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By far it’s Kate, even though I’m now a neovim user. It’s just a great IDE.

Being able to follow a manual is a high bar nowadays

The ethically correct way to use data collection is to the contract being explicitly opt-IN though. Zoom is providing the barest of minimums

I agree with what’s gonna happen. At the same time, I guess Mozilla won’t make it hard for “Google’s web DRM” to be either toggled off via user config, or sandboxed from user data. They have interest in catering to people fed up with Google’s constant privacy invasions, so I’m currently waiting to see their next actions with moderate confidence and a healthy dose of skepticism as well.

Librewolf is based on FF, you know right? Mozilla does receive Google funding (that’s why their default search engine is Google), but adopting FF and derivatives is also about Chromium not being the single dominant engine: that would only strengthen Google’s monopoly.

As long as we don’t use Chromium-based browsers (and Google services) we’re doing good against Google’s monopoly already.

I mean, at least FF allows that. Hardened FF is a blessing.

Have fun, I believe one of those will fit your needs just fine ✨

You’re welcome, hope you enjoy your new Linux, whichever you choose ✨

Thank you! Was also needing this~

Technical differences:

Fedora uses RPM for package format, and is made to work with the latest versions of software, so it’s almost a rolling release, and receives VERY constant updates (but it’s still solid). The only other release model is the SilverBlue/Kinoite which is all about having an immutable base system and managing your applications through Flatpak.

Debian OTOH uses the DEB package format, and comes in 3 update models:

• unstable (bleeding edge software, breaks may occur) with constant updates
• testing, or Sid (with actively tested software, more akin to Fedora’s main model. Stuff rarely goes wrong)
• stable (receives mostly security updates, focus on using battle-tested software versions. Ideal for servers and people who want their system to absolutely not go wrong. It’s my current pick)

Project differences:

Fedora is on paper “community driven” but it’s actually backed and steered on by RedHat. There’s also a current proposal about implementing telemetry (turned on by default).

Debian is entirely community-made and driven, with no big corporation being its owner and/or main sponsor, and it has a stronger focus on FOSS. It’s about as old as RedHat (both have their origins in the early 90s), so you can bet they’ll both be around basically forever.

Edit: both are great distros, mature, stable and easy to use. Fedora was previously my most beloved, but my relationship with it soured over RedHat’s leadership decisions. Don’t let my current salt take away from the review :')

My main tips are: get the live ISOs of a few of the most used Linux distributions, I’d recommend in particular: Debian (my current one), Mint, Fedora and OpenSUSE.

For Debian and Fedora, get both the KDE and GNOME editions. OpenSUSE is mainly only KDE, and Mint uses Cinnamon. Those are the “desktop types”.

Try each live system on a virtual machine and see which one you like best. Your main choice tbh is the desktop environment you like the best (mine is KDE, also called Plasma), each distribution has it’s own way of doing a few things as well.

Then pick the one you enjoy the most. All of those are long-lived, stable and well-supported and documented.

Source: me, I’ve used Linux since 2003 and introduced all my family it and they have been using it for years with no issue.

To be fair, more often than not I find stuff by going into “siloed sites” (yt, forums, etc) and searching from there than using a search engine, but it’s still good for stuff that are more common but also more of a hassle trying to remember than just searching it quickly (e.g. “how do I add my user to sudoers again?” kind of stuff)

Gonna give SearXNG a spin then, since even though “I don’t have anything to hide talk”, privacy is a right we’re better off upholding and I want to use services that respect it.

I use it sometimes and works fine. Not great, but it’s fine for not super specific stuff

Almost, it was autocorrector changing stuff on its own and me being too sleepy to have noticed. For some reason Oriya is a word for it, but Krita isn’t.

It was dumb autocorrector moment, I did mean Krita’s Kiki indeed, thanks for the heads up :')

Based Konqi! Best FOSS mascot alongside Krita 's Kiki!

Edit: Fixed autocorrect’s mischief on Krita’s name

If you want some 80s badassery, Hokuto no Ken.

Listen to the opening, “Ai wo Torimodose” and decide if it’s to your liking or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9hhDEfV4uo

https://piped.video/watch?v=T9hhDEfV4uo for the Piped buddies

Cult classic! Duvet is such a great song

Us FF buddies got each other’s backs, don’t worry