How much of that data cap do you use?

A lot of my coworkers get unlimited, but when I ask about actual use, they don’t get close to even a lower tier. My SO wanted unlimited because they hit their previous cap (5GB), but we agreed to try the 15GB cap and they’ve been happy, not hitting the cap. We save a bit of money and they don’t need to worry about data caps anymore.

Everyone is different obviously, but I feel like a lot of people get unlimited when they don’t actually need unlimited.

That’s higher than my household’s entire internet usage, and we’re not particularly light on the video streaming (I often have YT in the background when I WFH).

I can see 10-20GB/month for a single person being fairly reasonable if they steam music or something a lot while out and about.

That still seems kind of high. Are you constantly streaming video/audio when not at home?

That’s nuts. Our total internet usage for our house internet connection is about 100GB for the week, and that includes a lot of video streaming. You almost use as much as my household, but on your phone.

Most months I use <1GB because I mostly just browse the web when I’m not at work.

Cue, unless you want them to get in line to do the same thing.

I highly doubt random websites are eating your data, it’s much more likely your videos and whatnot. I browse a lot on my phone and I generally use 1-2GB in a month. If I watch video, that’s gone in an hour.

Correct. But it’s a lot of data.

Yeah, we used Google Fi for a bit, but then I did the math and found a better offer. I use very little data so I use Tello ($8/month), and my SO uses a lot more so they have Mint (15GB plan). All in all, it’s cheaper than Fi.

That’s a lot of data…

instead of using ‘krita’ in the command line, I need to use like, ‘~/.local/var/org.kritafoundation.krita.flatpak’

Does your DE not find it for you? Both GNOME and KDE seem to find my flatpaks, so I just launch them from there.

Ideally you don’t launch GUI apps from scripts, and you don’t install CLI apps via flatpak. So the handful of times you do want to launch a GUI app from a script, I think it’s reasonable for there to be a little bit of annoyance.

You can make an alias if it really bothers you.

Appimages are actually my current favorite method for universal install. I rename them, then stuff them in my ~/bin/ directory. My gripe with appimages is there is no auto generated .desktop file.

That, and nothing autos updates them, not to mention the compete lack of a sandbox, so it can do anything your user account can do.

Adding repos was invented by the Devil

Yup, the only exceptions are “official” repos. Projects like Debian and Fedora don’t ship nonfree software, so the “official” extra repos are essential for things like nvidia drivers.

Arch’s AUR

If you don’t like extra repos, you shouldn’t like the AUR, since that’s essentially the same idea. You’re basically running arbitrary code on your machine.

The AUR can be great, just be careful.

And reducing grass in desert areas.

if you use an Nvidia compatible distro like PopOS or Nobara

I don’t know what that even means. Pretty much any distro is “Nvidia compatible,” you just need whatever the package is for your distro. Rolling release distros can have issues occasionally, so just use something like snapper and rollback if there are issues.

Agreed. The shift from downloading installers to finding stuff in the app store is a pretty big jump, and a necessary one IMO because it prevents the main source of malware (downloading sketchy exes) and ensures that everything stays up-to-date. When it comes from the distro package repository, you can be reasonably sure that it’s legit.

And yeah, flatpaks rock.

Linux is a paradigm shift, and I think it’s generally for the better.

Exactly. Use what you want. For me, that’s Linux, and for my SO, that’s Windows. It really doesn’t need to be a religious thing.

That’s an impossible metric. No OS will be 1:1 equal to another, that’s just ridiculous. But plenty of distros are ready today to replace common use cases. Maybe it won’t replacy yours, but it can replace a lot of people’s.

Yeah, if you’re interested, you should give it a shot.

Troll the troll.

Exactly. I’ve been Linux exclusive for something like 15 years, and I’m usually the first to tell people to stick with Windows if there’s even one piece of software they say they’ll miss. If they really want to use Linux, they’ll ignore me. If they would’ve bailed when something didn’t work perfectly, they would likely write it off and never try it again, so it’s better to leave that door open IMO.

Is that how you treat people in your daily life?

No. I also generally don’t do it online.

Is that just normal behavior to you?

Sadly, yes. Especially online.

The original question was completely lacking enough context to understand the intent. Here are two reasonable interpretations:

• sarcastic - it’s pretty popular to ignore anything other than the first movie and maybe the animated series, Animatrix
• unaware - the games weren’t all that popular, and they weren’t that good either

I understand not wanting to step into potential troll bait. So the sarcastic response, while not appreciated, is completely understandable.