approve, and most vendors do not support installing your own keys.

That should be a criticism against the OEM for forcing you to weaken the security of the device to have full control over it, not Lineage. That is not really their fault.

I think it would be nice of them to mention that the signing keys being held by the OEM and the OEM only is a massive security (and freedom!) weakness on it’s own, and that without being able to sign everything yourself, you can’t really be certain of the security of your device, as you cannot control everything on it.

Well, considering that they’re canceling the one which was running in Fife (?) because it required two drivers, I don’t think so.

.tar.gz or .zip?

Chrome isn’t open source?

These have existed before the term “chiplet”.

Don’t get me wrong, I dont think it’s right to forbid people from collaborating in an open environment just because of what their government does, and frankly the arguments that the normal people should be punished because of their government are stupid, but it’s just, not racism.

Russians are majority white but ok

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend’s Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don’t know why.

Zuck: They “trust me”

Zuck: Dumb fucks

archive.org could archive the content and only publish it if the page has been dark for a certain amount of time.

It’s user-driven. Nothing would get archived in this case. And what if the content changes but the page remains up? What then? Fairly sure this is why Wikipedia uses archives.

I agree that many sites use advertising in a different way. I use it in the older internet sense – someone contacts me to sponsor a page or portion of the site, and that page gets a single banner, created in-house, with no tracking. I’ve been using the internet for 36 years. I’m well aware of many uses that I view as unethical, and I take great pains not to replicate them on my own site.

Pretty sure mainstream ad blockers won’t block a custom in-house banner. And if it has no tracking, then it doesn’t matter whether it’s on Archive or not, you’re getting paid the same, no?

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