Sure, there is a usecase for this. But sperate buffers and varying (and often unintuitive) behavior of software and which buffer is used how is a much bigger hurdle for people not used to it than that “middle-click pasting is confusing” bullshit…

No, what actually makes sense is a proper unification of different copy/paste buffers that is nowadays still mostly improvised and only achieved through very different 3rd party tools (for me using the panel from xfce it’s xfce4-clipman for example that keeps highlighting text and middle-click buffers synchronised with ctrl-c/ctrl-v or ctrl-insert/shift-insert…).

The problem is not accidently pasting something with a middle-click, but not knowing what is in one buffer, what is in another one and which one a program is using.

Your browser should normally handle that.

But you can also replace that string with ‘+’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_(Ctrl+Alt+Del)

I don’t quite get why Gnome people see this as a negative.

Because GNOME decisions are correct, always and exclusively so. Everyone who disagrees is obviously clueless and can be disregarded.

That’s basically the GNOME mantra.

GNOME guys complaining about someone trying to force unilateral decisions upon them and being totally uncoopertaive must be satire…

“Users will stop suggesting Linux as a realistic alternative to Windows for non-technical users”

Then their users will simply be wrong…

Non-technical users don’t have any problems with Linux as an alternative. They don’t know nor care what is running on their PC as long as they can click on icons opening the handful of basic programs they actually use.

It’s the pseudo-technical users that think their constant MS indoctrination means they are the pinacle of experienced PC users that are the problem.

Yeah, the majority downloads a random program to do it for them from some website. Which might or might not do what it advertised, sometimes even without installing a lot of trash ranging from ads to viruses…

In reality all those older relatives are rather easy. They don’t have a clue what they use anyway and they usually are also using their devices so little that they are not conditioned to expect all the (often questionable) Windows design decisions either.

So there is really no reason to overthink it. Install whatever Linux distribution you are most used to operating in case they actually need support. Most of the time they won’t because unlike Windows it does not just break randomly or simply slows down to a crawl with accumulated bloat over time.

…and all of them are using base 10.

I do manage them via git. But I only do it so have settings (and their changes) synchonised between 2 PCs and a laptop.

With just one main device I don’t even see a reason to “manage” anything… a basic backup strategy completely independent of just dotfiles aside.

That would be alot of work (and some space) but should be doable.

But just for your personal access to the wiki archwiki-offline and arch-wiki-search already exist (in the AUR).

None.

I use Signal for messaging. In fact I only use it on mobile devices for short stuff.

Any discussion that takes more time than typing s few short sentences (but is usually also less time-sensitive) I do on the desktop app already.

So Signal is definitely not the right platform for me to talk about hobbbies or other interests. That’s not what it was originally designed for. And that’s not what I will ever use Signal for even if it can nowadays cover that area somewhat.

Realistically older generations didn’t get new stuff in updated drivers for quite some time anyway, so yeah… Doesn’t matter much.

Honestly, if I had a newer card I would be more concerned about that general shift to open source drivers at the moment as they are still far from comparable performance-wise.

Greetings to all the other Maxwell and Pascal users…

nvidia-580xx-dkms (and similiar legacy drivers) is your new best friend. And given the next wave of rediculous price spikes probably for some time…

And if you try often enough it maybe even be a working one…

Wants to be Pro but doesn’t even do it recursive…

You do a massive disservice to the overwhelming majority of computer users.

By explicitly telling the rest why Bazzite probably isn’t for them?

yes, it’s linux…

and never bothers me

For some time… but nowadays I would never go for anything not rolling release anymore.

Because those distro upgrades were traditionally when something broke (or there were just too many changes requiring my attention at the same time), triggering a fresh install… usually combined with trying another distro.

I really love all my various Pis but at the moment there are so many refurbished servers available (thank Windows 11) as well as several small form factor x86 PCs that a Raspberry Pi 5 sadly is on the lower end of performance/cost.