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The OP’s post is asking why people leave Linux… if you cannot handle an honest response to the post, and consider it slander, that’s your problem.
I was replying to your claim about the command line “being a deal breaker for many”, when I made the counter-claim that it’s basically irrelevant, because if you’re using the right distro on the right hardware, then you would never have to touch the command line.
If you cannot understand by what I’ve already written that I fixed the issues, and are unable to work out for yourself that means the hardware is compatible after necessary fixes, that’s also your problem.
If you had LINUX-FRIENDLY hardware then you wouldn’t even need to go thru hoops, assuming you’re using a sensible distro. The fact that you had to do a bunch of fixes simply proves that your hardware wasn’t Linux-friendly in the first place, OR you’re using a distro that’s not appropriate for your hardware.
Say you bought a brand new bleeding-edge machine that just came out with a new CPU architecture or something. Zorin, which would normally be fine, would probably not be ideal in this instance, because it’s based on Ubuntu, which uses outdated packages. So in this instance, you may need a distro with a more recent kernel. That is why I keep reiterating you need both the right hardware AND the right distro for YOUR situation. Zorin was just an example of a newbie-friendly distro - it doesn’t necessarily mean its the right OS for you and your hardware.
But this is also why I keep insisting on “Linux-friendly” hardware - if you don’t know what’s Linux-friendly and don’t want to go thru hoops trying to get basic shit working on random systems, try getting a machine from System76 and then tell me whether or not you were forced to use the command line for basic tasks.
But don’t just go buy some random hardware without doing your research first, and then proceed to install Linux on it, and then whine about having to use the command line.
I didn’t even mention the times since the original fixes when doing a simple, completely normal system update broke one thing or another and had to figure that out. This is the reality linux fanbois hate to see.
Lmao, you’re acting as if that doesn’t occur on Windows at all. Practically every Windows update is a shitshow. Just see the latest Bitlocker update botch-up, or the print spooler patch, which needed another patch, which needed yet another patch. Or the time when Windows decided to delete all your documents? Yeah, fun times. This is the reality M$ fanbois hate to see.
You’re not worth the time, this isn’t a debate.
Really, then why are you replying to me? You should stop replying to me then if your time is so precious.
I recently tried Zorin out of curiosity and it was a shitshow with numerous things not working. I went to Linux Mint and still had to fix issues. Pretty sure that’s the exact distro you referred to, plus the one determined to be easiest and most noob friendly. So that presumption of yours is DOA.
Was that on Linux friendly hardware though? You completely ignored the second point. Zorin was just an example, with the disclaimer/condition that you also need compatible hardware. Notice that I never said that Linux/Zorin would work on anything/everything. You can’t just put any distro on any random box and expect everything to work.
I don’t need your opinion on whether or not I did something wrong
Then why do you keep replying to me? If you don’t need my opinion then just ignore me and move on.
the comments on this post are filled with people who also have issues. Go lecture them.
Who I choose to reply to or not is my decision. Why do you care?
And all you’re giving is vague excuses without any specifics. You shouldn’t have to edit anything at all manually, if you’re running a sensible distro on Linux-friendly hardware.
If you had to do edit stuff then either you were using the wrong distro, and/or you’ve got incompatible hardware.
And who said anything about being the year of the Linux desktop? Stop putting words into my mouth.
And most people, if they used Linux, wouldn’t have to use the terminal for anything either. Linux has come along a long way for the average user, assuming you choose a sensible newbie-friendly distro like Zorin on Linux-friendly hw, or your PC comes with Linux OOTB (like System76 machines) - then an average user, would never have to touch the terminal.
Just ask my elderly parents - they’ve been running Linux for about 15 years now without having to touch the terminal or learn any commands. And before you say anything - yes, they do more than just Facebook - they print and scan stuff, backup files from their phones, transfer files across USB drives, do some light document editing - pretty much all your basic computing tasks really - and they never needed to touch the terminal.
This misconception that Linux users need to use/learn the terminal really needs to die.
17·6 months agoI was reading some thread over at !politics
There you go, that’s your problem. Political topics always gets heated and brings out the worst in people, no matter the platform. The first thing I did is block all politics (and general news + sports) communities, and it’s been a fairly pleasant experience so far for me, except for the odd troll or fanboy that shows up every now and then.
Opera also invented the browser Speed Dial, which was super handy back in the day.
But most importantly, Opera invented tabs, or at least the concept of tabbed browsing. I recall using Opera on Windows 3.11 and for the longest time, even during the Win 9x era, no other app used tabs.
In addition to mouse gestures, they had customisable keyboard shortcuts for practically every browser feature, again, something which very few apps bothered with.
The page compression built into Opera Mini was a life saver on Symbian and Windows Mobile devices back in the 2G/GPRS era. Opera Mini loaded pages blindingly quick and there was nothing else like it on the market, even leading up to early Android days.
but thankfully he started Vivaldi which feels like the spiritual successor.
Too bad he made the unfortunate decision of going with the Chromium engine instead of Gecko, or even making their own engine. I would’ve loved to use Vivalidi if it weren’t for that fact.
I had one of those, but sold it after a couple of years. Turns out that a good majority of the games I played either didn’t work in ultra-widescreen mode, or when it did, it didn’t really make that much of an improvement. Last year I bought a 4K projector and found myself using it way more than my monitor, as gaming on a 100+" screen felt so much more immersive. So I ended up selling my Odyssey and bought a 16:10 monitor instead. I found the 16:10 ratio better for productivity, and also felt it also more suitable for the games I play (mostly RPGs/RTS).
Forums and Lemmy work quite differently. For starters, forums are more suited for long-term discussions. On some of the forums that I’m a part of, a topic can be active for several years (except of course the ones which discourage necro bumping, like the Arch Linux forums). Whereas Reddit, Lemmy and the like are more suited for news and discussions around the “now”. Once a post falls off the front page, it’s gone from everyone’s consciousness. Although on Lemmy you could have your default view set to “active” which will bump up old threads which are active, but neither the default Web-UI nor any of the clients (that I’m aware of) do a good job of highlighting the new comments/replies since you last visited the thread. There’s also no easy way to subscribe to a thread (yes I’m aware there’s a bot for it but it’s not allowed everywhere). Furthermore, most clients also mark a thread you’ve visited as “read” (which is typically a greyed-out/dull color) and many don’t even indicate that there are new comments, which further discourages you to revisit a thread.
The second is that there’s less or even no importance given to upvotes. In fact most forums typically disable or don’t even have votes on threads, which means every thread that’s posted gets equal importance and visibility. As a result, you don’t get karma farmers / low-effort / clickbait posts, at least not the ones made with the intention to seek karma. And it’s the same with comments - because they’re arranged in a linear manner (and typically don’t have votes), every comment gets equal visibility, and you don’t need to navigate thru complicated nested threads to pick up new comments. Again, as a result of this you tend to see fewer low-effort/meme/troll comments.
Finally, the most important differentiating factor is the moderation tools. Many mods and admins here have complained at how lacking the mod tools here are, especially when we had those CSAM spam attacks a couple of months ago - there was effectively no way to stop new accounts posting that crap without turning off registrations completely and temporarily defedarating from some instances. But on a forum, you have several measures such as having a cooldown period of x days before you can post, or gaining gradual posting privileges as you complete more actions such as say, competing the new user tutorial, gaining karma from posting to the newbie/introduction forum etc. Some forums may set it such that new users can post but a mod might need to approve the post; or they can post text but not images and links (which would discourage spammers and trolls) until they have sufficient karma or account age. I’ve also seen forums have a “trust” feature where a mod can mark an account as trusted to give that user more rights/access.
There’s many, many more such features which make moderating and managing a forum a breeze compared to Lemmy, and for a heavily-moderated community like Beehaw which also values quality over quantity, old-school forums make a much better choice.
Yep. You could run chmod again to fix it (from a different OS / rescue USB), but that would leave all the permissions in a messy state - having everything set to 777 is incredibly insecure, and will also likely break many apps/scripts that expect more restrictive permissions. So the only way to fix this properly would be to reinstall your OS/restore from backups.
I already mentioned this on an old Beehaw thread, that Beehaw’s vision would be better suited to old-school forums, like phpBB, Invision etc (no Discourse please, it sucks). Forums are more conducive for long-term discussions and offer far better user access controls and mod tools.
General-purpose old-school forums are mostly dead these days unfortunately but I see an opportunity in Beehaw for them to make a comeback, and I would 100% support such an initiative.
It’s just a static image. At the end of every month, a guy logs into all the donation sites, punches the numbers into a calculator, calculates how many more pixels needs to be added, then fires up MS Paint and paints the progress bar and uploads it to the website. ^(/s)
Holy mother of URLs, Batman!
Here’s a cleaned up version without all those nasty trackers attached: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Arm-Hammer-ULTRA-MAX-Solid-Antiperspirant-Deodorant-Unscented-2-6-oz/10810917
I find wet wipes handy for that. Just chuck a packet in your pocket, and give yourself a quick wipedown when you’re in the stall.
Nincompoop! Bashi-bazouk! Visigoth! Anacoluthon!
That’s because most people use them incorrectly. You need to run DISM first to repair the component store, but for that to work properly, you’ll need source files/wim that matches the same OS patch level as that of the machine you’re trying to fix. Once the component source is repaired properly, then run SFC, which would replace the corrupted system files from the now repaired component store.
If you ran SFC on its own, it may not do anything if the component store is corrupted, and if you ran DISM on its own, it won’t fix the actual issue. You need to run both, in the proper order, against matching source files.
The trick to a successful DISM though is matching the broken system’s patch level with that of the source files. DISM basically repairs your component store using the source, so for it to work properly, you’d want to use the same OS patch level store as the source. I used to keep a few good Windows VMs at different patch levels for this purpose. I’d then patch the VM up to the same level as that of the broken machine (if needed), and then use the good VM as the DISM source.
In any case, if DISM keeps failing, then a repair install (aka in-place upgrade) usually does the trick.
TNG: The First Duty, where Picard lectures Wesley. Such a powerful scene.
“The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it’s scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based, and if you can’t find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don’t deserve to wear that uniform.”