Yeah I’m only just barely lurking on discord I have no problem leaving.

bro I don’t know what is going on or how to feel. I am confused, shocked, annoyed. I really hope this world can pull through all the weird crap that is happening over the next few years.

I know there is lots of guides and things because for clicks people like to write guides. However all the defaults on mint are sensible. You can pretty much install is stock and be done. You can use these guides if you want but they are optional. You can use flatpak, .deb, snap or whatever else you want to install things. I tend to use .debs when available and flatpaks as my backup. As a Linux user I haven’t had to do all that much tweaking in years to be honest.

You know I stopped at “meta is kicking Australian children” and had a good laugh.

Lazy and cheap.

The worst part to me is that so many companies use third parties to process parts of things that it’s like you give data to one company and they give your data to like 10 other companies and before you know it your information has been breached multiple times over from the same starting point.

I have seen such half assed stuff in my career that I am terrified at trusting companies to do this stuff. This is even before the vibe coding. Now that I see how companies mine and others are using AI I am even more concerned than ever.

I just imagine the first places that put in in-door lightnig like “here now you can work later in the day” now they will be like “Oh look you can work 24/7 now it’s never dark anymore”.

There is really something wrong with these people

Thankfully libreoffice

God I hate that you are right. I only have like one male friend because I legit had to distance myself from ao many other male friends who were just horrible people and I couldn’t stand to listen to them anymore.

Absolutely there are plenty of good niche ones. I think zen is based on Firefox as well and lots of people like it.

start using firefox or firefox derivatives like librewolf. I know people will say “but they don’t have x feature” or “chrome is faster” well until they have the market share they won’t be able to put the development cycles in to fix that stuff. google owning chrome and everyone using chrome based browsers is lining up a huge issue for the future.

LUGs were very important back then especially when you were new.

My guess is they are already dead

Not drinking is actually a very good life decision.

How much you want to bet they are going to feed the code base into ai and ask it to re-write it in a different language?

Also just like why runan outdated browser like that

I have had people tell me " I dont feel like building my own OS from scratch " I’m like what are you even talking about?

This comes up with every windows EOL announcement and it never really ends up with everyone switching to linux