Liz

For sure, which is why I only use Mint anyway. I need my hand held. But Linus was doing power-user things without power-user reading. You can’t really claim the car is no good when you opened the hood and started swapping hoses without checking to see what goes where.

Linus uninstalled his desktop after ignoring the warning that said °hey, this will uninstall your desktop.°

Yeah absolutely zero newbies are going to buy a new computer in order to test out Linux.

I use KdenLive on Mint whenever I need to edit a video. I’ve never bothered to look for the other two because I use Darktable and GIMP for my photo editing, but I can check to see if they’re available if you want me to.

Flatpak “containerizes” the program, which makes it more secure and less able to accidentally mess up other programs. Fuck if I know how it works.

Also you don’t have to type in your password every time you want to update the program, so that’s nice.

Bronze League Baddies in the house!

It’s one of those situations where corporations get to pull similar bullshit, so they think actual humans get to use the same tricks, too.

I make sure to give my guess and also append as many logs and exact information as possible, right down to every step I took that produced the problem.

So far my success rate with the forums is 0%. But hey, people at least tried to be helpful!

Eh I mean alphabet and Google do have legitimate reasons for antitrust lawsuits, but that’s independent of how shit Google search has become.

Anyway, for those who are fed up with the terrible results, use Ecosia. I’ve basically never needed to use anything else and the advertising money goes towards planting trees responsibly to rebuild ecosystems.

Mint is aimed at normies. The fewer barriers to entry, the better. If you give users the option for a “clean” install there will be people who select it, not knowing what they’re doing, and then end up with a borderline non-functional computer as far as they’re concerned. To put it another way, they expect it to have stuff pre-installed. Finally, what counts as essentials and what counts as bloat? Text editor? Media player? Photo viewer? Internet browser?

That being said, I understand why you might not like getting extra programs you didn’t ask for. Luckily, they’re very easy to uninstall and forget about.

I’m pro gun and that’s a laughably stupid idea for about a million reasons.

I keep QWERTY available with the super+spacebar shortcut on both platforms, that way anyone else who needs to use it can switch back. Also, I have see-through Dvorak stickers added so it’s pretty clear that something is up with my keyboard just by looking at it. It also helps with finding those random symbol characters you use twice a year.

It really is worth the switch.

As a non-technical user: fucking love it.

You can take my Cinnamon GUI from my cold dead hands.

Cycling through buttons, atl+tab, Ctrl+tab, some other fourth thing.

The funny part is that at first glance the FBI looks dumb, but the problem is that some criminals are idiots.

In my opinion, we shouldn’t waste time in the courts arguing over whether a claim or offer made by an algorithm is considered reasonable or not. If you want to blindly rely on the technology, you have to be responsible for its output. Keep it simple and let the corporations (and the people making agreements with a chatbot) shoulder the risk and responsibility.

It is my opinion that a company with uses a generative or analytical AI must be held legally responsible for its output.

Is the chrome OS not full-fledged? I used it once ten years ago. Seemed fine.