“Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union”
I like GNOME a lot (currently using Fedora GNOME with a bunch of extensions), but I’m eagerly awaiting the release of System76’s COSMIC since it seems like it’s basically GNOME with all the customisations I end up making anyway, and will be far more modular and customisable.
I’m a man (in public at least lol) and I send hearts to pretty much everyone I consider a friend, of all genders.
I only ever used Bitwarden after I switched from Dashlane and I couldn’t be happier. The Android app is incredible, it’s got a great browser extension and it syncs for free. If you don’t trust them to store your passwords on the cloud I understand that but I wouldn’t know what alternative to recommend.
That’d be really cool!
It’s not ideal, yeah. I’ve been able to make do with manually adding covers but it’s a mess…
Wow, I’ve been meaning to learn git, this is amazing!
Oh yeah I’m definitely going with KDE, I’m very much not a gnome person, happy to hear it’s been a good experience!
Portal and Portal 2
Open Source is not a sustainable model under capitalism anymore.
Maybe that’s an exaggeration, but the cracks are beginning to show.
Okay, what the hell!? I just downloaded it again, signed in and it immediately worked, no idea what went wrong the first time🤨
I’ll check it out!
I couldn’t get Fennec to sync with my Firefox account.
What this challenge has shown me is that attitude matters. When I switched to Linux in late 2020, the reason I switched was 1) Windows was pissing me off 2) Linux excited me in a way I cannot really explain. To this day, Linux makes using my computer fun. When I run into a problem on Windows my reaction is “Oh god, not again, how can a billion dollar company fuck up so badly?” whereas when I run into the occasional problem on Linux my interest is immediately peaked, because it teaches me more about the system and there’s guaranteed to be a permanent solution for it online at least in my experience. So, yeah, Linux is definitely not for everyone. If you want to get away from Microsoft for privacy or ideological reasons, it’s great. But right now, I don’t think that’s a priority for most people and asking them to abandon Windows which works for them, in favour of something they don’t understand and need to realearn is a little ridiculous.
I think the solution would not be to end fragmentation and standardize everything but rather to have one “silver bullet” distribution for those who don’t like to tinker and don’t care too much about what’s going on under the hood while the rest continues to use their preferred distro and tools. I guess Ubuntu is trying to be that, maybe SteamOS 3.0 can be that for gamers but I’m not holding my breath. At that point, I do have to wonder what people hope to get from Linux. If they want something that “just works” Windows or a console will always be better - I’m not saying that because I hate seeing the Linux community grow, I just don’t see Linux ever getting on the same level as Windows for gaming specifically.
I’m far from an elitist, heck I’m very much a Linux amateur, but the reason I love Linux is because I love learning, it makes using my computer fun in a way that Windows just doesn’t for me and so I’m willing to put up with the downsides. If you’re coming at it with the mindset that “I just wanna play games” and aren’t willing to work through some bullshit, as sad as it is to say, I just don’t think Linux will ever get there.
I’m actually not sure, nor can I see what encryption they use on the website. Maybe someone smarter than me can check out the code
What’s the best alternative? Jami seems good and I generally trust the FSF and I found Revolt which seems to basically aim to recreate all Discord features and is currently in public beta.
I’m currently on EndeavourOS and absolutely loving it, happy I switched from Manjaro. I want to try out Gentoo and Void in the future.
Fedora because I like it