Laurel Raven

I never used it specifically because of it being run by Brenden Eich. I have no intention of knowingly throwing my towel in and helping to enrich someone who’s thrown his money around to strip people of the right to marry who they want because he finds it icky.

I’m sure there’s other bad shit from him but after that I just treat him and anything he does as pure toxin.

If that sounds harsh, well, I don’t give a fuck.

On the flip side, errors in 3D graphics typically won’t cost a company millions, while errors in an SQL query very well might

Anyone who cannot stop working and live off their own wealth (and not rely on the working income of others) for the rest of their lives is, by definition, working class.

I actually really liked 8.1, preferred it to 7 once I got used to the Start Screen. Surprisingly well designed, actually found myself preferring the menu over 7’s

10 had the best start menu in my opinion, but the quality was just an ever advancing downward spiral.

Now, I can’t even stand it, deal with it at work as much as I have to, but at home, the only Windows machine left is only still on it because simulator peripherals are a pain to get working right on Linux sometimes, so my dedicated simulator machine still uses that, but it’s used for nothing else

I think my last count hit north of 500 tabs…

I… I may have a bit of a problem…

LibreWolf is a solid choice, I use it as well

I can recommend checking out Zen as well

Only the nice ones, the naughty poor children get free coal

Yep. The shelter should have cut him off pretty quickly.

Was your first clue the account name @NotTheTimCurry?

Because I went with Jellyfin and it worked well… I don’t know if I even checked out Emby, I’m not familiar with it, but I’ve had no reason yet to look for something else

I would say Flatpak is a good choice if you want or need features in the latest version of a package that isn’t in the version Mint runs, which is typically based on the current Ubuntu LTS version (or whichever one was current for the Mint version you’re on).

The main drawbacks are size on disk and the ability to work with other apps and the system, but neither issue is as bad as they’re typically made out to be… If you’re only installing one or two Flatpaks, they’ll seem massive compared to installing the version from apt repos, but that’s because they need to bring in supporting packages which are used by other Flatpaks, so if you use several of them, the space for each is a lot closer to the apt/direct installed version.

And the permissions, which can be annoying if you run into an issue with them, are typically defaulted to something that works correctly for each package, so you likely won’t need to worry about that hardly ever.

But otherwise… Yeah, if you don’t know why you’d want the Flatpak version and it’s in the Mint apt repos/system install, go with system install. Switch to Flatpak if you’re finding features you want missing that are in newer versions.

But they’re shouldn’t really be any reason to use Snaps on Mint.

It does, in theory… However, in theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice, they very much are not

I’d say “don’t give them any ideas” but I’m pretty sure they’ve already thought about it and have it planned for the near future

And the icing on the shit cake is it peacing out after all that

I would be very surprised if they don’t go there eventually, and I’d even bet they’ll try at some point to force lifetime pass owners to switch to subscription

If you ever think you’ve found a corpo that can be trusted, no you haven’t

This has no impact on anyone that actually paid for Plex.

Yet.

They’re going down the pathway to enshittification and very few companies that start down that dark path turn away before they destroy everything good they’d made for everyone, free and paid alike. Maybe that won’t happen here, but from all of the times I’ve seen that same song and dance, I would be finding alternatives to switch to, personally. But, it’s obviously up to you to decide your own comfort level if you want to start now or wait to see how far they go

This makes me glad I went with Jellyfin for my home server

Yeah, those of us who’ve gotten familiar with the terminal often forget that it generally lacks discoverability and getting to the point of knowing how to find things in it can be painful and annoying.

Not enjoying the terminal isn’t a failing. GUIs exist for a reason.

Yeah, it’s… It’s a pretty bizarre reason to downvote someone, but if that’s what they want to do, nobody is going to stop them from wasting their time