Snaps are crap. Not using them is one of the main reasons I’m considering switching to Mint

Whaat? That’s crazy. I didn’t realize that

This is great news. Being able to tap into hardware acceleration for AV1 will be crucial to it taking off. And all 3 of the major GPU vendors have support now.

So we need git add . && git commit -a here really

You need the “Userland” programs. Basic things like ls, cp, cat, etc. Usually it’s GNU core tools, but there’s also BusyBox or BSD equivalents.

It’s not FOSS, but Google’s adding this feature right into Photos

Mainly with the bootloader, but also a few device drivers. But this was like 6 years ago and UEFI was still new. So maybe it’s better now. Generally the older your hardware the more likely it is to be supported

The last time I tried installing on a MacBook I had all kinds of problems. Maybe it is better now, but I’d suggest starting with a traditional PC if you’re brand new to Linux

XFCE is a great option. I consider it middle ground as low resource needs, but also has most of the features you want in a DE. Things like IceWM or OpenBox are even lighter, but less featureful

Years ago Tribler was trying to create streaming via Bit Torrent. Seems like something similar could be done with IPFS. Blockchains and Distributed Hash Tables aren’t really that different.

What does D-Tube use?

I’ve been using Firefox as my primary on both desktop and mobile for about 6 years now, and it’s usually pretty great. Desktop rarely has problems. On mobile there are a good number of sites with issues though, because devs don’t usually test against it as has had a low number of users. But hopefully this revitalized movement to switch will make them have to care. And that said, 99% of the time these sites are still mostly usable, unless the broken thing is important like say a login screen 😅

What’s your beef with Mozilla?

The title is borked in Lemmy. It’s just a portion of the body text, including link tags which don’t work on titles. I think there are some formatting guides out there if you want to continue trying to post to Lemmy via Mastodon.

Edit: there’s a Mastodon to Lemmy guide at the bottom of this post

I usually just use EXT4, but perhaps you should check out F2FS. It’s designed for solid state storage mediums, as while most were created with traditional spinning hard discs in mind