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@0x4E4F @imgel then why comment?

@NegativeLookBehind @cujo @BitingChaos some people don’t have much choice. Their jobs demand it. At least in Linux you’d be able to really sandbox them and route them through filters to prevent spying if you know what you’re doing.

@HumanPerson @s20

I think you'll be happy with the management tools in OpenSuSE They literally make almost everything simple to set up, from a GUI perspective, and if you actually know what you're doing, it will make your day so much less stressful.

@Franzia @SpacePirate Don't hate it, learn it!

@Roderik @joojmachine what’s the obsession with bloat?

@christos @geoma

I really like Pardus.

@halm @pineapplelover

What is it about flatpaks that bothers you? I am curious. My experience with them is good, except that are sometimes slower to launch.

@bitahcold @utopiah

If you're going to distro hop, do it, don't let people tell you you're wrong. I've learned how to set up and use a variety of Linux and BSD systems by distro hopping. But, I think maybe you should set up one system that is solid and then distro hop in virtual machines using VirtualBox. It works well and often can handle things like Haiku and Amiga type OSes as well. Just for fun, of course.

@iHUNTcriminals but why comment on it? An elite user should know that different things work for different people not strut about acting superior because he doesn’t use a DE.

@Carter @H2207 You don’t really have to tinker with any distro. Once you set it up just let it be with a schedule of updates that fits your usecase. If you feel compelled to constantly update and rejigger, that’s you, not the distro. I have a Mankato machine that has been sitting for a couple of years with monthly security updates.

@GravitySpoiled @notTheCat

Or, even better, use containers to have access to whatever distro/packaging system you want, like Vanilla OS does.

@Static_Rocket @zShxck for a second there I thought he was revealing his favored sexual positions

@jsnc @JuxtaposedJaguar that seems a bit too “zealot” to me. And viable competitor is exactly the right phrase to use, or am I mistaken in thinking I use Linux instead of HURD?

@otter @Zucca Public admissions of such a crime are not smart! 😀

@Zeus I agree! I am not sure who they think they are making it for, and I fail to understand why so many distros still default to it. It is still usable, of course, but a lot of what they have done to it is very user-hostile

@mihnt @Zeus I loved gnome until the whole Apple-like attitude toward theming.

@Zeus I have no clue what their intention is. Is it to become Apple with their refusal to let people theme their operating system.

@Zeus finder is single pane. I just don’t get how they think that’s better. 😕

@Zeus I use pathfinder for a finder replacement. Two panes. But ever since they went subscription I have been looking for alternatives. I hate subscriptions almost as much as I hate single pane.

@CrabAndBroom @throwawayish I like flatpacks and their integration into some stores and the ease of update makes me not hate them. Unfortunately, this is where Linux is headed. Containerization and immutability.

Luckily, we will always have lots of distros to choose from.

@CAPSLOCKFTW @anonono of I rsymc an entire drive, does it preserve all attributed and partitions, or does it just sync a particular file system.

@stevedidWHAT @iortega Your best bet is to use a distro that allows you to choose everything you install (at least your desktop experiences) so that you can install the lightest DE/WM you can. I would suggest something like CachyOS or Reborn, that have choosers and then choose something like openbox. Archcraft is also quite nice and light. I run it on an old machine and it runs beautifully.

@Blizzard @American_Jesus lol love that

@Caaaaarrrrlll @moist_towelettes you mean by default. Everything in Linux can be changed, so if you like AppArmor, you can use it.

@zelifcam @chevy9294 I’ve become a fan. I’m not a coder or anything, and I have been able to navigate its package management easily enough. The manual could be made a bit simpler/clearer, but the system itself is not hard to manage.

I’ve been meaning to figure out if I can set up the system and then generate a new configuration file based on what I installed using nix-env

@airikr @sjosjo personally, I prefer Nemo for one reason, it will start in two pane mode. Thunar does not.

@mintycactus @jack silverblue is not more user friendly than mint, not by any metric. A system with an immutable file system simply cannot be so. The immutability of the system often adds levels of complexity that an average person would have trouble understanding

@mintycactus to you and me that’s true, but to a person just starting with Linux, it could be complex. I think systems like Silverblue, Vanilla OS, and NixOS are great, but I would not suggest them to a new user of Linux.

@mintycactus NixOS can install to your hard drive. I have it on my laptop and it runs beautifully. I have issues with Gnome and their insistence on removing things like remembering window size and positions, and recently making it so hard to theme, but I am sure these will iron out with time.

My plasma desktop, however, is my favorite. Once I got it where I wanted it, it just worked so well and looked so good that I recommend it to everyone (BigLinux with KDE)

@interolivary I think he was being facetious and I’ll accept that

@FQQD @p_q if you want that hardware to support something the manufacturer will not support, open source bios can be useful.

@iHUNTcriminals 👍🏼💻🐧

@interolivary maybe, but sometimes you just have to accept people at face value.

@billgamesh # System Details Report
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HP OMEN 25L Desktop GT12-0xxx
Mem 64.0 GiB
Intel® Core™ i7-10700F × 16
NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 2060

CachyOS
GNOME Version: 45.4
X11
Linux 6.8.0-1-cachyos-sched-ext

@crypto @Laser Linux desktop is not one thing. If you have a company that standardizes on Gnome, then the software you need to work will work as they will likely have been tested to work. As for work, well, not everyone uses it for work.

@yum13241 but don’t programs that run on Linux Arm also have to be recompiled?

Don’t misunderstand me, I think there may be cause for Apple to be forced to open their ecosystem more, but operating systems are always unique unto themselves.

@MigratingtoLemmy @I_like_cats I wondered about that, but to me it just feels like an isolated file system based app structure, kinda like the .app folders in Macs. Does that sound right?

And with permissions, you can stop the app from accessing anything outside of its specific little file system.

@yum13241 @NightAuthor I have to take exception with the idea that Apple makes shit because it is not standard. They are making Macs, so for their platform, that is the standard. If you mean they should have to document their architecture to the outside world, I might agree, but that’s not the world we live in.

Maybe we should have a standards based platform that can be used for opensource platforms like Linux, but that’s an issue Linux hardware developers have to do.

@yum13241 again, just looking for excuses to hate.

@yum13241 in which case everything you would need to do that work is available. He’ll, many of the open source apps people will point to as essential will also run an a Mac.